List of people in systems and control

This is an alphabetical list of people who have made significant contributions in the fields of system analysis and control theory.

Eminent researchers The eminent researchers (born after 1920) include the winners of at least one award of the IEEE Control Systems Award, the Giorgio Quazza Medal, the Hendrik W. Bode Lecture Prize, the Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award, the Rufus Oldenburger Medal, or higher awards such as the IEEE Medal of Honor and the National Medal of Science. The earlier pioneers such as Nicolas Minorsky (1885–1970), Harry Nyquist (1889–1976), Harold Locke Hazen (1901–1980), Charles Stark Draper (1901–1987), Hendrik Wade Bode (1905–1982), Gordon S. Brown (1907–1996), John F. Coales (1907–1999), Rufus Oldenburger (1908–1969), John R. Ragazzini (1912–1988), Nathaniel B. Nichols (1914–1997), John Zaborszky (1914–2008) and Harold Chestnut (1917–2001) are not included. Name Institution Nationality Contributions AgeAwards Brian D. O. Anderson Australian National UniversityAustralian 1941Hendrik W. Bode Lecture Prize (1992),IEEE Control Systems Award (1997),Giorgio Quazza Medal (1999) Karl Johan Åström Lund UniversitySwedish Author of five books, including Introduction to Stochastic Control Theory (1970 and Dover, 2006) and (with Wittenmark) of Adaptive Control (Addison-Wesley, 1995).1934Rufus Oldenburger Medal (1985),Giorgio Quazza Medal (1988),IEEE Control Systems Award (1990) Michael Athans(Μιχαήλ Αθανασιάδης) Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyGreek-American 1937Hendrik W. Bode Lecture Prize (1993),Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award (1995) John Baillieul Boston UniversityAmerican Works on robotics, mechanical system control and non-holonomic constraints.1945Hendrik W. Bode Lecture Prize (2011) B. Ross Barmish University of Wisconsin–MadisonCanadian-American Author of New Tools for Robustness of Linear Systems (Macmillan, 1994). For fundamental contributions to the analysis of systems with parametric uncertainty and to probabilistic robustness, and for contributions to the design of stock-trading algorithms that are robust to market variability. IEEE fellow and IFAC fellow.1949Hendrik W. Bode Lecture Prize (2013) Tamer Başar University of Illinois at Urbana–ChampaignTurkish-American [decision.csl.uiuc.edu/~tbasar/ Tammer Basar] Works on dynamic games, control and communication theory, etc.1946Hendrik W. Bode Lecture Prize (2004),Giorgio Quazza Medal (2005),Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award (2006),IEEE Control Systems Award (2014) Richard E. Bellman University of Southern CaliforniaAmerican 1920–1984John von Neumann Theory Prize (1976),IEEE Medal of Honor (1979),Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award (1984) Dimitri P. Bertsekas(Δημήτρης Παντελής Μπερτσεκάς) Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyGreek-American 1942–2026Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award (2014),John von Neumann Theory Prize (2018),IEEE Control Systems Award (2022) Stephen P. Boyd Stanford UniversityAmerican Works on engineering applications of convex optimization. Winner of John R. Ragazzini Award in control systems.1958IEEE Control Systems Award (2013) Roger W. Brockett Harvard UniversityAmerican Works on dynamics and control of smart structures.1938Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award (1989),IEEE Control Systems Award (1991),Rufus Oldenburger Medal (2005),Giorgio Quazza Medal (2017) Arthur E. Bryson, Jr. Stanford UniversityAmerican 1925Rufus Oldenburger Medal (1980),IEEE Control Systems Award (1984),Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award (1990) Peter E. Caines McGill UniversityCanadian Works in the areas of stochastic, adaptive, large scale and hybrid systems, Mean Field Games (or Nash Certainty Equivalence). Fellow of the IEEE, SIAM, the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research and Royal Society of Canada. Recipient of the Bode Lecture Prize in 2009.1945Hendrik W. Bode Lecture Prize (2009) Edward J. Davison University of TorontoCanadian 1928Giorgio Quazza Medal (1993),Hendrik W. Bode Lecture Prize (1997) John C. Doyle California Institute of TechnologyAmerican John C. Doyle Co-author of (with Zhou and Glover) Robust and Optimal Control (Prentice Hall, 1996), Essentials of Robust Control (1997), and Feedback Control Theory (Macmillan, 1992).1954IEEE Control Systems Award (2004) Walter R. Evans General Electric; Rockwell International; Ford Aeronautic CompanyAmerican 1920–1999Rufus Oldenburger Medal (1987),Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award (1988) Bruce Francis University of TorontoCanadian 1947–2018Hendrik W. Bode Lecture Prize (2014),IEEE Control Systems Award (2015) Gene F. Franklin Stanford UniversityAmerican 1927–2012Hendrik W. Bode Lecture Prize (1994),Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award (2005) Elmer G. Gilbert University of MichiganAmerican 1930–2019IEEE Control Systems Award (1994),Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award (1996) Keith Glover University of CambridgeBritish 1946IEEE Control Systems Award (2001) Graham Goodwin University of Newcastle, AustraliaAustralian 1945Hendrik W. Bode Lecture Prize (1999),Giorgio Quazza Medal (2008),IEEE Control Systems Award (2010),Rufus Oldenburger Medal (2013) J. Karl Hedrick University of California, BerkeleyAmerican Total Domination of Etcheverry Hall. Seminal contributions in nonlinear control and estimation.1944–2017Rufus Oldenburger Medal (2006) Yu-Chi "Larry" Ho(何毓琦) Harvard University Chinese-American Y.C. Ho Co-author of Applied Optimal Control (1969, 1975), the most cited book on the subject. Since 1983 he has been working on discrete event system theory.1934IEEE Control Systems Award (1989),Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award (1999),Rufus Oldenburger Medal (1999) Alberto Isidori Sapienza University of Rome; Washington University in St. LouisItalian 1942Giorgio Quazza Medal (1996),Hendrik W. Bode Lecture Prize (2001),IEEE Control Systems Award (2012) Eliahu I. Jury(إلياهو جوري) University of California, Berkeley; University of MiamiIraqi-American 1923Rufus Oldenburger Medal (1986),Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award (1993) Thomas Kailath Stanford UniversityIndian-American Author of Linear Systems (Prentice Hall, 1980) and co-author of Linear Estimation (Prentice Hall, 2000).1935IEEE Medal of Honor (2007),National Medal of Science (2012) Rudolf E. Kalman(Kálmán Rudolf Emil) University of Florida; ETH ZurichHungarian-American 1930–2016IEEE Medal of Honor (1974),Rufus Oldenburger Medal (1976),Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award (1997),Charles Stark Draper Prize (2008),National Medal of Science (2009) Hidenori Kimura(木村英紀) RikenJapanese 1941 Giorgio Quazza Medal (2011) IEEE Control Systems Award (2021) Petar V. Kokotovic(Петар В. Кокотовић) University of California, Santa BarbaraSerbian-American Works on nonlinear control, both adaptive and robust. He initiated the development of back-stepping (a popular, recursive, design technique). Industry consultant on control of car and jet engines.1934Giorgio Quazza Medal (1990),Hendrik W. Bode Lecture Prize (1991),IEEE Control Systems Award (1995),Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award (2002) Arthur J. Krener Naval Postgraduate SchoolAmerican 1942Hendrik W. Bode Lecture Prize (2006),Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award (2012),IEEE Control Systems Award (2016) Miroslav Krstic University of California, San DiegoSerbian-American PDE backstepping control, nonlinear delay systems, extremum seeking, adaptive control, stochastic nonlinear stabilization, and their industrial applications1964Rufus Oldenburger Medal (2017),W. T. and Idalia Reid Prize (2019),Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award (2021),Hendrik W. Bode Lecture Prize (2023)