People

Dr. Anuradha Annaswamy received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Yale University in 1985. She has been a member of the faculty at Yale, Boston University, and MIT where currently she is the director of the Active-Adaptive Control Laboratory and a Senior Research Scientist in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Her research interests pertain to adaptive control theory and applications to aerospace and automotive control, active control of noise in thermo-fluid systems, control of autonomous systems, decision and control in smart grids, and co-design of control and distributed embedded systems. She is the co-editor of the IEEE CSS report on Impact of Control Technology: Overview, Success Stories, and Research Challenges, 2011, and will serve as the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Vision document on Smart Grid and the role of Control Systems to be published in 2013. Dr. Annaswamy has received several awards including the George Axelby Outstanding Paper award from the IEEE Control Systems Society, the Presidential Young Investigator award from the National Science Foundation, the Hans Fisher Senior Fellowship from the Institute for Advanced Study at the Technische Universität München in 2008, and the Donald Groen Julius Prize for 2008 from the Institute of Mechanical Engineers. Dr. Annaswamy is a Fellow of the IEEE and a member of AIAA.

Damoon Soudbakhsh is a postdoctoral associate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He earned his BSc and MSc from Sharif university of Technology, Tehran, Iran, and PhD from The George Washington University, Washington DC, USA. Prior to joining MIT, he was a postdoctoral associate at Rutgers University. Currently he is working on co-design of NCS and development of fast control algorithms for hardware implementation. He has worked on several active safety vehicle projects such as development of crash avoidance systems, and an advanced active gas pedal system. Also, he worked on biomechanical projects such as development of a knee arthrometer, and development of an exoskeleton assistive device, and recently on analysis of human/bicycle stability. He received Khwarizmi Youth National Award in Iran and Dwight Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship Award from the department of transportation (US-DOT). His research interests include cyber-physical systems, linear and nonlinear control, biomechanics, autonomous vehicles, optimization, and intelligent transportation systems. He is a member of IEEE, ASME, and SAE.

Leslie Maldonado is a PhD student, Mechanical Engineering Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA, USA 02139