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Biographical notes on contributors to this issue
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Biographical N o t e s on Contributors to this Issue Driss Benlahcen was born on 27
Manfred Gr6tzbach was born in
December, 1947 in Bir T a m Tam, Fes, Morocco. He received doctorates in engineering and physics from the University of Nancy, France, in 1976 and 1978, respectively. His research activities are concentrated on a u t o m a t a fuzzy systems and machine tools. Since 1977 he has been professor at the Faculty of Sciences in Rabat, Morocco. At present he is the head of the Physics Department at the University of M o h a m m e d V in Rabat, Morocco.
1942 in Braunau/CSSR. He received B.E. and M.E. degrees in electrical engineering in 1964 from the Johannes-Kepler-Polytechnikum, Regensburg, Germany, and in 1968 from the Technical University Munich (TUM), Munich, Germany. While at the Institute of Electrical Drives, T U M , he was active in the field of projection and realization of various controlled electrical power supplies. His main research work was first on the exact, later on the approximated analysis of rectifier circuits, which led to a Ph.D. degree in 1976. Since 1977 he has been a senior scientist at the University of Federal Defence Munich, Neubiberg, Germany. His main interests are in the field of analogous and digital simulation of controlled power supplies, in particular in respect to the problems of the reactions of controlled rectifier in the feeding power system.
Franqois Delebecque was born in Carpentras, France, in 1948. He graduated in mathematics from the University of Marseilles, France, in 1972 and received a 3rd Cycle Thesis from the University of Paris IX in 1977. F r o m September 1973 to September 1976 he worked at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and he is currently a research worker at the Institut National de Recherche d'lnformatique et Automatique (INRIA). His area of main interest is stochastic control and system theory.
Ljubomir
Gruji~: was born in Belgrade in 1939. At the age of 19 he won a prize in a young mathematicians' competition in Belgrade. In 1963 he received his diploma in mechanical engineering. This was followed by master of electrical engineering 11970) and a doctoral dissertation (1972) all from University of Belgrade. During 1971 Dr Grujid was on sabbatical at the University of Santa Clara, U.S.A. He has been working on stability optimization singular perturbations, large-scale systems and adaptive control. He has been an invited speaker to many universities world-wide. Dr Grujic is also an editorial board member of the International Journal of Systems Science and a member of J U R E M A , ETAN, IEEE, AIAA and the IFAC working group on mathematics in control.
Frank J. Evans was born in 1926, and gained his B.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of London. Prior to joining the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Queen Mary College, University of London in 1965, where he now holds the position of reader, he was engaged in systems and control engineering in a variety of industrial fields. These included weapon systems, aircraft dynamics and control, and the analysis and control of thermal power plant. His previous research interests have included generalized dynamics and its relation to network theory, nonlinear dynamic systems, and he is currently working on the graph theoretic aspects of control theory and the analysis of large scale problems. He is a senior member of the IEEE and a fellow of the lEE. He is also a Louis Levy Medallist and a life fellow of the Franklin Institute.
Akira Hataji was born in Fukuoka, Japan, on 16 November 1923. He received the B.S.E.E. and the D.E.E. degrees from the University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, and the University of Osaka, in 1944 and 1976, respectively. From 1945 he joined the staff of the laboratory of Japan National Railways. From 1952 he was with the Japan Defence Agency. From 1967 to 1975 he was an assistant professor in the University of Nishinihon Institute of Technology. Since 1978 he has been a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Oita. His research activities are in the areas of information theory and electronical circuit. He is a member of the Institute of Electronics and Communication Engineers of Japan, the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers, etc. 415
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Claudio Maffezzoni was born in 1946. He graduated in Electrical Engineering at Politecnico di Milano, Italy, in 1970. He was with the Laboratorio di Controlli Automatici of Politecnico di Milano as research fellow from 1970 to 1974. In that period he was mainly involved in optimal control problems and system analysis. Since 1974 he has been with Centro Ricerca di Automatica {Automatic Research Centre) of the National Electricity Board of Italy. His main research interests are in power systems and power plant Control. He also teaches process control at Politecnico di Milano.
Vito Marchese was born in 1948. He was a student at the Politecnico di Milano and in 1972 received the degree in electrical engineering. Since 1974 he has been with Centro Ricerca di Automatica (Automatica Research Center) of the National Electricity Board of Italy where he is a senior researcher. His main interest is in power systems analysis and control.
Seiichi Nakamori was born in Kagoshima, Japan, on 9 March 1951. He received the B.S.E.E. degree from the University of Kagoshima, Kagoshima, Japan, in 1974. He has been a research associate at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Oita. He spent a half year from October 1979 to March 1980 at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Physics, Faculty of Engineering, University of Kyoto, engaged in research work. He is now preparing his dissertation for the degree of Doctor of Engineering. His research interests are in the areas of estimation theory, identification theory, design of controller, and applications of control theory to optical communication systems and to predictions of air pollution levels. He is a member of the Japan Association of Automatic Control Engineers, the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers, and the Institute of Electronics and Communication Engineers of Japan.
Notes John O'Reilly was born m Portadown, Northern Ireland on 15 February 1951. He was awarded B.Sc. (electrical engineermgl and Ph.D. (engineering mathematics) degrees by the Queen's University of Belfast in 1972 and 1976. respectively. Since 1977 he has becn a lecturer in Electrical Engineering and Electronics at the University of Liverpool. His current research interests include observer ti,cory, singular perturbation methods in large-scale systems and servomechanism problems. Dr O'Reilly is an associate fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (Great Britain).
Lucas Pun received his B.E.E. and B. Math degrees from Aurora University, Shanghai in 1947; Diploma Ing6nieur ESE from Ecole Sup6rieure d'Electricit~, Paris ira 1951 ; Ingenieur-Docteur from Grenoble University in 1954 and State-Doctor 6s Sc. Physics in 1971 from Toulouse University. From 1956 to 1961 he was with Battelle Memorial Institute, Geneva. From 1961 to 1968, with Hispano Suiza (Suisse) Geneva and from 1968 to 1971, with Toulouse University. Since 1971, he has been with Bordeaux University where he chairs the Automatic Control Department. His work has been generally concerned with the use of analog and digital computers for simulation and control, and he has written three books, and about sixty papers.
Jean-Pierre Quadrat was born in Saint-Four, Cantal, France on 7 June 1946. He graduated from the Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble in Applied Mathematics, and received degree in engineering from the University of Paris VI in 1973. Since 1971 he has been a research worker at the Institut National de Recherche d'Informatique et Automatique (INRIA) where his main interest is in optimal stochastic control theory.
Biographical Notes Christos Schizas was born .in Evrychou, Cyprus in 1952. He received his B.Sc.(Eng.) degree from the University of London in 1978. He is now completing his Ph.D. on graph theory and its application to large scale systems. During his Ph.D. studies he has been awarded a Draper's Company research scholarship by Queen Mary College, and in 1978 he was granted the William Lincoln Shelley award of the University of London. He is an associate member of the lEE.
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Jurgen Werner, born in 1940, and since 1970 has been professor of electrophysiology at the Ruhr:Universit~it in Bochum, Germany. From 1960 to 1965 he was at the Technische Hochschule Darmstadt. During 1965 he received his Dipl.-Ing. degree in electrical engineering. From 1965 to 1969 he carried out research in human operations at the J. W. GoetheUniversit~it at Frankfurt. Current research interests include simulation techniques, laboratory automation, man-machine systems, human temperature regulation and electrophysiology.
Biographical N o t e s on Contributors to this Issue Driss Benlahcen was born on 27
Manfred Gr6tzbach was born in
December, 1947 in Bir T a m Tam, Fes, Morocco. He received doctorates in engineering and physics from the University of Nancy, France, in 1976 and 1978, respectively. His research activities are concentrated on a u t o m a t a fuzzy systems and machine tools. Since 1977 he has been professor at the Faculty of Sciences in Rabat, Morocco. At present he is the head of the Physics Department at the University of M o h a m m e d V in Rabat, Morocco.
1942 in Braunau/CSSR. He received B.E. and M.E. degrees in electrical engineering in 1964 from the Johannes-Kepler-Polytechnikum, Regensburg, Germany, and in 1968 from the Technical University Munich (TUM), Munich, Germany. While at the Institute of Electrical Drives, T U M , he was active in the field of projection and realization of various controlled electrical power supplies. His main research work was first on the exact, later on the approximated analysis of rectifier circuits, which led to a Ph.D. degree in 1976. Since 1977 he has been a senior scientist at the University of Federal Defence Munich, Neubiberg, Germany. His main interests are in the field of analogous and digital simulation of controlled power supplies, in particular in respect to the problems of the reactions of controlled rectifier in the feeding power system.
Franqois Delebecque was born in Carpentras, France, in 1948. He graduated in mathematics from the University of Marseilles, France, in 1972 and received a 3rd Cycle Thesis from the University of Paris IX in 1977. F r o m September 1973 to September 1976 he worked at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and he is currently a research worker at the Institut National de Recherche d'lnformatique et Automatique (INRIA). His area of main interest is stochastic control and system theory.
Ljubomir
Gruji~: was born in Belgrade in 1939. At the age of 19 he won a prize in a young mathematicians' competition in Belgrade. In 1963 he received his diploma in mechanical engineering. This was followed by master of electrical engineering 11970) and a doctoral dissertation (1972) all from University of Belgrade. During 1971 Dr Grujid was on sabbatical at the University of Santa Clara, U.S.A. He has been working on stability optimization singular perturbations, large-scale systems and adaptive control. He has been an invited speaker to many universities world-wide. Dr Grujic is also an editorial board member of the International Journal of Systems Science and a member of J U R E M A , ETAN, IEEE, AIAA and the IFAC working group on mathematics in control.
Frank J. Evans was born in 1926, and gained his B.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of London. Prior to joining the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Queen Mary College, University of London in 1965, where he now holds the position of reader, he was engaged in systems and control engineering in a variety of industrial fields. These included weapon systems, aircraft dynamics and control, and the analysis and control of thermal power plant. His previous research interests have included generalized dynamics and its relation to network theory, nonlinear dynamic systems, and he is currently working on the graph theoretic aspects of control theory and the analysis of large scale problems. He is a senior member of the IEEE and a fellow of the lEE. He is also a Louis Levy Medallist and a life fellow of the Franklin Institute.
Akira Hataji was born in Fukuoka, Japan, on 16 November 1923. He received the B.S.E.E. and the D.E.E. degrees from the University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, and the University of Osaka, in 1944 and 1976, respectively. From 1945 he joined the staff of the laboratory of Japan National Railways. From 1952 he was with the Japan Defence Agency. From 1967 to 1975 he was an assistant professor in the University of Nishinihon Institute of Technology. Since 1978 he has been a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Oita. His research activities are in the areas of information theory and electronical circuit. He is a member of the Institute of Electronics and Communication Engineers of Japan, the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers, etc. 415
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Biographical
Claudio Maffezzoni was born in 1946. He graduated in Electrical Engineering at Politecnico di Milano, Italy, in 1970. He was with the Laboratorio di Controlli Automatici of Politecnico di Milano as research fellow from 1970 to 1974. In that period he was mainly involved in optimal control problems and system analysis. Since 1974 he has been with Centro Ricerca di Automatica {Automatic Research Centre) of the National Electricity Board of Italy. His main research interests are in power systems and power plant Control. He also teaches process control at Politecnico di Milano.
Vito Marchese was born in 1948. He was a student at the Politecnico di Milano and in 1972 received the degree in electrical engineering. Since 1974 he has been with Centro Ricerca di Automatica (Automatica Research Center) of the National Electricity Board of Italy where he is a senior researcher. His main interest is in power systems analysis and control.
Seiichi Nakamori was born in Kagoshima, Japan, on 9 March 1951. He received the B.S.E.E. degree from the University of Kagoshima, Kagoshima, Japan, in 1974. He has been a research associate at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Oita. He spent a half year from October 1979 to March 1980 at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Physics, Faculty of Engineering, University of Kyoto, engaged in research work. He is now preparing his dissertation for the degree of Doctor of Engineering. His research interests are in the areas of estimation theory, identification theory, design of controller, and applications of control theory to optical communication systems and to predictions of air pollution levels. He is a member of the Japan Association of Automatic Control Engineers, the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers, and the Institute of Electronics and Communication Engineers of Japan.
Notes John O'Reilly was born m Portadown, Northern Ireland on 15 February 1951. He was awarded B.Sc. (electrical engineermgl and Ph.D. (engineering mathematics) degrees by the Queen's University of Belfast in 1972 and 1976. respectively. Since 1977 he has becn a lecturer in Electrical Engineering and Electronics at the University of Liverpool. His current research interests include observer ti,cory, singular perturbation methods in large-scale systems and servomechanism problems. Dr O'Reilly is an associate fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (Great Britain).
Lucas Pun received his B.E.E. and B. Math degrees from Aurora University, Shanghai in 1947; Diploma Ing6nieur ESE from Ecole Sup6rieure d'Electricit~, Paris ira 1951 ; Ingenieur-Docteur from Grenoble University in 1954 and State-Doctor 6s Sc. Physics in 1971 from Toulouse University. From 1956 to 1961 he was with Battelle Memorial Institute, Geneva. From 1961 to 1968, with Hispano Suiza (Suisse) Geneva and from 1968 to 1971, with Toulouse University. Since 1971, he has been with Bordeaux University where he chairs the Automatic Control Department. His work has been generally concerned with the use of analog and digital computers for simulation and control, and he has written three books, and about sixty papers.
Jean-Pierre Quadrat was born in Saint-Four, Cantal, France on 7 June 1946. He graduated from the Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble in Applied Mathematics, and received degree in engineering from the University of Paris VI in 1973. Since 1971 he has been a research worker at the Institut National de Recherche d'Informatique et Automatique (INRIA) where his main interest is in optimal stochastic control theory.
Biographical Notes Christos Schizas was born .in Evrychou, Cyprus in 1952. He received his B.Sc.(Eng.) degree from the University of London in 1978. He is now completing his Ph.D. on graph theory and its application to large scale systems. During his Ph.D. studies he has been awarded a Draper's Company research scholarship by Queen Mary College, and in 1978 he was granted the William Lincoln Shelley award of the University of London. He is an associate member of the lEE.
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Jurgen Werner, born in 1940, and since 1970 has been professor of electrophysiology at the Ruhr:Universit~it in Bochum, Germany. From 1960 to 1965 he was at the Technische Hochschule Darmstadt. During 1965 he received his Dipl.-Ing. degree in electrical engineering. From 1965 to 1969 he carried out research in human operations at the J. W. GoetheUniversit~it at Frankfurt. Current research interests include simulation techniques, laboratory automation, man-machine systems, human temperature regulation and electrophysiology.