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var Bio_TB="Tamer Basar was born in Istanbul, Turkey, on January 19, 1946. He received B.S.E.E. degree from Robert College, Istanbul, in 1969, and M.S., M.Phil, and Ph.D. degrees in engineering and applied science from Yale University, in 1970, 1971 and 1972, respectively. After stints at Harvard University, Marmara Research Institute (Gebze, Turkey), and Bogaziçi University (Istanbul), he joined the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in 1981, where he is with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and holds the positions of Swanlund Endowed Chair,  Center for Advanced Study Professor, Research Professor at the Coordinated Science Laboratory, and Research Professor with the Information Trust Institute. He has spent sabbatical years at Twente University of Technology (the Netherlands; 1978-79), and INRIA (France; 1987-88, 1994-95).<br>Dr. Basar has authored or co-authored over 200 journal articles and book chapters, and over 250 conference publications in the general areas of optimal, robust, and adaptive control; large-scale and decentralized systems and control; dynamic games; stochastic control; estimation theory; stochastic processes; information theory; communication systems and networks; and mathematical economics. He is co-author of the text Dynamic Noncooperative Game Theory (Academic Press, 1982; second edition, 1995; latest edition in SIAM Series in Classics in Applied Mathematics, 1999), editor of the volume Dynamic Games and Applications in Economics (Springer-Verlag, 1986), co-editor of Differential Games and Applications (Springer-Verlag, 1988), co-editor of Advances in Dynamic Games and Applications (Birkhäuser, 1994), co-author of the text H-infinity Optimal Control and Related Minimax Design Problems (Birkhäuser, 1991; second edition, 1995), and Editor of the centennial volume Control Theory: Twenty-Five Seminal Papers (1932-1981) (IEEE Press, 2001). His current research interests include stochastic teams and games; routing, pricing, and congestion control in communication networks; control over wired and wireless networks; mobile and distributed computing; risk-sensitive estimation and control; and game-theoretic approaches to security in computer networks, including intrusion detection and response.<br>Tamer Basar is a member of the National Academy of Engineering (of the USA), and also carries memberships in several scientific organizations, among which are SIAM, SEDC (Society for Economic Dynamics and Control), ISDG (International Society of Dynamic Games), GTS (Game Theory Society), AMS (American Mathematical Society), European Academy of Sciences, and IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers). He was elected a Fellow of IEEE in 1983, and has served its Control Systems Society in various capacities, among which are: Past President (2001), President (2000), President-Elect (1999), Vice-President for Financial Affairs (1998), Vice-President for Publications (1997), the Editor for Technical Notes and Correspondence for its Transactions on Automatic Control (1992-1994), and as the general chairman (1992) and program chairman (1989) of its flagship conference (Conference on Decision and Control). He has also been active in IFAC (International Federation of Automatic Control), in the organization of several workshops and symposia, and as Editor and Deputy Editor-in-Chief of its flagship journal Automatica Automatica, from 1992 until 2003, and since 2004 as Editor-in-Chief and Chair of its editorial board. During the period 1990-1994, he was the President of the International Society of Dynamic Games (ISDG) , and is currently the Series Editor of the Annals of ISDG (published by Birkhäuser), the Series Editor of Systems & Control: Foundations and Applications (published by Birkhäuser), and Honorary Editor of Applied and Computational Mathematics. He is also a subject editor of Wireless Networks and an associate editor of Systems and Control Letters, and is on the editorial and advisory boards of a number of other international journals. Among some of the recent honors and awards he has received are (in chronological order): Swanlund Endowed Chair at UIUC (2007), Honorary Doctorate (Doctor Honoris Causa) from Dogus University, Istanbul (2007), Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award of the American Automatic Control Council (2006), Giorgio Quazza Medal of IFAC (2005), Outstanding Service Award of IFAC (2005), IFAC Fellow (2005), Center for Advanced Study Professorship at UIUC (2005), Hendrik W. Bode Lecture Prize of the IEEE Control Systems Society (2004), Tau Beta Pi Daniel C. Drucker Eminent Faculty Award of the College of Engineering of UIUC (2004), election to the National Academy of Engineering (of the USA) (2000), IEEE Millennium Medal (2000), Fredric G. and Elizabeth H. Nearing Distinguished Professorship at UIUC (1998), Axelby Outstanding Paper Award (1995) and Distinguished Member Award (1993) of the IEEE Control Systems Society, and Medal of Science of Turkey (1993)Professor Abraham Berman completed his M.Sc. in Mathematics at the Technion in 1968 and his Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics at Northwestern University in 1970. Since then he has held Visiting Professorships and Research Positions at a number of institutions including: McGill University; The University of Tennessee; The Rensellaer Polytechnic Institute The University of California; The University of New South Wales; The Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton; University College Dublin; The Technical University of Berlin; Rockefeller University; National Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Pretoria; University of Science and Technology of China; and the Hamilton Institute. He has also served on a number of international and national committees and is a former editor of the SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and a Special Editor of Linear Algebra and its Applications.";

var Bio_AB="I completed my M.Sc. in Mathematics at the Technion in 1968 and my Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics at Northwestern University in 1970. Since then I have held Visiting Professorships and Research Positions at a number of institutions including: McGill University; The University of Tennessee; The Rensellaer Polytechnic Institute The University of California; The University of New South Wales; The Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton; University College Dublin; The Technical University of Berlin; Rockefeller University; National Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Pretoria; University of Science and Technology of China; and the Hamilton Institute. I have also served on a number of international and national committees and I am a former editor of the SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and a Special Editor of Linear Algebra and its Applications. I am the co-author of six textbooks/research monologues, have authored over 70 journal papers, and have supervised 27 research students.  I am currently Professor of Mathematics at the Technion, Israel and my current research interests include nonnegative matrices and their applications, stability and combinatorial matrix theory. I am also interested in mathematics education.";

var Bio_OB="Professor Onno Boxma (Ph.D. Utrecht, 1977) has been the leader of the Performance Analysis group at CWI (85-98) and the head of its department of Operations Research, Statistics and System Theory (89-98). Since 1998 he holds the chair of Stochastic Operations Research in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Eindhoven University of Technology. He is also scientific director of EURANDOM. Onno Boxma is co-author/co-editor of several books on queueing theory and performance evaluation, and editor-in-chief of Queueing Systems. He is honorary Professor in the School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences of Heriot-Watt University.";

var Bio_MC="Professor Martin Corless is currently a Professor in the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA. He received a B.E. from University College Dublin, Ireland and a Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley; both degrees are in mechanical engineering. He is the recipient of a National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award and Editor-in-Chief of Dynamics and Control. His research is concerned with obtaining tools which are useful in the robust analysis and control of systems containing signi3cant uncertainty and in applying these results to aerospace and mechanical systems.";

var Bio_PD="Paul M. Van Dooren received the engineering degree in computer science and the doctoral degree in applied sciences, both from the Katholieke Universiteit te Leuven, Belgium, in 1974 and 1979, respectively. He held research and teaching positions at the Katholieke Universiteit te Leuven (1974-1979), the University of Southern California (1978-1979), Stanford University (1979-1980), the Australian National University (1984), Philips Research Laboratory Belgium (1980-1991), the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1991-1994),  Florida State University (1998) and the Université Catholique de Louvain (1980-1991, 1994-now) where he is currently a professor of Mathematical Engineering.<br>Dr. Van Dooren received the Householder Award in 1981 and the Wilkinson Prize of Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing in 1989. He became an IEEE Fellow in 2006.  He is an Associate Editor of  several journals in numerical analysis and systems and control theory.  His main interests lie in the areas of numerical linear algebra, systems and  control theory, and large scale graphs.";

var Bio_LD="Dr. Linda Doyle is a lecturer in the Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering University of Dublin, Trinity College, Ireland. She was awarded a M.Sc. in 1992 and a Ph.D. in 1996 from Trinity College Dublin.  Dr. Doyle leads the Emerging Networks strand of the Centre for Telecommunications Value-Chain Research (CTVR).  Her research focuses on wireless communication systems.  She has a major research effort in the area of reconfigurable networks and in particular on networks that support dynamic spectrum access techniques. Dr. Doyle plays a very active role in the Dynamic Spectrum research field and is active on many international spectrum working groups. ";

var Bio_KD="Ken Duffy graduated with a B.A.(mod) in Mathematical Sciences in 1996 and Ph.D. in Probability and Queueing Theory in 2000, both awarded by Trinity College, Dublin. During his Ph.D. he worked within the Dublin Applied Probability Group (DAPG) at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies. There his work was divided 50:50 between applied science on a long-term EU information technologies research grant and basic research in large deviation theory that arose naturally within the project's investigations. The final year of his doctorate was paid for by a grant from Microsoft Research Cambridge. After finishing his Ph.D. he spent a year working as a research scientist for Corvil, a communications technology startup that was born from intellectual property developed on the EU grant and whose product is now shipped in Cisco routers. In 2001 he returned to academic research helping John T. Lewis set up in the Communications Network Research Institute of the Dublin Institute of Technology with Science Foundation Ireland funding. In 2005 he moved to the Hamilton Institute.  With T. Dorlas (DIAS) and Y. Suhov (U. Cambridge), in 2006 he guest edited a special edition of Markov Processes and Related Fields. Research areas in which he currently works, and has contributed significant results to, include mathematical statistics, queueing theory, applied probability and stochastic modeling.  Abstracting key principles from problems of practical significance in telecommunications drives his basic research in mathematics.";

var Bio_WH="Dr. Wilhelm Huisinga graduated from the Zuse Institute Berlin in 1997 with a diploma degree in Mathematics. In 2001, he received his PhD (Summa cum Laude) from the department of Mathematics & Computer Science at the Freie Universität Berlin. Following a short post-doctoral research position, Dr. Wilhelm Huisinga was appointed head of a newly established junior research group within the DFG Research Center MATHEON Mathematics for key technologies: Modelling, simulation and optimization of real-world processes in Berlin in 2002. During that time he has build up a research group in the area of computational physiology that was solely third-party founded, based on attracting industrial funding from pharmaceutical companies in Germany. In December 2006, Dr. Wilhlem Huisinga joined the Hamilton Institute at NUIM Maynooth as a Senior Lecturer. His current research interests are focussed on the areas of mathematical modelling and numerical analysis of stochastic and deterministic dynamical systems exhibiting multiple temporal and spatial scales, as they arise in mathematical biology, pharmacokinetics (drug design) and biochemical reaction systems. Dr. Wilhelm Huisinga is a member of the MATHEON, the faculty of the International Max-Planck Research School Computational Biology & Scientific Computing, and together with Prof. Kloft (MLU Halle-Wittenberg) initiator of the Graduate Research Training Program in Pharmacometrics & Computational Disease Modelling with major financial support from the leading German research-driven pharmaceutical companies.";

var Bio_CK="Professor Christopher King graduated from Harvard University in 1984 with his Ph.D. in Mathematical Physics. He spent three years as a post-doctoral researcher in the Physics Department at Princeton University, and four years in the Mathematics Department at Cornell University as the H. C. Wang Assistant Professor. He joined the faculty of the Mathematics Department at Northeastern University in 1991 and was promoted to full Professor in 2003. He has held visiting research positions at the ETH Zurich, the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, the Theory Group at Microsoft Research in Redmond, and the Communications Network Research Institute at the Dublin Institute of Technology. Professor King has published over 50 reviewed research papers in journals and conference proceedings and is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Mathematical Physics. His principal areas of research include quantum information theory, statistical mechanics, matrix analysis, and analysis of protocols for computer networks. His research is supported by the Division of Mathematical Sciences at the National Science Foundation.";

var Bio_DL="Prof. Douglas Leith graduated from the University of Glasgow in 1986 with a first class BSc (Eng) degree in Electronics and Electrical Engineering with Computer Science.  During this course of study he was awarded prizes including the Alexander J. Younger Memorial, the John Oliphant Bursary, the Sir John Pender Bursary, the ICI Prize in Control Engineering and the Howe Prize.  He was awarded his PhD, also from the University of Glasgow, in 1989. In 1995 he won a prestigious ten-year Royal Society personal research fellowship to further support this research. In August 2001, Prof. Leith moved to NUI Maynooth to assume the position of SFI Principal Investigator (SFI EUR 7.6M) and to establish (together with Prof. Robert Shorten) the Hamilton Institute of which he is Director";

var Bio_OM="Oliver Mason studied mathematics at Trinity College Dublin (TCD), and was awarded a first class honours degree and a gold medal in his final examinations in 1995.  He won several prizes as an undergraduate, including the Townsend Exhibition, Rowe Prize, Minchin Prize, The Lloyd Exhibition and was elected a foundation scholar of the college in 1993. He obtained an M.Sc. degree in mathematics by research from TCD in 1998 and in 2004 a PhD on the stability of switched linear systems from the National University of Ireland Maynooth (NUIM).  Currently, his major research interests include the use of novel Lyapunov-based methods to investigate the stability of positive dynamical systems, the relationship between various strong notions of matrix stability, and the use of graph-theoretic and linear algebraic methods in Biology.";

var Bio_VM="Professor Volker Mehrmann received his Diplom in mathematics in 1979, his Ph.D. in 1982, and his habilitation in 1987  from the University of Bielefeld, Germany. He spent research years at Kent State University in 1979--1980, at the University of Wisconsin in 1984--1985, and at IBM Research Center in Heidelberg in 1988--1989.  After spending the years 1990--1992  as a visiting full professor at the RWTH Aachen, he was a full professor at TU Chemnitz from 1993 to 2000. Since then he has been a full professor for at TU Berlin. His research interests are in the areas of numerical mathematics/scientific computing, applied and numerical linear algebra, control theory, and the theory and numerical solution of differential-algebraic equations.  From 2000-2004 he was chairman of the mathematics committee of Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) and currently he is Vice Chairman of MATHEON, the DFG Research Center `Mathematics for key technologies´ in Berlin. ";

var Bio_RM="Professor Richard H. Middleton was born on 10th December 1961 in Newcastle Australia. He received his B.Sc. (1983), B.Eng. (Hons-I)(1984) and Ph.D. (1987) from the University of Newcastle, Australia. He has had visiting appointments at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the University of Michigan and the Hamilton Institute (National University of Ireland Maynooth). In 1991 he was awarded the Australian Telecommunications and Electronics Research Board Outstanding Young Investigator award. In 1994 he was awarded the Royal Society of New South Wales Edgeworth-David Medal, and the M.A. Sargent Award from the Electrical College of Engineers Australia in 2004. He has served as an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, the IEEE Transactions on Control System Technology, and Automatica, as Head of Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Newcastle; as a panel member and sub panel chair for the Australian Research Council; as Vice President - Member Activities of the IEEE Control Systems Society, and as Director of the ARC Centre for Complex Dynamic Systems and Control. He was elected to the grade of Fellow of the IEEE starting 1999. He is currently a Research Professor at the Hamilton Institute, The National University of Ireland, Maynooth; a Senior Research Associate of the University of Newcastle; and Vice President (Conference Activities) of the IEEE Control System Society. His research interests include a broad range of Control Systems Theory and Applications.";

var Bio_KN="Prof. Kumpati S. Narendra received the Ph.D. degree from Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, in 1959. At present he is Harold W. Cheel Professor of Electrical Engineering and Director of the Center for Systems Science at Yale University and Scientific Advisor to the Hamilton Institute. He is the co-author of three books, Frequency Domain Criteria for Absolute Stability (New York: Academic, 1973), Stable Adaptive Systems (Prentice-Hall, 1989), and Learning Automata-An Introduction (Prentice-Hall, 1989), and the author of \"Neural Networks for Identification and Control\", which is currently under preparation. His research interests include stability theory, adaptive systems, learning automata, and the control of complex systems. Prof. Narendra is a member of Sigma Xi, and Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, IEE, and a Life Fellow of IEEE. He was the recipient of the 1972 Franklin V. Taylor Award of the IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society, the George S. Axelby Best Paper Award of the IEEE Control Systems Society in 1988, the Education Award of the American Automatic Control Council in 1990, and the Outstanding Paper Award of the Neural Networks Council in 1991. In 1994, he received the Neural Networks Leadership Award of the International Neural Networks Society. He was also appointed Distinguished Visiting Scientist by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory for the year 1994-1995. He received the honorary D.Sc. degree from Anna University, Madras, India, and the Bode Prize of the Control Systems Society in 1995, and presented the plenary lecture at the 2000 American Control Conference. He was elected member of the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering in 1995. He was awarded te Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage award of the American Automatic Control Council in 2003 for lifelong contributions to the field of control.";

var Bio_AN="Angelia Nedich received her B.S. degree from the University of Montenegro (1987) and M.S. degree from the University of Belgrade (1990), both in Mathematics. She received her Ph.D. degrees from Moscow State University (1994) in Mathematics and Mathematical Physics, and from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (2002). She has been at the BAE Systems Advanced Information Technology from  2002-2006. In Fall 2006, as Assistant Professor, she has joined the Department of industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.  Her general interest is in optimization including fundamental theory, models, algorithms, and applications. Her current research interest is focused on large scale convex optimization, distributed multi-agent optimization, duality theory with applications in decentralized optimization.";

var Bio_DM="Donal O'Mahony graduated with first class honours in Engineering from Trinity College Dublin in 1982.  He was recruited by Trinity College as a lecturer in Computer Science in 1984 where he later completed a PhD in the area of software reusability.  In 1990, he set up the Networks & Telecommunications Research Group that did pioneering work in the establishment of the global X.500 directory service. In 1988, when Local Area Networks were beginning to appear on the mass-market, he published a textbook with Prentice-Hall publishers entitled Local Area Networks and their Applications which became a best-seller in this emerging field and was subsequently published in Japanese, Polish as well as in a low-cost edition for the Indian market.  Donal O'Mahony is currently Associate Professor at Trinity College and Director of the centre for telecommunications value-chain research (CTVR). The centre is supported by Science Foundation Ireland under the CSET programme and IDA Ireland with Bell Labs as its first major industrial partner.";

var Bio_JR="Professor Raissch studied Technische Kybernetik (Engineering Cybernetics) at Stuttgart University, Germany, and Control Systems at UMIST, Manchester, UK. After receiving his Ph. D. (in Chemical Engineering) from Stuttgart University, he spent two years as a postdoc in the Systems Control Group at the University of Toronto, Canada, and was subsequently awarded a DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, German Science Foundation) fellowship to work towards my habilitation.  He finished my habilitation in 1998.  From then, he has led a research group on systems and control theory at the Max-Plank-Institut (MPI) für Dynamik komplexer technischer Systeme in Magdeburg, Germany, where we was appointed External Scientific Member (Auswärtiges wissenschaftliches Mitglied) in 2002. From September 2000 until February 2006, he held the chair of Systems Theory in Engineering at the EE Department at the Otto-von-Guericke Universität Magdeburg. Since March 2006, he has held the chair of Contol";


var Bio_CS="Professor Dr. Christof Schuette received the Ph.D. degree in mathematics from the Free University (FU) of Berlin in 1994 and completed his Habilitation in mathematics at FU Berlin in 1999.  Since 2000, he has been a full professor in the mathematics department of FU Berlin, the chair of the Biocomputing group within the priority research field Scientific Computing/Numerical Mathematics, and the dean of Bioinformatics at FU Berlin.  He is a member of the executive boards of the DFG Research Center Matheon and the IMPRS Computational Biology and Scientific Computing.  Prof. Dr. Schuette is also a member of the executive boards of the DFG Research Center MATHEON Mathematics for Key Technologies and the International Max-Planck Research School Computational Biology and Scientific Computing, and is currently Co-Chair of the graduate school Berlin Mathematical School.";

var Bio_RS="Professor Shorten graduated from the University College Dublin (UCD) in 1990 with a First Class Honours B.E. degree in Electronic Engineering. He was awarded the M.Eng.Sc degree in 1993 and the Ph.D. degree in 1996, both from UCD. From 1993 to 1996 Prof. Shorten was the holder of a Marie Curie Fellowship to conduct research at the Daimler-Benz Research Institute for Information Technology in Berlin. In 1996 Prof. Shorten was invited as a visiting fellow to the Center for Systems Science, Yale University, to work with Professor K. S. Narendra. Since returning to Ireland in 1997 Prof. Shorten has built up a leading research group in the area of switching systems. Prof. Shorten is a guest editor of the IEE Proceedings on Control Theory and is a co-founder of the Hamilton Institute, NUI Maynooth.";