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Biographical Notes on Contributors to this Issue J. Boyd Pearson, Jr. received the BSEE and the MSEE degrees from the University of Arkansas in 1958 and 1959, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from Purdue University in 1962. From 1962 to 1965 he was an Assistant Professor at Purdue and since 1965, he has been with Rice University where he is currently the J. S. Abercrombie Professor in Engineering. His research interests are in control theory and its various applications.
Kerim Demirba~ was born in Aianya, Turkey, on 23 March 1951. He received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Istanbul Technical University (ITU), Istanbul, Turkey, in 1973; and the M.S., Engineer, and Ph.D. degrees, all in electrical engineering, from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), in 1977, 1979, and 1981, respectively. During 1973-1974, he was an engineer at ITU, Istanbul, Turkey. From 1978 to 1981, he was at UCLA, first as a postgraduate research engineer, and then as a postdoctoral scholar. From 1981 to 1984, he was a senior research scientist at the Honeywell Systems and Research Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, working on signal and image processing algorithm development for target recognition and analyzing the performance of defense systems. Since 1984, he has been an assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of Illinois at Chicago. During 1987-1988, he was a visiting assistant professor of electrical and electronics engineering at Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey. His current research interests are in the areas of signal and image processing, and communication theory with emphasis on state estimation, image restoration, computer vision, multisensor object recognition, and radar systems. Dr Demirba§ is the recipient of a graduate fellowship from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), and of a lycee and undergraduate fellowship from the Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey. He is listed in Who's Who in California.
Rafael Canetli was born in Uruguay and obtained his B.S. in electronic engineering (1984) and M.S. in control systems (1986) at the National University of Mexico (UNAM). He was honored with an M.S. fellowship from the Engineering Institute of the UNAM from 1984 to 1985. He is now at the University of Uruguay. His main interest is in adaptive identification techniques.
Heping Dai was born in Jiangsu, People's Republic of China, in 1956. He obtained his B.Eng. and M.Eng. degrees in electrical engineering from Beijing University of Science and Technology in 1982 and 1985, respectively. Since 1986, he has been working towards his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering at McMaster University. His current research interests are in the areas of robust identification, fuzzy identification and control, artificial intelligence, and applications of control theories to industrial problems.
Martin Espam graduated in electronic engineering from the University of La Plata, Argentina, in 1969 and received an M.S. degree in automatic control at the University of Chile, in 1971 and Doctor in Engineering from the Laboratoire d'Automatique of Grenoble, France, in 1977. From 1977 to 1981, he was associate professor at the Research Center of the National Polytechnical Institute, Mexico City. From 1981 to 1987, he was a full professor at the Engineering Institute of the National University of Mexico (UNAM). He spent his sabbatical year, 1987, at the Centre d'Automatique et Inforrnatique of the Ecole des Mines de Paris. He is now a researcher of the National Council of Scientific and Technological Researchers of Argentina and professor of automatic control at the Instituto Balseiro, Centro At6mico Bariloche, Argentina.
Mark J. Dmaborg received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering in 1962 from Iowa State University and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Michigan in 1963 and 1969, respectively. He spent the academic year 1966-67 as a Fulbright Fellow at the Technological University in Delft, The Netherlands. Since 1969 Dr Damborg has been at the University of Washington where be is now Professor of Electrical Engineering and Associate Chairman for Graduate Study. His research interests concern analysis and control of dynamic systems with emphasis on adaptive and optimal control concepts and control of power systems. Associated interests include data base applications to computer-aided engineering systems. 645
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Chidambar Ganesh was born in New Delhi, India, on 6 December 1958. He received a B.Tech. in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, in 1981, an M.E. in electrical engineering from the University of Florida in 1983 and a Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from Rice University in 1987. From 1982 to 1983, he was a research assistant at the Lightning Research Laboratory, Gainesville, Florida. He is presently on the faculty in the Department of Engineering at the Colorado School of Mines, where he is an Assistant Professor with the Automated Systems Laboratory. His current research interests include trajectory planning, sensor-based motion control, and intelligent control systems for robots.
Will Grouch was born in New York City. He received the B.E.E. degree from The City College of New York in 1950, an M.S. in mathematics from New York University in 1956 and the D.Eng.Sc. degree from Columbia University in 1961. Since 1970 he has been a professor in the Department of Information and Computer Sciences, University of Hawaii. He has been a postdoctoral, research and senior research fellow at several institutions. His research interests are in time and spatial series modeling and in statistical data analysis.
Michael Grimble was born in 1943 at Grimsby, U.K. His higher education commenced at Rugby College of Engineering Technology where he was awarded a first class B.Sc. honours degree in electrical engineering in 1970. Subsequently he obtained M.Sc. (1971), Ph.D. (1974) and D.Sc. (1982) degrees in control engineering from the University of Birmingham and a BA degree in mathematics from the Open University. His early industrial experience began with an electrical apprenticeship with CIBA Chemical, Grimsby, and a period as a student engineer with Associated Electrical Industries at Rugby, Warwickshire. This association with the industries based at Rugby was continued when in 1971 he joined the System Engineering Department of GEC Electrical Projects Ltd., as a design engineer. Promotion to Senior Engineer followed in 1974 by which time he was responsible for projects involving the analogue and computer control of industrial systems. It was during this period that a 2[ year secondment to the Industrial Automation Group at Imperial College of Science and Technology, London, occurred. In 1976, he joined the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at Sheffield City Polytechnic as a Senior Lecturer responsible for research. An industrial control applications grouping was formed in the department and he obtained Readership in Control Engineering in 1979. The University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, appointed him to the Professorship of Industrial Systems in 1981, and he is now the Director of the Industrial Control Unit and Past Chairman of the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering. His group is concerned with industrial control problems, particularly those arising in the steel, marine, aerospace, wind energy, electrical and gas industries. His research interests include
optimal control and estimation theory, self-tuning and H~ design techniques. Professor Grimble is Past Chairman of the UKRI Chapter of the IEEE Control Systems Society and is the Vice-chairman of the Control Theory Committee of IFAC. He is the Chairman of the (26 Computer Aided Engineering Committee of the Institute of Electrical Engineers and serves on the Control Theory Committee of the Institute of Mathematics and its applications. He is the Managing Editor of the Wiley journal Adaptive Control & Signal Processing. He is the editor of a new Prentice-Hall series of books on control engineering. He was the General Chairman of the IFAC Adaptive Control and Signal Processing Symposium held in Glasgow (1989). The Institution of Electrical Engineers presented him with the Heaviside Premium in 1978 for his papers on control engineering. The following year, 1979, he was awarded jointly the Coopers Hill War Memorial Prize and Medal by the Institution of Electrical, Mechanical and Civil Engineering.
Veijo Kaitala was born in Muhos, Finland, on 8 April 1951. He received the M.S. degree (Dipl. Eng.) in electrical engineering in 1977, Licenciate of Technology in 1980 and Doctor of Technology degree in 1985, all from the Helsinki University of Technology, Finland. From 1981 to 1985 / he was a research assistant and from 1985 to 1986 he was an acting associate professor at the Systems Analysis Laboratory, Helsinki University of Technology. Since 1987 he has been a visiting researcher at the College of Natural Resources, University of California at Berkeley. His current research interests are in optimal control theory, dynamic game theory, and stability analysis with applications to economics and ecology of renewable resource management.
Genshiro Kitagawa was born in Fukuoka, Japan, in 1948. He received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in mathematics from Tokyo University in 1971 and 1973, respectively, and the D.Sc. degree in mathematics from Kyushu University in 1983. Since 1974, he has been with the * J Institute of Statistical Mathematics where he is currently an Associate Professor. From 1980 to 1981 he was a Visiting Assistant Professor of the University of Tulsa, Oklahoma. From 1981 to 1982 he was an American Statistical Association Research Trainee in Time Series Analysis. His research interests are non-stationary and non-Gaussian time series modeling and statistical data analysis.
Benton K l i l ~ n received the B.A. degree in mathematics from Swarthmore College in 1970, and did his graduate work at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, receiving a Ph.D. degree in mathematics in 1977. He is now Associate Professor of Computer Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin. He has been on the faculty at Tufts University, and has worked at the Massa-
Biographical Notes chusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University. His research interests are in qualitative reasoning with incomplete knowledge of physical mechanisms, resourcelimited inference, and spatial exploration, learning, and problem-solving. Dr Kuipers is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Association for Artificial Intelligence, the Society for Values in Higher Education, and Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility.
Shijna I.amg was born in Gueizhou province, China, in 1914. He graduated from the Electrical Engineering faculty of Tsinghua University, China, in 1939. From 1939 to 1947, he worked as an electrical engineer, successively, at an iron and steel plant, a civil aviation corporation and an electric power plant in China. Between 1947 and 1950, he was an associate professor and then a professor at the Technical Institute of Gueizhou University, China. Since 1950, he has been professor of the Department of Automatic Control, Northeast University of Technology, China. His research interests include optimal control, adaptive control and their industrial applications.
.Ioio M. Lemos was born in Lisbon, Portugal, in 1957. He graduated in electrical engineering m 1981 and received the M.Sc. degree in 1984 from Instituto Superior T6cnico (Technical University of Lisbon). Since 1981 he has been working at the Control Group of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computers as a teaching assistant and research engineer. Since 1984 he has spent several periods at the Systems and Informatics Department of the University of Florence, Italy. His main research interests are in adaptive control and computer control and identification of industrial processes.
Weiping Li was born in Hunan, China, on 11 July 1962. He received the B.S. degree in aircraft design from the Beijing Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China, in 1982, and the M.S. degree in aeronautics and astronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in 1986. From 1982 to 1984, he worked in the Vibration Research Center of the Nanjing Aeronautical Institute in China, where he performed vibration and flutter control experiments on various helicopters and jet aircrafts. He is currently finishing his Ph.D. degree at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research interests include robotics, adaptive control theory, neural networks, and pattern recognition.
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Kenneth A. LOl~m'o received his Ph.D. in systems and control engineering from Case Western Reserve University in 1977. He was an Assistant Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Cleveland State University from 1977 to 1978 where he received the distinguished faculty award for contributions to teaching and research. From 1978 to the present time he has been on the faculty of Case Western Reserve University where he is currently an Associate Professor of Systems Engineering and Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Associate Director of the Center for Automation and Intelligent Systems. He has also received awards for distinguished graduate and undergraduate teaching at Case Western Reserve University. His research interests are in the areas of non-linear and stochastic stability, filtering and control. He is a member of IEEE and SIAM.
J i n Lnnze was born in Dresden, German Democratic Republic, in 1952. He received the Dipl.-Ing. degree in automatic control in 1974, the Dr.-Ing. degree in 1980 and the Dr.~.techn. degree in 1983, all from Technische Hochschule Ilmenau, GDR. Since 1974 he has been at the Department of Control Systems of the Central Institute for Cybernetics and Information Processes of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR in Dresden. His main research interests are in the fields of linear systems theory, large-male control systems, robust feedback control, and engineering applications of artificial intelligence. He is author of the book Robust Multivariable Feedback Control (Prentice-Hall, London/Akademie, Berlin).
Edoardo Mosca received the Dr. Eng. degree from the University of Rome, Italy, in 1963 and the Libera Docenza in 1971. From 1964 to 1968 he was on the technical staff of Selenia S.p.A., Rome, Italy. From 1968 to 1972 he was associated with the Institute of Science and Technology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, U.S.A. During the academic year 1971-1972 he was Visiting Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, and in the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Naples, Naples, Italy. From 1972 to 1975, he was Associate Professor at the University of Florence, Florence, Italy, where, since 1975, he has been Professor at the chair of System Theory and, from 1980 to 1987 Chairman of the Dipartimento di Sistemi e Informatica. From 1984 to 1987 he has been responsible for coordinating a national research project on system and control engineering. He has worked on statistical theory of signal detection and processing in radio communication and radar, representation of stochastic processes, estimation, system identification and adaptive control. His current research interests are generally in robust control and adaptive filtering and control. Dr Mosea is a member of: IEEE; the Scientific Council of the Italian Group of Automatica and System Engineering of the National Research Council (CNR); the Technical Committee on Theory of IFAC--and an Editor of the International Journal on Adaptive Control and Signal Processing.
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Maciej Niediwiecki was born in Ponznafi, Poland, on 20 June 1953. He received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the Technical University of Gdafisk, Gdafsk, Poland, in 1977 and 1981, respectively. From 1981 to 1986 he was an Assistant Professor in the Institute of Computer Science, Technical University of Gdafisk. In September 1986 he joined the Department of Systems Engineering, Australian National University, where he is currently a Research Fellow. His main areas of research interests include identification of non-stationary systems, structural identification, spectrum estimation and adaptive systems.
Sarat C. Puthenpara was born in Kerala, India, in 1961. He received his B.Tech. from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, in 1983 and Ph.D. from McMaster University, Canada, in 1986, both in electrical engineering. Soon after finishing his Ph.D., he joined the AT & T Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, New Jersey, U.S.A., as a Member of Technical Staff. He is currently working there in large-scale systems optimization, specifically in the extension, enhancement, and applications of the Karmarkar Algorithm. Dr Puthenpura's research interests are in the areas of estimation, optimization, and control of systems and he has more than 20 publications in these areas.
Thomas B. Sheridan was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. He received the B.S. degree from Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, the M.S. degree from University of California at Los Angeles and the Sc.D. degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts. For most of his professional career he has remained at MIT, where he was Professor of Mechanical Engineering and is now Professor of Engineering and Applied Psychology and Director of the Man-Machine Systems Laboratory. He has also served as a visiting faculty member at University of California, Berkeley, Stanford University and the Technical University of Delft, The Netherlands. Dr Sheridan's research and teaching activities include: design, control, modeling and human factors experimentation of telerobotic systems for space and undersea, operation of nuclear power plants and commercial aircraft, individual and group decision processes, and social effects of automation. Dr Sheridan has also been associated with the MIT programs in Technology and Policy and in Science, Technology and Society. Dr Sheridan served as President of the IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society, Editor of IEEE Transactions on Man-Machine Systems, and is an IEEE Fellow and Centennial Medalist. He is also a Fellow of the Human Factors Society and recipient of their Paul M. Fitts Award for contributions to education. He is co-author of Man-Machine Systems (MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1981, 1984) and co-editor of Monitoring Behavior and Supervisory Control (Plenum, 1976). He has served on the editorial boards of Automatica, Advanced Robotics, Robotics
and Computer Integrated Manufacturing, Computer-aided Design and Technological Forecasting and Social Change. Dr
Sheridan has served on various government advisory committees of the National Institutes of Health, Office of Technology Assessment, NSF and NASA. Presently he is Chairman of the National Research Council's Committee on Human Factors and a member of the Nuclear Regulatory Research Review Committee and NASA's Oversight Committee for the Hight Telerobotic Servicer. He is listed in Who's Who in America and similar listings.
Dragosllav D. ~iljak received a Ph.D. degree in 1963 from the University of Beograd, Beograd, Yugoslavia. Since 1964, he has been with the Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, California, where he is presently the B & M Swig Professor at the School of Engineering and teaches courses in system theory and applications. In 1981, he lectured in Japan as a Fellow of the Japan Society for Promotion of Science, and in 1984, he lectured in Europe as a Distinguished Professor of the Fulbright Foundation. He is an honorary member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Belgrade, Yugoslavia. His research interest is in the theory of large-scale systems and its applications to problems in control engineering, power systems, economics, aerospace and model ecosystems. He is the author of the monographs Nonlinear Systems (Wiley, New York, 1969) and Large-scale Dynamic Systems (North Holland, Amsterdam, 1978).
Naresh K. Sinha was born in Gaya, India, in 1927. He obtained the B.Sc. (engineering) degree from Banaras Hindu University in 1948 and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Manchester in 1955. Dr Sinha taught at Bihar Institute of Technology in India and the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, U.S.A., before joining the Faculty of Engineering of McMaster University in 1965, where he is currently Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He served as Chairman of that department from July 1982 to June 1988 and has also been Visiting Professor at Stanford University, the Institute of Control Sciences in Moscow, U.S.S.R., and Tianjin University, China. He is the author or co-author of over 360 technical papers and one graduate level book, Modeling and Identification of Dynamics Systems, published by Van Nostrand Reinhold in 1983. He is also the author of a senior undergraduate level book Control Systems, published in February 1986 by Holt, Rinehart & Winston, and the editor of the book Microprocessor-based Control Systems, published in June 1986 by D. Reidel. Together with Professor I. Teleksnys of the Lithuanian S.S.R. Academy of Sciences, he edited the Proceedings of the Second IFAC Symposium on Stochastic Control, which was published by Pergamon Press in 1987. Another book, Microcomputer-
based Numerical Methods for Science and Engineering, co-authored with Professor G. J. Lastman of the University of Waterloo, was published in 1989 by Holt, Rinehart & Winston. Currently, he is working on a book entitled Linear Systems, which is to be published by Wiley in 1990. His current research interests are in the areas of adaptive control, system modeling and identification, software engineering, robotics, microprocessor-based control systems, and industrial applications of modern control theory. Dr Sinha was the Founder Chairman of the Hamilton Section IEEE Chapter on Circuits, Computers, Communications and Control. He is a Fellow of the Institution of
Biographical Notes Electrical Engineers, member of the Canadian Society for Electrical Engineering and a Registered Professional Engineer in the Province of Ontario. He has been active in the International Federation of Automatic Control and has organized several sessions in the Symposia and Congresses of IFAC in addition to serving on the International Program Committees of many IFAC Symposia. Since 1985, he has been a member of the Editorial Board of the journal, Control Theory and Advanced Technology, which is published by MITA Press in Japan. From January 1982 to January 1987, he was an Associate Editor of the IEEE magazine Technology and Society.
Jean-Jacques E. Siotioe was born in Paris, France, on 18 October 1959. He received the Ingenieur degree from the French Ecole Nationale Superieure de I'Aeronautique et de I'Espace in 1981, and his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1983. He is currently Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Doherty Professor in Ocean Utilization, and Director of the Nonlinear Systems Laboratory at M.I.T. His research interests include applied nonlinear control, robotics, and learning systems. He is a Technical Editor of the IEEE Journal of Robotics and Automation, an Associate Editor of The Robotics Review, and an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Robotics and Automation. Dr Siotine is the co-author of the textbook Robot Analysis and Control (Wiley, 1986), and is a frequent consultant to industry and to Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Srdjan S. Stankovi6 was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, on 27 April 1945. He received the B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Belgrade, Belgrade, in 1968, 1971, and 1976, respectively. From 1968 to 1979 he was a Research Associate in the Electronics Laboratory, Institute "Boris Kidri~", Vin~a, Belgrade. From 1971 to 1972 he was a Research Fellow at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands. In 1972 he joined the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade, where he is presently Associate Professor teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in control theory and signal processing. During 1986 he was a Research Associate and Visiting Professor at the Santa Clara University. Besides a large number of scientific papers he has published the book Nonlinear Automatic Control Systems (with Prof. R. Tomovi~). He has been the leader of numerous projects for industry and has served as a consultant in numerous scientific institutions. His current research interests include aspects of stochastic, adaptive and large-scale systems, system identification, signal processing and digital computer applications to process control.
Matin Sznaier was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, in 1959. He received the Ingeniero Electronico and Ingeniero en Sistemas de Computacion degrees from the Universidad de ia Republica, Uruguay, in 1983 and 1984, respectively, and the MSEE degree from the University of Washington in 1986. Currently Mr Sznaier is working towards his Ph.D. degree at the University of
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Washington, where he has held various teaching and rese~irch assistant positions since 1984. His research interests include adaptive and optimal control and applications of computers to control systems. He is also interested in the application of symmetry and conservation concepts to control.
Taketoshi Yoshida was born in Kumamoto, Japan, in 1955. He received the B.S. and M.S., both in mechanical engineering, from Kogakuin University, Tokyo, Japan, in 1979 and 1981, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in systems engineering from Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, in 1984. He joined IBM Japan in 1985 and was a researcher of Robotics Systems from 1985 to 1986. Since 1987 he has been a researcher of Industrial Mathematics, IBM Research, Tokyo Research Laboratory, IBM Japan. His research interests are in optimization and control of discrete event dynamic systems, robotics, and control theory.
Giovanni Zappa was born in Rimini, Italy, in 1947. He received his degree in physics in 1972 from the University of Florence. From 1974 to 1980 he held a research fellowship at the Istituto di Elettronica of the University of Florence. Since 1981 he has been working with the Dipartimento di Sistemi e Informatica (DSI) holding various research and teaching positions. He is presently associate professor of Stochastic Control. His current research interests include digital signal processing, adaptive control and distributed computing.
Jiogxin Zhang was born in Shenyang, China, in 1954. He graduated from the Department of Automatic Control, Northeast University of Technology, China, in 1976. From the same university, he received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering in 1983 and 1987, respectively. Between 1976 and 1980, he was a research assistant at Shenyang Research Institute of Automation, Academia Sinica, where he worked in the research and development of control systems for industrial processes. Since 1983, he has been working at the Department of Automatic Control, Northeast University of Technology, first as a teaching assistant, then a lecturer and currently an associate professor. His research interests include system identification, adaptive control and computer control systems.
Biographical Notes on Contributors to this Issue J. Boyd Pearson, Jr. received the BSEE and the MSEE degrees from the University of Arkansas in 1958 and 1959, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from Purdue University in 1962. From 1962 to 1965 he was an Assistant Professor at Purdue and since 1965, he has been with Rice University where he is currently the J. S. Abercrombie Professor in Engineering. His research interests are in control theory and its various applications.
Kerim Demirba~ was born in Aianya, Turkey, on 23 March 1951. He received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Istanbul Technical University (ITU), Istanbul, Turkey, in 1973; and the M.S., Engineer, and Ph.D. degrees, all in electrical engineering, from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), in 1977, 1979, and 1981, respectively. During 1973-1974, he was an engineer at ITU, Istanbul, Turkey. From 1978 to 1981, he was at UCLA, first as a postgraduate research engineer, and then as a postdoctoral scholar. From 1981 to 1984, he was a senior research scientist at the Honeywell Systems and Research Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, working on signal and image processing algorithm development for target recognition and analyzing the performance of defense systems. Since 1984, he has been an assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of Illinois at Chicago. During 1987-1988, he was a visiting assistant professor of electrical and electronics engineering at Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey. His current research interests are in the areas of signal and image processing, and communication theory with emphasis on state estimation, image restoration, computer vision, multisensor object recognition, and radar systems. Dr Demirba§ is the recipient of a graduate fellowship from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), and of a lycee and undergraduate fellowship from the Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey. He is listed in Who's Who in California.
Rafael Canetli was born in Uruguay and obtained his B.S. in electronic engineering (1984) and M.S. in control systems (1986) at the National University of Mexico (UNAM). He was honored with an M.S. fellowship from the Engineering Institute of the UNAM from 1984 to 1985. He is now at the University of Uruguay. His main interest is in adaptive identification techniques.
Heping Dai was born in Jiangsu, People's Republic of China, in 1956. He obtained his B.Eng. and M.Eng. degrees in electrical engineering from Beijing University of Science and Technology in 1982 and 1985, respectively. Since 1986, he has been working towards his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering at McMaster University. His current research interests are in the areas of robust identification, fuzzy identification and control, artificial intelligence, and applications of control theories to industrial problems.
Martin Espam graduated in electronic engineering from the University of La Plata, Argentina, in 1969 and received an M.S. degree in automatic control at the University of Chile, in 1971 and Doctor in Engineering from the Laboratoire d'Automatique of Grenoble, France, in 1977. From 1977 to 1981, he was associate professor at the Research Center of the National Polytechnical Institute, Mexico City. From 1981 to 1987, he was a full professor at the Engineering Institute of the National University of Mexico (UNAM). He spent his sabbatical year, 1987, at the Centre d'Automatique et Inforrnatique of the Ecole des Mines de Paris. He is now a researcher of the National Council of Scientific and Technological Researchers of Argentina and professor of automatic control at the Instituto Balseiro, Centro At6mico Bariloche, Argentina.
Mark J. Dmaborg received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering in 1962 from Iowa State University and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Michigan in 1963 and 1969, respectively. He spent the academic year 1966-67 as a Fulbright Fellow at the Technological University in Delft, The Netherlands. Since 1969 Dr Damborg has been at the University of Washington where be is now Professor of Electrical Engineering and Associate Chairman for Graduate Study. His research interests concern analysis and control of dynamic systems with emphasis on adaptive and optimal control concepts and control of power systems. Associated interests include data base applications to computer-aided engineering systems. 645
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Chidambar Ganesh was born in New Delhi, India, on 6 December 1958. He received a B.Tech. in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, in 1981, an M.E. in electrical engineering from the University of Florida in 1983 and a Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from Rice University in 1987. From 1982 to 1983, he was a research assistant at the Lightning Research Laboratory, Gainesville, Florida. He is presently on the faculty in the Department of Engineering at the Colorado School of Mines, where he is an Assistant Professor with the Automated Systems Laboratory. His current research interests include trajectory planning, sensor-based motion control, and intelligent control systems for robots.
Will Grouch was born in New York City. He received the B.E.E. degree from The City College of New York in 1950, an M.S. in mathematics from New York University in 1956 and the D.Eng.Sc. degree from Columbia University in 1961. Since 1970 he has been a professor in the Department of Information and Computer Sciences, University of Hawaii. He has been a postdoctoral, research and senior research fellow at several institutions. His research interests are in time and spatial series modeling and in statistical data analysis.
Michael Grimble was born in 1943 at Grimsby, U.K. His higher education commenced at Rugby College of Engineering Technology where he was awarded a first class B.Sc. honours degree in electrical engineering in 1970. Subsequently he obtained M.Sc. (1971), Ph.D. (1974) and D.Sc. (1982) degrees in control engineering from the University of Birmingham and a BA degree in mathematics from the Open University. His early industrial experience began with an electrical apprenticeship with CIBA Chemical, Grimsby, and a period as a student engineer with Associated Electrical Industries at Rugby, Warwickshire. This association with the industries based at Rugby was continued when in 1971 he joined the System Engineering Department of GEC Electrical Projects Ltd., as a design engineer. Promotion to Senior Engineer followed in 1974 by which time he was responsible for projects involving the analogue and computer control of industrial systems. It was during this period that a 2[ year secondment to the Industrial Automation Group at Imperial College of Science and Technology, London, occurred. In 1976, he joined the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at Sheffield City Polytechnic as a Senior Lecturer responsible for research. An industrial control applications grouping was formed in the department and he obtained Readership in Control Engineering in 1979. The University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, appointed him to the Professorship of Industrial Systems in 1981, and he is now the Director of the Industrial Control Unit and Past Chairman of the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering. His group is concerned with industrial control problems, particularly those arising in the steel, marine, aerospace, wind energy, electrical and gas industries. His research interests include
optimal control and estimation theory, self-tuning and H~ design techniques. Professor Grimble is Past Chairman of the UKRI Chapter of the IEEE Control Systems Society and is the Vice-chairman of the Control Theory Committee of IFAC. He is the Chairman of the (26 Computer Aided Engineering Committee of the Institute of Electrical Engineers and serves on the Control Theory Committee of the Institute of Mathematics and its applications. He is the Managing Editor of the Wiley journal Adaptive Control & Signal Processing. He is the editor of a new Prentice-Hall series of books on control engineering. He was the General Chairman of the IFAC Adaptive Control and Signal Processing Symposium held in Glasgow (1989). The Institution of Electrical Engineers presented him with the Heaviside Premium in 1978 for his papers on control engineering. The following year, 1979, he was awarded jointly the Coopers Hill War Memorial Prize and Medal by the Institution of Electrical, Mechanical and Civil Engineering.
Veijo Kaitala was born in Muhos, Finland, on 8 April 1951. He received the M.S. degree (Dipl. Eng.) in electrical engineering in 1977, Licenciate of Technology in 1980 and Doctor of Technology degree in 1985, all from the Helsinki University of Technology, Finland. From 1981 to 1985 / he was a research assistant and from 1985 to 1986 he was an acting associate professor at the Systems Analysis Laboratory, Helsinki University of Technology. Since 1987 he has been a visiting researcher at the College of Natural Resources, University of California at Berkeley. His current research interests are in optimal control theory, dynamic game theory, and stability analysis with applications to economics and ecology of renewable resource management.
Genshiro Kitagawa was born in Fukuoka, Japan, in 1948. He received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in mathematics from Tokyo University in 1971 and 1973, respectively, and the D.Sc. degree in mathematics from Kyushu University in 1983. Since 1974, he has been with the * J Institute of Statistical Mathematics where he is currently an Associate Professor. From 1980 to 1981 he was a Visiting Assistant Professor of the University of Tulsa, Oklahoma. From 1981 to 1982 he was an American Statistical Association Research Trainee in Time Series Analysis. His research interests are non-stationary and non-Gaussian time series modeling and statistical data analysis.
Benton K l i l ~ n received the B.A. degree in mathematics from Swarthmore College in 1970, and did his graduate work at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, receiving a Ph.D. degree in mathematics in 1977. He is now Associate Professor of Computer Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin. He has been on the faculty at Tufts University, and has worked at the Massa-
Biographical Notes chusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University. His research interests are in qualitative reasoning with incomplete knowledge of physical mechanisms, resourcelimited inference, and spatial exploration, learning, and problem-solving. Dr Kuipers is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Association for Artificial Intelligence, the Society for Values in Higher Education, and Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility.
Shijna I.amg was born in Gueizhou province, China, in 1914. He graduated from the Electrical Engineering faculty of Tsinghua University, China, in 1939. From 1939 to 1947, he worked as an electrical engineer, successively, at an iron and steel plant, a civil aviation corporation and an electric power plant in China. Between 1947 and 1950, he was an associate professor and then a professor at the Technical Institute of Gueizhou University, China. Since 1950, he has been professor of the Department of Automatic Control, Northeast University of Technology, China. His research interests include optimal control, adaptive control and their industrial applications.
.Ioio M. Lemos was born in Lisbon, Portugal, in 1957. He graduated in electrical engineering m 1981 and received the M.Sc. degree in 1984 from Instituto Superior T6cnico (Technical University of Lisbon). Since 1981 he has been working at the Control Group of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computers as a teaching assistant and research engineer. Since 1984 he has spent several periods at the Systems and Informatics Department of the University of Florence, Italy. His main research interests are in adaptive control and computer control and identification of industrial processes.
Weiping Li was born in Hunan, China, on 11 July 1962. He received the B.S. degree in aircraft design from the Beijing Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China, in 1982, and the M.S. degree in aeronautics and astronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in 1986. From 1982 to 1984, he worked in the Vibration Research Center of the Nanjing Aeronautical Institute in China, where he performed vibration and flutter control experiments on various helicopters and jet aircrafts. He is currently finishing his Ph.D. degree at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research interests include robotics, adaptive control theory, neural networks, and pattern recognition.
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Kenneth A. LOl~m'o received his Ph.D. in systems and control engineering from Case Western Reserve University in 1977. He was an Assistant Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Cleveland State University from 1977 to 1978 where he received the distinguished faculty award for contributions to teaching and research. From 1978 to the present time he has been on the faculty of Case Western Reserve University where he is currently an Associate Professor of Systems Engineering and Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Associate Director of the Center for Automation and Intelligent Systems. He has also received awards for distinguished graduate and undergraduate teaching at Case Western Reserve University. His research interests are in the areas of non-linear and stochastic stability, filtering and control. He is a member of IEEE and SIAM.
J i n Lnnze was born in Dresden, German Democratic Republic, in 1952. He received the Dipl.-Ing. degree in automatic control in 1974, the Dr.-Ing. degree in 1980 and the Dr.~.techn. degree in 1983, all from Technische Hochschule Ilmenau, GDR. Since 1974 he has been at the Department of Control Systems of the Central Institute for Cybernetics and Information Processes of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR in Dresden. His main research interests are in the fields of linear systems theory, large-male control systems, robust feedback control, and engineering applications of artificial intelligence. He is author of the book Robust Multivariable Feedback Control (Prentice-Hall, London/Akademie, Berlin).
Edoardo Mosca received the Dr. Eng. degree from the University of Rome, Italy, in 1963 and the Libera Docenza in 1971. From 1964 to 1968 he was on the technical staff of Selenia S.p.A., Rome, Italy. From 1968 to 1972 he was associated with the Institute of Science and Technology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, U.S.A. During the academic year 1971-1972 he was Visiting Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, and in the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Naples, Naples, Italy. From 1972 to 1975, he was Associate Professor at the University of Florence, Florence, Italy, where, since 1975, he has been Professor at the chair of System Theory and, from 1980 to 1987 Chairman of the Dipartimento di Sistemi e Informatica. From 1984 to 1987 he has been responsible for coordinating a national research project on system and control engineering. He has worked on statistical theory of signal detection and processing in radio communication and radar, representation of stochastic processes, estimation, system identification and adaptive control. His current research interests are generally in robust control and adaptive filtering and control. Dr Mosea is a member of: IEEE; the Scientific Council of the Italian Group of Automatica and System Engineering of the National Research Council (CNR); the Technical Committee on Theory of IFAC--and an Editor of the International Journal on Adaptive Control and Signal Processing.
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Maciej Niediwiecki was born in Ponznafi, Poland, on 20 June 1953. He received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the Technical University of Gdafisk, Gdafsk, Poland, in 1977 and 1981, respectively. From 1981 to 1986 he was an Assistant Professor in the Institute of Computer Science, Technical University of Gdafisk. In September 1986 he joined the Department of Systems Engineering, Australian National University, where he is currently a Research Fellow. His main areas of research interests include identification of non-stationary systems, structural identification, spectrum estimation and adaptive systems.
Sarat C. Puthenpara was born in Kerala, India, in 1961. He received his B.Tech. from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, in 1983 and Ph.D. from McMaster University, Canada, in 1986, both in electrical engineering. Soon after finishing his Ph.D., he joined the AT & T Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, New Jersey, U.S.A., as a Member of Technical Staff. He is currently working there in large-scale systems optimization, specifically in the extension, enhancement, and applications of the Karmarkar Algorithm. Dr Puthenpura's research interests are in the areas of estimation, optimization, and control of systems and he has more than 20 publications in these areas.
Thomas B. Sheridan was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. He received the B.S. degree from Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, the M.S. degree from University of California at Los Angeles and the Sc.D. degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts. For most of his professional career he has remained at MIT, where he was Professor of Mechanical Engineering and is now Professor of Engineering and Applied Psychology and Director of the Man-Machine Systems Laboratory. He has also served as a visiting faculty member at University of California, Berkeley, Stanford University and the Technical University of Delft, The Netherlands. Dr Sheridan's research and teaching activities include: design, control, modeling and human factors experimentation of telerobotic systems for space and undersea, operation of nuclear power plants and commercial aircraft, individual and group decision processes, and social effects of automation. Dr Sheridan has also been associated with the MIT programs in Technology and Policy and in Science, Technology and Society. Dr Sheridan served as President of the IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society, Editor of IEEE Transactions on Man-Machine Systems, and is an IEEE Fellow and Centennial Medalist. He is also a Fellow of the Human Factors Society and recipient of their Paul M. Fitts Award for contributions to education. He is co-author of Man-Machine Systems (MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1981, 1984) and co-editor of Monitoring Behavior and Supervisory Control (Plenum, 1976). He has served on the editorial boards of Automatica, Advanced Robotics, Robotics
and Computer Integrated Manufacturing, Computer-aided Design and Technological Forecasting and Social Change. Dr
Sheridan has served on various government advisory committees of the National Institutes of Health, Office of Technology Assessment, NSF and NASA. Presently he is Chairman of the National Research Council's Committee on Human Factors and a member of the Nuclear Regulatory Research Review Committee and NASA's Oversight Committee for the Hight Telerobotic Servicer. He is listed in Who's Who in America and similar listings.
Dragosllav D. ~iljak received a Ph.D. degree in 1963 from the University of Beograd, Beograd, Yugoslavia. Since 1964, he has been with the Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, California, where he is presently the B & M Swig Professor at the School of Engineering and teaches courses in system theory and applications. In 1981, he lectured in Japan as a Fellow of the Japan Society for Promotion of Science, and in 1984, he lectured in Europe as a Distinguished Professor of the Fulbright Foundation. He is an honorary member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Belgrade, Yugoslavia. His research interest is in the theory of large-scale systems and its applications to problems in control engineering, power systems, economics, aerospace and model ecosystems. He is the author of the monographs Nonlinear Systems (Wiley, New York, 1969) and Large-scale Dynamic Systems (North Holland, Amsterdam, 1978).
Naresh K. Sinha was born in Gaya, India, in 1927. He obtained the B.Sc. (engineering) degree from Banaras Hindu University in 1948 and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Manchester in 1955. Dr Sinha taught at Bihar Institute of Technology in India and the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, U.S.A., before joining the Faculty of Engineering of McMaster University in 1965, where he is currently Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He served as Chairman of that department from July 1982 to June 1988 and has also been Visiting Professor at Stanford University, the Institute of Control Sciences in Moscow, U.S.S.R., and Tianjin University, China. He is the author or co-author of over 360 technical papers and one graduate level book, Modeling and Identification of Dynamics Systems, published by Van Nostrand Reinhold in 1983. He is also the author of a senior undergraduate level book Control Systems, published in February 1986 by Holt, Rinehart & Winston, and the editor of the book Microprocessor-based Control Systems, published in June 1986 by D. Reidel. Together with Professor I. Teleksnys of the Lithuanian S.S.R. Academy of Sciences, he edited the Proceedings of the Second IFAC Symposium on Stochastic Control, which was published by Pergamon Press in 1987. Another book, Microcomputer-
based Numerical Methods for Science and Engineering, co-authored with Professor G. J. Lastman of the University of Waterloo, was published in 1989 by Holt, Rinehart & Winston. Currently, he is working on a book entitled Linear Systems, which is to be published by Wiley in 1990. His current research interests are in the areas of adaptive control, system modeling and identification, software engineering, robotics, microprocessor-based control systems, and industrial applications of modern control theory. Dr Sinha was the Founder Chairman of the Hamilton Section IEEE Chapter on Circuits, Computers, Communications and Control. He is a Fellow of the Institution of
Biographical Notes Electrical Engineers, member of the Canadian Society for Electrical Engineering and a Registered Professional Engineer in the Province of Ontario. He has been active in the International Federation of Automatic Control and has organized several sessions in the Symposia and Congresses of IFAC in addition to serving on the International Program Committees of many IFAC Symposia. Since 1985, he has been a member of the Editorial Board of the journal, Control Theory and Advanced Technology, which is published by MITA Press in Japan. From January 1982 to January 1987, he was an Associate Editor of the IEEE magazine Technology and Society.
Jean-Jacques E. Siotioe was born in Paris, France, on 18 October 1959. He received the Ingenieur degree from the French Ecole Nationale Superieure de I'Aeronautique et de I'Espace in 1981, and his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1983. He is currently Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Doherty Professor in Ocean Utilization, and Director of the Nonlinear Systems Laboratory at M.I.T. His research interests include applied nonlinear control, robotics, and learning systems. He is a Technical Editor of the IEEE Journal of Robotics and Automation, an Associate Editor of The Robotics Review, and an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Robotics and Automation. Dr Siotine is the co-author of the textbook Robot Analysis and Control (Wiley, 1986), and is a frequent consultant to industry and to Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Srdjan S. Stankovi6 was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, on 27 April 1945. He received the B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Belgrade, Belgrade, in 1968, 1971, and 1976, respectively. From 1968 to 1979 he was a Research Associate in the Electronics Laboratory, Institute "Boris Kidri~", Vin~a, Belgrade. From 1971 to 1972 he was a Research Fellow at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands. In 1972 he joined the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade, where he is presently Associate Professor teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in control theory and signal processing. During 1986 he was a Research Associate and Visiting Professor at the Santa Clara University. Besides a large number of scientific papers he has published the book Nonlinear Automatic Control Systems (with Prof. R. Tomovi~). He has been the leader of numerous projects for industry and has served as a consultant in numerous scientific institutions. His current research interests include aspects of stochastic, adaptive and large-scale systems, system identification, signal processing and digital computer applications to process control.
Matin Sznaier was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, in 1959. He received the Ingeniero Electronico and Ingeniero en Sistemas de Computacion degrees from the Universidad de ia Republica, Uruguay, in 1983 and 1984, respectively, and the MSEE degree from the University of Washington in 1986. Currently Mr Sznaier is working towards his Ph.D. degree at the University of
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Washington, where he has held various teaching and rese~irch assistant positions since 1984. His research interests include adaptive and optimal control and applications of computers to control systems. He is also interested in the application of symmetry and conservation concepts to control.
Taketoshi Yoshida was born in Kumamoto, Japan, in 1955. He received the B.S. and M.S., both in mechanical engineering, from Kogakuin University, Tokyo, Japan, in 1979 and 1981, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in systems engineering from Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, in 1984. He joined IBM Japan in 1985 and was a researcher of Robotics Systems from 1985 to 1986. Since 1987 he has been a researcher of Industrial Mathematics, IBM Research, Tokyo Research Laboratory, IBM Japan. His research interests are in optimization and control of discrete event dynamic systems, robotics, and control theory.
Giovanni Zappa was born in Rimini, Italy, in 1947. He received his degree in physics in 1972 from the University of Florence. From 1974 to 1980 he held a research fellowship at the Istituto di Elettronica of the University of Florence. Since 1981 he has been working with the Dipartimento di Sistemi e Informatica (DSI) holding various research and teaching positions. He is presently associate professor of Stochastic Control. His current research interests include digital signal processing, adaptive control and distributed computing.
Jiogxin Zhang was born in Shenyang, China, in 1954. He graduated from the Department of Automatic Control, Northeast University of Technology, China, in 1976. From the same university, he received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering in 1983 and 1987, respectively. Between 1976 and 1980, he was a research assistant at Shenyang Research Institute of Automation, Academia Sinica, where he worked in the research and development of control systems for industrial processes. Since 1983, he has been working at the Department of Automatic Control, Northeast University of Technology, first as a teaching assistant, then a lecturer and currently an associate professor. His research interests include system identification, adaptive control and computer control systems.