Michel GEVERS was born in Antwerp, Belgium, in 1945. He obtained an Electrical Engineering degree from the Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium, in 1968, and a Ph.D. degree from Stanford University, California, in 1972, under the supervision of Tom Kailath. He is an IFAC Fellow, a Fellow of the IEEE, a Distinguished Member of the IEEE Control Systems Society, and he holds a Honorary Degree (Doctor Honoris Causa) from the University of Brussels and the University of Linköping, 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 at the Université Catholique de Louvain, in Louvain la Neuve, Belgium, and part-time Professor at the Department ELEC of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. 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 is a network of excellence in systems, control and optimization, which counts about 55 academics and almost 200 PhD students and post-docs. He has spent long-term visits at the University of Newcastle, Australia, the Technical University of Vienna, and the Australian National University. His present research interests are in system identification and its interconnection with robust control design, optimal experiment design for control, and data-based control design.
Michel Gevers has been Associate Editor of Automatica and of the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. He is presently Associate Editor at Large of the European Journal of Control and Associate Editor of Mathematics of Control, Signals, and Systems (MCSS). He has published more than 250 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).