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.
During each triennium a Fellow Search Committee and a Fellow Selection Committee are established. Their composition is given in the Affiliates Portal.
Fellows elected for the period 2023-2026
- Abramovitch, Daniel Y.
For contributions to modeling and control of high-precision, high-speed mechatronic systems, and efforts disseminating control systems’ broad impact. - Bemporad, Alberto
For contributions to model predictive control and its applications in automotive industrial production. - Blanchini, Franco
For contributions in robust control, set invariant theory, and biochemical systems. - Duan, Guang-Ren
For contribution to parametric control systems design and for proposing the concept of high-order fully actuated (HOFA) systems. - Fossen, Thor I.
For contributions to the modelling, guidance, navigation, and control of marine and aerial vehicles. - Fridman, Emilia
For contributions to time-delay, sampled-data, and distributed parameter systems. - Gupta, Vijay
For contributions to networked and distributed cyber-physical systems. - Hirche, Sandra
For contributions to learning and data-driven control systems, networked control, human-machine interaction, and robotics. - Hong, Keum-Shik
For innovations in controlling industrial mechanical systems and recursive estimation of human brain signals via functional near-infrared spectroscopy. - Hovakimyan, Naira
For contributions to robust adaptive control, safe learning in autonomous systems, and technology transitions to practice. - Ishii, Hideaki
For contributions to distributed control of networked systems. - Lygeros, John
For contributions to hybrid systems and optimal control. - Niculescu, Silviu-Iulian
For contributions to the analysis and control of dynamical systems with delays. - Pettersen, Kristin Y.
For leadership in the research, development, and commercialization of snake robots. - Rantzer, Anders
For contributions to robust control, nonlinear control, and large scale systems. - Ren, Wei
For contributions to distributed coordination and control of multi-agent systems. - Ringwood, John
For contributions to the development of wave energy control technology. - Scherpen, Jacquelien M.A.
For contributions to nonlinear balancing, model reduction, and passivity-based control. - Steinbuch, Maarten
For innovations in the control of precision motion systems and the transfer of these into industrial applications as well as for academic leadership. - Sznaier, Mario
For contributions to data driven control, identification, and dynamic vision. - Tarbouriech, Sophie
For contributions to nonlinear control design, the theory of control with limited information, and related applications. - Tilbury, Dawn M.
For contributions to manufacturing and networked control, expanding control applications to computing and human-robot interaction, and engineering leadership. - Wise, Kevin A.
For industrial and scientific contributions to optimal and adaptive control technologies for aerospace systems. - Yu, Xinghuo
For contributions to the discontinuous control of systems and applications in intelligent and complex systems. - Zheng, Wei Xing
For contributions to distributed control of networked systems.
Fellows elected for the period 2020-2023
- Boyd, Stephen P.
- Cherubini, Giovanni
- Cortes, Jorge
- D’Andrea, Raffaello
- De Moor, Bart
- De Schutter, Bart
- Del Vecchio, Domitilla
- Ferrara, Antonella
- Fu, Minyue
- Han, Qing-Long
- Heemels, Maurice
- Ilic, Marija
- Isaksson, Alf J.
- Kolmanovsky, Ilya V.
- Kumar, P. R.
- Morris, Kirsten A.
- Murray, Richard M.
- Narendra, Kumpati S.
- Ozdaglar, Asu
- Paganini, Fernando
- Paschalidis, Ioannis
- Smith, Malcolm C.
- Tannenbaum, Allen
- Thornhill, Nina F.
- Valcher, Maria Elena
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
- 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
