PLENARY SPEAKER

The Theory of Fast and Robust Adaptation

Prof. Naira Hovakimyan
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

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Biography of the Plenary Speaker

Naira Hovakimyan received her Ph.D. in Physics and Mathematics in 1992, in Moscow, from the Institute of Applied Mathematics of Russian Academy of Sciences. Upon her Ph.D. she joined the Institute of Mechanics, Armenian Academy of Sciences, as a research scientist, where she worked till 1997. In 1997 she has been awarded a governmental postdoctoral scholarship to work in INRIA, France. She is the recipient of the SICE International scholarship for the best paper of a young investigator in the VII ISDG Symposium (Japan, 1996). The subject areas in which she has published include differential pursuit-evasion games, optimal control of robotic manipulators, robust control, adaptive estimation and control. In 1998 she was invited to the School of Aerospace Engineering of Georgia Tech, where she worked as a research faculty member until 2003. In 2003 she joined the Department of Aerospace and Ocean Engineering of Virginia Tech, and in 2008 she moved to University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she is a professor and Schaller faculty scholar. She is the author of over 180 refereed publications.
She is senior member of the IEEE (CSS, NNS), Associate fellow of AIAA, member of AMS, ISDG, and is serving as Associate Editor for the IEEE Control Systems Society, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, Computational Management Science of Springer, International Journal of Control, Systems and Automation. She is the 2004, 2005 and 2007 recipient of Pride@Boeing award, the plenary speaker of 2007 SIAM Conference on Control and Its Applications, and the 2008 recipient of Dean's Award for Research Excellence at Virginia Tech. In 2008, she was named outstanding reviewer for AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control and Dynamics. Her current interests are in the theory of adaptive control and estimation with an emphasis on aerospace applications, and are supported by AFOSR, ARO, AFRL, ONR, NASA and The Boeing Co.