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Biographical Notes on Contributors to this Issue Raymond DeCarlo was born in Philadelphia in 1950. He received B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Notre Dame, Notre .Dame, Indiana in 1972 and 1974, respectively, and a Ph.D. degree (under the direction of Dr. R. Sacks) from Texas Technical University, Lubbock in 1976. His doctoral research centred on Nyquist stability theory with applications to multidimensional digital filters. After graduating he was a Lecturer at Texas Technical University for one year and then became an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, in the autumn of 1977 and an Associate Professor in 1982. He has been an Associate Editor for the I E E E Transactions on Automatic Control. His research interests include interconnected dynamical systems, analog fault diagnosis, decentralized control and computer aided circuit design.
Said Ahmed-Zaid was born in Algiers, Algeria on 6 May 1956. He received a B.S. degree in electrical engineering with high honours from No the University of Illinois at photograph Urbana Champaign in 1979. He available continued at Illinois and received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in 1981 and 1984, respectively. From 1980 to 1984 he was a graduate teaching and research assistant in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Illinois. He remained at Illinois for one year in a post-doctoral position made available through the General Electric Company Electric Utility Systems Engineering Department. His research interests are in reduced-order modelling of electric machines and the aggregation of large-scale power systems. Dr. Ahmed-Zaid is currently fulfilling a military committment in Algeria.
Vinieius Amaral Armentano received a B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the Universidade Mackenzie, S. Paulo, Brazil, in 1974 and an M.S, degree in electrical engineering from the Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil, in 1979. He also obtained a Ph.D. in control systems from Imperial College, University of London, England, in 1983. From 1976 to 1977 he worked as a systems engineer at the Brazilian Telecommunication Company (Embratel). Since 1984 he has been with the Department of Electrical Engineering of the Universidade Estadual de Campinas. His current interests include linear multivariable control, operations research and optimization theory.
Alberto R. Galimidi was born in Argentina in 1954. He received the Engineer's Diploma in electronics from the Universidad de Buenos Aires in 1979 and the M.S.E.E. from the University of Rochester in 1983. He worked as a systems engineer for Rayo Electronics SRL from 1979 to 1981 and served in the Argentinian Army as a consultant to a communications battalion during 1980. He is currently a Lecturer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he is completing his graduate studies.
B. Ross Barmish was born in Montreal, Quebec in 1949. He received the Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from McGill University, Montreal, Quebec in 1971. In 1972 and 1975 respectively, he received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees (both in electrical engineering) from Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. From 1975 to 1978 he served as Assistant Professor of Engineering and Applied Science at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. From 1978 to 1984 he was as an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Rochester, Rochester, New York. In August 1984 he joined the University of Wisconsin, Madison where he is currently Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Since 1982 Dr. Barmish has also been involved in a number of IEEE Control Systems Society activities. From 1982 to 1984 he was member of the Transactions Editorial Board and served as an associate editor for the I E E E Transactions on Automatic Control; from 1983 to 1984 he served on the IEEE Control Systems Society Board of Governors and the Technical Activities Board. His primary research interest lies in the area of systems and control.
Michael Grimble was born in Grimsby, England, in 1943. His higher education commenced at Rugby College of 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 B.A. 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 505
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during this period that a 2~ year secondment to the Industrial Automation Group at Imperial College of Science and Technology, London occurrcd. 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 a Readership in Control Engineering in 1979. The University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. appointed him to the Chair of Industrial Systems in 1981, and he is now the Director of the Industrial Control Unit and Chairman of the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering. His group is concerned with industrial control problems, particularly those arising in the steel, marine and gas industries. His research interests currently include optimal control and estimation theory, self-tuning and H~. control and multivariable system design techniques. Professor Grimble is a Past Chairman of the UKRI Chapter of the IEEE Control Systems Society, Chairman of the International Committee of the IEEE and serves on the Control Theory Committees of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC), the Institute of Electrical Engineers and the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications. He is currently an Associate Editor of the journals Automatica and Optimal Control Applications and Methods, and is the editor of a new Prentice Hall series of books on control engineering. 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.
Christopher V. Hollot was born in Clarksburg, West Virginia in 1953. In 1984, he received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Rochester, Rochester, New York. At present he is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts. His research interests are in systems and control theory.
Petar V, Kokotovic is Professor in the Electrical and Computer Enginering Department and Research Professor in the Coordinated Science Laboratory, University of Illinois. He obtained graduate degrees in 1962 under Prof. Mitrovic in his native Belgrade, Yugoslavia, and in 1965 under Prof. Feldbaum and Prof. Tsypkin in Moscow, U.S.S.R. During this period he was with the Pupin Research Institute, Belgrade. Since 1966 he has been at Illinois teaching control theory and conducting research in modelling, sensitivity analysis, optimal and adaptive control, singular perturbations and large-scale systems, topics on which he coauthored six books and close to 200 papers. He has also held visiting appointments with ETH Zurich, Switzerland; INRIA, France; Stanford and Notre Dame Universities, U.S.A.; and ANU, Canberra. Australia. His industrial consulting activities include General Electric Co. and Ford Motor Co. Professor Kokotovic is a Fellow of the 1EEE, a member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Control Systems Society, and an associate editor of Systems and Control Letters. He has served on committees of the International Federation of Automatic Control, and its journal Automatica.
Notes Branko D. Kova~evi~ wa~ born m Belgrade, Yugoslavia on 29 June, 1951. He received the B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Belgrade, in 1976, 1980 and 1984. respectively. From 1976 to 1977 he was a Research Associate in the (7orepurer Science Laboratory. Institute "Mihailo Pupin", Belgrade. From 1977 to 1981 he was a Research Fellow at the Department of Automatic Control, Military Institute of Technology, Belgrade. In 1981 he joined the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade, where he is presently Docent Professor, teaching courses in control systems theory and its applications. His main research interests are in the areas of system identification, signal processing and digital computer applications to process control. James Ting-Ho Lo received the B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from the National Taiwan University in 1964 and the Ph.D. degree in aerospace engineering from the University of Southern California in 1969. His areas of specialty have been estimation, detection and control for non-linear systems. From 1969 to 1972, he was consecutively a research associate at '~ Stanford and then Harvard University. Since 1972, he has been on the faculty of the University of Maryland Baltimore County, Catonsville, Maryland, where he has taught a large variety of courses in system theory, computer science and statistics. From 1982 to 1983, he served as an engineer at the UTL Corporation in Dallas. He has been a consultant with Gould, Inc., Mechanical Technology, Inc., COMSAT Labs., Westinghouse Electric Corporation, and Martin-Marietta Aerospace. His current research interests include spacecraft attitude determination and control, sonar signal processing for ASW, antenna array design and data processing for passive surveillance, functional expansion methods for non-linear filtering, and estimation and control on group manifolds. lan R. Petersen was born in Korumburra, Australia in 1956. He received a Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Melbourne in 1979. He received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Rochester, Rochester, New York in 1981 and 1984 respectively. During the period 19831985, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Australian National University and he is currently a Lecturer in Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the Australian Defence Force Academy. His current research interests include the stabilization of uncertain systems, linear quadratic optimal control theory and linear systems theory. Laurent Praly was born in 1954. Hc graduated from Ecole Nationale Sup6rieure des Mines de Paris m 1976. He worked as an engineer in a private laboratory for three years. then joined the Centre d'Automatique et Informatique, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines dc Paris, Fontainebleau in 1980. From July 1984 to June 1985, he spent a sabbatical year as Visiting Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois, UrbanaChampaign. His main interest is in automatic conrail with contributions to adaptive systems.
Biographical Notes Mr Richter received a B.S. and M.S. in mathematics from Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. He then received an M.S. in electrical engineering from Purdue in 1981 and an M.S. in Physics, also from Purdue, in 1983. From 1983 to 1985 he worked for ITT Avionics at Clifton, New Jersey. At ITT he was primarily involved with the development of algorithms for navigational systems. Mr Richter is presently employed at the Government Systems Aerospace Division of Harris Corporation in Melbourne, Florida. His primary research interest is the application of continuation methods to control problems, particularly decentralized control and reduced order control. He has also done work in astrophysics and general relativity, particularly in the area of solar physics.
Bradley D. Riedle was born in Vandalia, Illinois on 23 February, 1960. He received B.S.E.E. and M.S.E.E. degrees from the University of Illinois in 1982 and 1984, respectively. Since 1982 he has been a Research Assistant at the Coordinated Science Laboratory, University of Illinois, Urbana. He is currently completing the requirements for a Ph.D. in electrical engineering.
Peter W. Sauer was born in Winona, Minnesota on 20 September 1946. He received a B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Missouri at Rolla, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Purdue University in 1969, 1974 and 1977, respectively. From 1969 to 1973 he was the electrical engineer on a design assistance team for the Tactical Air Command at Langley AFB Virginia, working on the design and construction of airfield lighting and electrical distribution systems. He has done consulting work for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Construction Engineering Research Laboratory, developing an interactive electric power distribution planning program. He is currently a Grainger Associate and a Professor of Electrical Engineering and the Coordinated Science Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is a member of Eta Kappa Nu, Sigma Xi, Phi Kappa Phi, IEEE and is a registered Professional Engineer in the Commonwealth of Virginia and the State of Illinois.
Dale R. Sebok was born in Akron, Ohio in 1957. He received a B.S.E.E. degree from the University of Akron in 1980, an M.S.E.E. from Purdue in December 1981 and a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering in May 1986. His interests include control of large scale systems, decentralized control and intelligent control.
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Srdjan S. Stankovi~ was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia on 27 April, 1945. He received the B.S., M.S. and P.h.D. degres from the University of Belgrade, Belgrade, in 1968, 1971 and 1976, respectively. From 1968 to 1971 he was a Research Associate in the Electronics Laboratory, Institute Boris Kidrir, Vine:a, Belgrade. From 1971 to 1972 he was a Research Fellow at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Eindhoven University, Eindhoven, The Netherlands. In 1972 he joined the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade, where he is presently Associate Professor. Besides a number of scientific papers, he published (with Prof. R. Tomovi/:) the book Nonlinear Automatic Control Systems. His current research interests include aspects of system identification, signal processing, adaptive control systems and digital computer applications to process control.
Jitendra K. Tugnait was born in Jabalpur, India on 3 December 1950. He received the B.Sc.(Hons.) degree in electronics and electrical communication engineering from the Punjab Engineering College, Chandigarh, India in 1971, M.S. and the E.E. degrees from Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York and a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 1973, 1974, and 1978, respectively, all in electrical engineering. From 1978 to 1982, he was an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa. He has also been associated with School of Radar Studies, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India and Space Applications Center, Ahmedabad, India during 1975-76. He has been with the Long Range Research Division of the Exxon Production Research Company, Houston, Texas since June 1982. His research interests are in stochastic systems analysis and statistical signal processing. He is currently an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control.
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Watanabe was born in Kagawa Prefecture, Japan on 23 April 1952. He received B.E. and M.E. degrees in mechanical engineering from the University of Tokushima in 1976 and 1978, respectively, and a D.E. degree in aeronautical engineering from Kyushu University in 1984. In 1979, he was employed at Japan Advanced Numerical Analysis (JANA) Inc., | Meguro-ku, Tokyo, Japan. From 1980 to March in 1985, he was a Research Associate in the Department of Aeronautical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Kyushu University, Hakozaki, Fukuoka, Japan. He is now an Associate Professor in the College of Engineering, Shizuoka University, Hamamatsu, Japan. His research interests are in estimation theory, stochastic adaptive control, system modelling and identification. He has published about 40 technical papers in such areas. Dr. Watanabe is a member of the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers, the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers, the Japan Association of Automatic Control Engineers and the Japan Society for Aeronautical and Space Sciences.
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Biographical Notes Jim Winkeiman was born in Woodstock, Illinois in 1949. He received his B.S.E.E. with honours from the University of Wisconsin in 1972 and his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Wisconsin in 1976. Since joining the General Electric Company in 1976, he has been involved in numerous projects involving control system design and power system research. Included in these are application of singular
perturbation techniques to power system analysis, l)O1[~ research programs in control of multi-terminal HVDC systems, and power system stability assessment via direct methods. Presently. he is responsible for the development of advanced control concepts for generator and turbine system controls.
Biographical Notes on Contributors to this Issue Raymond DeCarlo was born in Philadelphia in 1950. He received B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Notre Dame, Notre .Dame, Indiana in 1972 and 1974, respectively, and a Ph.D. degree (under the direction of Dr. R. Sacks) from Texas Technical University, Lubbock in 1976. His doctoral research centred on Nyquist stability theory with applications to multidimensional digital filters. After graduating he was a Lecturer at Texas Technical University for one year and then became an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, in the autumn of 1977 and an Associate Professor in 1982. He has been an Associate Editor for the I E E E Transactions on Automatic Control. His research interests include interconnected dynamical systems, analog fault diagnosis, decentralized control and computer aided circuit design.
Said Ahmed-Zaid was born in Algiers, Algeria on 6 May 1956. He received a B.S. degree in electrical engineering with high honours from No the University of Illinois at photograph Urbana Champaign in 1979. He available continued at Illinois and received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in 1981 and 1984, respectively. From 1980 to 1984 he was a graduate teaching and research assistant in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Illinois. He remained at Illinois for one year in a post-doctoral position made available through the General Electric Company Electric Utility Systems Engineering Department. His research interests are in reduced-order modelling of electric machines and the aggregation of large-scale power systems. Dr. Ahmed-Zaid is currently fulfilling a military committment in Algeria.
Vinieius Amaral Armentano received a B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the Universidade Mackenzie, S. Paulo, Brazil, in 1974 and an M.S, degree in electrical engineering from the Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil, in 1979. He also obtained a Ph.D. in control systems from Imperial College, University of London, England, in 1983. From 1976 to 1977 he worked as a systems engineer at the Brazilian Telecommunication Company (Embratel). Since 1984 he has been with the Department of Electrical Engineering of the Universidade Estadual de Campinas. His current interests include linear multivariable control, operations research and optimization theory.
Alberto R. Galimidi was born in Argentina in 1954. He received the Engineer's Diploma in electronics from the Universidad de Buenos Aires in 1979 and the M.S.E.E. from the University of Rochester in 1983. He worked as a systems engineer for Rayo Electronics SRL from 1979 to 1981 and served in the Argentinian Army as a consultant to a communications battalion during 1980. He is currently a Lecturer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he is completing his graduate studies.
B. Ross Barmish was born in Montreal, Quebec in 1949. He received the Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from McGill University, Montreal, Quebec in 1971. In 1972 and 1975 respectively, he received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees (both in electrical engineering) from Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. From 1975 to 1978 he served as Assistant Professor of Engineering and Applied Science at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. From 1978 to 1984 he was as an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Rochester, Rochester, New York. In August 1984 he joined the University of Wisconsin, Madison where he is currently Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Since 1982 Dr. Barmish has also been involved in a number of IEEE Control Systems Society activities. From 1982 to 1984 he was member of the Transactions Editorial Board and served as an associate editor for the I E E E Transactions on Automatic Control; from 1983 to 1984 he served on the IEEE Control Systems Society Board of Governors and the Technical Activities Board. His primary research interest lies in the area of systems and control.
Michael Grimble was born in Grimsby, England, in 1943. His higher education commenced at Rugby College of 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 B.A. 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 505
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during this period that a 2~ year secondment to the Industrial Automation Group at Imperial College of Science and Technology, London occurrcd. 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 a Readership in Control Engineering in 1979. The University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. appointed him to the Chair of Industrial Systems in 1981, and he is now the Director of the Industrial Control Unit and Chairman of the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering. His group is concerned with industrial control problems, particularly those arising in the steel, marine and gas industries. His research interests currently include optimal control and estimation theory, self-tuning and H~. control and multivariable system design techniques. Professor Grimble is a Past Chairman of the UKRI Chapter of the IEEE Control Systems Society, Chairman of the International Committee of the IEEE and serves on the Control Theory Committees of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC), the Institute of Electrical Engineers and the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications. He is currently an Associate Editor of the journals Automatica and Optimal Control Applications and Methods, and is the editor of a new Prentice Hall series of books on control engineering. 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.
Christopher V. Hollot was born in Clarksburg, West Virginia in 1953. In 1984, he received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Rochester, Rochester, New York. At present he is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts. His research interests are in systems and control theory.
Petar V, Kokotovic is Professor in the Electrical and Computer Enginering Department and Research Professor in the Coordinated Science Laboratory, University of Illinois. He obtained graduate degrees in 1962 under Prof. Mitrovic in his native Belgrade, Yugoslavia, and in 1965 under Prof. Feldbaum and Prof. Tsypkin in Moscow, U.S.S.R. During this period he was with the Pupin Research Institute, Belgrade. Since 1966 he has been at Illinois teaching control theory and conducting research in modelling, sensitivity analysis, optimal and adaptive control, singular perturbations and large-scale systems, topics on which he coauthored six books and close to 200 papers. He has also held visiting appointments with ETH Zurich, Switzerland; INRIA, France; Stanford and Notre Dame Universities, U.S.A.; and ANU, Canberra. Australia. His industrial consulting activities include General Electric Co. and Ford Motor Co. Professor Kokotovic is a Fellow of the 1EEE, a member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Control Systems Society, and an associate editor of Systems and Control Letters. He has served on committees of the International Federation of Automatic Control, and its journal Automatica.
Notes Branko D. Kova~evi~ wa~ born m Belgrade, Yugoslavia on 29 June, 1951. He received the B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Belgrade, in 1976, 1980 and 1984. respectively. From 1976 to 1977 he was a Research Associate in the (7orepurer Science Laboratory. Institute "Mihailo Pupin", Belgrade. From 1977 to 1981 he was a Research Fellow at the Department of Automatic Control, Military Institute of Technology, Belgrade. In 1981 he joined the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade, where he is presently Docent Professor, teaching courses in control systems theory and its applications. His main research interests are in the areas of system identification, signal processing and digital computer applications to process control. James Ting-Ho Lo received the B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from the National Taiwan University in 1964 and the Ph.D. degree in aerospace engineering from the University of Southern California in 1969. His areas of specialty have been estimation, detection and control for non-linear systems. From 1969 to 1972, he was consecutively a research associate at '~ Stanford and then Harvard University. Since 1972, he has been on the faculty of the University of Maryland Baltimore County, Catonsville, Maryland, where he has taught a large variety of courses in system theory, computer science and statistics. From 1982 to 1983, he served as an engineer at the UTL Corporation in Dallas. He has been a consultant with Gould, Inc., Mechanical Technology, Inc., COMSAT Labs., Westinghouse Electric Corporation, and Martin-Marietta Aerospace. His current research interests include spacecraft attitude determination and control, sonar signal processing for ASW, antenna array design and data processing for passive surveillance, functional expansion methods for non-linear filtering, and estimation and control on group manifolds. lan R. Petersen was born in Korumburra, Australia in 1956. He received a Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Melbourne in 1979. He received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Rochester, Rochester, New York in 1981 and 1984 respectively. During the period 19831985, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Australian National University and he is currently a Lecturer in Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the Australian Defence Force Academy. His current research interests include the stabilization of uncertain systems, linear quadratic optimal control theory and linear systems theory. Laurent Praly was born in 1954. Hc graduated from Ecole Nationale Sup6rieure des Mines de Paris m 1976. He worked as an engineer in a private laboratory for three years. then joined the Centre d'Automatique et Informatique, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines dc Paris, Fontainebleau in 1980. From July 1984 to June 1985, he spent a sabbatical year as Visiting Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois, UrbanaChampaign. His main interest is in automatic conrail with contributions to adaptive systems.
Biographical Notes Mr Richter received a B.S. and M.S. in mathematics from Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. He then received an M.S. in electrical engineering from Purdue in 1981 and an M.S. in Physics, also from Purdue, in 1983. From 1983 to 1985 he worked for ITT Avionics at Clifton, New Jersey. At ITT he was primarily involved with the development of algorithms for navigational systems. Mr Richter is presently employed at the Government Systems Aerospace Division of Harris Corporation in Melbourne, Florida. His primary research interest is the application of continuation methods to control problems, particularly decentralized control and reduced order control. He has also done work in astrophysics and general relativity, particularly in the area of solar physics.
Bradley D. Riedle was born in Vandalia, Illinois on 23 February, 1960. He received B.S.E.E. and M.S.E.E. degrees from the University of Illinois in 1982 and 1984, respectively. Since 1982 he has been a Research Assistant at the Coordinated Science Laboratory, University of Illinois, Urbana. He is currently completing the requirements for a Ph.D. in electrical engineering.
Peter W. Sauer was born in Winona, Minnesota on 20 September 1946. He received a B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Missouri at Rolla, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Purdue University in 1969, 1974 and 1977, respectively. From 1969 to 1973 he was the electrical engineer on a design assistance team for the Tactical Air Command at Langley AFB Virginia, working on the design and construction of airfield lighting and electrical distribution systems. He has done consulting work for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Construction Engineering Research Laboratory, developing an interactive electric power distribution planning program. He is currently a Grainger Associate and a Professor of Electrical Engineering and the Coordinated Science Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is a member of Eta Kappa Nu, Sigma Xi, Phi Kappa Phi, IEEE and is a registered Professional Engineer in the Commonwealth of Virginia and the State of Illinois.
Dale R. Sebok was born in Akron, Ohio in 1957. He received a B.S.E.E. degree from the University of Akron in 1980, an M.S.E.E. from Purdue in December 1981 and a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering in May 1986. His interests include control of large scale systems, decentralized control and intelligent control.
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Srdjan S. Stankovi~ was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia on 27 April, 1945. He received the B.S., M.S. and P.h.D. degres from the University of Belgrade, Belgrade, in 1968, 1971 and 1976, respectively. From 1968 to 1971 he was a Research Associate in the Electronics Laboratory, Institute Boris Kidrir, Vine:a, Belgrade. From 1971 to 1972 he was a Research Fellow at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Eindhoven University, Eindhoven, The Netherlands. In 1972 he joined the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade, where he is presently Associate Professor. Besides a number of scientific papers, he published (with Prof. R. Tomovi/:) the book Nonlinear Automatic Control Systems. His current research interests include aspects of system identification, signal processing, adaptive control systems and digital computer applications to process control.
Jitendra K. Tugnait was born in Jabalpur, India on 3 December 1950. He received the B.Sc.(Hons.) degree in electronics and electrical communication engineering from the Punjab Engineering College, Chandigarh, India in 1971, M.S. and the E.E. degrees from Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York and a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 1973, 1974, and 1978, respectively, all in electrical engineering. From 1978 to 1982, he was an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa. He has also been associated with School of Radar Studies, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India and Space Applications Center, Ahmedabad, India during 1975-76. He has been with the Long Range Research Division of the Exxon Production Research Company, Houston, Texas since June 1982. His research interests are in stochastic systems analysis and statistical signal processing. He is currently an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control.
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Watanabe was born in Kagawa Prefecture, Japan on 23 April 1952. He received B.E. and M.E. degrees in mechanical engineering from the University of Tokushima in 1976 and 1978, respectively, and a D.E. degree in aeronautical engineering from Kyushu University in 1984. In 1979, he was employed at Japan Advanced Numerical Analysis (JANA) Inc., | Meguro-ku, Tokyo, Japan. From 1980 to March in 1985, he was a Research Associate in the Department of Aeronautical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Kyushu University, Hakozaki, Fukuoka, Japan. He is now an Associate Professor in the College of Engineering, Shizuoka University, Hamamatsu, Japan. His research interests are in estimation theory, stochastic adaptive control, system modelling and identification. He has published about 40 technical papers in such areas. Dr. Watanabe is a member of the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers, the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers, the Japan Association of Automatic Control Engineers and the Japan Society for Aeronautical and Space Sciences.
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Biographical Notes Jim Winkeiman was born in Woodstock, Illinois in 1949. He received his B.S.E.E. with honours from the University of Wisconsin in 1972 and his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Wisconsin in 1976. Since joining the General Electric Company in 1976, he has been involved in numerous projects involving control system design and power system research. Included in these are application of singular
perturbation techniques to power system analysis, l)O1[~ research programs in control of multi-terminal HVDC systems, and power system stability assessment via direct methods. Presently. he is responsible for the development of advanced control concepts for generator and turbine system controls.