BIOGRAPHY - Michel GEVERS
Michel GEVERS
was born in Antwerp, Belgium, in 1945. He obtained an Electrical Engineering
degree from the University of Louvain, Belgium, in 1968, and a Ph.D. degree
from Stanford University, California, in 1972, under the supervision of Professor
Tom Kailath. He is an IFAC Fellow, a Fellow of the IEEE, a
Distinguished Member of the IEEE Control Systems Society. He holds a Honorary Degree (Doctor Honoris Causa) from the University of Brussels and Linkšping
University, Sweden. He has been President of the European Union Control
Association (EUCA) from 1997 to 1999, and Vice President of the IEEE Control
Systems Society in 2000 and 2001.
Michel Gevers
is Professor Emeritus at the Department of Mathematical Engineering of the
University of Louvain, in Louvain la Neuve, Belgium.
He has been for 20 years the coordinator of the Belgian Interuniversity Network
DYSCO (Dynamical Systems, Control, and Optimization) funded by the Federal
Ministry of Science. This network of excellence in systems, control and optimization
comprised about 60 academics and 200 PhD students and post-docs. He has spent
long-term visits at the University of Newcastle, Australia, and the Technical
University of Vienna, and was a Senior Research Fellow at the Australian
National University from 1983 to 1986. His present research interests are in identification
and experiment design for dynamical networks, system identification and its
interconnection with robust control design, experiment design for identification
of linear and nonlinear systems.
Michel Gevers
has been Associate Editor of Automatica, of the IEEE
Transactions on Automatic Control, of Mathematics of Control, Signals, and
Systems (MCSS) and Associate Editor at Large of the European Journal of
Control. He has published over 280 papers and conference papers, and two books:
"Adaptive Optimal Control - The Thinking Man's GPC", by R.R. Bitmead, M. Gevers and V. Wertz (Prentice Hall,
1990), and "Parametrizations in Control, Estimation and Filtering
Problems: Accuracy Aspects", by M. Gevers and G. Li (Springer-Verlag,
1993).