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2004 P. Christofides
2003 C. Tomlin	2002 I. Kolmanovsky	2001 D.M. Tilbury	2000 R.D. Braatz	1999 A.R. Teel
1998 I. Kanellakopoulos	1997 R.M. Murray	1996 J. Shamma	1995 A. Packard	1994 K. Poolla
1993 M.A. Dahleh	1992 S.P. Boyd	1991 C.N. Nett	1990 S.S. Sastry	1989 P.P. Khargonekar
1988 B.K. Ghosh	1987 R. Shoureshi	1986 Y. Arkun	1985 P.R. Kumar	1984 M.A. Shayman
1983 J.C. Doyle	1982 B. Hajek	1981 R. Suri	1980 M. Morari	1979 J.H. Chow
1978 N.K. Gupta	1977 N.R. Sandell, Jr.	1976 R.W. Atherton	1975 A.S. Willsky	1974 T.L. Johnson
1973 E. Tse	1972 C.L. Smith	1971 R. Mehra	1970 J. Seinfeld	1969 W.H. Ray
1968 R.E. Larson	1967 R. Brockett	1966 R. Bakke	1965 J. Bollinger	1964 M. Athans

Citation: For pioneering contributions to analysis and control of nonlinear distributed parameter systems accompanied by creative applications to advanced materials processing, particulate processes and fluid dynamic systems.

Biography: Panagiotis D. Christofides was born in Athens, Greece, in 1970. He received the Diploma in Chemical Engineering degree in 1992, from the University of Patras, Greece, the M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Mathematics in 1995 and 1996, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in Chemical Engineering in 1996, all from the University of Minnesota. Since July 1996 he has been with the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he is currently Associate Professor. His theoretical researchinterests include nonlinear control, singular perturbations, and analysis and control of distributed parameter systems, multiscale systems and hybrid systems, with applications to advanced materials processing, particulate processes, biological systems and fluid flows. His research work has resulted in a large number of articles in leading scientific journals and conferences and two books entitled Nonlinear and Robust Control of PDE Systems: Methods and Applications to Transport-Reaction Processes (Birkhäuser, 2001) and Model-Based Control of Particulate Processes (Kluwer Academic, 2002).

Professor Christofides has been a member of the Control Systems Society Conference Editorial Board and is an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, the 2004 Program Coordinator of the Applied Mathematics and Numerical Analysis Area of AIChE and the Program Vice-Chair for Invited Sessions for the 2004 American Control Conference. Professor Christofides has received the Teaching Award from the AIChE Student Chapter of UCLA in 1997, a Research Initiation Award from the Petroleum Research Fund in 1998, a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation in 1998, the Ted Peterson Student Paper Award from the Computing and Systems Technology Division of AIChE in 1999 and a Young Investigator Award from the Office of Naval Research in 2001. He has also received twice the O. Hugo Schuck Best Paper Award in 2000 (with Antonios Armaou) and 2004 (with D. Ni, Y. Lou, L. Sha, S. Lao and J. P. Chang), and the Donald P. Eckman Award in 2004, all from the American Automatic Control Council.

Citation: For pioneering contributions to hybrid control systems and embedded software for real-time control, with application to air traffic control, avionics, and computational biology.

Biography: Claire Tomlin received the Ph. D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1998. Since September 1998 she has been an Assistant Professor in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Stanford University, with a courtesy appointment in Electrical Engineering. She is a graduate fellow in the Division of Applied Sciences at Harvard University in 1994, and she has been a visiting researcher at NASA Ames Research Center during 1994-1998, at Honeywell Technology Center in 1997, and at the University of British Columbia in 1994.

Claire Tomlin is a recipient of the AIAA Outstanding Teacher Award, Stanford (2001), NSF Career Award, Stanford (1999), Terman Fellowship, Stanford (1998), the Bernard Friedman Memorial Prize in Applied Mathematics, Berkeley (1998), and the Zonta Amelia Earhart Award for Aeronautics Research (1996-98). She was an invited participant in the National Academy of Engineering¡¦s Frontiers of Engineering Program in 2002,and she is currently a member of DARPA¡¦s Information Systems and Technology (ISAT) study group. Her research interests are in hybrid systems,air traffic control automation, fight management system analysis and design,and modeling and analysis of biological cell networks.

Citation: For contributions to nonlinear control and for pioneering work in automotive engine control of powertrain systems.

Biography: Ilya Kolmanovsky studied as an undergraduate at Moscow Aviation Institute in Russia. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Aerospace Engineering in 1993 and 1995, respectively, and his M.A. in Mathematics in 1995, all from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. In 1996 Dr. Kolmanovsky joined Ford Research Laboratory of Ford Motor Company in Dearborn, Michigan as a Technical Specialist. At Ford he has been conducting research on control, modeling and systems development of advanced technology automotive gasoline and diesel powertrains, and is presently a Staff Technical Specialist. Dr. Kolmanovsky has also made contributions to nonlinear control of non-holonomic systems with applications to multi-body spacecraft, nonlinear control of systems with pointwise-in-time state and control constraints, control of systems with complex dynamics, including switching systems, stochastic systems, systems with delays and systems described by partial differential equations.

Dr. Kolmanovsky has published over a hundred conference and journal articles in the areas of control and automotive systems technology. He holds nineteen U.S. patents. Dr. Kolmanovsky has served in the past as an Associate Editor of IEEE Control Systems Society Conference Editorial Board and was a program committee member of two American Control Conferences. He is presently serving as an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology.