Mathematical Theory of Control and
    Signal Processing in the Digital World

Professor Anderson was born in Sydney, Australia. He took his undergraduate degrees in Mathematics and Electrical Engineering at Sydney University, and his doctoral degree in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University.

He worked in industry in the United States and at Stanford University before serving as Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Newcastle, Australia from 1967 through 1981. At that time, he took up a post as Professor and Head of the Department of Systems Engineering at the Australian National University in Canberra, where he was Director of the Research School of Information Sciences and Engineering from 1994 to 2002. For approximately one year to May 2003, he was the inaugural CEO of the newly formed National ICT Australia, established by the Australian Government through the Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts and the Australian Research Council under the Information and Communication Technologies Centre of Excellence program. From May 2003 to June 2006, he served as Chief Scientist of NICTA. He has held many visiting appointments in the United States, Europe and Asia, including the University of California, Berkeley, Stanford University, Yale University, Imperial College, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Kyoto University and Tokyo Institute of Technology.

Professor Anderson served as a member of a number of government bodies, including the Australian Science and Technology Council and the Prime Minister's Science, Engineering and Innovation Council. He was also a member of the Board of Cochlear Limited, the world's major supplier of cochlear implants from 1995 to 2005. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science and Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, and an Honorary Fellow of the Institution of Engineers, Australia. In 1989, he became a Fellow of the Royal Society, London, and in 2002 a Foreign Member of the US National Academy of Engineering. He holds honorary doctorates of the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, and the Universities of Sydney, Melbourne, New South Wales and Newcastle, together with the University of Technology, Sydney. He was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia in 1993 and a Companion of the Order of Australia in 2016, and awarded the Centennial Medal in 2001. He is also a holder of the Order of the Rising Sun with Neck Rays and Gold Ribbon, from Japan.

He was President of the International Federation of Automatic Control for the triennium 1990 to 1993, and served as President of the Australian Academy of Science for four years from 1998 to 2002.

He retired from the ANU as a Distinguished Professor and was appointed Emeritus Professor in July 2016. At that time he became Distinguished Professor at Hangzhou Dianzi University.

His research interests have included many contributions in the area of circuits, signal processing and control, and currently his work focuses on distributed control of multiagent systems, sensor network localization, and econometric modelling.

Paul A. Fuhrmann is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Mathematics at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. His current research interests are in the following directions: Algebraic System Theory, control, observation and model reduction for networks of linear systems.

Tryphon T. Georgiou is currently a Distinguished Professor with the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California at Irvine, Irvine. He has served on the faculty of Florida Atlantic University, Iowa State University, and the University of Minnesota. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, a Fellow of IFAC, and a Foreign Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences. He was a co-recipient of the G.S. Axelby Award from the IEEE Control Systems Society for the years 1992, 1999, 2003, and 2017.

Alberto Isidori received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Rome, Rome, Italy, in 1965. Between 1975 and 2012, he has been Professor of automatic control with the University of Rome, where is currently Professor Emeritus. He has held visiting positions at various academic/research institutions which include Washington University in St. Louis, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the University of California at Berkeley, the ETH in Z\"{u}rich and the NASA-Langley research center. Between 2008 and 2011 he served as President of IFAC. He is the author of several books, including Nonlinear Control Systems (New York: Springer Verlag, 1985, 1989 and 1995); Nonlinear Control Systems II (New York: Springer Verlag, 1999), and of more than 100 articles on archival journals. His research interests are primarily focused on mathematical control theory and control engineering. He received the G.S. Axelby Outstanding Paper Award in 1981 and in 1990, the Automatica Best Paper Award in 1991 and 2005, the "Georgio Quazza Medal" from the IFAC in 1996, the first "Ktesibios Award" from the Mediterranean Control Association in 2000, the "CSS Bode Lecture Prize" in 2001, the "IEEE Control Systems Award" in 2012. He received the Honorary Doctorate from KTH of Stockholm in 2009, the Galileo Award from the Rotary Clubs of Italy in 2009. In 2012 he has been elected corresponding member of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei.

Pramod Khargonekar received B. Tech. Degree in electrical engineering in 1977 from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India, and M.S. degree in mathematics in 1980 and Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering in 1981 from the University of Florida, respectively. He has been on faculty at the University of Florida, University of Minnesota, The University of Michigan, and the University of California, Irvine. He was Chairman of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from 1997 to 2001 and also held the position of Claude E. Shannon Professor of Engineering Science at The University of Michigan. From 2001 to 2009, he was Dean of the College of Engineering and Eckis Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Florida till 2016. He also served briefly as Deputy Director of Technology at ARPA-E, U. S. Department of Energy in 2012-13. He was appointed by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to serve as Assistant Director for the Directorate of Engineering (ENG) in March 2013, a position he held till June 2016. In this position, Khargonekar led the ENG Directorate with an annual budget of more than \$ 950 million. In addition, he served as a member of the NSF senior leadership and management team and participated in setting priorities and policies. In June 2016, he assumed his current position as Vice Chancellor for Research and Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine.

Khargonekar's research and teaching interests are centered on theory and applications of systems and control. His early work was on mathematical control theory, specifically focusing on robust control analysis and design. During the 1990's, he was involved in a major multidisciplinary project on applications of control and estimation techniques to semiconductor manufacturing. His current research and teaching interests include systems and control theory, machine learning, and applications to smart electric grid and neural engineering. He has authored more than 160 refereed journal publications and 200 conference publications. He has supervised 38 doctoral students. He has been recognized as a Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher. He is a recipient of the IEEE Control Systems Award, NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award, the American Automatic Control Council's Donald Eckman Award, the Japan Society for Promotion of Science fellowships, the IEEE W. R. G. Baker Prize Award, the IEEE CSS George Axelby Best Paper Award, the Hugo Schuck ACC Best Paper Award, and the Distinguished Alumnus and Distinguished Service Awards from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. He is a Fellow of IEEE, IFAC, and AAAS. At the University of Michigan, he received the Arthur F. Thurnau Professorship and Claude E. Shannon Chair. In the past, he has served as Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, SIAM Journal of Control, Systems and Control Letters, and International J. of Robust and Nonlinear Control. He has been a member of the IEEE Control Systems Theory and Robust Control technical committee. He has also served as Chair and Member of the American Automatic Control Council's Donald Eckman Award Committee. He has served as Program Co-Chair of the American Control Conference. Recently, he was a member of the IEEE Smart Grid 2030 Vision committee. He is also on the advisory boards for MForesight and Clean Energy Smart Manufacturing Innovation Institute (CESMII). He currently serves as the Chair of the IFAC Nichols Medal selection committee.

Anders Lindquist received his PhD degree from the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, where in 1972 he was appointed a Docent of Optimization and Systems Theory. From 1972 to 1974 he held visiting positions at the University of Florida, Brown University, and the State University of New York at Albany. In 1974 he became an Associate Professor, and in 1980 a (full) Professor of Mathematics at the University of Kentucky, where he remained until 1983. In 1982 he was appointed to the Chair of Optimization and Systems Theory at the Royal Institute of Technology. He has also held visiting positions at the University of Padova and Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy, Arizona State University, International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis, Vienna, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, East China Normal University, Shanghai, Technion, Haifa, University of California at Berkeley, and University of Kyoto, Japan, and between 1989 and 2009 he was an Affiliate Professor at Washington University, St Louis. From 2000 until December 2009 he was the Head of the Mathematics Department at the Royal Institute of Technology, and from 2006 until 2016 he was the Director of the Strategic Research Center for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (CIAM) there.

Presently, Anders Lindquist is a Zhiyuan Chair Professor and a Qian Ren Scholar at the Shanghai Jiao Tong University and an Emeritus Professor at the Royal Institute of Technology. He is a Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, a Foreign Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and a Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences. Moreover, he is a Fellow of IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), an Honorary Member the Hungarian Operations Research Society, a Fellow of SIAM (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics), a Fellow of IFAC (International Federation of Automatic Control), and a Life Fellow of IEEE. He was awarded the 2009 W.T. and Idalia Reid Prize in Mathematics from SIAM and the 2003 George S. Axelby Outstanding Paper Award of the IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS). He received an Honorary Doctorate (Doctor Scientiarum Honoris Causa) from Technion (Israel Institute of Technology), Haifa, in June 2010. He is an Honorary Professor of China University of Petroleum in Qingdao, China.

Lindquist is presently on the editorial boards of SIAM Review, Proceedings of the Royal Society A and EMS Surveys in Mathematical Sciences. He has served on many other editorial boards of journals, among them the Journal of Mathematical Systems, Estimation, and Control (Communicating Editor), Systems and Control Letters, Adaptive Control and Signal Processing, Acta Automatica Sinica, and Chinese Journal of Mathematics, as well as book series, namely Systems and Control: Foundations and Applications, Applied and Computational Control, Signals, and Circuits, and Progress in Systems and Control. Since 1983 he has been a member, and between 1985 and 1987 the chairman, of the steering committee for the biennial international symposia on the Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems (MTNS). For the first half of 2003, he served as the scientific leader at Institut Mittag-Leffler.

Anders Lindquist is also Knight Commander of OESSH (Ordo Equestris Sancti Sepulcri Hierosoymitanti).

A. Stephen Morse was born in Mt. Vernon, New York. He received a BSEE degree from Cornell University, MS degree from the University of Arizona, and a Ph.D. degree from Purdue University. From 1967 to 1970 he was associated with the Office of Control Theory and Application {OCTA} at the NASA Electronics Research Center in Cambridge, Mass. Since 1970 he has been with Yale University where he is presently the Dudley Professor of Engineering. His main interest is in system theory and he has done research in network synthesis, optimal control, multivariable control, adaptive control, urban transportation, vision-based control, hybrid and nonlinear systems, sensor networks, and coordination and control of large grouping of mobile autonomous agents. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, an IFAC Fellow, a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Control System Society, and a co-recipient of the Society's 1993 and 2005 George S. Axelby Outstanding Paper Awards. He has twice received the American Automatic Control Council's Best Paper Award and is a co-recipient of the Automatica Theory/Methodology Prize. He is the 1999 recipient of the IEEE Technical Field Award for Control Systems. He is the 2013 recipient of the American Automatic Control Council's Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering.

He received his Dr. Eng. degree in ElectronicEngineering from Osaka University in 1986. From 1986to 1988, he was a Visiting Scientist at the Laboratory forInformation and Decision Systems, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Since 2006, he has been a Professor in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Physics of Kyoto University. His research interests include modeling of control systems, networked control systems, and robust control. Dr. Ohta served as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control and Automatica. Currently, he is an Associate Editor for European Journal of Control and IET Control Theory & Applications, the Editor-in-Chief for SICE Journal of Control, Measurement, and System Integration.

Hitay Ozbay is a Professor of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Bilkent University, Ankara Turkey. He received the B.Sc., M.Eng. and PhD degrees from Middle East Technical University (1985), McGill University (1987), and University of Minnesota (1989), respectively. His prior academic affiliations include University of Rhode Island (1989-1990), and The Ohio State University (1991-2006) where he was a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering prior to joining Bilkent University. He also held a visiting position at INRIA, France (2009-2010). Professor Ozbay served as Associate Editor for many journals, including IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (1997-1999), SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization (2011-2014), and Automatica (2001-2007, 2012 - present). He was a Vice-Chair of the IFAC Technical Committee on Networked Control Systems (2005-2011); and currently is a Vice-Chair of the IFAC Technical Committee on Linear Control Systems (2017-2020). He is a member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Control Systems Society, elected for the term 2017-2019; he is also a General Assembly member of the European Control Association (EUCA), representing Turkey, since 2013. He is a Fellow of IEEE.

Malcolm Smith received the B.A. (M.A.) degree in mathematics, the M.Phil in control engineering and operational research and the Ph.D. degree in control Engineering from the University of Cambridge, England. He was subsequently a Research Fellow at the German Aerospace Centre, DLR, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, a Visiting Assistant Professor and Research Fellow with the Department of Electrical Engineering at McGill University, Montreal, Canada, and an Assistant Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Ohio State University, Columbus, USA. He is now a Fellow of Gonville and Caius College and a Professor in the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge. He received the 1992 and 1999 George Axelby Best Paper Awards, in the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control in 1992 and 1999, both times for joint work with T.T. Georgiou. H was awarded the Sir Harold Hartley Medal 2009 (Institute of Measurement and Control) for "outstanding contribution to the technology of measurement and control''. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.

Toshiharu Sugie received the B.E., M.E., and Ph.D. degrees in engineering from Kyoto University, Japan, in 1976, 1978 and 1985, respectively. From 1978 to 1980, he was a research member of Musashino Electric Communication Laboratory in NTT, Musashino, Japan. From 1984 to 1988, he was a research associate of Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Osaka Prefecture, Osaka. From 1988 to 2019, he worked at Kyoto University, where he was a Professor of Department of Systems Science since 1997. In 2019, he joined Osaka University as a research member of Komatsu MIRAI Construction Equipment Cooperative Research Center in Graduate School of Engineering. He served as an Editor of Automatica, and was also an Associate Editor of Asian Journal of Control and International Journal of Systems Science. His research interests are in robust control, identification for control, and control application to mechanical systems. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and of the SICE.

Mathukumalli Vidyasagar was born in Guntur, India on September 29, 1947. He received the B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Wisconsin in Madison, in 1965, 1967 and 1969 respectively. Between 1969 and 1989, he was a Professor of Electrical Engineering at Marquette University, Concordia University, and the University of Waterloo. In 1989 he returned to India as the Director of the newly created Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (CAIR) in Bangalore, under the Ministry of Defence, Government of India, and built CAIR into a leading research laboratory with about 40 scientists and a total of about 85 persons, working in areas such as flight control, robotics, neural networks, and image processing. In 2000 he moved to the Indian private sector as an Executive Vice President of India's largest software company, Tata Consultancy Services. In the city of Hyderabad, he created the Advanced Technology Center, an industrial R\& D laboratory of around 80 engineers, working in areas such as computational biology, quantitative finance, e-security, identity management, and open source software to support Indian languages. In 2009 he retired from TCS and joined the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering \& Computer Science at the University of Texas at Dallas, as a Cecil \& Ida Green Chair in Systems Biology Science. In March 2010 he was named as the Founding Head of the newly created Bioengineering Department, a position that he relinquished in July 2013. In January 2015 he received the Jawaharlal Nehru Science Fellowship from the Government of India, and divided his time between UT Dallas and the Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad until the end of 2017, at which time he returned to India. He is now a Chair Emeritus at UT Dallas, and SERB (Science and Engineering Research Board) Distinguished Fellow at IIT Hyderabad. His research interests are in the broad area of system and control theory, and its applications. At the moment he is interested in the mathematical foundations of deep and reinforcement learning, a topic that he had studied two decades ago that has again come into prominence.

Vidyasagar has received a number of awards in recognition of his research contributions, including Fellowship in The Royal Society, the world's oldest scientific academy in continuous existence, the IEEE Control Systems (Technical Field) Award, the Rufus Oldenburger Medal of ASME, the John R. Ragazzini Education Award from AACC, and others. He is the author of thirteen books and more than 150 papers in peer-reviewed journals.