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Society
Briefs

Cesare Alippi
Politecnico di Milano,
ITALY

2013 IEEE CIS Awards

Neural Networks Pioneer Award
Frank L. Lewis, The University of Texas
at Arlington, USA
For the rigorous use of neural networks in adaptive feedback control systems.
Dr. Lewis was born
in Würzburg, Germany, subsequently
studying in Chile
and Gordonstoun
School in Scotland.
He obtained the
Bachelor's Degree in Physics/Electrical
Engineering and the Master's of Electrical Engineering Degree at Rice University in 1971. He spent six years in the
U.S. Navy, serving as Navigator aboard
the frigate USS Trippe (FF-1075), and
Executive Officer and Acting Commanding Officer aboard USS Salinan
(ATF-161). In 1977 he received the
Master's of Science in Aeronautical
Engineer ing from the University
of West Florida. In 1981 he obtained the
Ph.D. degree at The Georgia Institute of
Technology in Atlanta, where he was
employed as a professor from 1981 to
1990. He is a Professor of Electrical
Engineering at The University of Texas
at Arlington, where he was awarded the
Moncrief-O'Donnell Endowed Chair in
1990 at the UTA Research Institute.
Fellow of the IEEE, Fellow of IFAC,
Fellow of the U.K. Institute of Measurement and Control, Member of the
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New York Academy of Sciences. Registered Professional Engineer in the State
of Texas and Chartered Engineer, U.K.
Engineering Council. Charter Member
(2004) of the UTA Academy of Distinguished Scholars and Senior Research
Fellow of the UTA Research Institute.
Founding Member of the Board of
Governors of the Mediterranean Control Association. Has served as Visiting
Professor at Democritus University in
Greece, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Chinese University of Hong Kong, City University of
Hong Kong, National University of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University Singapore. Elected Guest Consulting
Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and South China University
of Technology.
Current interests include intelligent
control, distributed control on graphs,
neural and fuzzy systems, wireless sensor
networks, nonlinear systems, robotics,
condition-based maintenance, microelectro-mechanical systems (MEMS)
control, and manufacturing process
control. Author of 6 U.S. patents, 250
journal papers, 52 chapters and encyclopedia articles, 364 refereed conference papers, and 15 books including
Optimal Control, Optimal Estimation,
Applied Optimal Control and Estimation,
Aircraft Control and Simulation, Control of
Robot Manipulators, Neural Network Control, High-Level Feedback Control with
Neural Networks and the IEEE reprint
volume Robot Control. Editor of Taylor
and Francis Book Series on Automation
and Control Engineering. Served/

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serves on many Editorial Boards including International Journal of Control, Neural
Computing and Applications, Optimal Control & Methods, and Int. J. Intelligent Control Systems. Served as an Editor for the
flagship journal Automatica. Recipient of
NSF Research Initiation Grant and
continuously funded by NSF since
1982. Since 1991 he has received $7
million in funding from NSF, ARO,
AFOSR and other government agencies, including significant DoD SBIR
and industry funding. Continuously
funded by NSF since 1982. His SBIR
program was instrumental in ARRI's
receipt of the US SBA Tibbets Award in
1996. Received Fulbright Research
Award 1988, American Society of Engineering Education F.E. Terman Award
1989, Int. Neural Network Soc. Gabor
Award 2009, U.K. Inst Measurement
and Control Honeywell Field Engineering
Medal 2009, three Sigma Xi Research
Awards, UTA Halliburton Engineering
Research Award, UTA Distinguished
Research Award, ARRI Patent Awards,
various Best Paper Awards, IEEE Control Systems Society Best Chapter
Award (as Founding Chairman of DFW
Chapter), and National Sigma Xi Award
for Outstanding Chapter (as President
of UTA Chapter). Received Outstanding Service Award from the Dallas IEEE
Section and selected as Engineer of the
year by Ft. Worth IEEE Section. Listed
in Ft. Worth Business Press Top 200
Leaders in Manufacturing. Appointed
to NAE Committee on Space Station
in 1995 and IEEE Control Systems
Society Board of Governors in 1996.

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