Plenary Lectures
CCA
Dr. Yutaka Yamamoto received his Ph. D. degree in mathematics from the University of Florida, in 1978, under the guidance of Professor R. E. Kalman. He is currently professor in Department of Applied Analysis and Complex Dynamical Systems, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University. His current research interests include the theory of sampled-data control systems, its application to digital signal processing, realization and robust control of distributed parameter systems and repetitive control. Dr. Yamamoto is a fellow of IEEE, and is the recipient of numerous prizes including G. S. Axelby outstanding paper award of IEEE Control Systems Society in 1996, Commendation of Science and Technology by the Ministry of Education of Japan in 2007. He was a past president of ISCIE, Japan, past vice President of IEEE Control Systems Society.
CACSD
Dr. Mathukumalli Vidyasagar was born in Guntur, India on September 29, 1947.
He received the B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering
from
the University of Wisconsin in Madison, in 1965, 1967 and 1969
respectively.
Between 1969 and 1989, he was a Professor of Electrical Engineering at
various universities in the USA and Canada. His last overseas job was
with the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada, where he served
between 1980 and 1989.
In 1989 he returned to India as the Director of the newly created
Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (CAIR) in Bangalore,
under the Ministry of Defence, Government of India.
Between 1989 and 2000, he built up CAIR into a leading research
laboratory
with about 40 scientists and a total of about 85 persons, working in
areas such as flight control, robotics, neural networks, and image
processing.
In 2000 he moved to the Indian private sector as an Executive Vice
President
of India's largest software company, Tata Consultancy Services.
In the city of Hyderabad, he created the Advanced Technology Center,
an industrial R&D laboratory of around 80 engineers, working in
areas such as computational biology, quantitative finance, e-security,
identity management, and open source software to support Indian
languages.
In 2009 he retired from TCS at the age of 62, and joined the Erik
Jonsson
School of Engineering & Computer Science at the University of Texas at
Dallas, as a Cecil & Ida Green Professor of Systems Biology Science.
In his latest incarnation, he conducts teaching and research in two
distinct
areas: computational biology and quantitative finance.
He is also actively involved in UTD's newly created or planned programs
in
Bio-Engineering and Systems Engineering & Management.
ISIC
Stochastic Extremum Seeking and
Nash Games in Markets (tentative)
Miroslav Krstic
University of California, San Diego
URL:
http://flyingv.ucsd.edu/
Dr. Miroslav Krstic is the Daniel L. Alspach Professor of Dynamic Systems and Control at University of California, San Diego, and the founding director of the Cymer Center for Control Systems and Dynamics at UCSD. He is a co-author of eight books, including the classic Nonlinear and Adaptive Control Design (1995), one of the two most cited research monographs in control theory, the new single-authored Delay Compensation for Nonlinear, Adaptive, and PDE Systems(466 pages, Birkhauser, October 2009), and other books on control of turbulent fluid flows, stochastic nonlinear systems, and extremum seeking. Krstic has held the Russell Severance Springer Distinguished Visiting Professorship at UC Berkeley and the Harold W. Sorenson Distinguished Professorship at UC San Diego. He is a recipient of the PECASE, NSF Career, and ONR Young Investigator Awards, as well as the Axelby and Schuck Paper Prizes. Krstic was the first recipient of the UCSD Research Award in the area of engineering. He is a Fellow of IEEE and IFAC and serves as Senior Editor in IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control and Automatica.
2009 Awardee of IEEE CSS Transition to Practice Award
Dr. Kameshwar Poolla received the Bachelor of Technology degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay in 1980, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Florida, Gainesville in 1984. He has served on the faculty of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois, Urbana from 1984 to 1991. Since then, he has been with the University of California, Berkeley where he is the Cadence Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences. He currently serves as the Director of the IMPACT center for Integrated Circuit manufacturing at the University of California.
Dr. Poolla has also held visiting appointments at Honeywell, McGill University, M.I.T., Michigan, Columbia, and Padova. He has worked as a Field Engineer with Schlumberger on oilrigs in West Africa. In 1999, he co-founded OnWafer Technologies which offers metrology based yield enhancement solutions for the semiconductor industry. OnWafer was acquired by KLA-Tencor in 2007. He has also serves as a technology and mergers/acquisitions consultant for Cadence Design Systems.
Dr. Poolla has been awarded a 1988 NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award, the 1993 Hugo Schuck Best Paper Prize, the 1994 Donald P. Eckman Award, the 1998 Distinguished Teaching Award of the University of California, and the IEEE Transactions on Semiconductor Manufacturing Best Paper Prizes in 2005 and 2007. Professor Poolla's research interests include System Identification, Robust Control, Semiconductor Manufacturing, Sensor Networks, and Medical Imaging.