Researchers

This list includes many of the researchers working in the area of Networked Control Systems. If you wish to have your name added to this page, please fill out this form.

Alleyne, Andrew with: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Research interests: Modeling and control of mechanical systems, fluid power systems, vehicle dynamics and control, nonlinear control, adaptive control, manufacturing systems.
E-mail: alleyne@uiuc.edu
Home page: http://mr-roboto.me.uiuc.edu/alleyne/

Akar, Mehmet with: University of Southern California

Research interests: Networks, communications and control; Control issues in the design of communication systems; Wireless resource allocation; Power control; Handoff design; Rate management for multimedia; Stability and control of hybrid systems; Common quadratic Lyapunov functions; Sliding mode control; Adaptive control using multiple models; Associative memory design using artificial neural networks; Stability and stabilization of Takagi-Sugeno fuzzy systems; Sensor networks; Routing.
E-mail: akar@usc.edu
Home page: http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~akar/

Antsaklis, Panos J with: University of Notre Dame

Research interests: Analysis of behavior and design of control strategies for complex autonomous, intelligent, learning and reconfigurable systems. His recent research focuses on networked embedded systems and addresses problems in the interdisciplinary research area of control, computing and communication networks, and on hybrid and discrete event dynamical systems.
E-mail: antsaklis.1@nd.edu
Home page: http://www.nd.edu/~pantsakl/

Arzen, Karl-Erik with: Lund Institute of Technology, SWEDEN.

Research interests: Real-Time Control & Real-Time Systems, Graphical Languages for Supervisory Control, Monitoring, Diagnosis & Performance Assessment, Fuzzy Control, Intelligent Control.
E-mail: karlerik@control.lth.se
Home page: http://www.control.lth.se/~karlerik/

Azimi-Sadjadi, Babak with: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Research interests: Networked controlled systems, approximate nonlinear filtering, mimo cooperative diversity for wireless cdma multi-hop networks, multiuser estimation, ad-hoc wireless networks.
E-mail: babak@ecse.rpi.edu
Home page: http://www.ecse.rpi.edu/~babak/

Baillieul, John with: Boston University

Research interests: Control of mechanical systems, mathematical system theory.
E-mail: johnb@bu.edu
Home page: http://people.bu.edu/johnb/

Basar, Tamer with: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Research interests: Control over wired and wireless networks, robust identification and control, modeling and control of communication networks.
E-mail: tbasar@control.csl.uiuc.edu
Home page: http://black.csl.uiuc.edu/~tbasar/

Bernhardsson, Bo with: Ericsson Mobile Platforms, Lund, SWEDEN

Research interests: Non-linear control, game theory, hybrid control, stochastic systems.
E-mail: bo.bernhardsson@emp.ericsson.se
Home page: http://www.control.lth.se/~bob/

Boyd, Stephen with: Stanford University

Research interests: Computer-aided control system design, and convex programming applications in control, signal processing, and circuits.
E-mail: boyd@stanford.edu
Home page: http://www.stanford.edu/~boyd/

Branicky, Michael with: Case Western Reserve University

Research interests: Analogue-digital hybrid systems, power electronics, motion control.
E-mail: mb@cwru.edu
Home page: http://dora.cwru.edu/msb/

Brockett, Roger with: Harvard University 

Research interests: Intelligent machines, motion control and motor networks, tactile sensing, pulse mode computation.
E-mail: brockett@hrl.harvard.edu
Home page: http://www.hrl.harvard.edu/~brockett/brockett.html

Bushnell, Linda with: University of Washington 

Dacunha, Jeffrey J. with: Baylor University

Research interests: Dynamic equations on time scales (including hybrid continuous/discrete dynamical systems on nonuniform time scales), stability analysis in autonomous and nonautonomous systems of dynamic equations, adaptive control, boundary value problems, and the applications of analysis in these areas.
E-mail: Jeffrey_Dacunha@baylor.edu
Home page: http://www3.baylor.edu/~Jeffrey_Dacunha/

Daoud, Ramez M. with: American University in Cairo (AUC)

Research interests: Networked Control Systems Analysis, Real-time NCS modeling, Microcontroller Circuits, Industrial Control Applications, Industrial Electronics.
E-mail: rdaoud@ieee.org
Home page: www.aucegypt.edu

Davis, John M. with: Baylor University

Research interests: Dynamic equations on time scales, discrete and continuous dynamical systems, hybris systems, ordinary and partial differential equations, boundary value problems and the applications of nonlinear analysis in these areas.
E-mail: John_M_Davis@baylor.edu
Home page: http://www3.baylor.edu/~John_M_Davis/

Dey, Subhrakanti with: University of Melbourne, VIC, AUSTRALIA

Research interests: Signal processing, communications, and control.
E-mail: s.dey@ee.mu.oz.au
Home page: http://www.ee.mu.oz.au/staff/sdey/

Dullerud, Geir with: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Research interests: Networked control, controlled maneuvers and tracking along trajectories, distributed control using actuator and sensor arrays, model validation, multirate hybrid control, semidefinite programming.
E-mail: dullerud@uiuc.edu
Home page: http://legend.me.uiuc.edu/dullerud/

Egerstedt, Magnus with: Georgia Institute of Technology

Research interests: Hybrid automata theory, robotics, optimal control, complexity issues in control.
E-mail: magnus@ece.gatech.edu
Home page: http://users.ece.gatech.edu/~magnus

El-Sharkawi, Mohamed with: University of Washington

Research interests: Intelligent systems, applications to intelligent systems to power systems and electric drives, application of power elecrtronics to power systems, electric drives, high performance tracking controls, power systems dynamics and control, underwater sonar mapping, power system infrastructure for underwater observatories, engineering education.
E-mail: elsharkawi@ee.washington.edu
Home page: http://class.ee.iastate.edu/nelia/nicola_elia.htm

Elia, Nicola with: Iowa State University

Research interests: Computational methods for controller design, analysis, control and design of hybrid systems, feedback over communication networks.
E-mail: nelia@iastate.edu
Home page: http://class.ee.iastate.edu/nelia/nicola_elia.htm

Evans, Robert with: University of Melbourne, VIC, AUSTRALIA

Research interests: Control theory, radar systems,signal processing, and computer systems.
E-mail: r.evans@ee.mu.oz.au
Home page: http://www.ee.mu.oz.au/people/Evans.html

Francis, Bruce with: University of Toronto, Toronto, CANADA

Research interests: Control over networks, sampled-data control systems, multirate digital signal processing.
E-mail: bruce.francis@utoronto.ca
Home page: http://www.control.toronto.edu/people/profs/francis/francis.html

Fu, Minyue with: The University of Newcastle, Callaghan, N.S.W. AUSTRALIA

Research interests: Control systems, signal processing, communications.
E-mail: eemf@ee.newcastle.edu.au
Home page: http://murray.newcastle.edu.au/users/staff/eemf/home/Minyue.html

Fuertes, Josep M. with: Automatic Control Department, Technical University of Catalonia

Research interests: Industrial communications, real time systems and control systems.
E-mail: josep.m.fuertes@upc.edu
Home page: http://dcs.upc.es/

Gill, Helen with: National Science Foundation

Research interests: Cyber trust, distributed systems, sensors and sensor networks, embedded and hybrid systems.
E-mail: hgill@nsf.gov
Home page: http://www.cise.nsf.gov/staff/stff.cfm?lan=hgill

Goldsmith, Andrea J. with: Stanford University

Research interests: Capacity of Wireless Channels and Networks, Adaptive modulation and coding, Adaptive CDMA for Multimedia, Turbo Codes and Iterative Decoding, Multiantenna systems, Multiple Access and Dynamic Resource Allocation, Joint Source/Channel Coding, Wireless Networks, Energy-Constrained Networks, Wireless Communications for Control Applications.
E-mail: andrea@ee.stanford.edu
Home page: http://www-ee.stanford.edu/~andrea/

Goodwin, Graham C. with: University of Newcastle, NSW, AUSTRALIA

Research interests: Control system design, process control and optimization, signal processing, mathematical systems theory.
E-mail: eegcg@ee.newcastle.edu.au
Home page: http://murray.newcastle.edu.au/users/staff/eegcg/Goodwin.html

Gravagne, Ian A. with: Baylor University

Research interests: Mechatronics, biomimetic robot design for manipulation and locomotion with no rigid links or joints (continuum robots), robot kinematics and dynamics, mechanics and dynamics of large-deflection flexible elements, nonlinear control and vibration suppression,real-time computing on PC platforms.
E-mail: Ian_Gravagne@baylor.edu
Home page: http://www.ecs.baylor.edu/faculty/gravagnei/

Guo, Ge with: Northeastern University, CHINA

Research interests: Networked Control Systems, Intelligent Vehicle & Robot, Hybrid Electric Vehicles.
E-mail: geguo@yeah.net
Home page: http://www.neu.com.cn/index.php?uid-1872-action-viewspace-itemid-1630

Hadjicostis, Christoforos with: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Research interests: Fault-tolerant computational systems and networks, fault management and control of large-scale systems and networks, coding and graph theory, communication and signal processing systems, discrete event systems, algebraic systems analysis.
E-mail: chadjic@uiuc.edu
Home page: http://decision.csl.uiuc.edu/~chadjic/

Halevi, Yoram with: Technion - IIT, Haifa, ISRAEL

Research interests: Order reduction of models, estimators and controllers ; Control of flexible structures ; Model updating in structural dynamics ; Systems with dead times ; Optimal control and estimation.
E-mail: merhy01@technion.ac.il 
Home page: http://meeng.technion.ac.il/Personnel/Faculty/Halevi/index.html

Hansson, Hans A. with: Mälardalen University, SWEDEN

Research interests: Real-time embedded systems, modeling and analysis of communication systems.
E-mail: hans.hansson@mdh.se 
Home page: http://www.idt.mdh.se/personal/han/

Hassibi, Babak with: California Institute of Technology

Research interests: Adaptive signal processing and neural networks, blind channel equalization, statistical signal processing, robust estimation and control, especially connections between robustness and adaptation, and linear algebra, with emphasis on fast algorithms, random matrices and group representation theory.
E-mail: hassibi@systems.caltech.edu
Home page: http://www.systems.caltech.edu/EE/Faculty/babak/

Hespanha, P João with: University of California, Santa Barbara

Research interests: 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; control of haptic devices.
E-mail: hespanha@ece.ucsb.edu
Home page: http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/~hespanha/

Hirano, Hiroyuki with: Kanazawa University, JAPAN

Research interests: Networked control systems.
E-mail: hirano@scl.ec.t.kanazawa-u.ac.jp
Home page: http://www-fujita.ee.t.kanazawa-u.ac.jp/~hirano/

Hristu, Dimitrios with: University of Maryland, College Park

Research interests: Limited communication control, motion descriptive languages, robotics and intelligent machines.
E-mail: hristu@glue.umd.edu
Home page: http://www.glue.umd.edu/~hristu/

Imer, Orhan C with: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 

Research interests: Networked control systems, Congestion Control and Optimal Resource Allocation in Communication Networks, Resource Allocation/Pricing in Multi-Agent Systems.
E-mail: imer@control.csl.uiuc.edu
Home page: http://decision.csl.uiuc.edu/~imer

Ishii, Hideaki with: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 

Research interests: Networked control systems.
E-mail: hishii@uiuc.edu
Home page: http://decision.csl.uiuc.edu/~hishii/

Kumar, P with: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 

Research interests: Wireless networks, sensor networks, convergence with control, belief propogation-sensor networks, communication networks, semiconductor manufacturing, manufacturing systems, systems theory, control.
E-mail: prkumar@uiuc.edu
Home page: http://black.csl.uiuc.edu/~prkumar/

Lall, Sanjay with: Stanford University 

Research interests: Optimization in control, networked control.
E-mail: lall@stanford.edu
Home page: http://element.stanford.edu/~lall/index.html

Lemmon, Michael with: University of Notre Dame

Research interests: Networked control systems, hybrid dynamical systems theory, supervisory control of DES, neural networks, distributed systems.
E-mail: Michael.D.Lemmon.1@nd.edu
Home page: http://www.nd.edu/~lemmon/

Li, Shanbin with: Université Henri Poincaré, FRANCE

Research interests: Networked control systems, FDI and FTC, robust control, wireless sensor network, etc.
E-mail: shanbin.li@gmail.com
Home page: www.sensornet.cn/shanbin

Lian, Feng-Li with: National Taiwan University 

Research interests: Networked control systems, intelligent transportation systems, trajectory generation. E-mail: fengli@ntu.edu.tw
Home page: http://cc.ee.ntu.edu.tw/~fengli/

Liberatore, Vincenzo with: Case Western Reserve University 

Research interests: Pervasive computing, networked control systems, randomized algorithms.
E-mail: vincenzo.liberatore@case.edu
Home page: http://vorlon.cwru.edu/~vxl11/

Liberzon, Daniel with: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Research interests: Switched/hybrid systems, nonlinear control theory, control with limited information.
E-mail: liberzon@uiuc.edu  
Home page: http://black1.csl.uiuc.edu/~liberzon/

Lincoln, Bo with: Lund Institute of Technology, Lund, SWEDEN

Research interests:  Hybrid systems, time-dealy systems, optimal control over wireless networks, dynamic programming.
E-mail: lincoln@control.lth.se  
Home page: http://www.control.lth.se/~lincoln/

Liu, Fuchun with: Harbin Institute of Technology, CHINA

Research interests:  Networked control systems , Robust control.
E-mail: fc.liu@163.com
Home page:

Liu, Guoping with: University of Glamorgan, UK

Research interests:  Networked Control, Eigenstructure Assignment.
E-mail: gpliu@glam.ac.uk
Home page:

Liu, Yichang with: Yanshan University, Quinghuangdao, CHINA

Research interests:  Networked Control Systems, Robust Control, Time-Delay Systems.
E-mail: ycliu2000@sina.com
Home page: http://newyearhappy.go.nease.net/

Luck, Rogelio with: Mississippi State University

Research interests: System Dynamic Modeling, Measurement, and Control.
E-mail: luck@me.msstate.edu
Home page: http://www.me.msstate.edu/FACULTY/luck.html

Mansour, Samer E. with: Dalhousie University, CANADA

Research interests: Networked control systems.
E-mail:  semansou@dal.ca 
Home page: http://myweb.dal.ca/~semansou/

Marks, Robert with: Baylor University

Research interests: Computational intelligence, neural networks, fuzzy systems, evolutionary computation, optical processing, and signal analysis.
E-mail: Robert_Marks@baylor.edu 
Home page: http://www.ecs.baylor.edu/faculty/marks/

Martins, Nuno C with: University of Maryland College Park 

Research interests: Networked Control, Information Theoretic Limits of Feedback Systems, Decentralized Control.
E-mail: nmartins@mit.edu
Home page: http://www.glue.umd.edu/~nmartins/

Mitra, Urbashi with: University of Southern California 

Research interests: Multi-user detection theory, code-division multiple-access communications for personal wireless and mobile applications, adaptive algorithms, non-parametric detection techniques and equalization methods.
E-mail: ubli@usc.edu
Home page: http://csi.usc.edu/faculty/ubli.html

Mitter, Sanjoy with: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 

Research interests: Systems, communication and control, theory of stochastic and adaptive control, mathematical physics and its relationship to system theory, image analysis & computer vision, structure, function & organization of complex systems.
E-mail: mitter@mit.edu
Home page: http://web.mit.edu/~mitter/www/

Modiano, Eytan with: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 

Research interests: Data networks, satellite and hybrid communication networks, management and control of mobile ad-hoc networks, high speed optical networks.
E-mail: modiano@mit.edu
Home page: http://www.mit.edu/people/modiano/index.html

Nair, Girish with: University of Melbourne, VIC, AUSTRALIA 

Research interests: Communications, control.
E-mail: g.nair@ee.mu.oz.au
Home page: http://www.ee.mu.oz.au/staff/gnair/

Nesic, Dragan with: University of Melbourne, AUSTRALIA 

Research interests: Networked control systems, nonlinear systems, sampled-data control, reset systems, extremum seeking control.
E-mail: d.nesic@ee.mu.oz.au
Home page: http://www.ee.mu.oz.au/staff/dragan/

Newman, Wyatt with: Case Western Reserve University 

Research interests: Mechatronics, design/control of electromechanical systems.
E-mail: wsn@po.cwru.edu
Home page: http://vorlon.cwru.edu/~wsn/

Nilsson, Johan with: Lund Institute of Technology, SWEDEN.

Research interests: Real-time computer control systems.
E-mail: johann@maths.lth.se
Home page: http://www.maths.lth.se/matematiklth/personal/johann/

Ozguner, Umit with: Ohio State University

Research interests: Large-scale, intelligent systems modeling and optimization, hybrid systems, decentralized control, automotive (ABS, active suspension, integrated vehicle dynamics), and transportation systems (optimal routing and relation to signalization), Automated Highway Systems.
E-mail: umit@ee.eng.ohio-state.edu
Home page: http://www.ece.osu.edu/~umit/

Phillips, Stephen M  with: Arizona State University

Research interests: Microfluidics, microactuators, biological microsystems, feedback control over nondeterministic networks.
E-mail: stephen.phillips@asu.edu
Home page: http://www.eas.asu.edu/~eee/FacultyStaff/Phillips/phillips.html

Ray, Asok with: Pennsylvania State University

Research interests: Intelligent Control & Instrumentation, Information-Based Design, and Systems Integration ; Modeling, Analysis and Control of Continuously-Varying and Discrete-Event Dynamical Systems ; Optimal Control & Optimization, Robust Multivariable Control, and Hierarchical Control ; Stochastic Processes, Statistical Signal Processing, and Failure Decision Theory ; Analysis and Modeling of Mechanical Behavior and Structural Damage in Engineering Materials ; Control Systems Analysis and Design for Aircraft, Spacecraft, Undersea Vehicle, and Surface Ship ; Control Systems Analysis and Design for Fossil and Nuclear Power Plants, and Process Plants.
E-mail: axr2@psu.edu  
Home page: http://www.me.psu.edu/Ray/

Rotkowitz, Michael C with: The Australian National University (ANU), Canberra, Australia

Research interests: Optimal decentralized control, Networked Embedded Control.
E-mail: michael.rotkowitz@anu.edu.au
Home page: http://rsise.anu.edu.au/~mcrotk/

Santos, Max Mauro D with: Centro Universitário do Leste de Minas Gerais, BRAZIL

Research interests: Real Time Systems, Automotive Electronic, X-by-Wire Systems, Networked Control Systems, Computer Control Systems, Industrial Network.
E-mail: maxmauro@unilestemg.br  
Home page: http://professores.unilestemg.br/~maxmauro

Sastry, Shiva  with: University of Akron

Research interests: Sensor-Actuator Networks, Graph Algorithms, Distributed and Pervasive Computing, Software Systems Architectures, Modeling and Simulation, and Software Verification.
E-mail: sastry@uakron.edu  
Home page: http://www.ecgf.uakron.edu/~elec/people/sastry/hmsastry.html 

So , Jimmy Kin Cheong  with: University of Toronto, CANADA

Research interests: Network Control Systems.
E-mail: sojimmy@control.utoronto.ca
Home page: http://www.control.toronto.edu/~sojimmy/

Speranzon, Alberto with: Unilever R&D, Bebington, Wirral, UK

Research interests: Multi-robot coordination, Distributed estimation, Wireless Sensors Networks.
E-mail: Alberto.Speranzon@unilever.com
Home page: http://albspe.googlepages.com

Tabuada, Paulo with: University of Notre Dame

Research interests: Modeling, analysis and control of discrete event, timed, hybrid and embedded systems.
E-mail: ptabuada@nd.edu
Home page: http://www.nd.edu/~ptabuada

Tahmasebi, Ali with: University of Windsor, CANADA

Research interests: Networked Control Systems (NCS) - Specifically time delay and optimal control design problems.
E-mail: tahmase@uwindsor.ca
Home page: http://www2.uwindsor.ca/~tahmase

Tatikonda, Sekhar with: Yale University

Research interests:Communications, Control, and Inference.
E-mail: sekhar.tatikonda@yale.edu
Home page: http://pantheon.yale.edu/~sct29/ 

Teel, Andrew  with: University of California at Santa Barbara

Research interests: Communications, control and signal processing, control design and analysis for nonlinear dynamical systems, input-output methods, actuator nonlinearities, applications to aerospace problems.
E-mail: teel@ece.ucsb.edu
Home page: http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/Faculty/teel/default.html 

Tilbury, Dawn  with: University of Michigan at Ann-Arbor

Research interests: Logic control for manufacturing systems and networked control systems.
E-mail: tilbury@umich.edu
Home page: http://www-personal.engin.umich.edu/~tilbury/ 

Tzes, Anthony with: University of Patras, Greece

Research interests: Wireless Networked Controlled Systems.
E-mail: tzes@ee.upatras.gr
Home page: http://www.sml.ee.upatras.gr/SML_en/personnel/faculty/tzes/tzes.htm 

Venugopal V. Veeravalli with: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Research interests: Wireless communications, sensor networks, detection and estimation theory, and information.
E-mail: vvv@uiuc.edu
Home page: http://tesla.csl.uiuc.edu/~vvv/

Walsh, Gregory with: University of Maryland, College Park

Research interests: Networked control systems, nonlinear and optimal control; application in magnetically suspended flywheels and in plastic extrusion; mobile robots, mechatronics.
E-mail: gwalsh@eng.umd.edu
Home page: http://www.glue.umd.edu/~gwalsh/

Wang, Yongqiang with: Tsinghua University, CHINA.

Research interests: Fault detection of NCS.
E-mail: wyq@stu.xjtu.edu.cn
Home page: 

Weiss, Martin with: University of Stuttgart, GERMANY.

Research interests: Control Engineering.
E-mail: marwei@etsii.upv.es  
Home page: 

Wittenmark, Björn with: Lund Institute of Technology, SWEDEN.

Research interests: Adaptive control, process control, stochastic control.
E-mail: bjorn@control.lth.se
Home page: http://www.control.lth.se/~bjorn/

Xie, Lihua with: Nanyang Technological University, SINGAPORE

Research interests: Signal processing, computer control systems, instrumentation and control, control engineering.
E-mail: ELHXIE@ntu.edu.sg
Home page: http://www.ntu.edu.sg/home/elhxie/

Yakoh, Takahiro with: Keio University, Tokyo, JAPAN

Research interests: Internet applications, network based control system, control area network, multipath routing
flow control.
E-mail: yakoh@sd.keio.as.jp
Home page: http://www.comp.sd.keio.ac.jp/~yakoh/

Yuksel, Serdar with: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Research interests: Network based control systems.
E-mail: yuksel@decision.csl.uiuc.edu
Home page: http://black.csl.uiuc.edu/~yuksel/

Zhang, Guofeng with: University of Alberta, CANADA.

Research interests: Chaos, Network control systems, non-smooth dynamical systems.
E-mail: gfzhang@ece.ualberta.ca
Home page: http://www.ece.ualberta.ca/~gfzhang/

Zhao, Yunbo with: University of Glamorgan, UK.

Research interests: Network control systems, Power control in wireless networks.
E-mail: yzhao@glam.ac.uk
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