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Daniel Liberzon

Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Professor, Coordinated Science Laboratory
Research group: Decision and Control (see seminar calendar)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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"Nothing is more practical than a good theory." Kurt Lewin
"Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics." G. H. Hardy

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What's new:

In the media: my two new NSF grants on analysis and control of hybrid systems
I will again be offering a week-long course on switched systems at the EECI graduate school in Paris in May 2013
My 2003 book Switching in Systems and Control is now available as PDF download from SpringerLink (subscription required)
In the media: my new joint grant with Seoul National University on robust nonlinear observer design
My new textbook on optimal control and calculus of variations will be available for preview and order at the CDC in Orlando (Princeton Univ. Press booth)
Two new graduate students (Guosong Yang and Charles Ying) joined my group, and Aneel Tanwani defended his PhD thesis

Contact information:

Daniel Liberzon
Coordinated Science Laboratory (MC-228)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1308 W. Main Street
Urbana, IL 61801, U.S.A.

Office: 144 CSL
Email: liberzonuiuc.edu
Phone: (217) 244-6750
Fax: (217) 244-1764

Administrative assistant: Jana Lenz, 153 CSL, phone: (217) 244-1654

Education and previous positions:

Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Research Assistant Professor, Coordinated Science Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Aug 2000 - Aug 2006

Postdoctoral Associate, Laboratory for Control Science and Engineering (A. Stephen Morse, Director), Department of Electrical Engineering, Yale University, New Haven, CT, Jan 1998 - Aug 2000

Ph.D. in Mathematics, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, Feb 1998
Thesis adviser: Roger W. Brockett, Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

Undergraduate student in Mathematics, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia, Sep 1989 - Jan 1993
Research adviser: Andrei A. Agrachev

A brief biographical sketch

A longer CV (does not include the most recent papers)

Interview (2007)

Theoretical research areas:

Switched and hybrid systems
Nonlinear control theory
Control with limited information
Uncertain and stochastic systems

Application areas:

Networked and embedded control systems
Robotic multi-agent coordination
Fault detection in electrical networks
Vision-based aircraft control

More detailed research descriptions

Publications and preprints

Lectures at workshops and conferences

Collaborators and students

Recent sponsored projects:

Limited-information control of hybrid systems via reachable set propagation (National Science Foundation, 2012-2015)
Hybrid small-gain theorems for nonlinear networked and quantized control systems (National Science Foundation, 2012-2015, with Zhong-Ping Jiang at NYU-Poly)
Nonlinear observers robust to measurement disturbances with applications to quantized control (National Research Foundation of Korea, 2011-2014, PI: Hyungbo Shim at Seoul National University)
Switched dynamical systems: small-gain analysis and quantized feedback control (UIUC Research Board, 2012-2013)
Invertibility of hybrid systems (National Science Foundation, 2008-2011)
Control and sensing under limited information (National Science Foundation, 2007-2010, with Yi Ma)

My h-index is 34 (as of Sep 2012; see my Google Scholar profile for up-to-date information)

My Erdös number is 4

Courses taught:

ECE 553: Optimum Control Systems (Spring 2013, Spring 2010*, Spring 2007*, Spring 2005*)

ECE 586 DL: Hybrid Systems and Control (Fall 2013, Fall 2009, Fall 2005*, Fall 2002, Spring 2001)

ECE 517: Nonlinear and Adaptive Control (Fall 2013, Fall 2012*, Fall 2009*, Fall 2007*, Fall 2003, Fall 2000)

ECE 486: Control Systems I (Fall 2012*, Fall 2011, Spring 2006, Spring 2003)

ECE 515: Control System Theory and Design (Spring 2012*, Fall 2008, Fall 2004*, Fall 2001)

ECE 528: Analysis of Nonlinear Systems (Spring 2009*, Spring 2002*)

ECE 490: Introduction to Optimization (Spring 2004)

*For the courses marked with an asterisk, appeared on the UIUC List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by their Students

Awards and honors:

IEEE Fellow, Class of 2013

AACC Donald P. Eckman Award, 2007 (citation: "For contributions to the theories of switched systems and nonlinear control, and their application to control design under limited information")

UIUC CoE Xerox Award for Faculty Research, 2007

Senior Member of IEEE, 2004

IFAC Young Author Prize, 2002 (for this paper)

NSF CAREER Award, 2002 (more info about the project)