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Biographical notes on contributors to this issue
Automatica, Vol. 11, pp. 639-641. Pergamon Press, 1975. Printed in Great Britain
Biographical Notes on Contributors to this Issue Rajko Tomovi~ was born in 1919. He graduated at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Beograd, where he obtained the Ph.D. degree. In 1960 he was elected Professor of Control Engineering at the same faculty, He has published several books in Serbian, French, English and Russian on nonlinear control, sensitivity analysis and analog computers. He has made several contributions in the development of advanced assistive devices for handicapped persons.
Zomn Stojiljkovie was born in 1939• He graduated in 1962 from the Faculty of Engineering, Belgrade, and received the M.S. degree in multidisciplinary sciences in 1971 in Belgrade. Since 1963 he has been with the Institute for Automation and Telecommunications, Mihaiio Pupin, Belgrade. His areas of interest include the application of system theory and pattern recognition to robotics.
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MlUnd Ajinkya was born in Bombay on 18 October 1948. He obtained his B.Tech. in chemical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in 1970 and went to the State University of New York at Buffalo for graduate studies which resulted in an M.S. (in 1972) and a Ph.D. (in 1974) under Professor Harmon Ray, both in chemical engineering. He was a Woodburn Fellow of the University from 1972 to 1974. He is a member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, the American Chemical Society and the American Institute of Engineering Education. He is presently a research engineer with the Shell Research Laboratory in Amsterdam, in The Netherlands.
Manfred K~hne was born on 21 September 1938 in Bielefeld, ~ Germany. He received the .~ Diplomingenieur degree (Dipl.Ing.) in electrical engineering from the Technische Hoch;2~'~ schule, Darmstadt, and the Doctor degree in engineering ~ science 03r.lng) from the University of Stuttgart, Germany, in 1968 and 1975 respectively. From 1955 to 1963 he worked as an apprentice, probationer and engineer in • 639
the field of telecommunication, the last in the laboratory of Telefonbau and Normalzeit, Frankfurt/Main. Since 1969 he has been a research assistant and Lecturer in Control Engineering at the Institut fiir Systemdynamik und Regelungstechnik of the University of Stuttgart. His current research interests comprise simulation and applied control theory of distributed parameter systems as well as ocean mining and ship control problems.
Hans-Friedrich IVlfider was born in Swinemiinde, Germany, on 5 March 1940. He received degrees in electrical and nuclear engineering in 1963, and in 1968 the Diplomingenieur degree (Dipl.-Ing.) in electrical engineering in the field of automatic control from the Technische Hochschulc, Darmstadt, where he worked for 2 years as a research assistant at the Institut ffir Mechanik. From 1971 to 1975 he was with the Institut fiir Systemdynamik und Regelungstechnik at the University of Stuttgart and worked on his thesis entitled Time optimal control and modal control of an industrially implemented heat conductor. Since then he has been working for Hoechst AG Frankfurt, Department of Control Engineering. His main interests are in the control of distributed parameter systems and in electronics.
W. N. Ray's photograph and biographical note appeared in Automatica 11, 562 (1975).
Troy F. Henson was born in Greenwood, Arkansas, on 4 October 1942. He received his ~ B.S.E.E. and M.S.E.E. degrees from the University of Arkansas in 1965 and 1966 respectively. He is presently a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Texas at Austin. Since June 1966 he has .~.~. been an employee of I B M Federal Systems Division, where he has been involved primarily in the analysis, design and simulation of Space Vehicle Attitude Control Systems. Troy is a member of Theta Tan, Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu, Phi Kappa Phi, IEEE and the Society for Computer Simulation.
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Baxter F. Womack was born in Charleston, Ark., on 5 September 1930. He received the B.S.E.E. and M.S.E.E. degrees in 1 9 5 6 and 1958 respectively, from the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, and the Ph.D. degree in 1963 from Purdue University, Lafayette, Ind. He is now Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin, where he serves as Graduate Adviser for Biomedical Engineering, and Coordinator of the Information Systems Program. He is an elected member of the University Council and Faculty Senate, a member of the Board of Directors, University Cooperative Society and is Presidentelect of the Kiwanis Club of University Area. Dr. Womack is Chairman of the Computers in Education Division (COED) of ASEE, past Chairman of IEEE Central Texas Section and past Chairman of IEEE Region 5 Student Activities Committee. He was a member of the 1974 JACC Operating and Program Committees. In 1968 Dr. Womack was a Visiting Research Associate at Nagoya University, Japan, and in 1974 he visited several universities in western Europe and the Soviet Union. He is a consultant to several companies, and has research interests in cybernetics, adaptive control systems, system characterization and identification, and mathematical models of biological systems. HlroFaki Tamura received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in engineering from Osaka University, Osaka, Japan, in 1962 and 1964 respectively, the M.S. degree in engineering--economic systems from Stanford University, Stanford, California, in 1968 and the Ph.D. degree in engineering from Osaka University in 1971. From 1964 to 1971 he was a research engineer with the Central Research Laboratory, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Amagasaki, Japan. During this period he received a Stanford Graduate Fellowship and spent 2 years (1966-8) at the Department of Engineering-Economic Systems, Stanford University. He held summer employment with Stanford Research Institute, Menlo Park, California, in 1967. Since 1971 he has been with the Department of Precision Engineering, Osaka University, as an Associate Professor. He spent a year (1972-3) at the Control and Systems Group, Engineering Department, Cambridge University, Cambridge, England, as a Visiting Researcher and received a British Council Scholarship. His research interests center on the methodology for largescale systems and its applications to industrial systems, environmental systems and urban transportation systems. Dr. Tamura is a member of the IEEE, the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers of Japan, the Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan and the Japan Association of Automatic Control Engineers. F. Llang was born in Amoy, China, on 15 July 1946. He received the B.Sc. and M.Se. degrees from the University of Manitoba in 1969 and 1971 respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in 1974 from the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. He was awarded the University of Manitoba Fellowship from 1969 to 1971 and was a Killam Scholar in the University David
of Alberta. He was also awarded a National Research Council Scholarship for his doctorate program. Recently, his research interests are optimization of stochastic dynamical systems, estimation and its application in communications and control. Since 1974 he has been with the system design engineering department of the Alberta Government Telephones. He is a member of IEEE.
Gnstav Strom Christensen was born on Laesoe, Denmark, in :: 1929. In 1958 he received the B.Sc. in engineering physics from the University of Alberta, in :~ 1960 he received the M.A.Se. in ~: electrical engineering from the ~" University of British Columbia and in 1966 he received the Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of British Columbia. From 1960 to 1963 he was employed in Canadian industry. Since 1966 he has been with the University of Alberta where he is Professor of Electrical Engineering. His research interests are in the areas of control systems and communications. He is a member of IEEE.
Janos Gertler was born in Vienna in 1936. He was educated in Budapest, Hungary. " He received his Diploma ~, Engineer degree in electrical • engineering from the Technical University of Budapest in 1959 • and his Candidate of Sciences degree in control systems from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. From 1959 to 1965 he was with the Research Institute for Electrical Power, Budapest. He was next Assistant Professor at the Technical University of Budapest between 1965 and 1967. In 1967-8 he spent a year's leave at the University of Toronto, Canada, as a Post-doctoral Fellow. Then he joined the Institute for Computing and Automation, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, where he has been Deputy Director since 1971. His special field of interest is computer control of industrial processes. Within this field he deals with both applied control theory, and software. At the Paris Congress of IFAC in 1972, Dr. Gertler was elected Chairman of the IFAC Technical Committee on Computers. -
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Jan Sedhtk was born in Franti[ky, Czechoslovakia, on II September 1930. He graduated (cure laude) from the Mathematical-Physical Faculty of Carolinac University, Prague, in 1953 and received the RNDr (Rerum Naturalium Doctor) degree in numerical mathematics from Carolinae University, Prague, in 1968 and the candidate's degree in mathematical theory of languages and their applications from the Mathematical Institute of Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences in 1969. From 1952 to 1957 he worked at the
Biographical notes Institute for Applied Mathematics of the Czech Technical University, Prague. His area of interest was the exploitation of mathematical machines in numerical mathematics. From 1957 to 1968 he was a research worker at the Research Institute for Mathematical Machines, Prague, where he was leader of a department for automatic programming. Here he solved many research problems related to the preparation of Czech mathematical machine production (machine language, algorithmic programming languages, simulation of sequential logical circuits, compilers, etc.). Since 1968 he has been at INORGA--Institute for Industrial Management Automation, Prague. He was appointed to the position of Manager of the newly organized Experimental Laboratory for Process Control to be responsible for the experimental installation of computer control systems in the steel and power industries. Since 1971 he has been working as a leading research worker in the area of structure of process control algorithms and software for process control He worked as a chairman of the session 'Experiment and Process Control' during the IFIP Congress, 1971, at Ljuhljana and in 1974 he presented as co-author a Survey for the IVth IFAC]IFIP Conference held in Ziirich, which is published in this journal. He has written three books and 60 papers. Dr. S e d l ~ is a founding member of the Czech Cybernetics Society of the Czechoslovak Academy of Science, a member of IFIP-TC-5 (Czechoslovak National Committee) and of other scientific organizations.
Geert Jan Olsder was born in Muntendam, The Netherlands, on 1 January 1944. He received his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees (with honours) in applied mathematics at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands, in 1964, 1968 and 1971 respectively. The subject of his thesis was in the field of time optimal bangbang controls with an application in ship-manoeuvrability. Since 1971 he has been employed at the Twente University of Technology, The Netherlands, where he teaches courses in optimal control theory and linear system theory. He was a member of the Global Dynamics group, a group of Dutch mathematicians and engineers studying optimization aspects of world dynamics. He spent the academic year 1972-3 at the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Stanford University, U.S.A. (where the present paper originated) on a fellowship awarded by the Netherlands Organization for the Advancement of Pure Research (Z.W.O.). His main research interests are in the field of optimal control theory (currently with emphasis on distributed parameter systems), differential games and linear system theory. He is author of a number of papers in these fields.
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J. David Powell was born in Montreal, Canada, in June 1938. He received the B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from M.I.T. in June 1960 and the M,S. and Ph.D. degrees in aeronautics and astronautics from Stanford University in 1966 and 1970 respectively. During 1960-1 he was with the Outboard Marine Corporation in Waukegan, Illinois, where he was engaged in the design and testing of outboard motors. From 1961 to 1970 he was in aerospace guidance and control at Lockheed (7 years) and several smaller firms for shorter periods. During this time he also attended Stanford University specializing in control systems. In 1971 Dr. Powell became an Assistant Professor and currently holds a joint appointment with the Mechanical Engineering Department and the Aeronautics and Astronautics Department. His research is currently concerned with the control of internal combustion engines, digital control of aircraft and drag-free satellite design.
Molmmmad Jamshidi was born in Shiraz, Iran, on 10 May 1944. He received his B.S.E.E. from Oregon State University, • Corvallis, Oregon, in June 1967. He then attended the University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, where he received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees both in electrical engineering in June 1969 and February 1 9 7 1 respectively. From September 1967 until June 1968 he was a teaching assistant with the Department of Electrical Engineering and from June 1968 until February 1971 he was a research assistant at the Coordinated Science Laboratory, University of Illinois. From February until August 1971 he was a research associate with the Coordinated Science Laboratory and a system analyst for the Hybrid Computer Laboratory. In October 1971 he became an Assistant Professor and in March 1973 an Associate Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering,Pahlavi University, Shiraz, Iran. In September 1973 he was also appointed as Director of Pahlavi University Computing Center. During the summer of 1975 he was a Visiting Research Scientist with the Institute of Automation, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany. Dr. Jamshidi is a senior member of IEEE, a member of IEEE AC and IECI groups, a member of NSPE, Board of Directors, Iranian Society of Automatic Control Engineers, Associate Editor of Iranian Journal of Science and Technology, IFAC Committee on Developing Countries, Phi Kappa Phi, Tau Beta Pi, Sigma Tau and Eta Kappa Nu. He is the author of a hook, Analog Simulation of Dynamic Processes, UL 1971, and numerous technical papers. His current interests are optimal control, time-delay systems, optimization of energy-resources systems, computer software and applications to dynamic processes.
Biographical Notes on Contributors to this Issue Rajko Tomovi~ was born in 1919. He graduated at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Beograd, where he obtained the Ph.D. degree. In 1960 he was elected Professor of Control Engineering at the same faculty, He has published several books in Serbian, French, English and Russian on nonlinear control, sensitivity analysis and analog computers. He has made several contributions in the development of advanced assistive devices for handicapped persons.
Zomn Stojiljkovie was born in 1939• He graduated in 1962 from the Faculty of Engineering, Belgrade, and received the M.S. degree in multidisciplinary sciences in 1971 in Belgrade. Since 1963 he has been with the Institute for Automation and Telecommunications, Mihaiio Pupin, Belgrade. His areas of interest include the application of system theory and pattern recognition to robotics.
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MlUnd Ajinkya was born in Bombay on 18 October 1948. He obtained his B.Tech. in chemical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in 1970 and went to the State University of New York at Buffalo for graduate studies which resulted in an M.S. (in 1972) and a Ph.D. (in 1974) under Professor Harmon Ray, both in chemical engineering. He was a Woodburn Fellow of the University from 1972 to 1974. He is a member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, the American Chemical Society and the American Institute of Engineering Education. He is presently a research engineer with the Shell Research Laboratory in Amsterdam, in The Netherlands.
Manfred K~hne was born on 21 September 1938 in Bielefeld, ~ Germany. He received the .~ Diplomingenieur degree (Dipl.Ing.) in electrical engineering from the Technische Hoch;2~'~ schule, Darmstadt, and the Doctor degree in engineering ~ science 03r.lng) from the University of Stuttgart, Germany, in 1968 and 1975 respectively. From 1955 to 1963 he worked as an apprentice, probationer and engineer in • 639
the field of telecommunication, the last in the laboratory of Telefonbau and Normalzeit, Frankfurt/Main. Since 1969 he has been a research assistant and Lecturer in Control Engineering at the Institut fiir Systemdynamik und Regelungstechnik of the University of Stuttgart. His current research interests comprise simulation and applied control theory of distributed parameter systems as well as ocean mining and ship control problems.
Hans-Friedrich IVlfider was born in Swinemiinde, Germany, on 5 March 1940. He received degrees in electrical and nuclear engineering in 1963, and in 1968 the Diplomingenieur degree (Dipl.-Ing.) in electrical engineering in the field of automatic control from the Technische Hochschulc, Darmstadt, where he worked for 2 years as a research assistant at the Institut ffir Mechanik. From 1971 to 1975 he was with the Institut fiir Systemdynamik und Regelungstechnik at the University of Stuttgart and worked on his thesis entitled Time optimal control and modal control of an industrially implemented heat conductor. Since then he has been working for Hoechst AG Frankfurt, Department of Control Engineering. His main interests are in the control of distributed parameter systems and in electronics.
W. N. Ray's photograph and biographical note appeared in Automatica 11, 562 (1975).
Troy F. Henson was born in Greenwood, Arkansas, on 4 October 1942. He received his ~ B.S.E.E. and M.S.E.E. degrees from the University of Arkansas in 1965 and 1966 respectively. He is presently a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Texas at Austin. Since June 1966 he has .~.~. been an employee of I B M Federal Systems Division, where he has been involved primarily in the analysis, design and simulation of Space Vehicle Attitude Control Systems. Troy is a member of Theta Tan, Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu, Phi Kappa Phi, IEEE and the Society for Computer Simulation.
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Baxter F. Womack was born in Charleston, Ark., on 5 September 1930. He received the B.S.E.E. and M.S.E.E. degrees in 1 9 5 6 and 1958 respectively, from the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, and the Ph.D. degree in 1963 from Purdue University, Lafayette, Ind. He is now Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin, where he serves as Graduate Adviser for Biomedical Engineering, and Coordinator of the Information Systems Program. He is an elected member of the University Council and Faculty Senate, a member of the Board of Directors, University Cooperative Society and is Presidentelect of the Kiwanis Club of University Area. Dr. Womack is Chairman of the Computers in Education Division (COED) of ASEE, past Chairman of IEEE Central Texas Section and past Chairman of IEEE Region 5 Student Activities Committee. He was a member of the 1974 JACC Operating and Program Committees. In 1968 Dr. Womack was a Visiting Research Associate at Nagoya University, Japan, and in 1974 he visited several universities in western Europe and the Soviet Union. He is a consultant to several companies, and has research interests in cybernetics, adaptive control systems, system characterization and identification, and mathematical models of biological systems. HlroFaki Tamura received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in engineering from Osaka University, Osaka, Japan, in 1962 and 1964 respectively, the M.S. degree in engineering--economic systems from Stanford University, Stanford, California, in 1968 and the Ph.D. degree in engineering from Osaka University in 1971. From 1964 to 1971 he was a research engineer with the Central Research Laboratory, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Amagasaki, Japan. During this period he received a Stanford Graduate Fellowship and spent 2 years (1966-8) at the Department of Engineering-Economic Systems, Stanford University. He held summer employment with Stanford Research Institute, Menlo Park, California, in 1967. Since 1971 he has been with the Department of Precision Engineering, Osaka University, as an Associate Professor. He spent a year (1972-3) at the Control and Systems Group, Engineering Department, Cambridge University, Cambridge, England, as a Visiting Researcher and received a British Council Scholarship. His research interests center on the methodology for largescale systems and its applications to industrial systems, environmental systems and urban transportation systems. Dr. Tamura is a member of the IEEE, the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers of Japan, the Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan and the Japan Association of Automatic Control Engineers. F. Llang was born in Amoy, China, on 15 July 1946. He received the B.Sc. and M.Se. degrees from the University of Manitoba in 1969 and 1971 respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in 1974 from the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. He was awarded the University of Manitoba Fellowship from 1969 to 1971 and was a Killam Scholar in the University David
of Alberta. He was also awarded a National Research Council Scholarship for his doctorate program. Recently, his research interests are optimization of stochastic dynamical systems, estimation and its application in communications and control. Since 1974 he has been with the system design engineering department of the Alberta Government Telephones. He is a member of IEEE.
Gnstav Strom Christensen was born on Laesoe, Denmark, in :: 1929. In 1958 he received the B.Sc. in engineering physics from the University of Alberta, in :~ 1960 he received the M.A.Se. in ~: electrical engineering from the ~" University of British Columbia and in 1966 he received the Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of British Columbia. From 1960 to 1963 he was employed in Canadian industry. Since 1966 he has been with the University of Alberta where he is Professor of Electrical Engineering. His research interests are in the areas of control systems and communications. He is a member of IEEE.
Janos Gertler was born in Vienna in 1936. He was educated in Budapest, Hungary. " He received his Diploma ~, Engineer degree in electrical • engineering from the Technical University of Budapest in 1959 • and his Candidate of Sciences degree in control systems from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. From 1959 to 1965 he was with the Research Institute for Electrical Power, Budapest. He was next Assistant Professor at the Technical University of Budapest between 1965 and 1967. In 1967-8 he spent a year's leave at the University of Toronto, Canada, as a Post-doctoral Fellow. Then he joined the Institute for Computing and Automation, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, where he has been Deputy Director since 1971. His special field of interest is computer control of industrial processes. Within this field he deals with both applied control theory, and software. At the Paris Congress of IFAC in 1972, Dr. Gertler was elected Chairman of the IFAC Technical Committee on Computers. -
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Jan Sedhtk was born in Franti[ky, Czechoslovakia, on II September 1930. He graduated (cure laude) from the Mathematical-Physical Faculty of Carolinac University, Prague, in 1953 and received the RNDr (Rerum Naturalium Doctor) degree in numerical mathematics from Carolinae University, Prague, in 1968 and the candidate's degree in mathematical theory of languages and their applications from the Mathematical Institute of Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences in 1969. From 1952 to 1957 he worked at the
Biographical notes Institute for Applied Mathematics of the Czech Technical University, Prague. His area of interest was the exploitation of mathematical machines in numerical mathematics. From 1957 to 1968 he was a research worker at the Research Institute for Mathematical Machines, Prague, where he was leader of a department for automatic programming. Here he solved many research problems related to the preparation of Czech mathematical machine production (machine language, algorithmic programming languages, simulation of sequential logical circuits, compilers, etc.). Since 1968 he has been at INORGA--Institute for Industrial Management Automation, Prague. He was appointed to the position of Manager of the newly organized Experimental Laboratory for Process Control to be responsible for the experimental installation of computer control systems in the steel and power industries. Since 1971 he has been working as a leading research worker in the area of structure of process control algorithms and software for process control He worked as a chairman of the session 'Experiment and Process Control' during the IFIP Congress, 1971, at Ljuhljana and in 1974 he presented as co-author a Survey for the IVth IFAC]IFIP Conference held in Ziirich, which is published in this journal. He has written three books and 60 papers. Dr. S e d l ~ is a founding member of the Czech Cybernetics Society of the Czechoslovak Academy of Science, a member of IFIP-TC-5 (Czechoslovak National Committee) and of other scientific organizations.
Geert Jan Olsder was born in Muntendam, The Netherlands, on 1 January 1944. He received his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees (with honours) in applied mathematics at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands, in 1964, 1968 and 1971 respectively. The subject of his thesis was in the field of time optimal bangbang controls with an application in ship-manoeuvrability. Since 1971 he has been employed at the Twente University of Technology, The Netherlands, where he teaches courses in optimal control theory and linear system theory. He was a member of the Global Dynamics group, a group of Dutch mathematicians and engineers studying optimization aspects of world dynamics. He spent the academic year 1972-3 at the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Stanford University, U.S.A. (where the present paper originated) on a fellowship awarded by the Netherlands Organization for the Advancement of Pure Research (Z.W.O.). His main research interests are in the field of optimal control theory (currently with emphasis on distributed parameter systems), differential games and linear system theory. He is author of a number of papers in these fields.
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J. David Powell was born in Montreal, Canada, in June 1938. He received the B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from M.I.T. in June 1960 and the M,S. and Ph.D. degrees in aeronautics and astronautics from Stanford University in 1966 and 1970 respectively. During 1960-1 he was with the Outboard Marine Corporation in Waukegan, Illinois, where he was engaged in the design and testing of outboard motors. From 1961 to 1970 he was in aerospace guidance and control at Lockheed (7 years) and several smaller firms for shorter periods. During this time he also attended Stanford University specializing in control systems. In 1971 Dr. Powell became an Assistant Professor and currently holds a joint appointment with the Mechanical Engineering Department and the Aeronautics and Astronautics Department. His research is currently concerned with the control of internal combustion engines, digital control of aircraft and drag-free satellite design.
Molmmmad Jamshidi was born in Shiraz, Iran, on 10 May 1944. He received his B.S.E.E. from Oregon State University, • Corvallis, Oregon, in June 1967. He then attended the University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, where he received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees both in electrical engineering in June 1969 and February 1 9 7 1 respectively. From September 1967 until June 1968 he was a teaching assistant with the Department of Electrical Engineering and from June 1968 until February 1971 he was a research assistant at the Coordinated Science Laboratory, University of Illinois. From February until August 1971 he was a research associate with the Coordinated Science Laboratory and a system analyst for the Hybrid Computer Laboratory. In October 1971 he became an Assistant Professor and in March 1973 an Associate Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering,Pahlavi University, Shiraz, Iran. In September 1973 he was also appointed as Director of Pahlavi University Computing Center. During the summer of 1975 he was a Visiting Research Scientist with the Institute of Automation, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany. Dr. Jamshidi is a senior member of IEEE, a member of IEEE AC and IECI groups, a member of NSPE, Board of Directors, Iranian Society of Automatic Control Engineers, Associate Editor of Iranian Journal of Science and Technology, IFAC Committee on Developing Countries, Phi Kappa Phi, Tau Beta Pi, Sigma Tau and Eta Kappa Nu. He is the author of a hook, Analog Simulation of Dynamic Processes, UL 1971, and numerous technical papers. His current interests are optimal control, time-delay systems, optimization of energy-resources systems, computer software and applications to dynamic processes.