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IFAC Fellows

The IFAC Fellow Award is given to persons who have made outstanding and extraordinary contributions in the field of interest of IFAC, in the role as an Engineer/Scientist, Technical Leader, or Educator.

The first Fellows were elected at the IFAC World Congress in Prague in July 2005.

 

The Fellow Selection Committee (FSC) for the period 2011 - 2014 consists of:

S. Engell (Chair),  B. Bitmead, K. Furuta, W.H. Kwon, M. Masten, M. Morari, R. Tempo, Fei-Yue Wang

Fellows elected in 2011

Baillieul, John

For contributions to nonlinear control theory, robotics, control of complex mechanical systems, and information based control theory

Bamieh, Bassan

For fundamental contributions to robust control of sampled data systems, distributed control of spatially invariant systems and the transition to turbulence in fluid flow.

Bhattacharyya, Shanker P.

For fundamental contributions to robust control theory and control systems.

Bristol, Edgar H.

For outstanding contributions to process control.

Chen, Jie

For seminal contributions to the theory of performance limitations in feedback systems and to robust identification and control.

Colaneri, Patrizio

For contributions to periodic control and switched systems

Christofides, Panagiotis

For contributions to analysis and control of nonlinear and distributed parameter processes.

Krener, Arthur

For contributions to the geometric theory of nonlinear control and estimation

Lee, Jay

For important contributions to the theory and practice of model-based predictive control.


 Lin, Zongli

For fundamental contributions to the analysis and design of control systems in the presence of actuator saturation.

 Moheimani, Reza

For outstanding contributions to modelling and control of nanopositioning systems.


 Song, Jian

For outstanding contributions to engineering cybernetics, automation in space engineering, control theory in social applications, and for significant leadership in the profession


 Xie, Lihua

For contributions to robust control and estimation theory with their applications to communication.
   
   
   
   

 Fellows elected in 2010

  • Antsaklis, Panos
  • Banda, Siva
  • Barmish, Ross
  • Byrnes, Chris*
  • Dai, Ruwai
  • Dochain, Denis
  • Duncan, Tyrone
  • Ge, Shuzi Sam
  • Grizzle, Jessy
  • Hara, Shinji
  • Khammash, Mustafa
  • Kwon, Wook-Hyun
  • Qiu, Li
  • Lindquist, Anders
  • Teel, Andrew
  • Tomizuka, Masayoshi
  • Ulsoy, Ali

 

* By decision of the IFAC Council, Chris Byrnes was elected Fellow posthumously, as he sadly passed away in the evaluation period of the Award.

 

Fellows elected in 2009

 

  • Doyle, Frank
  • Fleming, Peter
  • Guzzella, Lino
  • Huang, Jie
  • Irwin, George
  • Katayama, Tohru
  • Picci, Giorgio
  • Siciliano, Bruno
  • Tarn, Tzyh Jong

 

Fellows elected in 2008

 

  • Bittanti, Sergio
  • Braatz, Richard
  • Camacho, Eduardo
  • Cao, Xi-Ren
  • Cassandras, Christos
  • Chai, Tian-You
  • Cheng, Dai-Zhan
  • Edgar, Thomas
  • Gottzein Eveline
  • Haddad, Abraham
  • Krstic, Miroslav
  • Kurzhanski Alexander
  • Lewis, Frank
  • Morari, Manfred
  • Safonov, Michael
  • Vicino, Antonio

 


Fellows elected in 2007

  • Allgöwer, Frank
  • Cruz, Joe
  • Dion, Jean Michel
  • Georgakis, Christos
  • Khalil, Hassan
  • Kimura, Hidenori
  • Kucera, Vladimir,
  • Landau, Ioan
  • Lei, Guo
  • Marquardt, Wolfgang
  • Mosca, Edoardo
  • Tempo, Roberto
  • Van den Hof, Paul
  • Wang, Fei-Yue


Fellows elected in 2006

 

  • Albertos, Pedro
  • Athans, Michael
  • Balchen, Jens
  • Chen, Han-Fu
  • Engell, Sebastian
  • Findeisen, Wladyslaw
  • Furuta, Katushisa
  • Gevers, Michel
  • Guardabassi, Guido
  • Hrovat, Davor
  • Ioannou, Petros
  • Masten, Michael
  • Mayne,David
  • McAvoy,Thomas
  • Polyak, Boris
  • Söderström, Torsten

 

Fellows elected in 2005

 

  • Ackermann, Jürgen
  • Anderson, Brian
  • Aström, Karl
  • Araki, Mituhiko
  • Basar, Tamer
  • Basanez, Luis
  • Benes, Jiri
  • Bernussou, Jacques
  • Bitmead, Robert
  • Davison, Edward J.
  • Gertler, János
  • Goodwin, Graham
  • Isermann, Rolf
  • Isidori, Alberto
  • Kahne, Stephen
  • Kokotovic, Petar
  • Kwakernaak, Huibert
  • Ljung, Lennart
  • Mansour, Mohamed
  • Nett, Carl
  • Niemi, Antti
  • Powers, William F.
  • Puente, Juan A. de la
  • Sawaragi, Yoshikazu
  • Schaufelberger, Walter
  • Stein, Gunter
  • Thoma, Manfred
  • Vámos, Tibor
  • Uronen, Paavo
  • Xiong, Fan Lun

 

 

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