Dr Sajjad (Fekri) Fekriasl is Principal Technologist with Advanced Research and Technology Centre (ART) at ALSTOM Grid, Stafford, UK. He has taken several roles in the past including R&D leading and university lectureship, particularly in the area of robust multivariable control systems design for aerospace and automotive applications. Sajjad received his BSc (Hons) and MSc (Hons) degrees in Electrical Engineering from Tabriz University, Iran, in 1995 and 1997, respectively. In January 2006, he received his PhD degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Instituto Superior Tecnico (IST), Lisbon, Portugal. His PhD thesis, under supervision of Prof. Michael Athans (of MIT, MA, USA) and Prof. Antonio Pascoal pioneered a novel methodology for the synthesis of Robust Multiple-Model Adaptive Control - RMMAC - an advanced control system design methodology for highly uncertain dynamical systems by integrating advances of both Adaptive Control and Robust (Non-adaptive) Control. Sajjad was a Lecturer with Automotive Engineering Department, School of Engineering, Cranfield University, UK (2010-2012), where he also led a number of successful R&D projects in the areas of advanced control systems design for modern automotive control applications. He was a Post-Doctorate Researcher (2006-2007) and Research Fellow (2007-2010) with Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Leicester, UK, where, in conjunction with the BAE SYSTEMS, he conducted two prestigious applied research projects on advanced robust flight control systems - ASTRAEA and FLAVIIR. During the period 1998-2001, Dr Fekriasl was Assistant Professor at Department of Electrical Engineering, Tabriz Azad University, Tabriz and he also collaborated with a number of Electrical Engineering Consultancies at the same time. Sajjad has co-authored more than 35 technical articles including book chapters and invited articles. His current research focus is on the theory and application of robust control systems for modern power electronics applications, with an emphasis on synthesis of multivariable control systems, mu synthesis and software, and linear and nonlinear estimation.

Alexander Horch received his MSc in Engineering Cybernetics from the University of Stuttgart, Germany (1996) and his PhD in Automatic Control from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden (2000).
From 2001 at ABB Corporate Research Germany as scientist and project leader for automatic analysis of process data in the process and power plant industries. Applications range from pulp and paper industry, rolling mills, oil and gas industry to power plants as well as chemical plants.
From 2006 group leader ‘Process and Production Optimization’ and world-wide coordination of production management research for ABB Corporate Research.
His main interests are in supervision, control, scheduling and optimization of industrial processes. From 2005 to 2011 he chaired a working group at the German VDI/VDE on ‘Plant Asset Management’.
Alexander Horch is a Certified Project Management Professional (PMP) from the Project Management Institute (PMI) since 2006 and a Certified Automation Professional (CAP) from ISA since 2009.
Since 2011 he heads the Automation Department at ABB Corporate Research in Switzerland. The department focuses on systems solutions for industrial automation as well as operation and optimization of electric power grids.

Curriculum vitae - Pierre Etienne Labeau

Jan Maciejowski received a B.Sc degree in Automatic Control from Sussex University in 1971 and a Ph.D degree in Control Engineering from Cambridge University in 1978. From 1971 to 1974 he was a Systems Engineer with Marconi Space and Defence Systems Ltd, working mostly on attitude control of spacecraft and high-altitude balloon platforms. Since 1981 he has been at the University of Cambridge, where he is now Professor of Control Engineering and Head of the Information Engineering Division. He was President of the European Union Control Association from 2003 to 2005, and President of the Institute of Measurement and Control in 2002. He is a Fellow of the IET, the InstMC, and the IEEE, and was a "Distinguished Lecturer" of the IEEE Control Systems Society from 2001 to 2006. He is also President (Deputy Master) of Pembroke College Cambridge. He was awarded the Honeywell International Medal by the InstMC in 2008. His book "Multivariable Feedback Design", published in 1989, received the IFAC Control Engineering Textbook Prize in 1996. In 2002 he published "Predictive Control with Constraints", the Japanese translation of which was awarded the Best Textbook Prize of the Japanese Society for Instrumentation and Control Engineering in 2007. His current research interests are in the theory and applications of predictive control, its application to fault-tolerant control, in system identification, and in the control of autonomous systems.

Olivier Sename was born in Lille (France) in 1969. He received a degree in Mechanical Engineering and Automatic Control from the Ecole Centrale Nantes in 1991, where he also completed his Ph.D. degree in Automatic control in 1994 on the topic of time-delay systems.
He did his national service in SITIA Nantes, and has been employed as an Assistant Professor at the Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble (Laboratoire d’Automatique de Grenoble) since 1995. He is now Professor at the Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP), within the GIPSA-lab (department of Control Systems). His main research interests include theoretical studies in the field of time-delay systems, Linear parameter Varying systems and control/real-time scheduling codesign, as well as robust control for various applications such as vehicle dynamics, engine controls, underwater autonomous vehicle and energy systems. He has collaborated with several industrial partners (Renault, SOBEN, Delphi Diesel Systems, Saint-Gobain Vetrotex, PSA, ST Microelectronics), and is Responsible of international bilateral research projects (Mexico, Hungary). Prof O.Sename is the (co-)author of 1 book (Semi-Active Suspension Control Design for Vehicles by S.M. Savaresi, C. Poussot-Vassal, C. Spelta, O. Sename & L. Dugard, Butterworth-Heinemann 2011), 7 book chapters, 35 international journal papers, and more than 140 international conference papers. He has supervised 20 Ph.D. students.

Youmin Zhang is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering and the Concordia Institute of Aerospace Design and Innovation (CIADI) at Concordia University, Canada. His main research interests and experience are in the areas of condition monitoring, fault diagnosis and fault-tolerant (flight) control systems; cooperative guidance, navigation and control of unmanned aerial/ground/surface vehicles; dynamic systems modeling, estimation, identification and control; and advanced signal processing techniques for diagnosis, prognosis and health management of safety-critical systems, renewable energy systems and manufacturing processes. He has published 4 books with co-authors (including a book on “Active Fault Tolerant Control Systems: Stochastic Analysis and Synthesis” (2003) and a book on “Fault Diagnosis and Fault Accommodation for Control Systems” (2009)), over 250 journal and conference papers. His comprehensive review paper published at Annual Reviews in Control on “Bibliographical Review on Reconfigurable Fault-tolerant Control Systems” has gained significant impact in the field worldwide. The paper has been ranked No. 1 in the “Most Cited Articles” published since 2007 and the highest citation ever in the journal after the paper published in Dec. 2008. Dr. Zhang has been invited to give international conference plenary talks and research seminars worldwide for more than 40 times since 2005. He is a senior member of AIAA, a senior member of IEEE, a member of the IFAC Technical Committee on Fault Detection, Supervision and Safety for Technical Processes, a member of the AIAA Infotech@Aerospace Program Committee (PC) on Unmanned Systems, a member of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Technical Committee (TC) on Aerial Robotics and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, and a member of the ASME/IEEE TC on Mechatronics and Embedded Systems and Applications (MESA). He is an Editorial Board Member and/or Associate Editor of several international journals (including the two new journals of Unmanned Systems and International Journal of Intelligent Unmanned Systems) and IPC member of many international conferences.