Donald P. Eckman Award

The Donald P. Eckman Award is an award given by the American Automatic Control Council recognizing outstanding achievements by a young researcher under the age of 35 in the field of control theory. Together with the Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award, the Eckman Award is one of the most prestigious awards in control theory.

Recipients

1964: Michael Athans 1965: John Bollinger 1966: Roger Bakke 1967: Roger W. Brockett 1968: Robert E. Larson 1969: W. Harmon Ray 1970: John Seinfeld 1971: Raman Mehra 1972: Cecil L. Smith 1973: Edison Tse 1974: Timothy L. Johnson 1975: Alan S. Willsky[1][2][3][4] 1976: Robert W. Atherton 1977: Nils R. Sandell, Jr. 1978: Narendra K. Gupta 1979: Joe Hong Chow 1980: Manfred Morari 1981: Rajan Suri 1982: Bruce Hajek 1983: John C. Doyle

1984: Mark A. Shayman 1985: P.R. Kumar 1986: Yaman Arkun 1987: Rahmatallah Shoureshi 1988: Bijoy K. Ghosh 1989: Pramod P. Khargonekar 1990: Shankar S. Sastry 1991: Carl N. Nett 1992: Stephen P. Boyd 1993: Munther A. Dahleh 1994: Kameshwar Poolla 1995: Andrew Packard 1996: Jeff S. Shamma 1997: Richard M. Murray 1998: Ioannis Kanellakopoulos 1999: Andrew R. Teel 2000: Richard D. Braatz 2001: Dawn M. Tilbury 2002: Ilya Kolmanovsky 2003: Claire J. Tomlin

2004: Panagiotis D. Christofides 2005: Pablo A. Parrilo 2006: Murat Arcak 2007: Daniel Liberzon 2008: Asuman E. Ozdaglar 2009: Paulo Tabuada 2010: Domitilla Del Vecchio 2011: Hana El-Samad 2012: Jason Marden 2013: Vijay Gupta 2014: Hamsa Balakrishnan 2015: Aaron D. Ames

References

1. Alan S. Willsky, Edwin Sibley Webster Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (retired) at M.I.T.
2. Alan S. Willsky, Edwin Sibley Webster Retired Professor of Electrical Engineering at M.I.T.
3. Biography of Alan S. Willsky.
4. Alan S. Willsky was elected in 2010 as a member of National Academy of Engineering in Electronics, Communication & Information Systems Engineering for contributions to model-based signal processing and statistical inference.

External links

• AACC page