AWARDS

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THE R- ; - S OLDEN; - R; ER MEDAL was established in 1; ; ; and is given in recognition
of significant contributions and outstanding achievements in the field of automatic
control through any of the following; education; research; development;
innovation and service to the field and profession.
;EAN-;ACQ- ES SLOTINE; Ph.D.; professor; mechanical engineering and information
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After receiving his aerospace engineer degree from
Ncole Nationale SupSrieure de l;AeronautiCue et de
l;Espace ;Toulouse; ; rance; in 1; ; 1; Dr. Slotine came to
the - .S. and earned his Ph.D. in estimation and control
from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ;MIT;;
Cambridge; in 1; ; ; . He ;oined the MIT faculty following
one year with AT; T ; ell Laboratories ;Holmdel;
N.;.;; where he worked in the computer research
department.
At MIT; Slotine is currently professor of mechanical
engineering and information sciences; professor of
brain and cognitive sciences; and director of the Nonlinear
Systems Laboratory. He teaches and conducts
research in the areas of dynamic systems; robotics; control
theory; computational neuroscience and systems
biology. Research in his laboratory has focused on the development of rigorous; yet
practica1; tools for nonlinear systems analysis and control; and has provided key
advances and experimental demonstrations in the contexts of sliding control; adaptive
nonlinear control; adaptive robotics; telepresence; machine learning and contraction
analysis of nonlinear systems.
Slotine has held invited professor positions at CollTge de ; rance; Paris; Ncole PolytechniCue
;Palaiseau; ; rance;; Ncole Normale SupSrieure; Paris; - niversity of Rome;
La Sapienza; and ETH 2 urich. He was a member of the ; rench National Science Council
;1; ; ; –2002;; the scientific advisory board to the prime minister; and the advisory
board ;200; –10; for Singapore Immunology Network ;SigN;; a research institute under
Singapore;s Agency for Science; Technology and Research ;A; STAR;. He is currently
a member of the scientific advisory board for the Italian Institute of Technology; ; enoa.
One of the most cited researchers in both systems science and robotics; Slotine has
published more than ; 0 peer-reviewed archival ;ournal papers and over 100 conference
papers. He co-authored two popular graduate textbooks; “Robot Analysis and
Control; with Dr. Haruhiko Asada ;;ohn Wiley and Sons; 1; ; ; ; and “Applied
Nonlinear Control; with Dr. Weiping Li ;Prentice Hall; 1; ; 1;. Slotine holds five - .S.
and two ; erman patents.
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