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Michael G. Safonov
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Michael
G. Safonov was born in Pasadena, CA, on November 1, 1948. He received the
B.S., M.S., Engineer, and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA in 1971, 1971, 1976 and
1977, respectively. From 1972 to 1975 he served with the U.S. Navy as
Electronics Division Officer aboard the aircraft carrier USS Franklin D.
Roosevelt (CVA-42). Since 1977 he has been with the University of Southern California
where he is presently Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering. He has been
a consultant to The Analytic Sciences Corp., Honeywell Systems and Research
Center, Systems Control, Systems Control Technology, Scientific Systems, United
Technologies, TRW, Northrop Aircraft, Hughes Aircraft and others.
His consulting and university research activities have involved him flight
control system design studies in which modern robust multivariable control
techniques were applied to a variety of aircraft including the CH-47 Chinook
helicopter (Analytic Sciences Corp., 1976), the NASA HiMAT aircraft
(Honeywell/USC, 1980) and the F/A-18 Hornet (Northrop, 1987-1991). During the
academic year 1983-1984 he was a Senior Visiting Fellow with the Department of
Engineering, Cambridge University, England, and in summer 1987 he held a similar
appointment at Imperial College of Science and Technology, London, England. In
1990-1991 he was a visiting faculty member at Caltech, Pasadena, CA. He has
authored or co-authored more than one hundred and fifty journal and conference
papers and the book Stability and
Robustness of Multivariable Feedback Systems (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press,
1980). Additionally, he is co-author of the MATLAB Robust Control Toolbox
(Natick, MA: MathWorks), a software package for use with MATLAB. His research
interests include robust control, infinity-norm optimal control theory and nonlinear
system theory with applications to aerospace control design problems. He served
as an Associate Editor of the IEEE
Trans. on Automatic Control from 1985- 1987 and is presently an editor
of International
Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control and Systems
and Control Letters. From 1993
to 1995, he was Chair of the AACC Awards Committee of the
American Automatic Control Council. Dr. Safonov is an IFAC Fellow
and IEEE Life Fellow.
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