The IFAC Fellow Award is given to persons who have made outstanding and extraordinary contributions in the field of interest of IFAC, in the role as an Engineer/Scientist, Technical Leader, or Educator. The first Fellows were elected at the IFAC World Congress in Prague in July 2005.
The Fellow Selection Committee (FSC) for the period 2023 - 2026 consists of:
John Baillieul (Chair), Lei Guo, Xiaofan Wang, Frank Park, Marios Polycarpou, Linda Bushnell, Bozenna Pasik-Duncan, Maria Domenica Di Benedetto, Kristi Morgansen, Naomi Leonard, Tiago Roux Oliveira.
The Fellow Search Committee consists of: Paul Van den Hof (Chair), Shinji Hara, Richard Murray, Li Qiu, Antonella Ferrara, Kristen Morris, Lucy Pao, Sigurd Skogestad. The role of this committee is to help finding suitable candidates to nominate as Fellows.
Fellows elected for the period 2020 - 2023:
Plaques and Certificates will be presented at the 2023 World Congress in Yokohama.
Boyd, Stephen P.
For pioneering contributions to research and education in control and optimization.
Cherubini, Giovanni
For industrial and scientific contributions to advanced control technologies for magnetic tape data storage products.
Cortes, Jorge
For contributions to the distributed control of network systems, distributed optimization, and network science.
D'Andrea, Raffaello
For contributions to the development of distributed and cooperative robotic systems and their commercialization.
De Moor, Bart
For contributions to numerical multi-linear algebra, systems theory and system identification, with applications in process control and bioinformatics.
De Schutter, Bart
For contributions to optimization-based control of discrete-event systems, hybrid systems, and large-scale systems, with applications in transportation and infrastructure networks.
Del Vecchio, Domitilla
For contributions to developing control theory in molecular systems biology.
Ferrara, Antonella
For contributions to sliding mode control theory and applications.
Fu, Minyue
For contributions to robust control, networked control and distributed estimation.
Han, Qing-Long
For contributions to networked control and multi-agent systems and applications to smart grids.
Heemels, Maurice
For contributions to hybrid, networked and event-triggered control systems.
Ilic, Marija
For contributions to hierarchical modeling and control in electric power systems and for open access modeling and control of the changing electric energy systems, including power trains for hybrid aircraft.
Isaksson, Alf J.
For outstanding technology leadership bridging academic research and industrial control practice.
Kolmanovsky, Ilya V.
For contributions to control applications and to nonlinear control of systems with constraints.
Kumar, P. R.
For seminal contributions to adaptive control and modelling and analysis of wireless networks.
Morris, Kirsten A.
For contributions to controller synthesis for distributed parameter systems.
Murray, Richard M.
For contributions to the application of feedback and control to networked systems, with applications in autonomy and synthetic biology.
Narendra, Kumpati S.
For extensive contributions spanning several areas of control engineering and systems theory, including stability theory, adaptive systems, and learning, as a theoretician, practitioner, and educator.
Ozdaglar, Asu
For contributions to optimization theory, multi-agent systems and applications in economic and social networks.
Paganini, Fernando
For contributions to robust and distributed control with applications to communication and power networks.
Paschalidis, Ioannis
For contributions to control of network systems, optimization, and robust learning.
Smith, Malcolm C.
For contributions to robust control and network synthesis and for the invention, development, and application of the inerter.
Tannenbaum, Allen
For foundational contributions to robust control and computer vision.
Thornhill, Nina F.
For contributions to process monitoring, fault diagnosis and detection and optimal operation of large-scale production facilities.
Valcher, Maria Elena
For contributions to positive switched systems, Boolean control networks, and multi-agent systems.
Fellows elected for the period 2017-2020
- Arcak, Murat
- Bartusiak, R. Donald
- Biegler, Lorenz T.
- Bushnell, Linda Grace
- Caines, Peter Edwin
- Campi, Marco Claudio
- Chen, Jie (Tongji University, CN)
- Di Benedetto, Maria Domenica
- Egerstedt, Magnus Bertil
- Farrell, Jay A.
- Giua, Alessandro
- Hill, David John
- Nesic, Dragan
- Nijmeijer, Hendrik
- Pantazi, Angeliki
- Pappas, George J.
- Poolla, Kameshwar
- Sepulchre, Rodolphe J.
- Smith, Roy Stephen
- Stewart, Gregory Edward
- Sugie, Toshiharu
- Sun, Jing
- Tabuada, Paulo
- Tomlin, Claire Jennifer
- Wahlberg, Bo
Fellows elected for the period 2014 - 2017
- Annaswamy, Anuradha Mandayam
- Astolfi, Alessandro
- Baras, John S.
- Bullo, Francesco
- Canudas de Wit, Carlos Alfonso
- Dahleh, Munther A.
- Dumont, Guy Albert
- Fradkov, Alexander Lvovich
- Fu, Li-Chen
- Georgiou, Tryphon Thomas
- Glover, Keith
- Goodall, Roger Morgan
- Hespanha, Joao Pedro
- Ho, Yu-Chi
- Ikeda, Masao
- Lafortune, Stephane
- Lamnabhi-Lagarrigue, Francoise
- Liberzon, Daniel
- Mareels, Iven Michiel
- Ogunnaike, Babatunde Ayodeji
- Ortega, Romeo
- Parisini, Thomas
- Polycarpou, Marios
- Rawlings, James B.
- Samad, Tariq
- Sastry, Sosale Shankara
- Seborg, Dale Edward
- Shamma, Jeff S.
- Skelton, Robert E.
- van der Schaft, Arjan
- Varaiya, Pravin
- Vidyasagar, Mathukumalli
- Yin, Gang George
- Zhang, Ji-Feng
Fellows elected for the period 2011 - 2014
- Benveniste, Albert
- Bokor, Jószef
- Bonvin, Dominique
- Chen, Tongwen
- De Souza, Carlos Emanuel
- Doyle, John C.
- Ghosh, Bijoy Kumar
- Huang, Lin
- Jiang, Zhong-Ping
- Khargonekar, Pramod P.
- Leonard, Naomi E.
- Maciejowski, Jan
- Middleton, Richard Hume
- Mitter, Sanjoy
- Morse, A. Stephen
- Pao, Lucy
- Papageorgiou, Markos
- Pasik-Duncan, Bozenna
- Petersen, Ian R.
- Praly, Laurent
- Qin, Sizhao Joe
- Saberi, Ali
- Skogestad, Sigurd
- Sontag, Eduardo
- Spong, Mark
- Sun, Youxian
- Terwiesch, Peter
- Verhaegen, Michael
- Willems, Jan C.
- Yamamoto, Yutaka
- Zhou, Kemin
- Zhou, Mengchu
Fellows elected in 2011
- Baillieul, John
- Bamieh, Bassan
- Bhattacharyya, Shanker P.
- Bristol, Edgar H.
- Chen, Jie (City University of Hong Kong, HK, CN)
- Colaneri, Patrizio
- Christofides, Panagiotis
- Krener, Arthur
- Lee, Jay
- Lin, Zongli
- Moheimani, Reza
- Song, Jian
- Xie, Lihua
Fellows elected in 2010
- Antsaklis, Panos
- Banda, Siva
- Barmish, Ross
- Byrnes, Chris*
- Dai, Ruwai
- Dochain, Denis
- Duncan, Tyrone
- Ge, Shuzi Sam
- Grizzle, Jessy
- Hara, Shinji
- Khammash, Mustafa
- Kwon, Wook-Hyun
- Qiu, Li
- Lindquist, Anders
- Teel, Andrew
- Tomizuka, Masayoshi
- Ulsoy, Ali
* By decision of the IFAC Council, Chris Byrnes was elected Fellow posthumously, as he sadly passed away in the evaluation period of the Award.
Fellows elected in 2009
- Doyle, Frank
- Fleming, Peter
- Guzzella, Lino
- Huang, Jie
- Irwin, George
- Katayama, Tohru
- Picci, Giorgio
- Siciliano, Bruno
- Tarn, Tzyh Jong
Fellows elected in 2008
- Bittanti, Sergio
- Braatz, Richard
- Camacho, Eduardo
- Cao, Xi-Ren
- Cassandras, Christos
- Chai, Tian-You
- Cheng, Dai-Zhan
- Edgar, Thomas
- Gottzein Eveline
- Haddad, Abraham
- Krstic, Miroslav
- Kurzhanski, Alexander B.
- Lewis, Frank
- Morari, Manfred
- Safonov, Michael
- Vicino, Antonio
Fellows elected in 2007
- Allgöwer, Frank
- Cruz, Joe
- Dion, Jean Michel
- Georgakis, Christos
- Khalil, Hassan
- Kimura, Hidenori
- Kucera, Vladimir,
- Landau, Ioan
- Lei, Guo
- Marquardt, Wolfgang
- Mosca, Edoardo
- Tempo, Roberto
- Van den Hof, Paul
- Wang, Fei-Yue
Fellows elected in 2006
- Albertos, Pedro
- Athans, Michael
- Balchen, Jens
- Chen, Han-Fu
- Engell, Sebastian
- Findeisen, Wladyslaw
- Furuta, Katushisa
- Gevers, Michel
- Guardabassi, Guido
- Hrovat, Davor
- Ioannou, Petros
- Masten, Michael
- Mayne,David
- McAvoy,Thomas
- Polyak, Boris
- Söderström, Torsten
Fellows elected in 2005
- Ackermann, Jürgen
- Anderson, Brian
- Aström, Karl
- Araki, Mituhiko
- Basar, Tamer
- Basanez, Luis
- Benes, Jiri
- Bernussou, Jacques
- Bitmead, Robert
- Davison, Edward J.
- Gertler, János
- Goodwin, Graham
- Isermann, Rolf
- Isidori, Alberto
- Kahne, Stephen
- Kokotovic, Petar
- Kwakernaak, Huibert
- Ljung, Lennart
- Mansour, Mohamed
- Nett, Carl
- Niemi, Antti
- Powers, William F.
- Puente, Juan A. de la
- Sawaragi, Yoshikazu
- Schaufelberger, Walter
- Stein, Gunter
- Thoma, Manfred
- Vámos, Tibor
- Uronen, Paavo
- Xiong, Fan Lun