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to 40 mm=37mm =-20Claudio Altafini received a degree ("laurea") in Electrical Engineering in 1996, from the University of Padova, Italy. In 1995 he worked for ABB Industrial Systems in Västerås, Sweden. In 1996 he held a position as process control engineer at Cerestar Italia SpA. He is currently a PhD student at the division, affiliated with the Center for Autonomous Systems. His current research interests are geometric control theory with applications to robotics.to 40 mm=37mm =-20Gianantonio Bortolin was born in Pordenone, Italy, in 1973. He received his degree in Electrical Engineering in 1999 from University of Padova. He did his undergraduate thesis in 1999 at Scania with KTH. Presently he is a PhD student at the Division of Optimization and Systems Theory and cooperates in a NUTEK project on ``Process modelling, operator training simulation, and optimization applied to a paper board manufactoring".to 40 mm=37mm =-20Ulf Brännlund was born in 1961. He received a civilingenjör degree in Aeronautical Engineering from KTH in 1986 and an MS degree in Engineering-Economic Systems from Stanford University in 1988 and his doctorate degree from KTH in 1993. He is the chairman of the board and cofounder of the company Optimization Partner Stockholm AB (www.optimizationpartner.com). His main research interests are nondifferentiable optimization, semidefinite programming and structural optimization.to 0mm=37mm =-20Alessandro Chiuso was born in Venice on December 21st, 1972. He received a degree ("laurea", summa cum laude) in Telecomunications Engineering in 1996, from the University of Padova, Italy and the Ph.D. degree in System Engineering in February 2000 with a thesis on ``Geometric Subspace Methods for Subspace Identification'' (Tutor Prof. G. Picci). From August 1998 to June 1999 he has been a visiting research scholar at Washington University in St. Louis, (MO) USA, where he has been performing research under the supervision of Prof. Stefano Soatto. From March 2000 to July 2000 he has been a Post-Doctoral researcher with the Division of Optimization and System Theory, Dept. of Mathematics, KTH, funded by the European Community through the European Research Network on System Identification (ERNSI). Since September 2000 he is ``assegnista di ricerca'' with the department of Electronics and Informatics, University of Padova, Italy. His current research interests include stochastic realization theory, system identification (in particular subspace methods), estimation theory and computer vision.

to 40 mm=37mm =-20Anders Dahlén was born in Karlskrona, Sweden, in 1969. He did his undergraduate work in Mathematics of Science at the University of Växjö. He is presently a PhD student at the Division of Optimization and Systems Theory, and received in May 1998 the Teknisk Licenciat degree. His main professional interest is Mathematical Systems Theory, and especially Stochastic Realization theory and Identification.to 40 mm=37mm =-20Leena Druck has been at the Division of Optimization and Systems Theory since 1992. Since 1999 she is the executive administrator at the Department of Mathematics.=37mm =-20Magnus Egerstedt was born in Täby, Sweden, in 1971. He received the M.S. degree in Engineering Physics and the Ph.D. degree in Optimiziation and Systems Theory from the Royal Institute of Technology, in 1996 and 2000 respectively. He also received a B.A. degree in philosophy from Stockholm University in 1996. Since January 2000 he is working as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University. His main research interest is in modeling and analysis of hybrid systems, with emphasis on motion planning and control of mobile robots.to 40 mm=37mm =-20Per Enqvist was born in Upplands Väsby, Sweden, in 1971. He received a civilingenjörs degree in Engineering Physics from KTH in 1994. He is presently a PhD student at the Division of Optimization and Systems Theory. His main research interest is Mathematical Systems Theory, and especially Stochastic Realization Theory. At the moment he is studying various interpolation problems for filters of stochastic systems, in particular the covariance extension problem and cepstrum interpolation problems are considered. to 40 mm=37mm =-20Torvald Ersson was born in Västmanland, Sweden, in 1973. He received a Master of Science degree from the School of Engineering Physics, KTH, in 1998. Presently he is a graduate student at the division and cooperates with the Centre for Autonomous Systems (CAS). His main research interests are robotics and autonomous systems.to 40 mm=37mm =-20Stefan Feltenmark was born in Boden in 1968. He recieved a civilingenjör degree in Engineering Physics from KTH in 1991, and a TeknD (PhD) degree from the Division of Optimization and Systems Theory, KTH, in 1997. Research interests include power systems optimization, stochastic programming, dual methods, decomposition methods, and large-scale optimization. In addition to being a researcher at KTH, Feltenmark is the CEO of the company Optimization Partner, which he founded in 2000 together with Ulf Brännlund.=37mm =-20Anders Forsgren was born in Danderyd, Sweden, in 1961. He received a civilingenjör degree in Engineering Physics from KTH in 1985, an MS degree in Operations Research from Stanford University in 1987 and a TeknD degree in Optimization and Systems Theory from KTH in 1990. Between 1991 and 1995 he held a position as research associate at the Division of Optimization and Systems Theory, where in 1995 he was appointed Docent. Since 1995 he is an associate professor at this division. Forsgren was a Visiting Fulbright Scholar at the University of California, San Diego, during three months in 1996. His main research interest is nonlinear programming, numerical optimization in particular.to 0mm=37mm =-10Per-Olof Gutman was born in Höganäs, Sweden on May 21, 1949. He received the Civ.-Ing. degree in engineering physics in 1973, the Ph.D. degree in automatic control, and the title of docent in automatic control in 1988, all from the Lund Institute of Technology, Lund, Sweden. As a Fulbright grant recipient, he received the M.S.E. degree in 1977 from the University of California, Los Angeles.

=37mm =-5 He taught mathematics in Tanzania 1973-1975. 1983-1984 he held a post-doctoral position with the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel. 1984-1990 he was a scientist with the Control Systems Section, El-Op Electro-Optics Industries, Rehovot, Israel, where he designed high precision electro-optical and electro-mechanical control systems. In 1990 he joined the Faculty of Agricultural Engineering, Technion -- Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, where he is currently an Associate Professor.

He has spent several periods as a guest researcher at the Division of Optimization an Systems Theory, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. He was a Visiting Professor at the Laboratoire d'Automatique de Grenoble, France, 1995-96. Gutman serves on the editorial board of Automatica.

=37mm =-20Xiaoming Hu was born in Chengdu, China, in 1961. He received the B.S. degree from University of Science and Technology of China in 1983. He received the M.S. and Ph.D degrees from Arizona State University in 1986 and 1989 respectively. He served as a research assistant at the Institute of Automation, Academia Sinica, from 1983 to 1984. He was Gustafsson Postdoctoral Fellow at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, from 1989 to 1990. His main research interests are nonlinear control theory, the analysis and design of nonlinear feedback systems and the applications of nonlinear dynamics in control and state estimation.=37mm =-20Ulf Jönsson was born in Barsebäck, Sweden. He received the M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering in 1989 and the Ph.D. degree in Automatic Control in 1996, both from Lund Institute of Technology, Lund, Sweden. He spent the academic year 1989-1990 at the Department of Electrical Engineering at University of California, Santa Barbara on the education abroad scholarship. In the first half of 1997 he was a postdoctoral fellow at California Institute of Technology and thereafter he worked two years as a postdoctoral fellow at the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His current research interests include design and analysis of nonlinear and uncertain control systems, periodic systems theory, robust control along trajectories, and convex optimization applications in systems theory.to 40 mm=37mm =-20Camilla Landén was born in Upplands Väsby, Sweden, in 1970. She received a civilingenjör degree in Engineering Physics from KTH in 1994. She is presently a PhD student at the Division of Optimization and Systems Theory. Her main research interests are financial mathematics and stochastic differential equations.=37mm =-10Anders Lindquist received his PhD degree from the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, where in 1972 he was appointed a Docent of Optimization and Systems Theory. From 1972 to 1974 he held visiting positions at the University of Florida, Brown University, and State University of New York at Albany. In 1974 he became an Associate Professor, and in 1980 a (full) Professor of Mathematics at the University of Kentucky, where he remained until 1983. He is now a Professor at the Royal Institute of Technology, where in 1982 he was appointed to the Chair of Optimization and Systems Theory. Since then he has also held visiting positions at the University of Padova, Italy, University of Arizona, USSR Academy of Sciences, Moscow, East China Normal University, Shanghai, and Technion, Haifa, Israel.

Presently, Anders Lindquist is the Chairman of the Mathematics Department at the Royal Institute of Technology. He is a Member of the Royal Swedish Academy Sciences, a Foreign Mamber of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and an Honorary Member the Hungarian Operations Research Society. He is an Affiliate Professor at Washington University, St Louis (since 1989) and an Advisory Board Member of the Institute for Mathematics of the Life Sciences, Texas Tech University.

Lindquist has served on many editorial boards of journals, among them the Journal of Mathematical Systems, Estimation, and Control (Communicating Editor), Systems and Control Letters, Adaptive Control and Signal Processing, and book series, namely Systems and Control: Foundations and Applications, Applied and Computational Control, Signals, and Circuits, and Progress in Systems and Control. Since 1983 he has been a member, and between 1985 and 1987 the chairman, of the steering committee for the biannual international symposia on the Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems (MTNS). to 40 mm=37mm =-20Ryozo Nagamune was born in Yamaguchi, Japan, in 1972. He received Master's degree in Engineering from Osaka University in 1997. He is presently a PhD student at the Division of Optimization and Systems Theory. His research interests are the application of the Nevanlinna-Pick interpolation theory with degree constraint to $H^\infty$ control and the extension of the analytic interpolation theory to the multivariable cases.=37mm =-20Mikael Prytz was born in 1969 in Stockholm, Sweden. He has a Master of Science-degree in Engineering Physics from the Royal Institute of Technology (1993) and a Masters-degree in Engineering-Economic Systems and Operations Research from Stanford University (1998). From 1993 to 1996 he worked at Ericsson Telecom where he developed models and methods for telecommunications network design problems and participated in network design projects. In 1997 he began as an industry Ph.D. student at the department in a project that is jointly funded by Ericsson Radio Systems AB and the Swedish Research Council for Engineering Sciences. He maintains a position at Ericsson Radio Systems where he also works part time. He spent the academic year 1997-98 in the MS-program at the Department of Engineering-Econonic Systems and Operations Research, Stanford University, USA. His research interests are in optimization methods for telecommunications network design problems.to 40 mm=37mm =-20Jonas Rappe was born in 1970. He received a civilingenjör degree in Vehicle Engineering from KTH in 1997. In 1998 he worked for Sigma Design & Development in Solna, Sweden. He is currently a PhD student at the Division of Optimization and Systems Theory. His main research interests are hydro power systems optimization and stochastic programming.to 40 mm=37mm =-20Henrik Rehbinder was born in 1972 in Värmdö, Stockholm, Sweden. He recieved his Master of Science degree in Engineering Physics from KTH in 1996. He is currently a PhD-student at the division, affiliated with the WARP at the Centre for Autonomous Systems. His research interests are in sensor fusion for state estimation focused on nonlinear attitude estimation for walking machines using inertial sensors and vision. He is also interested in control and filtering with limited communication.to 40 mm=37mm =-20Göran Sporre was born in Järfälla, Sweden, in 1972. He received a civilingenjör degree in Engineering Physics from KTH in 1996. In 1997 he was employed at Telia Engineering, working with issues related to network planning for telecommunication. Since the beginning of 1998 he is a PhD student at the Division of Optimization and Systems Theory. His main research interest is interior methods for nonlinear programming. to 40 mm=37mm =-20Mathias Stolpe was born in Skerike, Sweden, in 1972. He received a Master of Science degree in Vehicle Engineering from KTH in 1997. He is presently a PhD student at the Division of Optimization and Systems Theory. His main area of research is structural optimization.=37mm =-20Krister Svanberg was born in Stockholm in 1950. In 1975 he got his Civilingenjör degree in Engineering Physics, and 1982 he got his TeknD degree in Optimization Theory. 1993 he was appointed Docent. Between 1976 and 1985 he worked for the Contract Research Group of Applied Mathematics, and since 1985 he is a Senior Lecturer. His main area of research is structural optimization, dealing with theory and methods for optimal design of load-carrying structures. =37mm =-20Claes Trygger was born in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1945. He received his civilingenjör degree in Engineering Physics in 1969 and his TeknL and TeknD degrees in Optimization and Systems Theory in 1974 and 1980, respectively; all from KTH. Since 1966 he has been employed in various positions at the Department of Mathematics at KTH, mainly in the Division of Optimization. At present he is a Senior Lecturer of Optimization and Systems Theory. Apart from teaching, his main professional interests are control theory and mathematical biology.=37mm =-10Vladimir Yakubovich was born in Novosibirsk, Russia, in 1926. He was a student of Mechanics and Mathematics at Moscow University from 1946 to 1949. In 1949 he received the first prize for student scientific work and was recommended by two chairs (those of I. M. Gelfand and V. V. Nemyzki) for postgraduate education but was refused at the request of Comsomol and the Communist Party (after he had protested against discrimination of Jewish students in admittance to postgraduate studies). In 1953, after having worked for some time in industry as an engineer, he received the Candidate of Science degree (PhD), and then he served as an Assistant and an Associate Professor at Leningrad Mining Institute. From 1956 to present time he has been associated with St. Petersburg University (formerly Leningrad University), where in 1959 he received the Doctor of Science Degree. He became a (full) Professor of Mathematics in 1963 and head of the Theoretical Cybernetics Chair in 1971.

He is the author of more than 250 papers and coauthor of seven books in different areas of mathematics, especially applied mathematics and control theory. He has worked in parametric resonance theory (extending and improving some Lyapunov results), in the theory of stability of nonlinear systems, and in optimization theory. He introduced a method of ``recursive aim inequalities'' in the theory of adaptive systems, and an abstract theory of optimal control, extending the Pontrjagin maximum principle to many new cases. The ``Kalman-Yakubovich-Popov Lemma'' connects two areas of control theory, frequency methods and Lyaponov methods, and it is also of importance in stochastic realization theory. His main results in recent years concern new aspects of linear-quadratic optimization problems.

Yakubovich has served on the editorial boards of Siberian Mathematical Journal (1973-1980), Systems and Control Letters (1981-1988) and Dynamics and Control (since 1990). He has served on many scientific committees and is a member of several scientific societies in Russia. In 1991 he was awarded the Norbert Wiener Prize by the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences. Since 1991 he is a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and since 1992 a member of the Russian Academy of Natural Science.


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