Plenary
Speaker
Biographical Sketch
Professor Manfred Morari
ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Manfred Morari was appointed head of the Department of
Information Technology and Electrical Engineering at ETH Zurich in 2009. He was head of the Automatic
Control Laboratory from 1994 to 2008. Before that he was the McCollum-Corcoran
Professor of Chemical Engineering and Executive Officer for Control and
Dynamical Systems at the California Institute of Technology. He obtained the diploma
from ETH Zurich and the Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota,
both in chemical engineering. His interests are in hybrid systems and the
control of biomedical systems. In recognition of his research contributions he
received numerous awards, among them the Donald P. Eckman Award, the John R.
Ragazzini Award and the Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award of the
Automatic Control Council, the Allan P. Colburn Award and the Professional
Progress Award of the AIChE, the Curtis W. McGraw Research Award of the ASEE, Doctor
Honoris Causa from Babes-Bolyai University, Fellow of IEEE and IFAC, the IEEE
Control Systems Field Award, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering
(U.S.).
Manfred Morari has held appointments with Exxon and ICI plc and serves on the technical
advisory boards of several major corporations.
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