AWARDS AND HONORS

 

 

  • The 2009 IET Heaviside Medal for Achievement in Control, November 2009

 

  • IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society 2008 Outstanding ITS Application Award, June 2009

 

  • Fellow of the Institution of Engineering Technologies (IET) since 2009

 

  • Fellow of International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) since 2006

 

  • Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) since 1992

 

  • Fellow of the International Federation of Automatic Control since 2006

 

  • Outstanding Teacher of the Year, The Latter-day Saint Student Association, March 2007

 

  • Plenary Speaker at the 17th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, June 24-26, 2009, Makedonia Palace, Thessaloniki, Greece

 

  • Semi-Plenary Speaker at the 47th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Dec. 9-11, 2008 Cancun, Mexico

 

  • Invited to be a Keynote Speaker at the 2nd IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics & Applications, 23-25 May, 2007

 

  • Plenary Speaker at the 11th IFAC Symposium on Control in Transportation Systems, August 28-September 1st, 2006, Delft, Netherlands

 

  • Plenary Speaker IEEE International Conference on Vehicular Electronics and Safety, Oct. 14-16, 2005, Xi’an, China

 

  • 1985 Presidential Young Investigator Award, The White House, February 14, 1985.  A five-year award.

 

  • Outstanding Transactions Paper Award for the best paper published in the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control during 1982, 1983.

 

  • Best Paper Presentation at the Session on "Numerical Methods in Analysis and Design of Control Systems" at the 1991 American Control Conference.

 

  • Best Paper Presentation at the Session TA1 on "Robust Adaptive Control" at the 1989 American Control Conference.

 

  • Best Paper Presentation for the paper "Identification and Control of Aircraft Dynamics Using Radial Basis Function Neural Networks" in the 1992 AIAA Guidance, Navigation and Control Conference.

 

  • Commonwealth Scholarship, April 1975 - July 1978, The Association of Commonwealth Universities, London, England.

 

  • Sessional Prize, A Goldsmid Prize, for the sessions 1975-1976, 1976-1977, University College, London, England.

 

  • P. Head Prize, June 1978, University College, London, England; Most Outstanding graduate from Mechanical Engineering Department.