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 2023 - 2026 consists of:
John Baillieul (Chair), Lei Guo, Xiaofan Wang, Frank Park, Marios Polycarpou, Linda Bushnell, Bozenna Pasik-Duncan, Maria Domenica Di Benedetto, Kristi Morgansen, Naomi Leonard, Tiago Roux Oliveira.
The Fellow Search Committee consists of: Paul Van den Hof (Chair), Shinji Hara, Richard Murray, Li Qiu, Antonella Ferrara, Kristen Morris, Lucy Pao, Sigurd Skogestad. The role of this committee is to help finding suitable candidates to nominate as Fellows.
Fellows elected for the period 2023 - 2026:
Plaques and Certificates will be presented at the 2026 World Congress in Busan.
Abramovitch, Daniel Y.
For contributions to modeling and control of high-precision, high-speed mechatronic systems, and efforts disseminating control systems' broad impact.
Bemporad, Alberto
For contributions to model predictive control and its applications in automotive industrial production.
Blanchini, Franco
For contributions in robust control, set invariant theory, and biochemical systems.
Duan, Guang-Ren
For contribution to parametric control systems design and for proposing the concept of high-order fully actuated (HOFA) systems.
Fossen, Thor I.
For contributions to the modelling, guidance, navigation, and control of marine and aerial vehicles.
Fridman, Emilia
For contributions to time-delay, sampled-data, and distributed parameter systems.
Gupta, Vijay
For contributions to networked and distributed cyber-physical systems.
Hirche, Sandra
For contributions to learning and data-driven control systems, networked control, human-machine interaction, and robotics.
Hong, Keum-Shik
For innovations in controlling industrial mechanical systems and recursive estimation of human brain signals via functional near-infrared spectroscopy.
Hovakimyan, Naira
For contributions to robust adaptive control, safe learning in autonomous systems, and technology transitions to practice.
Ishii, Hideaki
For contributions to distributed control of networked systems.
Lygeros, John
For contributions to hybrid systems and optimal control.
Niculescu, Silviu-Iulian
For contributions to the analysis and control of dynamical systems with delays.
Pettersen, Kristin Y.
For leadership in the research, development, and commercialization of snake robots.
Rantzer, Anders
For contributions to robust control, nonlinear control, and large scale systems.
Ren, Wei
For contributions to distributed coordination and control of multi-agent systems.
Ringwood, John
For contributions to the development of wave energy control technology.
Scherpen, Jacquelien M.A.
For contributions to nonlinear balancing, model reduction, and passivity-based control.
Steinbuch, Maarten
For innovations in the control of precision motion systems and the transfer of these into industrial applications as well as for academic leadership.
Sznaier, Mario
For contributions to data driven control, identification, and dynamic vision.
Tarbouriech, Sophie
For contributions to nonlinear control design, the theory of control with limited information, and related applications.
Tilbury, Dawn M.
For contributions to manufacturing and networked control, expanding control applications to computing and human-robot interaction, and engineering leadership.
Wise, Kevin A.
For industrial and scientific contributions to optimal and adaptive control technologies for aerospace systems.
Yu, Xinghuo
For contributions to the discontinuous control of systems and applications in intelligent and complex systems.
Zheng, Wei Xing
For contributions to distributed control of networked systems.
Fellows elected for the period 2020-2023:
- Boyd, Stephen P.
- Cherubini, Giovanni
- Cortes, Jorge
- D'Andrea, Raffaello
- De Moor, Bart
- De Schutter, Bart
- Del Vecchio, Domitilla
- Ferrara, Antonella
- Fu, Minyue
- Han, Qing-Long
- Heemels, Maurice
- Ilic, Marija
- Isaksson, Alf J.
- Kolmanovsky, Ilya V.
- Kumar, P. R.
- Morris, Kirsten A.
- Murray, Richard M.
- Narendra, Kumpati S.
- Ozdaglar, Asu
- Paganini, Fernando
- Paschalidis, Ioannis
- Smith, Malcolm C.
- Tannenbaum, Allen
- Thornhill, Nina F.
- Valcher, Maria Elena
Fellows elected for the period 2017-2020
- Arcak, Murat
- Bartusiak, R. Donald
- Biegler, Lorenz T.
- Bushnell, Linda Grace
- Caines, Peter Edwin
- Campi, Marco Claudio
- Chen, Jie (Tongji University, CN)
- Di Benedetto, Maria Domenica
- Egerstedt, Magnus Bertil
- Farrell, Jay A.
- Giua, Alessandro
- Hill, David John
- Nesic, Dragan
- Nijmeijer, Hendrik
- Pantazi, Angeliki
- Pappas, George J.
- Poolla, Kameshwar
- Sepulchre, Rodolphe J.
- Smith, Roy Stephen
- Stewart, Gregory Edward
- Sugie, Toshiharu
- Sun, Jing
- Tabuada, Paulo
- Tomlin, Claire Jennifer
- Wahlberg, Bo
Fellows elected for the period 2014 - 2017
- Annaswamy, Anuradha Mandayam
- Astolfi, Alessandro
- Baras, John S.
- Bullo, Francesco
- Canudas de Wit, Carlos Alfonso
- Dahleh, Munther A.
- Dumont, Guy Albert
- Fradkov, Alexander Lvovich
- Fu, Li-Chen
- Georgiou, Tryphon Thomas
- Glover, Keith
- Goodall, Roger Morgan
- Hespanha, Joao Pedro
- Ho, Yu-Chi
- Ikeda, Masao
- Lafortune, Stephane
- Lamnabhi-Lagarrigue, Francoise
- Liberzon, Daniel
- Mareels, Iven Michiel
- Ogunnaike, Babatunde Ayodeji
- Ortega, Romeo
- Parisini, Thomas
- Polycarpou, Marios
- Rawlings, James B.
- Samad, Tariq
- Sastry, Sosale Shankara
- Seborg, Dale Edward
- Shamma, Jeff S.
- Skelton, Robert E.
- van der Schaft, Arjan
- Varaiya, Pravin
- Vidyasagar, Mathukumalli
- Yin, Gang George
- Zhang, Ji-Feng
Fellows elected for the period 2011 - 2014
- Benveniste, Albert
- Bokor, Jószef
- Bonvin, Dominique
- Chen, Tongwen
- De Souza, Carlos Emanuel
- Doyle, John C.
- Ghosh, Bijoy Kumar
- Huang, Lin
- Jiang, Zhong-Ping
- Khargonekar, Pramod P.
- Leonard, Naomi E.
- Maciejowski, Jan
- Middleton, Richard Hume
- Mitter, Sanjoy
- Morse, A. Stephen
- Pao, Lucy
- Papageorgiou, Markos
- Pasik-Duncan, Bozenna
- Petersen, Ian R.
- Praly, Laurent
- Qin, Sizhao Joe
- Saberi, Ali
- Skogestad, Sigurd
- Sontag, Eduardo
- Spong, Mark
- Sun, Youxian
- Terwiesch, Peter
- Verhaegen, Michael
- Willems, Jan C.
- Yamamoto, Yutaka
- Zhou, Kemin
- Zhou, Mengchu
Fellows elected in 2011
- Baillieul, John
- Bamieh, Bassan
- Bhattacharyya, Shanker P.
- Bristol, Edgar H.
- Chen, Jie (City University of Hong Kong, HK, CN)
- Colaneri, Patrizio
- Christofides, Panagiotis
- Krener, Arthur
- Lee, Jay
- Lin, Zongli
- Moheimani, Reza
- Song, Jian
- Xie, Lihua
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 B.
- 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