Faculty

Wayne Book

Wayne J. Book was born in San Angelo Texas in 1946. He holds degrees from the University of Texas at Austin (BSME, '69) and M.I.T. (MS, '71, Ph.D. '74) in Mechanical Engineering. He has been on the faculty of Mechanical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology since 1974 and was promoted to Professor in 1986. In 2001 he was named HUSCO/Ramirez Distinguished Professor in Fluid Power and Motion Control. He teaches courses in system dynamics, controls (including motion control), robotics and manufacturing systems. His research includes the design, dynamics and control of high speed, lightweight motion systems, robotics, fluid power and motion control and haptics. He holds five patents on robotics related inventions and has published over 200 refereed papers and has advised 29 Ph.D. graduates. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the Society of Manufacturing Engineers and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. He received Georgia Tech’s award for Outstanding Faculty Leadership for development of Graduate Research Assistants in 1987, and an ASME Dedicated Service Award in 2003 and the ASME DSCD Leadership Award in 2004. More...

John-Paul Clarke

John-Paul Clarke is an Associate Professor in the School of Aerospace Engineering and the Director of the Air Transportation Laboratory (ATL) at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) where his research and teaching address issues of optimization and robustness in Aircraft and Airline Operations, Air Traffic Management and the Environmental Impact of Aviation. He received his S.B. (1991), S.M. (1992) and Sc.D. (1997) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and was a faculty member at MIT prior to moving to Georgia Tech. He has also been a researcher at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory and a visiting scholar at the Boeing Company. Dr. Clarke is a member of the Airline Group of the International Federation of Operations Research Societies (AGIFORS), the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), the Institute of Navigation (ION) and Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society. More...

Mark Costello

Mark Costello is currently an associate professor in the School of Aerospace Engineering working in the area of flight mechanics, control, and air vehicle design. He is the Sikorsky Associate Professor and the Associate Director of the Center of Excellence in Rotorcraft Technology at Georgia Tech. He has earned national recognition for a substantial research program in the development of innovative flight mechanics and controls technologies for a variety of flight vehicles, including rotorcraft, projectiles, parafoils, and unmanned air vehicles. He is the P.I. for a long standing joint research program with the Army Research Laboratory in the area of smart weapons and unmanned air vehicles. Findings from his group’s research endeavors are summarized in over 75 papers in archival journals, conference proceedings, and technical reports. Prior to his appointment at Georgia Tech, he was on the faculty of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Oregon State University and the United States Military Academy at West Point. He also worked as a research engineer in the Helicopter Division of the Boeing Company and at the Georgia Tech Research Institute. He is an Associate Editor for the ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control and the AIAA Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets. He is an Associate Fellow of AIAA as well as a member of AHS and ASME. More...

John Dorsey

John F. Dorsey received the B.A. degree from Purdue University in 1964, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Systems Science from Michigan State University in 1969 and 1980 respectively. Dr. Dorsey has worked as a Systems Engineer for General Dynamics in both the modeling of air warfare and design of radar systems. As Systems Engineer for Ford Motor Company he developed mathematical models of grey iron foundry melt and casting operations. As Service and Installation Manager at Process Computer Systems he was responsible for installation of real-time computer control systems. His experience includes the design of geodesic and Luneberg lenses for a radar scanner. Dr. Dorsey is a Senior Member of IEEE and is active in continuing education. More...

 

Magnus Egerstedt

Magnus B. Egerstedt was born in Stockholm, Sweden, and is an Associate Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he has been on the faculty since 2001. He also holds an adjunct appointment in the Division of Interactive and Intelligent Computing with the College of Computing at Georgia Tech and a visiting position with the School of Computer Science and Communication at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. Magnus Egerstedt received the M.S. degree in Engineering Physics and the Ph.D. degree in Applied Mathematics from the Royal Institute of Technology in 1996 and 2000 respectively. He also received a B.A. degree in Philosophy from Stockholm University in 1996. He spent 2000-2001 as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Division of Engineering and Applied Science at Harvard University. Dr. Egerstedt's research interests include optimal control as well as modeling and analysis of hybrid and discrete event systems, with emphasis on motion planning, control, and coordination of mobile robots. More...

Eric Feron

Eric Feron is the Dutton-Ducoffe Professor of Aerospace Software Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Prior to that, he has been on the faculty of MITs department of Aeronautics and Astronautics for 12 years. He holds his BS, MS and PhD degrees from Ecole Polytechnique, France, Ecole Normale Supérieure, France and Stanford University. Eric Ferons interests are to use fundamental concepts of control systems, optimization and computer science to address important problems in aerospace engineering, including: Aerobatic control of unmanned aerial vehicles, air traffic control systems and aerospace system certification. Eric Feron has published two books and several research papers; his former research students are distributed throughout academia, government and industry. He is an advisor to the Academy of Technologies. More...

Bonnie Heck Ferri

Bonnie Heck Ferris is a Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Associate Chair for Graduate Affairs. She received her BS degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Notre Dame in 1981, her MS in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Princeton University in 1984, and her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Georgia Tech. More...

 

 

 

 

 

Martha Grover

Martha Grover is an assistant professor in the School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering at Georgia Tech. She earned her B.S. in mechanical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1996, and her Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Caltech in 2003, with a minor in control and dynamical systems. Her graduate research was on the control of thin film deposition under the direction of Professors Richard Murray, David Goodwin, and Harry Atwater. She received the W. David Smith Award from the Computing and Systems Technology division of AIChE in 2005 for this work. Professor Grover is the recipient of an NSF CAREER award, which supports computational and experimental research in chemical vapor deposition of metal oxide films for control of film microstructure. Her overall research program is on optimization and control of molecular-scale structure using self assembly with applications in inorganic crystalline films, polymer structure, and nanowire assembly. More...

Wassim Haddad

Dr. Wassim M. Haddad received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in mechanical engineering from Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL in 1983, 1984, and 1987, respectively, with specialization in dynamical systems and control. From 1987 to 1994 he served as a consultant for the Structural Controls Group of the Government Aerospace Systems Division, Harris Corporation, Melbourne, FL. In 1988 he joined the faculty of the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department at Florida Institute of Technology where he founded and developed the Systems and Control Option within the graduate program. Since 1994 he has been a member of the faculty in the School of Aerospace Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology where he holds the rank of Professor. Dr. Haddad's research contributions in linear and nonlinear dynamical systems and control are documented in over 470 archival journal and conference publications. His recent research is concentrated on nonlinear robust and adaptive control, nonlinear dynamical system theory, large-scale systems, hierarchical nonlinear switching control, analysis and control of nonlinear impulsive and hybrid systems, system thermodynamics, thermodynamic modeling of mechanical and aerospace systems, network systems, nonlinear analysis and control for biological and physiological systems, and active control for clinical pharmacology. More...

Ayanna Howard

Ayanna Howard received her B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Brown University, her M.S.E.E. from the University of Southern California, and her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles in 1999. Her area of research is centered around the concept of humanized intelligence, the process of embedding human cognitive capability into the control path of autonomous systems. This work, which addresses issues of autonomous control as well as aspects of interaction with humans and the surrounding environment, has resulted in over 60 written works in a number of projects – from autonomous rover navigation for planetary surface exploration to intelligent terrain assessment algorithms for landing on Mars. To date, her unique accomplishments have been documented in over 12 featured articles - including being named as one of the world's top young innovators of 2003 by the prestigious MIT Technology Review journal and in TIME magazine’s "Rise of the Machines" article in 2004. From 1993-2005, Dr. Howard was at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, where she led research efforts on various robotic projects utilizing vision, fuzzy logic, and neural network methodologies. Following this, she joined the Systems and Controls Group at Georgia Tech in 2005 and founded the Human-Automation Systems (HumAnS) Laboratory. More...

Eric Johnson

Eric N. Johnson is the Lockheed Martin Associate Professor of Avionics Integration in the School of Aerospace Engineering at Georgia Tech , and Director of the UAV Research Facility there. He is an Aerospace Engineer and Instrument-Rated Pilot, experienced in: aerodynamics, stability & control, flight simulation (including dynamic modeling and scene generation), aerospace software, flight test, human factors, and guidance/navigation/control systems. His research interests include: fault tolerant estimation and control theory; and digital avionics system design and integration. He performs research sponsored by a variety of sources, including: The National Science Foundation , AFOSR , DARPA , NASA , AFRL/VACA , and Lockheed Martin . Major research programs include the Active-Vision Control Systems program and the Software Enabled Control program, as well as the development of several research Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). A majority of this research is conducted in the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Research Facility at Georgia Tech. Highlights of their work has been neural network adaptive flight control of a number of different aircraft, vision-based guidance/navigation/control, autonomous aggressive maneuvering, the first air-launch of a hovering aircraft, and automatic flight of an airplane all the way to zero airspeed and back to forward flight. More...

Jay Lee

Jay H. Lee received his B.S. from the University of Washington in 1986 and his Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology in 1991. He is currently a professor in the School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he now directs the LIDCUS (Laboratory for Information and Decisions for Complex and Uncertain Systems). Dr. Lee received the National Science Foundation’s Young Investigator Award and a number of other research and teaching awards. He is also a co-author of the forthcoming book “Model Predictive Control.” He is a member of AIChE, IEEE, and ASEE, and participated in organizing several international conferences. More...

 

Jennifer Michaels

Jennifer Michaels was born in Nashville, Tennessee, and grew up in Ashland, Kentucky. She graduated from Georgia Tech in 1976 with a bachelor’s in Electrical Engineering, and then joined the Hanford Engineering Development Laboratory in Richland, Washington, where she first began developing systems and methods for ultrasonic evaluation. This work led to her graduate study in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics at Cornell University, where she earned the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in 1982 and 1984, and spent a year as an IBM Postdoctoral Fellow. From 1985 until joining the Georgia Tech faculty in 2002, she worked in industry, first as co-founder of a startup company, and later as Manager of Systems Development at Panametrics, Inc., a world leader in the development and manufacture of automated ultrasonic inspection systems. Dr. Michaels has over 25 years of experience in the areas of signal processing, wave propagation, data analysis, motion controls, ultrasonic testing, automated ultrasonic inspection systems, and computer software and hardware. More...

William Rouse

William B. Rouse is the executive director of the Tennenbaum Institute at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He also is a professor in the College of Computing and School of Industrial and Systems Engineering. Rouse has written hundreds of articles and book chapters, and has authored many books, including most recently, People and Organizations: Explorations of Human-Centered Design (Wiley, 2007), Essential Challenges of Strategic Management (Wiley, 2001), and the award-winning Don’t Jump to Solutions (Jossey-Bass, 1998). Among many advisory roles, he has served as chair of the Committee on Human Factors of the National Research Council, a member of the U.S. Air Force Scientific Advisory Board, and a member of the Department of Defense Senior Advisory Group on Modeling and Simulation. Rouse is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, as well as a fellow of four professional societies: the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE), the Institute for Operations Research and Management Science, and the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society. More...

Joseph Saleh

Joseph Saleh is an Assistant Professor in the Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. As a member of Georgia Tech’s Space Systems Design Laboratory, he leads a research program focused on ideas of time, uncertainty and flexibility in system design in general, and spacecraft design in particular. His current research projects deal with: space responsiveness, fractionated spacecraft, value-centric approaches to design, flexibility, obsolescence, and valuation, and novel approaches to risk and system safety. Prior to coming to Georgia Tech, Dr. Saleh was the Executive Director of the Ford/MIT Alliance. More...

Jeff Shamma

Jeff S. Shamma was born in New York City and raised in Pensacola, Fla. He received a B.S. in mechanical engineering from Georgia Tech in 1983 and a Ph.D. in systems science and engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Mechanical Engineering, in 1988. He has held faculty positions at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis; University of Texas, Austin; and University of California, Los Angeles; and visiting positions at Caltech and MIT. Jeff returned to Georgia Tech to join the ECE department in 2007. His research area of interest is feedback control and systems theory. More...

Allen Tannenbaum

Allen Tannenbaum was born in New York City in 1953. He attended Columbia University where he received his B.A. in 1973, and then moved to Massachusetts to attend Harvard University where he earned a Ph.D. in mathematics 1976. He has held faculty positions at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, the Technion (Israel Institute of Technology), and the University of Minnesota. In August 1999, he joined the ECE Department of the Georgia Institute of Technology where he set up the Laboratory for Computational Computer Vision. Dr. Tannenbaum has over 230 publications and has authored or co-authored three research texts on systems and control. He has played a leading role in developing new mathematical techniques for various engineering problems in systems and control, vision, signal processing, and cryptography. Dr. Tannenbaum has received a number of awards for his research, and has given plenary talks at a number of conferences in engineering and mathematics. Dr.Tannenbaum is also a professor with the GT/Emory Department of Biomedical Engineering. More...

David Taylor

David Taylor was born in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. He received his bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, in 1983. He did his graduate work at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where he earned his master's and doctoral degrees in electrical engineering in 1985 and 1988, respectively. He has been with Georgia Tech since 1988, where his teaching and research activities have encompassed both the theory and application of control systems, with a particular emphasis on control of electromechanical systems such as robotic motion systems, electric machine systems and power electronic systems. More...

 

 

Panagiotis Tsiotras

Panagiotis Tsiotras joined the faculty of the School of Aerospace Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1998 as an Associate Professor. Prior to joining the faculty at Georgia Tech, Dr. Tsiotras was an Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Virginia. From 1993 to 1994 he was a Post-doctoral Fellow at Purdue University and during 1989 he was affiliated with the Interdisciplinary Center of Applied Mathematics at Virginia Tech, where he worked on trajectory optimization for aerospace vehicles. He has also held visiting appointments with INRIA, Rocquencourt, the Laboratoire d’ Automatique de Grenoble, and the Ecole des Mines de Paris in France. He has published over 150 journal and conference papers in the area of dynamics and control of mechanical and aerospace systems. His current research interests include analysis and control of spacecraft, real-time optimal control, and control of autonomous and semi-autonomous vehicles. Dr. Tsiotras is a recipient of the NSF CAREER award, the Sigma Xi President and Visitor’s Award for Excellence in Research as well as numerous fellowships and scholarships. He is an Associate Editor for the IEEE Control Systems Magazine, and a past Associate Editor of the AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics and of Dynamics and Control. He is an Associate Fellow of the AIAA, and a Senior Member of the IEEE. More...

Patricio Antonio Vela

Patricio Vela was born in Mexico City, Mexico and grew up in California. He earned his bachelor of science degree in 1998 and his doctorate in 2003 at the California Institute of Technology, where he did his graduate research on geometric nonlinear control androbotics. Dr. Vela came to Georgia Tech as a post-doctoral researcher in computer vision and joined the ECE faculty in 2005. His research interests lie in the geometric perspectives to control theory and computer vision. Recently, he has been interested in the role that computer vision can play for achieving control-theoretic objectives of (semi-)autonomous systems. His research also covers control of nonlinear systems, typically robotic systems. More...

 

 

Erik Verriest

Erik I. Verriest received the degree of ‘Burgerlijk Electrotechnisch Ingenieur’ from the State University of Ghent, Ghent, Belgium in 1973, and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford University in 1975 and 1980, respectively. He was employed by the Control Systems Laboratory and the Hybrid Computation Centre, Ghent, Belgium, where he worked on process simulation and control in 1973-74. His doctoral research at Stanford was on the algebraic theory and balancing for time varying linear systems and array algorithms. He joined the faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech in 1980. He spent the 1991-92, 1993-94 and 1994-95 academic years at Georgia Tech Lorraine. He has contributed to the application of the theory of systems over finite fields in cryptography, data compression, sensitivity analysis of array algorithms with applications in estimation and control, algorithms for optical computing. More recently he contributed to the theory of periodic and hybrid systems, delay – differential systems, model reduction for nonlinear systems, and control with communication constraints. He served on several IPC’s and is a member of the IFAC Committee on Linear Systems. More...

Vitali Volovoi

Vitali Volovoi is an Assistant Professor in the School of Aerospace Engineering. He has worked in the Aerospace Systems Design Lab at Georgia Tech since 1997, and has over 50 journal and conference publications. He received a university diploma with honors in Applied Mechanics from Moscow State University in 1988, and earned his Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from The Georgia Institute of Technology in 1997. His principal fields of expertise are the analysis and probabilistic design of advanced structures, structural reliability and optimization, and system reliability.More...

Yorai Wardi

Yorai Wardi received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences under the guidance of Professor E. Polak at UC Berkeley in 1982. From 1982 to 1984 he was a Member of Technical Staff at Bell Telephone Laboratories and Bell Communications Research. Since 1984 he has been at Georgia Tech where currently he is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He spent the 1987-88 academic year at the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben Gurion University, Israel. Dr. Wardi is an associate editor of Discrete Event Dynamic Systems: Theory and Applications, a past associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (2001-2003), and a past member of the IEEE Control Systems Society Conference Editorial Board (1999-2000). More...

 

Chelsea (Chip) C. White, III

Chelsea C. White received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan (UM) in 1974 in Computer, Information, and Control Engineering. He has served on the faculties of the University of Virginia (1976- 1990) and UM (1990-2001). He currently is the H.Milton and Carolyn J. Stewart School Chair of the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial & Systems Engineering and holds the Schneider National Chair of Transportation and Logistics at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he is the Director of the Trucking Industry Program (TIP) and the former Executive Director of The Logistics Institute. He has previously served as department chair of Systems Engineering at the University of Virginia, department chair of Industrial and Operations Engineering at the UM, and Senior Associate Dean at the UM. More...

 

 

Anthony Yezzi

Anthony Yezzi was born in Gainsville, Florida and grew up in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He obtained both his Bachelor's degree and his Ph.D. in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Minnesota with minors in mathematics and music. After completing his Ph.D., he continued his research as a post-Doctoral Research Associate at the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston, MA. His research interests fall broadly within the fields of image processing and computer vision. In particular he is interested in curve and surface evolution theory and partial differential equation techniques as they apply to topics within these fields (such as segmentation, image smoothing and enhancement, optical flow, stereo disparity, shape from shading, object recognition, and visual tracking). Much of Dr. Yezzi's work is particularly tailored to problems in medical imaging, including cardiac ultrasound, MRI, and CT. He joined the Georgia Tech faculty in the fall of 1999 where he has taught courses in DSP and is working to develop advanced courses in computer vision and medical image processing. Professor Yezzi consults with industry in the areas of visual inspection and medical imaging. His hobbies include classical guitar, opera, and martial arts. More...