A brief biography of Daniel
Liberzon
Daniel Liberzon was born in the former Soviet Union in 1973.
He did his undergraduate studies in the Department of Mechanics and
Mathematics at Moscow State University from 1989 to 1993.
In 1993 he moved to the United States
to pursue graduate
studies in mathematics at Brandeis University, where he received
the Ph.D. degree in 1998 (supervised by Prof. Roger W.
Brockett of Harvard University).
Following a postdoctoral
position in the Department of Electrical Engineering
at Yale University from 1998 to 2000 (with Prof. A. Stephen Morse), he joined the
University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he is currently a Richard T. Cheng Professor in
the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department and a professor in the Coordinated Science
Laboratory.
His research interests include nonlinear
control theory, switched and
hybrid dynamical systems, control with limited information, and uncertain and stochastic
systems.
He is the author of the books "Switching in Systems and Control"
(Birkhauser, 2003) and "Calculus of Variations and Optimal Control Theory: A Concise Introduction"
(Princeton Univ. Press, 2012).
His work has received several recognitions, including the
IFAC Young Author Prize in 2002 and the Donald P. Eckman Award in 2007.
He delivered plenary lectures at the American Control Conference in 2008 and the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control in 2022, as well as (semi-)plenary lectures at several other conferences.
He served as a Senior Editor for the IFAC journal Automatica from 2017 to 2022.
He is a fellow of IEEE (since 2013) and IFAC (since 2016).