Brief Bio

I served as Chair of the Department of Electrical Engineering at Princeton from 1991 to 2012. I have also served on the Dean of Engineering’s Executive Committee 2001- 2012, and on the University President’s Faculty Advisory Committee on Appointments and Advancements in 2004-05 and 2007-08.

I am a Fellow of the IEEE and a member of SIAM, and have received several honors and awards including: a paper selected for inclusion in IEEE book “Control Theory: Twenty Five Seminal Papers (1932-1981)”; an Outstanding Paper Award from the Control Systems Society of the IEEE; the Convocation Medal for Professional Excellence from the University of Newcastle, Australia; an Engineering Council Teaching Award from the School of Engineering and Applied Science, Princeton University; an IBM Faculty Development Award; and the University Medal from Newcastle University, Australia. I have been a visiting Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Visiting Research Scientist at IBM's Tokyo Research Laboratory.