Curriculum Vitae
Education
• Master of Science (Civiling), Teknisk fysik (Engineering Physics), Royal Institute of Technology, 1967.
• PhD in Optimization and Systems Theory (old system), Royal Institute of Technology, TeknL 1968, TeknD 1972.
• Docent, Royal Institute of Technology, 1972
Academic Appointments
Present positions:
Chair Professor, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
Previous positions:
Director, Strategic Research Center for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (CIAM), 2006--2016
Professor of Optimization and Systems Theory, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, 1982--2010
Head of Department of Mathematics, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, 2000 - 2009
Affiliate Professor of Optimization and Systems Theory, Washington University, St. Louis, USA, 1989--2010
Professor, University of Kentucky, 1980 - 1984
Associate Professor, University of Kentucky, 1974 - 1980
Associate Professor (Research), Brown University, 1973
Assistant Professor, University of Florida, 1972 -1973
Docent, Royal Institute of Technology, 1972
Researcher, Swedish Institute of National Defence, 1967 - 1968
Various teaching and research positions at the Royal Institute of Technology and at the Universities of Stockholm, Uppsala and Lund, 1968--1972
Other Appointments
Vice-chairman, Division VII of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA), 2001 - 2003.
Member of the Board of Governors, Israel Institute of Technology (Technion), Haifa, 2004 -
Member of the Board of the Foundation ``Nordic Information Processing" (BIT), 2004 -
Scientific leader, Institut Mittag-Leffler, January - June, 2003.
Member of Board, Strategic Center for Autonomous Systems, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, 1996 -
Advisory Board Member of the Institute for Mathematics of the Life Sciences, Texas Tech University, Texas, USA, 1997 -
Team leader, European Research Network for System Identification (ERNSI), 1993 -
Team leader, European project Real-time embedded control of mobile systems with distributed sensing (RECSYS), 2002-
Visiting Positions
Visiting Professor, University of Kyoto, March 2004
Gordon McKay Visiting Professor, University of California at Berkeley, October, 2002
Visiting Professor, Technion, Haifa, March - June, 1994
Distinguished Visiting Professor, Arizona State University, March, 1989
Visiting Scientist, International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis, Vienna, Austria, July - August, 1989
Visiting Professor, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China, July - August ,1988
Visiting Scientist, Soviet Academy of Sciences, Moscow, USSR, October - November, 1985
Visiting Professor, University of Padova and Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy, on repeated occasions during 1975-1992
SIAM Visiting Lecturer, 1975--1976
Visiting Lecturer, State University of New York at Albany, summer 1973
Honors and Awards
• Fellow of IEEE (The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), 1989. Citation: "For contributions to filtering and estimation, stochastic control, and stochastic systems theory"
• Honorary Member of Hungarian Operational Research Society, 1994
• Elected Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA), 1996
• Elected Foreign Member of Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, 1997
• The paper A convex optimization approach to the rational covariance extension problem,by C. I. Byrnes, S. V. Gusev and A. Lindquist, published in SIAM J. Control and Opimization, 37 (1999), 211--229, was chosen by the editors of SIAM Review to be a SIGEST paper, the second paper ever from SIAM Journal of Control and Optimization
• Zaborszky Lecturer for the year 2000
• Gordon McKay Visiting Professor University of California, Berkeley, 2002
• George S. Axelby Outstanding Paper Award of the IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS) for the year 2003. Diploma
• Knight of OESSH (Ordo Equestris Sancti Sepulcri Hierosoymitanti), 2004. Diploma. Knight Commander, 2010. Knight Commander with star, 2019. Chivalric orders.
• Distinguished Israel Pollak Lecturer for the academic year 2005/2006
• W.T. and Idalia Reid Prize in Mathematics for 2009, awarded by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) for ``fundamental contributions to the theory of stochastic systems, signals, and control". Photo1, Photo2, SIAM link, KTH link.
• Byrnes-Lindquist Fest 2009.
• Fellow of SIAM (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics), 2010. Diploma, SIAM press release. KTH link. Citation: "For contributions to systems and control"
• Honorary Doctor (Doctor Scientiarum Honoris Causa) at Technion (Israel Institute of Technology), Haifa, June 14, 2010. Diploma(English), Diploma(Hebrew), Photo1, Photo2, KTH link
• Fellow of IFAC (International Federation of Automatic Control), 2010. Citation: "For fundamental contributions to the theory of stochastic systems, signals, and control", Diploma
• Life Fellow of IEEE, 2010
• Borelius medal from the Science School of the Royal Institute of Technology, 2010
• State specially recruited expert ("highest honor for experts to China recruited from overseas"; certificate #869), 2011
• Elected Foreign Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2015. Photo1, Photo2, Chinese link, Shanghai Daily, KTH link, CAS Newsletter, Math link, ACCESS link
• Shanghai Magnolia Award, 2016. Medal, Photo, Link, Shanghai Daily, Photo
• Honorary Professor at China University of Petroleum, Qingdao, China, Link, Photo1, Photo2
• The Lindquist Symposium in Systems Theory
• Friendship Award
• 2020 IEEE Control Systems Award, Citation, Video, Medal and Diploma, SJTU announcement Wikipedia, Michigan article, Notices of the American Mathematical Society, Acceptance Speech, Zoom picture
• Elected Member of Academia Europaea (The Academy of Europe)
• Honorary Professor, Yantai University.
• President's Award, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 2021, photo1, photo2
• Honorary Fellow of the Center for Cross-Cultural Studies and Digital Humanities, Shandong University, Weihai.
Editorial Boards
Communicating Editor, Journal of Mathematical Systems, Estimation, and Control, 1989 - 1998
Associate Editor, Systems and Control Letters, 1989 - 1993
Editiorial Board Member, International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing,1991 - 2000
Associate Editor, Progress in Systems and Control Theory,book series published by Birkhäuser, Boston, 1989 - 1993
Associate Editor, Systems and Control: Foundations and Applications,1989 - 1997.
Editiorial Board Member, Applied and Computational Control, Signals, and Circuits,1996 -
Associate Editor, Acta Automatica Sinica, 2005 - 2011
Editorial Board Member, SIAM Review, 2010 - 2018
Editor, EMS Surveys in Mathematical Sciences, 2012 -
Editorial Board Member, Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 2014 - 2019
Editorial Board Member, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, 2020 -
National Scientific Committees
Member, Nomination Assembly (Elector), Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet), 2000
Member, Nomination Assembly (Elector), Swedish Natural Science Foundation, 1998
Vice-chair, Department of Mathematics, KTH, 1998 - 2000
Evaluation Committee for the Mathematical Sciences, NFR (Natural Science Foundation), 1995 - 1998
Committee for IIASA, Systems Analysis and Risk Analysis, FRN (Swedish Council for Planning and Coordination of Research), 1993 - 1998
Vice Chairman, Appointment Committee for School of Engineering Physics (Tjänsteförslagsnämnden), KTH, 1990 - 1993 and 1996 - 1999
Member Central Faculty Board (Centrala fakultetsnämnden), KTH
Member of Board of Research and Graduate Studies for the School of Engineering Physics (sektionsnämnden för teknisk fysik), 1995 - 1989
International Scientific Committees
Member of the IFAC Manfred Thoma Medal Selection Committee, 2017 - 2020
External member of the Consultative Committee of Research Center of Excellence for Mathematical Sciences (RCEMS), Chinese Academy of Sciences
Member of the International Evaluation Committee of the Department of Mathematics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, July 2014
Member of SJTU Mathematical Sciences Steering Committee, to oversee the future development of mathematical sciences on campus, 2014
Member of the Prize Committee of the Chen Han-Fu Award of the Chinese Society of Automatic Control, 2013 –
Member of Expert Diagnostic Assessment Committee for evaluating the Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, November 2012
Selection Committee for the 2010 Axelby Outstanding Paper Award of the IEEE Control Systems Society
Prize Committee for the ICIAM Collatz Prize, 2009 –
Fellow Nominations Chair of the IEEE Control Systems Society, 2007 -
Member, IFAC Young Author Prize Selection Committee, 2006 - 2011.
Prize Committee for the European Congress of Mathematics, 2005 - 2008.
Member, Committee on Applied Mathematics of the European Mathematical Society, 2006 -
Member of the Evaluation Committee (Nucleo di Valutazione) of the University of Padova, Italy, 2005 - 2006
Member of the CSS evaluation committee for selection of IEEE Fellows. 2005
Program Co-Chairman, Second China-Sweden Conference on Control, Beijing, China, October 16-17, 2004.
Organizing Committee of Fourth European Congress of Mathematics, Stockholm, June 27 - July 2, 2004
International Program Committee of the Conference of Decision Making under Uncertainties, Alushta, Ukraine, September 8--12, 2003
Program Chairman of First Swedish-Chinese Control Conference, Stockholm, Sweden, August 21 - 22, 2003.
Scientific Steering Committee of Mittag-Leffler Institute program on Mathematical Control and Systems Theory, Spring 2003
International Advisory Committee of the 34th ISCIE International Symposium on Stochastic Systems Theory and its Applications, Fukuoka, Japan, October 31 - November 1, 2002
International Advisory Committee of the Satellite Conference of ICM 2002 on Optimization and Control, Xian, China, August 30 - September1, 2002
Steering Committee of MTNS2002, University of Notre Dame, August 12-16, 2002
International Advisory Committee of the 33th ISCIE International Symposium on Stochastic Systems Theory and its Applications, Tochigi, Japan, October 29 - 30, 2001
International Scientific Committee of 2001 WSES International Conference on Speech, Signal and Image Processing, Malta, September 1 - 6, 2001
International Advisory Committee of the 32th ISCIE International Symposium on Stochastic Systems Theory and its Applications, Tottori, Japan, November 1 - 2, 2000
Member of Steering Committee of MTNS (Symposia on the Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems), 1987--present
Program Committee for MTNS2000, Perpignan, France, June 19 - 23, 2000
IFAC Technical Committee on Stochastic Systems, 1993 -
Steering Committee of theERCIM Working Group Control and System Theory, 1995
International Advisory Committee of the 31th ISCIE International Symposium on Stochastic Systems Theory and its Applications, Yokohama, Japan, November 11 - 12, 1999
International Advisory Committee for the 30th ISCIE International Symposium on Stochastic Systems Theory and its Applications, Kyoto, Japan, November 4 - 6, 1998
Program Committee, 1998 International Symposium on the Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems (MTNS98), Padova, Italy, July 6--10, 1998.
Chairman, ERNSI Workshop (European Research Network for System Identification), Stockholm, Sweden September 8 -10, 1997
Scientific Committee, Workshop on Open Problems in Mathematical Systems Theory and Control, Liege, Belgum, June 30, 1997
International Advisory Committee of the 28th ISCIE International Symposium on Stochastic Systems Theory and its Applications, Kyoto, Japan, November 14 - 16, 1996
Program Committee for the 1996 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Kobe, Japan, December 11 -13, 1996
Organizing Committee of ERCIM Workshop on Systems and Control, Budapest, Hungary, November 6 - 8, 1995
International Advisory Committee for the 27th ISCIE International Symposium on Stochastic Systems Theory and Its Applications, Beppu, Oita, Japan, October 31 - November 2, 1995
Organizing Committee of the 26th ISCIE Symposium on Stochastic Systems Theory and its Applications in Kyoto, Japan, October 26 - 28, 1994
Co-chairman, European Network for Systems Identification Workshop, Noordwijkerhout, September, 1994
Organizing Committee of the 25th ISCIE Symposium on Stochastic Systems Theory and its Applications, Osaka, Japan, November 10 - 12, 1993
Co-chairman of Italian-Swedish Workshop in Modeling and Identification, Stockholm, Sweden, September 1992
Program Committee for MTNS-93, Regensburg, Germany, August 1993
Organizing Committee of the 24th ISCIE Symposium on Stochastic Systems Theory and its Applications, Kyoto, Japan, November 11 - 13, 1992
International Board of Advisors, Second SIAM Conference on Linear Algebra in Signals, Systems and Control, San Francisco, November 1990
International IFAC Committee for Mathematics in Control
Organizing Committee MTNS-89, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, June 19 - 23, 1989
Organizing Committee MTNS-87, Phoenix, Arizona, June 15 - 19, 1987
Advisory Committee of SIAM Conference on Linear Algebra in Signals, Systems and Control, Boston, August 12 - 14, 1986
Chairman of Steering Committee of MTNS, 1985 - 1987
Chairman, International Symposium on the Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems in Stockholm, June 10-14, 1985 (MTNS-85)
