AACC/ACC Awards |
The American Automatic Control Council sponsors five awards. These awards are given to recognize excellence in scientific, technological, or educational contributions to automatic control. Congratulations to this year's winners! |
Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award
Recipient:
A. Galip Ulsoy, University of Michigan
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John R. Ragazzini Education Award
Recipient:
Naomi Leonard, Princeton University
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Leonard received the B.S.E. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Princeton University in 1985 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland in 1991 and 1994. From 1985 to 1989, she worked as an engineer in the electric power industry. Her current interests include decentralized control and decision making of dynamical systems on networks, autonomous vehicle and mobile robotic teams, collective animal behavior, human cognitive control, and intersections with dance. She led a multidisciplinary project that culminated in 2006 in a major field demonstration in Monterey Bay, CA of a first-of-its-kind automated and adaptive ocean observing system, featuring a coordinated network of autonomous underwater vehicles collecting data about the ocean. |
Control Engineering Practice Award
Recipient:
Leo H. Chiang, The Dow Chemical Company
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Leo has a B.S. degree from University of Wisconsin at Madison and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, all in Chemical Engineering. Leo has contributed to over 40 externally refereed journal/proceedings papers and has given over 100 conference presentations and university lectures. Leo has co-authored two books published by Springer Verlag. His textbook Fault Detection and Diagnosis in Industrial Systems is available in English and Chinese and has received over 2,100 citations according to Google Scholar. Leo has a long history of supporting American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), having served as 2014-2016 Computing and Systems Technology (CAST) director, 2016 CAST 10E programming chair, 2017-2018 spring meeting program chair (MPC), and recently elected to serve the 2019-2022 Executive Board of the Program Committee (EBPC). Leo was instrumental in setting up the Big Data Analytics Topical Conference (2015 to 2017) and Industry 4.0 Topical Conference (2018-2020) at the AIChE spring meeting. He was recognized by the AIChE with the 2016 Herbert Epstein Award for his leadership on Big Data Analytics technical programming and 2016 Computing Practice Award for his world-class leadership in the development and application of methodologies in analytics for batch and continuous processes known as Big Data. Leo is also active in the broader engineering and control community, currently serves as 2019-2021 Computer Aids for Chemical Engineering (CACHE) trustee, 2021 International Symposium on Advanced Control of Chemical Processes (ADCHEM) industry co-chair, and 2022 American Control Conference (ACC) vice chair for industrial applications. |
Donald P. Eckman Award
Recipient:
Samuel Coogan, Georgia Institute of Technology
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O. Hugo Schuck Best Paper Awards: Theory
Recipients:
Junjie Qin, Sen Li, Kameshwar Poolla, and Pravin Varaiya
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O. Hugo Schuck Best Paper Awards: Applications
Recipients:
Chao Ning and Fengqi You
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