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Daniel Liberzon

Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Associate Professor, Coordinated Science Laboratory
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Research group: Decision and Control

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What's new:

My MTNS 2008 semi-plenary lecture, including an optional narrative, is posted in the talks section of this website
I have a new NSF grant, starting Aug 2008, to investigate invertibility properties of hybrid systems
My ACC 2008 plenary lecture, including an optional narrative, is posted in the talks section of this website
I am on sabbatical leave during the Spring 2008 semester
An interview with me was published in the Dec 2007 issue of the IEEE Control Systems Magazine

Contact information:

Daniel Liberzon
Coordinated Science Laboratory (MC-228)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1308 W. Main Street
Urbana, IL 61801, U.S.A.

Office: 144 CSL
Email: liberzonuiuc.edu
Phone: (217) 244-6750
Fax: (217) 244-2352

Administrative assistant: Jana Lenz, 153 CSL, phone: (217) 244-1654

Education and previous positions:

Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Research Assistant Professor, Coordinated Science Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Aug 2000 - Aug 2006

Postdoctoral Associate, Laboratory for Control Science and Engineering (Prof. A. Stephen Morse, Director), Department of Electrical Engineering, Yale University, New Haven, CT, Jan 1998 - Aug 2000

Ph.D. in Mathematics, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, Feb 1998
Thesis adviser: Prof. Roger W. Brockett, Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

Undergraduate student in Mathematics, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia, Sep 1989 - Jan 1993

A brief biographical sketch

A longer CV (does not include the most recent papers)

Research interests:

Switched/hybrid systems
Nonlinear control theory
Control with limited information
Uncertain and stochastic systems

More detailed research descriptions

Publications and preprints

Lectures at workshops and conferences

Recent sponsored projects:

Invertibility of hybrid systems (2008-2011)
Control and sensing under limited information (2007-2010)
Verification of probabilistic hybrid systems: stability and beyond (2006-2009)
CAREER: Hybrid control of nonlinear systems (2002-2007)
MURI: Cooperative networked control of dynamical peer-to-peer vehicle systems (2002-2007)

Collaborators and students

Courses taught:

ECE 515: Control System Theory and Design (Fall 2008, Fall 2004*, Fall 2001)

ECE 517: Nonlinear and Adaptive Control (Fall 2007*, Fall 2003, Fall 2000)

ECE 553: Optimum Control Systems (Spring 2007*, Spring 2005*)

ECE 486: Control Systems I (Spring 2006, Spring 2003)

ECE 586 DL: Hybrid Systems and Control (Fall 2005*, Fall 2002, Spring 2001)

ECE 490: Introduction to Optimization (Spring 2004)

ECE 528: Analysis of Nonlinear Systems (Spring 2002*)

*For the courses marked with an asterisk, appeared on the UIUC List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by their Students

Awards and honors:

AACC Donald P. Eckman Award, 2007 (citation: "For contributions to the theories of switched systems and nonlinear control, and their application to control design under limited information")

UIUC CoE Xerox Award for Faculty Research, 2007

Senior Member of IEEE, since 2004

IFAC Young Author Prize, 2002 (for this paper)

NSF CAREER Award, 2002 (more info about the project)