Jeff S. Shamma
Born
New York City
NationalityAmerican
Alma materMassachusetts Institute of Technology
Georgia Institute of Technology
AwardsDonald P. Eckman Award
Scientific career
FieldsControl theory
Game theory
Robotics
InstitutionsKing Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Georgia Institute of Technology
Doctoral advisorMichael Athans

Jeff S. Shamma (born c. 1961) is an American control theorist. He is the Department Head and Professor of Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Formerly, he was a Professor of Electrical engineering at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology. Before that, he held the Julian T. Hightower Chair in Systems & Control Systems and Controls at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is known for his early work in nonlinear and adaptive control, particularly on gain scheduling,[1][2][3] robust control,[4] and more recently, distributed systems.[5]

Early life and education

Shamma was born in New York City and raised in Pensacola, Florida. He received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Georgia Tech in 1983 and a Ph.D. in Systems Science and Engineering from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1988. His Ph.D. thesis, Analysis and Design of Gain Scheduled Control Systems, was advised by Michael Athans.[6]

Academic career

After graduating from MIT, Shamma held faculty positions at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, University of Texas, Austin, and University of California, Los Angeles. He also held visiting positions at the California Institute of Technology and MIT. Shamma returned to Georgia Tech to join the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2007, and held the Julian T. Hightower Chair in Systems & Control Systems and Controls. In 2014, he moved to the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology. Shamma was a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Director of the Center of Excellence for NEOM Research at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, where he was also the Principal Investigator of the Robotics, Intelligent Systems & Control laboratory.[7] Since 2020, he has been the Department Head and a Professor of Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Awards

Shamma is a recipient of the NSF Research Initiation Award and the NSF Young Investigator Award. He received the American Automatic Control Council Donald P. Eckman Award in 1996 (32 years after his Ph.D. advisor Michael Athans received the award in 1964[8]), and was made an IEEE Fellow in 2006.

References

  1. ↑ Shamma, J.S.; Athans, M. (1992), "Gain scheduling: potential hazards and possible remedies", IEEE Control Systems Magazine, 12 (3): 101–107, doi:10.1109/37.165527, S2CID 110408149
  2. ↑ Shamma, J.S.; Athans, M. (1990), "Analysis of gain scheduled control for nonlinear plants", IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 35 (8): 898–907, doi:10.1109/9.58498
  3. ↑ Shamma, J.S.; Athans, M. (1991), "Guaranteed properties of gain scheduled control for linear parameter-varying plants" (PDF), Automatica, 27 (3): 559–564, doi:10.1016/0005-1098(91)90116-J, archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-19
  4. ↑ Shamma, J.S. (1994), "Robust stability with time-varying structured uncertainty", IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 39 (4): 714–724, doi:10.1109/9.286248
  5. ↑ Olfati-saber, R.; Shamma, J.S. (2005), "Consensus Filters for Sensor Networks and Distributed Sensor Fusion" (PDF), Decision and Control, 2005 and 2005 European Control Conference. CDC-ECC'05. 44th IEEE Conference on: 6698–6703
  6. ↑ "Jeff Shamma - the Mathematics Genealogy Project".
  7. ↑ "Jeff Shamma at KAUST website". 17 April 2019.
  8. ↑ "Welcome to American Automatic Control Council Home Page". Archived from the original on 2008-07-04. Retrieved 2008-10-07.
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