Plenary Speakers

Christoforos Hadjicostis

Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Cyprus

Christoforos Hadjicostis is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Cyprus. He received S.B. degrees in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering, and Mathematics, the M.Eng. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, all from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA. From 1999 to 2007, he was Assistant and then Associate Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research focuses on fault diagnosis and tolerance in distributed dynamic systems; error control coding; monitoring, diagnosis and control of large-scale discrete event systems; and related applications in embedded systems, distributed robotics, anomaly detection and network security. His research has been funded via several competitive grants from the National Science Foundation (including an NSF Career Award), the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, the European Commission (including a Marie Curie International Reintegration Grant), Qatar Foundation, the Cyprus Research Promotion Foundation, and others. Dr. Hadjicostis serves as Departmental Editor of the Journal of Discrete Event Systems and as Associate Editor of Automatica and the Journal of Nonlinear Analysis of Hybrid Systems. In the past, he served as Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, and IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I.

Feng Lin

Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Wayne State University

Feng Lin received his B.Eng. degree in electrical engineering from Shanghai Jiao-Tong University, Shanghai, China, in 1982, and his M.A.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, in 1984 and 1988, respectively.
From 1987 to 1988, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. Since 1988, he has been with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, where he is currently a professor. His research interests include discrete-event systems, hybrid systems, robust control, and their applications in alternative energy, biomedical systems, and automotive control. He is the author of a book entitled “Robust Control Design: An Optimal Control Approach.”
He co-authored a paper that received a George Axelby outstanding paper award from IEEE Control Systems Society. He was an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. He is a fellow of IEEE.

Yorai Wardi

School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology

Yorai Wardi received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from the University of California at Berkeley in 1982. In 1982-1984 he was a Member of Technical Staff at Bell Telephone Laboratories and Bellcore. Since 1984 he has been with the faculty of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech, where he currently is a professor. He spent the 1987-1988 academic year at the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. Dr. Wardi’s research interests are in control and optimization of hybrid systems, computational techniques for optimal control, and nonlinear tracking. Application areas of interest to him include power-aware mobile robotics, performance regulation in computer processors, and trajectory tracking by autonomous vehicles. He is a past associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Discrete Event Dynamic Systems: Theory and Applications, and Nonlinear Analysis: Hybrid Systems. Presently he is a department editor of Discrete Event Dynamic Systems: Theory and Applications.