Decentralized Control of Large-Scale Systems (PDF)

Vice-Chairman of the IFAC Technical Board in 1990-1993, a member of the IFAC Council in 1991-1996, and a member of the IFAC Policy committee in 1996-99. He has been a member of the IFAC Administrative and Finance Commitee from 1999 to 2005. He has served on numerous Editorial Boards of various journals. In 1993, he was awarded the triennial Quazza Medal from the International Federation of Automatic Control, and in December 1997 he was awarded the IEEE Control System's Hendrik W. Bode Lecture Prize. He was elected to the rank of University Professor of the University of Toronto in Jan 2001, and in May 2003 he was awarded the Killam Prize in Engineering from the Canada Council. In Oct 2003 he was inducted into the University of Toronto Engineering Alumni Hall of Distinction. He was elected a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering in June 2005, and in July 2005, he was elected a Fellow of the International Federation of Automatic Control. In 2010 he was awarded the 2010 Canada Outstanding Engineer Award given by the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) Canada, and was elected a Foreign Member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), USA. Dr. Davison is a Designated Consulting Engineer of the Province of Ontario, and in this capacity he has been actively involved in transfer of knowledge from academia to the industrial sector through a variety of projects.
Amir G. Aghdam received his PhD in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Toronto in 2000. He is currently a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Concordia University and has served as an Associate Dean of The School of Graduate Studies (Student Affairs and Postdoctoral Studies) from 2016-2019. He is a member of Professional Engineers Ontario and a senior member of the IEEE. Dr. Aghdam is currently the Chair of the Conference Editorial Board of IEEE Control Systems Society, and has served as a Co-Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Systems Journal and an Associate Editor of several journals including the IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, European Journal of Control, IET Control Theory & Applications and IEEE Access. He has been a member of the Technical Program Committee of a number of conferences including IEEE Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, and IEEE Multiconference on Systems and Control. He was a member of the Review Committee for the Italian Research and University Evaluation Agency (ANVUR) for 2012-2013, and a member of Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) ECE Evaluation Group for 2014-2016. He is a recipient of the 2009 IEEE MGA Achievement Award and 2011 IEEE Canada J. J. Archambault Eastern Canada Merit Award. Dr. Aghdam was the 2014-2015 President of IEEE Canada and Director (Region 7), IEEE Inc., and was also a member of IEEE Awards Board for this period. He is currently a member of IEEE Medal of Honor Committee. Dr. Aghdam was a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University in fall 2015. Dr. Aghdam has published more than 200 papers in refereed journals and conferences. His research interests include multi-agent networks, distributed control systems, sensor networks, optimization and sampled-data systems.Daniel E. Miller received the B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of New Brunswick in 1984, and the M.A.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Toronto in 1986 and 1990, respectively. During 1990 to 1991 he held postdoctoral positions at Cambridge University, U.K., the University of Groningen, The Netherlands, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Since 1991 he has been a faculty member in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo. He has held visiting positions at the University of Alberta and the Universityof Newcastle, Australia, and has been an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. His research interests include decentralized control,adaptive control, sampled-data control, systems with delays, and performance limitations.