IEEE Control Systems Award Recipients
2010 - GRAHAM CLIFFORD GOODWIN
Professor and Director, ARC Center of Excellence in Complex Dynamic System & Control
University of Newcastle
Callaghan, NSW, Australia
"For contributions to the theory and practice of digital and adaptive control."
2009 - DAVID Q. MAYNE
Emeritus Professor of Control Theory and
Senior Research Fellow
Imperial College
London, England
"For contributions to the application of optimization to modern control theory."
2008 - MATHUKUMALLI VIDYASAGAR
Executive Vice President
Tata Consultancy Services
Hyderabad, India
“For promulgation of control science and engineering and contributions to robust control, robotics and statistical learning theory”
2007 - LENNART LJUNG
Professor
Linkoping University, Division of Automatic Control
Linkoping, Sweden
“For seminal contributions to system identification and its impact on industrial practice”
2006 - P. R. KUMAR
Franklin W. Woeltge Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Urbana, IL
"For contributions to adaptive control, manufacturing systems and wireless communications."
2005 - MANFRED MORARI
Professor and Head of Automatic Control Laboratory
Eth, Zurich, Switzerland
'For pioneering contributions to the theory and application of robust process, model predictive, and hybrid systems control.'
2004 - JOHN DOYLE
Professor, Control and Dynamic Systems
Caltech
Pasadena, CA
"For fundamental contributions to the analysis and control of uncertain systems."
2003 - NIKOLAI NICOLAEVICH KRASOVSKI
Principal Researcher, Professor
Technical University of Ural
Russia
"For pioneering contributions to the theories of stability, control and differential games."
2002 - PRAVIN VARAIYA
Nortel Networks Distinguished Professor
Univ of Calif at Berkeley
Berkeley, CA
'For outstanding contributions to stochastic and adaptive control and the unification of concepts from control and computer science.'
2001 - KEITH GLOVER
University of Cambridge
United Kingdom
'For pioneering and fundamental contributions to robust controller design and model order reduction'
2000 - SANJOY K. MITTER
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA
'For contributions to optimization, optimal control, and nonlinear filtering, and for interdisciplinary research that has expanded the boundaries of control theory.'
1999 - A. STEPHEN MORSE
Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering
Yale University
New Haven, CT
'For pioneering the geometric approach to linear multivariable control synthesis and contributions to nonlinear and adaptive control theory.'
1998 - JAN C. WILLEMS
University of Groningen
Groningen, The Netherlands
'For seminal contributions to control theory and leadership in systems research.'
1997 - BRIAN D.O. ANDERSON
Australian National University
Canberra, Australia
'For contributions in the areas of adaptive and optimal control, stability, and system identification.'
1996 - VLADIMIR A. YAKUBOVICH
St. Petersburg University
St. Petersburg, Russia
'For pioneering and fundamental contributions to stability analysis and optimal control.'
1995 - PETAR V. KOKOTOVIC
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA
'For pioneering contributions to singular perturbation theory, adaptive systems, nonlinear controls, and their industrial applications.'
1994 - ELMER G. GILBERT
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI
'For pioneering and innovative contributions to linear state space theory and its applications, especially realization and decoupling, as well as to control algorithms.'
1993 - MOSHE M. ZAKAI
Technion-Israel Inst. of Tech.
Haifa, Israel
'For contributions to non-linear stochastic analysis, and its applications to control systems.'
1992 - HAROLD J. KUSHNER
Brown University
Providence, RI
'For fundamental contributions to stochastic systems theory and its engineering applications.'
1991 - ROGER W. BROCKETT
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA
'For pioneering and innovative contributions to nonlinear control, stability, robotics and control engineering education.'
1990 - KARL JOHAN ASTROM
Lund University
Lund, Sweden
'For fundamental contributions in control theory with emphasis on its practical application.'
1989 - YU-CHI HO
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA
'For contributions to differential games, multi-person decision making, and discrete event dynamic systems.'
1988 - DANTE C. YOULA
Polytechnic Institute of NY
Farmingdale, NY
'For original contributions in the areas of circuits, systems and control theory, and the rigorous solution of engineering problems.'
1987 - WALTER MURRAY WONHAM
University of Toronto
Toronto, Canada
'For pioneering contributions to the theory of stochastic systems, linear multivariable control, and discrete event systems.'
1986 - CHARLES A. DESOER
University of California
Berkeley, CA
'For fundamental contributions to linear system theory, linear controller design, linear and nonlinear stability analysis, and the role of feedback in nonlinear systems.'
1985 - GEORGE ZAMES
McGill University
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
'For contributions to feedback stability theory and linear multivariable control system design.'
1984 - ARTHUR E. BRYSON, JR.
Stanford University
Stanford, CA
'For pioneering contributions to optimal control and estimation and their applications.'
1983 - NO AWARD
1982 - HOWARD H. ROSENBROCK
University of Manchester
Manchester, England
'For contributions to multivariable control theory and design methods.'
