Professor Kirsten Morris named 2020 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Fellow

Tuesday, January 7, 2020

Professor Morris
Professor Kirsten Morris has been named an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Fellow. She is being recognized for contributions to control and estimator design for infinite-dimensional systems. 

The IEEE Grade of Fellow is conferred by the IEEE Board of Directors upon a person with an outstanding record of accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest. The total number selected in any one year cannot exceed one-tenth of one- percent of the total voting membership. IEEE Fellow is the highest grade of membership and is recognized by the technical community as a prestigious honour and an important career achievement.

 Many systems, in particular distributed parameter systems (DPS), evolve on an infinite-dimensional state-space.  Morris’ work is unique in that she has developed theoretically sound results that can be used in controller synthesis. Morris has made novel contributions with significant  impact in the field of infinite-dimensional systems. Her work on controller convergence  led  other researchers to  consider convergence of closed-loop systems.   Recent work on optimal actuator/sensor location  put this topic in a firm theoretical framework and inspired further  research. 

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