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Robert Bitmead

President - 2019

University of California-San Diego

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President - 2019

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University of California-San Diego

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Anuradha Annaswamy

President-Elect 2019

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Anuradha Annaswamy

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Anuradha

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Annaswamy

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President-Elect 2019

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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aanna@mit.edu

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Francesco Bullo

Past President - 2019

University of California-Santa Barbara

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Francesco Bullo is a Professor with the Mechanical Engineering Department and the Center for Control, Dynamical Systems and Computation at UC Santa Barbara. He was previously associated with the University of Padova, the California Institute of Technology and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His main research interests are network systems and distributed control with application to robotic coordination, power grids and social networks. He is the coauthor of "Geometric Control of Mechanical Systems" (Springer, 2004) and "Distributed Control of Robotic Networks" (Princeton, 2009). His articles received the 2008 IEEE CSM Outstanding Paper Award, the 2010 Hugo Schuck Best Paper Award, the 2013 SIAG/CST Best Paper Prize, and the 2014 Automatica Best Paper Award. He is currently serving as Chair of the Mechanical Engineering Department at UCSB and has served as Vice-President for Technical Activities and for Publications for the IEEE Control Systems Society.

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Past President - 2019

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University of California-Santa Barbara

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Faryar Jabbari

VP Conference Activities

University of California, Irvine

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Faryar

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Jabbari

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VP Conference Activities

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University of California, Irvine

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FJABBARI@uci.edu

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Jing Sun

VP Financial Activities; CSS Board of Governors, term ending 31 December 2020 (elected)

University of Michigan

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VP Financial Activities; CSS Board of Governors, term ending 31 December 2020 (elected)

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University of Michigan

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Magnus Egerstedt

VP Member Activities

Georgia Institute of Technology

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Magnus Egerstedt is a Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology He received the M.S. degree in Engineering Physics and the Ph.D. degree in Applied Mathematics from the Royal Institute of Technology in 1996 and 2000 respectively, and he received a B.A. degree in Philosophy from Stockholm University in 1996. Dr. Egerstedt's research interests include hybrid and networked control, with applications in motion planning, control, and coordination of mobile robots. Magnus Egerstedt is a Fellow of the IEEE, serves as Editor for Electronic Publications for the IEEE Control Systems Society, and is the director of the Georgia Robotics and Intelligent Systems Lab. He received the ECE/GT Outstanding Junior Faculty Member Award in 2005, and the CAREER award from the U.S. National Science Foundation in 2003.

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VP Member Activities

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Georgia Institute of Technology

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Thomas Parisini

VP Publication Activities

Imperial College London (UK) and University of Trieste (I)

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Thomas Parisini received the "Laurea" degree (Cum Laude and printing honours) in Electronic Engineering from the University of Genoa in 1988 and the Ph.D. degree in Electronic Engineering and Computer Science in 1993. He was with Politecnico di Milano and since 2001 he is professor and Danieli Endowed Chair of Automation Engineering with University of Trieste. Since 2009, Thomas Parisini is Deputy Rector of University of Trieste and since 2010 he holds the Chair of Industrial Control at the Imperial College London. He authored or co-authored more than 200 research papers in archival journals, book chapters, and international conference proceedings. His research interests include neural-network approximations for optimal control problems, fault diagnosis for nonlinear and distributed systems and nonlinear model predictive control systems. Among several awards, he is a co-recipient of the 2004 Outstanding Paper Award of the IEEE Trans. on Neural Networks and a recipient of the 2007 IEEE Distinguished Member Award. He is involved as Project Leader in several projects funded by the European Union, by the Italian Ministry for Research, and he is currently leading consultancy projects with some major process control companies (ABB, Danieli, Duferco, Electrolux, among others). Thomas Parisini is the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology. He was the Chair of the Conference Editorial Board and a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Control Systems Society. Moreover, he was an elected member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Control Systems Society and of the European Union Control Association (EUCA) as well as a member of the board of evaluators of the 7th Framework ICT Research Program of the European Union. Thomas Parisini is currently serving as an Associate Editor of Int. J. of Control and served in several editorial boards of international journal including the IEEE Trans. on Automatic Control, Automatica, and the IEEE Trans. on Neural Networks. He was involved in the committees of several international conferences. In particular, he was the Program Chair of the 2008 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control and he is General Co-Chair of the 2013 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control. Thomas Parisini is a Fellow of the IEEE.

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VP Publication Activities

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Imperial College London (UK) and University of Trieste (I)

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Joao Hespanha

VP Technical Activities; CSS Board of Governors, term ending 31 December 2020 (elected)

University of California-Santa Barbara

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João P. Hespanha received the Licenciatura in electrical and computer engineering from the Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal in 1991 and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering and applied science from Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut in 1998. From 1999 to 2001, he was Assistant Professor at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. He moved to the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2002, where he currently holds a Professor position with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Prof. Hespanha is Associate Director for the Center for Control, Dynamical-systems, and Computation (CCDC), Vice-Chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and a member of the Executive Committee for the Institute for Collaborative Biotechnologies (ICB). From 2004—2007 he was an associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control.

His current research interests include hybrid and switched systems; the modeling and control of communication networks; distributed control over communication networks (also known as networked control systems); the use of vision in feedback control; and stochastic modeling in biology.

Dr. Hespanha is the recipient of the Yale University’s Henry Prentiss Becton Graduate Prize for exceptional achievement in research in Engineering and Applied Science, a National Science Foundation CAREER Award, the 2005 best paper award at the 2nd Int. Conf. on Intelligent Sensing and Information Processing, the 2005 Automatica Theory/Methodology best paper prize, the 2006 George S. Axelby Outstanding Paper Award, and the 2009 Ruberti Young Researcher Prize. Dr. Hespanha is a Fellow of the IEEE and an IEEE distinguished lecturer since 2007.

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VP Technical Activities; CSS Board of Governors, term ending 31 December 2020 (elected)

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University of California-Santa Barbara

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hespanha@ece.ucsb.edu

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Jorge Cortes

Director of Operations; CSS Board of Governors, term ending 31 December 2020 (elected)

University of California, San Diego

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Director of Operations; CSS Board of Governors, term ending 31 December 2020 (elected)

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University of California, San Diego

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