PLENARY and other major LECTURES

                                    

1.          CAIR Symposium on AI and Robotics, Abu Dhabi, 2026.

2.          European Control Conference, Thessaloniki, Greece, 2025.

3.          Brazilian Control Conference, Rio de Janeiro, 2024.

4.          29th LIDS Student Conference, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2024.

5.          Bode Lecture, IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Singapore, 2023.

6.          IFAC Workshop on Adaptive and Learning Control Systems, Casablanca, Morocco, 2022.

7.          International Colloquium on Nonlinear Dynamics and Control of Deep Drilling Systems, College Park, Maryland, 2022.

8.          International Conference on Information, Telecommunication, and Automation Technologies, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2022.

9.          IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications, Norway, 2020

10.       Conference on Control Technology and Applications, Hong Kong, 2019 (video)

11.       SIAM Conference on Control and Its Applications, Chengdu, China, 2019

12.       IFAC Workshop on Control of Systems Governed by Partial Differential Equations, Oaxaca, Mexico, 2019

13.       Mathematical Theory of Systems and Control, Hong Kong, 2018

14.       2nd International Symposium on Autonomous Systems, Chongqing, China, 2018

15.       Asian Control Conference, Brisbane, Australia, 2017

16.       ASME Oldenburger Medal Lecture, Dynamic Systems and Control Conference, 2017

17.       IEEE International Conference on Control and Automation, Ohrid, Macedonia, 2017

18.       IEEE Intl. Conf. on the Science of Electrical Engineering, Eilat, Israel, 2016

19.       IcETRAN, Zlatibor, Serbia, 2016

20.       ASME Nyquist Lecture, Dynamic Systems and Control Conference, Columbus, OH, 2015

21.       IFAC Workshop on Advanced Control and Navigation for Autonomous Aerospace Vehicles, Sevilla, Spain, 2015

22.       IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Los Angeles, 2014 (video)

23.       World Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation, Shenyang, China

24.       IcETRAN, Vrnjacka Banja, Serbia

25.       Congreso Nacional de Control Automático, Mexico, 2013

26.       IFAC Workshop on Control of Systems Governed by Partial Differential Equations, Paris, 2013

27.       IFAC Nonlinear Control Systems Symposium (NOLCOS), Toulouse, France, 2013

28.       IFAC Workshop on Adaptation and Learning in Control and Signal Proc., Caen, France, 2013

29.       IEEE Workshop on Open Problems and Challenges in Automotive Control, Washington DC, 2013

30.       7th IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Automation, Singapore, 2012

31.       IEEE International Conference on Electronics and Automation, Chengdu, China, 2012

32.       Diamond Anniversary Distinguished Lecturer, Coordinated Science Laboratory, U. Illinois

33.       11th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics, and Vision, Singapore, 2010

34.       52nd National Symposium on Automatic Control (TOK'10), Gebze, Turkey, 2010

35.       IEEE Multi-Conference on Systems and Control, Yokohama, Japan, 2010 (movie, pdf)

36.       18th IFAC Symposium on Automatic Control in Aerospace, Nara, Japan, 2010

37.       IFAC Workshop on Time-Delay Systems, Prague, Czech Republic, 2010

38.       ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference, Hollywood, California, 2009.

39.       Mediterranean Control Conference, Ajaccio, France, 2008.

40.       Conf. Control of Physical Systems and PDEs, Paris, France

41.       Chinese Control and Decision Conference, Yantai, 2008.

42.       IFAC Symp. Adaptive Systems in Control and Signal Processing, St. Petersburg, Russia, 2007.

43.       IFAC NOLCOS Symposium, Pretoria, South Africa, 2007.

44.       IEEE Adv. Process Control Workshop, Vancouver, Canada, 2007.

45.       Chinese Control Conference, Harbin, 2006.

 

       “Leaders in Engineering,” Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2017

       “Kwan Chao-Chi Distinguished Lecture,” Chinese Academy of Science, 2017

       Diamond Anniversary Lecture (movie), Coordinated Science Laboratory, University of Illinois, 2011.

       Nokia Distinguished Lecture (movie), UC Berkeley, 2008.

 

       Lecture tour of the UK, Royal Academy of Engineering, 2013

       Eastern Canada Lecture Tour (5 universities), IEEE Control Systems Society,  2009

       Distinguished Lecturer, IEEE Control Systems Society, 2006-2010.

       Southwest Mechanics Lecture Tour, Distinguished Lecturer, 2003. 

 

       Kokotovic Fest, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2009

       Sontag Fest, Rutgers University, 2012

       Bastin Fest, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium, 2012

       Spong Fest, University of Texas, Dallas, 2012

       Praly-60 Fest, Ecole des Mines de Paris, 2015

       Coron Fest, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, 2016

       Basar Fest, 2017

       Praly-65 Fest, IEEE CDC, 2020

       Grizzle Fest, 2023

       Baras Fest, 2023

       Khalil Fest, 2023