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Introducing the IFAC Major Award Winners: First in a Series Online ISSN 1848-3380, Print ISSN 0005-1144 ATKAFF 57(3), 846–851(2016) PHONE (+43 2236) 71 4 47 | FAX (+43 2236) 72 8 59 | E-MAIL: [email protected] www.ifac-control.org Introducing the IFAC Major No.5 Award Winners: First in a Series October 2016 Over the course of this and upcoming issues of Letters, and for the Conference Editorial Board of this Newsletter readers will have the opportunity the IEEE Control Systems Society. He is a senior IN THIS ISSUE: to learn more about the winners of the IFAC Major member of IEEE and also a member of the IFAC Introducing IFAC Major Award Awards. This month readers will learn about in- Technical Committee on Networked Systems. Winners (first in a series) augural Manfred Thoma Medal winner Ming Cao, and Nichols Medal winner Lennart Ljung.The Ma- Nichols Medal: Lennart Ljung (SE) Event Report: Advances in Auto- jor Awards will be presented at the IFAC World motive Control (AAC 2016), SE Lennart Ljung received his PhD in Automatic Con- Congress in Toulouse, FR in July 2017. Introducing IFAC Fellows 2014- trol from Lund Institute of Technology in 1974. 2017 (first in a series) The names of all IFAC Major Award winners, as After a period as a post doc at Stanford, he was well as the current citations for the 2014-2017 tri- appointed to the chair of Automatic Control in IFAC Foundation Award Call ennium, can be accessed on the IFAC website. Linköping, Sweden in 1976. He has spent periods Mechatronics Journal Handover as a visiting professor at Stanford, MIT, and Uni- Ceremony Thoma Medal: Ming Cao (NL) versity of California- Berkeley (US) and Newcastle University (Australia). IFAC 2017 Plenary Speakers An- Ming Cao, winner of IFAC’s inaugural Manfred nounced Thoma Medal, is currently professor of networks Ljung’s main research area has been on all as- and robotics with the Engineering and Technology pects of system identification; theory, algorithms, Forthcoming Events Institute (ENTEG) at the University of Groningen, software and applications. He has published the Netherlands, where he started as a tenure- several books and many papers on the subject. The IFAC Journals track assistant professor in 2008. He received the and related areas. The text book System Identi- Automatica Bachelor degree in 1999 and the Master degree fication - Theory for the User (Prentice Hall 1986, http://www.journals.elsevier.com/ in 2002 from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 2nd edition 1999) has become a wide-spread ref- automatica and the Ph.D. degree in 2007 from Yale University, erence in the area. The software package System New Haven, CT, USA, all in electrical engineering. Identification Toolbox (the MathWorks, Inc, 1987, Control Engineering Practice From September 2007 to August 2008, he was a annually-updated editions after that) is a tool that http://www.journals.elsevier.com/ postdoctoral research associate with the Depart- is widely used internationally, both in academia control-engineering-practice ment of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and industry. Engineering Applications of at Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA. He Artificial Intelligence worked as a research intern during the summer http://www.journals.elsevier.com/ of 2006 with the Mathematical Sciences Depart- engineering-applications-of- ment at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center artificial-intelligence in New York, USA. His main research interest is in autonomous agents and multi-agent systems, Journal of Process Control mobile sensor networks and complex networks. http://www.journals.elsevier.com/ journal-of-process-control Annual Reviews in Control Ljung’s research group at Linköping University http://www.journals.elsevier.com/ covers a broad area in systems, control and sig- annual-reviews-in-control nal processing, with significant industrial collabo- ration. More than 80 Ph.D.s have graduated from Journal on this group. Beginning in the mid 1990’s, Ljung Mechatronics initiated, built up and managed a series of broad http://www.journals.elsevier.com/ research constellations in Linköping and Sweden, mechatronics with the aim to extend the research in control and Nonlinear Analysis: Hybrid In addition to being the inaugural winner of IFAC’s automation to broader questions of autonomy. Systems Manfred Thoma Medal Cao is the 2016 recipient Several of these centra are still in operation and http://www.journals.elsevier.com/ of the European Control Award sponsored by engage many researchers in control, autonomy nonlinear-analysis-hybrid-systems the European Control Association (EUCA) for his and computer science. fundamental contributions to distributed and co- Lennart Ljung is an IEEE Fellow, an IFAC Fel- operative control of multi-agent and network sys- IFAC PapersOnLine tems. He is an associate editor for IEEE Transac- low and an IFAC Advisor. He is a member of the tions on Automatic Control, IEEE Transactions on continued on page 2 http://www.journals.elsevier.com/ Circuits and Systems and Systems and Control ifac-papersonline 846 AUTOMATIKA 57(2016) 3, 846–851 No.5 October 2016 Page 2 a graduate textbook on adaptive control (2004), Introducing the IFAC co-editor of two reports, IEEE Vision for Smart Major Award Winners Grid Control: 2030 and Beyond in 2013 and Impact of Control Technology in 2014 (2nd edi- continued from page 1 tion), and co-author of over a hundred journal publications and numerous conference publi- Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (KVA), a cations. member of the Royal Swedish Academy of En- gineering Sciences (IVA), an Honorary Member of the Hungarian Academy of Engineering, an Honorary Professor of the Chinese Academy Zhang is a Vice-Chair of the IFAC Techni- of Mathematics and Systems Science, and a cal Board (2014-2017), Vice-President of the Foreign Member of the US National Academy Systems Engineering Society of China (2010- of Engineering (NAE). He has received honorary 2018), Vice-President of the Chinese Associa- doctorates from the Baltic State Technical Uni- tion of Automation (CAA, 2014-2018), Chair of versity in St. Petersburg (Russia), from Upp- the Technical Committee on Control Theory sala University, Sweden, from the Technical (2010-2017), CAA, and was a member of the University of Troyes, France, from the Catholic Annaswamy has received several awards in- Board of Governors of the IEEE Control Sys- University of Leuven, Belgium and from Hel- cluding the George Axelby and Control Sys- tems Society (2013). sinki University of Technology, Finland. tems Magazine Best Paper awards from the Zhang has served as the Editor-in-Chief of Ljung has received several best paper awards, IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS), the Journal of Systems Science and Mathematical including three Automatica Prize paper awards. Presidential Young Investigator award from Sciences (2014-2017) and All About Systems In 2002 he received the Quazza Medal from National Science Foundation, the Hans Fisher and Control (2014-2017), and has been Deputy IFAC, and in 2003 the Hendrik W. Bode Lecture Senior Fellowship from the Institute for Ad- Editor-in-Chief or associate editor of more than Prize from the IEEE Control Systems Society- vanced Study at the Technische Universität ten other journals, including Science China: In- He was the 2007 recipient of the IEEE Control München (Germany) in 2008, and the Donald formation Sciences (2014-2017), “IEEE Trans- Systems Award. Groen Julius Prize for 2008 from the Institute of actions on Automatic Control” (2007-2009) and Mechanical Engineers. In addition to being an “SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization” IFAC Fellow Annaswamy became a Fellow of (2008-2013). Introducing the IFAC the IEEE in 2002. Zhang is serving as an IPC Vice-Chair of the She served as the Vice President for Confer- Fellows 20th IFAC World Congress in Toulouse, FR. In ence Activities (2014-15), and will serve as the the past he has served as General Co-Chair The IFAC Fellow Award is given to persons VP for Technical Activities (2017-18) in the Ex- of the 32nd and 33rd CCCs (Chinese Control who have made outstanding and extraordinary ecutive Committee of the IEEE CSS. She has Conference), Program Chair/Co-Chair of the contributions in the field of interest of IFAC, been both a nominated member (1993) and 2012 IEEE CCA, the 9th WCICA (World Con- in the role as an Engineer/Scientist, Technical elected member of the CSS Board of Gover- gress on Intelligent Control and Automation), Leader, or Educator. nors (2010-2012). the 30th CCC, the 17th IFAC Symposium on The 2014-2017 IFAC Fellows were voted on Currently she is serving as a member of the System Identification, and Finance Co-Chair of by the IFAC Council in June 2016. 34 Fellows IFAC Publications Committee (2014-2017.) In the 48th CDC. were chosen by the Fellow Selection Commit- addition she is the Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the tee chaired by Robert Bitmead (US). Over the IFAC Journal Annual Reviews in Control. course of this and upcoming Newsletter issues readers will get the opportunity to learn more Ji-Feng Zhang IFAC Newsletter readers are about each of the IFAC Fellows (bios provided kindly requested to inform the IFAC by the individual Fellows.) Ji-Feng Zhang was born in Shandong, China Secretariat concerning changes in 1963. He received the B.S. degree in math- to contact information, affiliation, The citations of each of the 2014-2017 IFAC ematics from Shandong University in 1985, and technical area/s of interest, etc. Fellows, as well as the listing of all Fellows the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in control theory since 2005, can be found on the IFAC website from Institute of Systems Science (ISS), Chi- http://www.ifac-control.org/about/ at: http://www.ifac-control.org/awards/ifac- nese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China, in ifac-affiliate-registration fellows 1988 and 1991, respectively.
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