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RESEARCH RELATED
PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
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Chaired technical session
on `Control Systems III` at the International Conference on Advances in Control
and Optimization of Dynamic Systems
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(ACOD'07), Feb 2007,
Bangalore, India
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Organized and chaired
a technical session on 'Flight Vehicle Dynamics and Control' at the International
Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition (IMECE) of ASME in Chicago,
IL, Nov 2006
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Co-chaired technical
session on 'Robust Analysis I' at the 2006 IFAC conference on Robust Control
Design (ROCOND'06), Toulouse, France, July 2006
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Co-chaired technical
session on 'Linear System Stability I' at the 2006 American Control Conference,
Minneapolis, MN, June 2006
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Organized and chaired
a technical session on 'Flight Vehicle Dynamics and Control' at the
International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition (IMECE) of ASME
in Orlando, FL, Nov 2005
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Co-chaired a technical
session in the 2005 AIAA Guidance, Navigation and Control conference, San
Francisco, CA, Aug 2005
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Co-chaired technical
session on 'Stability of Linear Systems' at the 2004 American Control
Conference, Boston, MA, June 2004
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Chaired technical
session on 'Robust Stability' at the 2003 American Control Conference, Denver,
CO, June 2003
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Co-chaired technical
session on 'Descriptor Systems II' at the 2003 American Control Conference,
Denver, CO, June 2003
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Chaired technical
session on 'Stability of Dynamic Systems' at the 2002 American Control
Conference, Anchorage, AL, May 2002
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Chaired technical
session on 'Switched systems II' at the 2001 IEEE Conference on Decision and
Control, Dec 2001
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Chaired technical
session on 'Robust stability' at the 2001 American Control Conference, June
2001
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Chaired technical
session on 'Robustness' at the 2000 American Control Conference, June 2000
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Co-chaired technical
session on 'Robustness Analysis' at the 1999 American Control Conference, June
1999
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Served as one of the
two 'Guest Editors' for an issue of the Journal 'Mathematical Problems in
Engineering' commemorating the 60th Birthday celebrations of Prof. Robert E.
Skelton
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Co-chaired technical
session on "Stability I" at the 1998 American Control Conference,
June 1998
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Active participant in
organizing symposium honoring Prof. Robert E. Skelton of the University of
California, San Diego as part of his 60th Birthday celebration.
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Chairman of session on
"Robust Design I" at the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, San
Diego, CA, Dec 1997
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Chairman of session on
"Control Theory IV" in the SPIE Conference on Smart Structures and
Materials, San Diego, CA, March 1997
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Chairman of session on
"Aircraft Control" at IEEE Conference on Control Applications,
Detroit MI, September 1996
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Chairman of session on
"Stabilization" in the 13th IF AC World Congress, San Francisco, CA,
June-July 1996
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Chairman of session on
"Stability" at the 1995 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, New
Orleans, LA, December 1995
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Invited participant in
the NSF-Sponsored International Workshop on "Future Directions in
Robustness Research" organized by Prof. B. R. Barmish of University of
Wisconsin, Madison, WI, November 17-19, 1995.
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Chairman of session on
"Control Theory II" at the 1995 AlAA Guidance, Navigation and Control
Conference, Baltimore, MA, August 1995
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Co-Chairman of session
on "H-Infinity and Robust Control" at the 1995 American Control
Conference, Seattle, W A, June 1995
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Chairman of session on
"Robust Control III" at the 1995 American Control Conference,
Seattle, W A, June 1995
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Chairman of session on
"Control Methods for Active Systems II" at the 1995
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North American
Conference on Smart Structures and Materials, San Diego, CA, February 1995
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Chairman of session on
"Flight Controls" at the First Industry/Academy Symposium on Research
for Future Supersonic and Hypersonic Vehicles, Greensboro, NC, December 1994
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Co-Chairman of session
on "Linear Control System Design" at the 1994 IEEE Conference on Decision
and Control, Lake Buena Vista, FL, December 1994
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Vice Chairman of
symposium on " Active Control of Vibrations and Noise: Adaptive Materials,
Actuators and Sensors", ASME International Congress and Exposition of the
Winter Annual Meeting of ASME, Chicago, IL, November 1994
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Chairman of session on
"Numerical Methods" at the 1994 American Control Conference,
Baltimore, MD, June 1994
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Chairman of session on
"Robust Control for Distributed Systems." 1993 American Control
Conference, San Francisco, CA, June 1993
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Served as AIAA Society
Review Chairman for the 1993 American Control Conference
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Served as Program
Committee Member for the 1992 IEEE Conference on Control Applications (CCA)
Dayton, OH, September 1992
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Served as Program
Committee Member for the 1992 American Control Conference held in Chicago, IL,
June 1992
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Served, by invitation,
as an NSF Panel Reviewer for Selection of Research Initiation Grants and other
grants administered by NSF
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Organized and taught a
tutorial workshop on "Robust Control for State Space Systems" at the
1992 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control; (along with Prof. George Leitmann
of University of California, Berkeley), Tucson, AZ, December 15, 1992
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Served as member of
the team of instructors for the AIAA Professional Short Course on "Robust
Multivariable Control: Theory and Applications", Hilton Head Island, SC,
August 13-14, 1992
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Organized workshop on
"Robust Control" sponsored by Ohio Aerospace Institute, October 18,
1991
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Served as Technical
Program Committee Chairman for the 1991 AIAA Guidance and Control Conference,
New Orleans, LA, August 1991
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Organizer and Chairman
for an invited session on "Robust Stability Analysis for Uncertain
Polynomials and Matrices", 1989 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control,
Tampa, FL, December 1989
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Chairman for a session
on "Robust Control in State Space", at the 1988 IEEE Conference on
Decision and Control, Austin, TX, December 1988
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Chairman for a session
on "Control Analysis and Design" at the 1988 AIM Guidance and Control
Conference, Minneapolis, MN, August 1988
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Co-chairman for a
session on "Stability of Linear Systems" at the 1988 IEEE American
Control Conference, Atlanta, GA, June 1988
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Co-chairman for a
contributed session in the 1987 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Los Angeles,
CA, December 1987
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Organizer and Chairman
for an Invited Session on "Robust Control via Lyapunov Methods" in
the American Control Conference, Minneapolis, MN June 1987
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Invited participant in
the NSF Engineering Foundation Workshop on "Qualitative Methods for the
Analysis of Nonlinear Dynamics", Henniker, NH, June 1986
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Invited participant in
the NASA Lewis JIAPP Workshop, November 1985
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Organizer and Chairman
for an Invited Session on "Robustness Considerations in Time Domain"
in the American Control Conference, Boston, MA, June 1985
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Invited participant in
the forum on "Large Space Structures" arranged by U.S. AFOSR,
Washington, DC, July 1984
Other Professional
Services
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Served, on Invitation,
as a Member of the External Review Board (EAB) of NASA-CAR (NASA Center for
Aerospace Research) at North Carolina A&T State University (invited in
Oct'98)
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Continuing to serve as
a Member of the PCC (Program Coordinating Committee) representing the Ohio
State University for the Controls and Robotics Focus Group of the Wright State
University PhD program in Engineering
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Published a Book
Review on "System Dynamics: An Introduction" by Derek Rowell and
David N. Wormley for Prentice Hall in Applied Mechanics Reviews, Vo150, June'97
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Published a Book
Review on "Aircraft Performance" written by Prof Vinh for the ASCE
Journal of Aerospace Engineering., 1996
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Supplied evaluation
letters for many professional colleagues towards the advancement of their
professional careers
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Serving as a technical
Associate Editor for the International Journal of Systems Science since 1992
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Organized a workshop
on "Trends and Applications in Robust Control" for the Ohio Aerospace
Institute, in Oct 1991
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Selected by Invitation
to be a member of the Conference Editorial Board for IEEE. Continues to serve
as a member of CEB
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Served as a Judge for
evaluating Science Projects for the Ohio Academy of Science
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Served as an External
Evaluator (which included an Honorarium) for the Indian Institute of
Technology, Kanpur, India (for a Ph.D thesis evaluation) and Hamilton
Institute, Ireland (for a Research Proposal)