Curriculum vitae Lennart Ljung

Born September 13, 1946 in Malmö, Sweden.

Degrees:

• Bachelor of Arts (Russian Language and Mathematics) 1967, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.
• Master of Science (Engineering Physics) (Civilingenjör, Teknisk Fysik) 1970, Lund Institute of Technology, Lund, Sweden.
• Doctor of Philosophy (Automatic Control) (Tekn. Dr, Reglerteknik) 1974, Lund Institute of Technology, Lund, Sweden.

Honorary Degrees

• Doctor h.c. at the Baltic State Technical UniversityS:t Petersburg, Russia, 1996
• Doctor of Philosophy h.c. (Fil. Dr. h.c.) Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, 1998
• Doctor of Philosophy h.c., Universite de Technologie de Troyes, UTT, France, 2004.
• Doctor of Philosophy h.c. (Eredoctor), Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, 2004.
• Honorary Doctor, TKK, The Technical Univeristy of Helsinki, Finland, April 2008.

Membership Professional and Academic Societies

• Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), ("For Contributions to Adaptive Control and Recursive Identification".) since 1985.
• Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA), since 1985.
• Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (KVA), since 1995
• Honorary Member of the Hungarian Academy of Engineering Sciences, since 2001
• Foreign Associate of the US National Academy of Engineering, since 2004

Awards

• 1979: The IEEE Control System Society Outstanding Paper Award for papers published in IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AUTOMATIC CONTROL 1977-1978.
• 1981: The AUTOMATICA Prize Paper Award for papers published in AUTOMATICA 1978-1980.
• 1993: The AUTOMATICA Prize Paper Award for papers published in AUTOMATICA 1990-1992.
• 1993: Appointed ``Advisor'' to the International Federation of Automatic Control.
• 1993: College of Electrical Engineers' Gold Plaque, The Institute of Engineers, Australia.
• 1996: The Chester Carlson Research Prize, awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences.
• 2002: The Quazza Medal, awarded by the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC).
• 2003: The Hendryk W. Bode Lecture Prize, awarded by the IEEE Control Systems Society.
• 2007: The IEEE Control Systems award

Employments:

• 1976 -: Professor of the Chair of Automatic Control, Linköping Institute of Technology, Linköping, Sweden.
• 1975 -1976: Associate Professor (Docent) in Automatic Control, Lund Institute of Technology, Lund, Sweden.
• 1970 -1975: Teaching and Research Assistant in Automatic Control, Lund Institute of Technology, Lund, Sweden.
• 1968 -1970: Teaching Assistant in Mathematics, Lund Institute of Technology, Lund, Sweden.

Temporary Appointments:

• 2006 - present: Director of the Strategic Research Center MOVIII, funded by the SSF, the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research.
• 1995 - 2006: Director of the NUTEK/VINNOVA Competence Center ISIS.
• 1981 - 1985, 1986 -1990: Chairman of the Department of Electrical Engineering, Linköping Institute of Technology, Linköping, Sweden.
• 1985 -1986: Visiting Scientist at the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS) at MIT, Cambridge, Mass.
• 1980-1981: Visiting Professor at the Information Systems Laboratory, Information of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA.
• 1974-1975: Research Associate at the Information Systems Laboratory, Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA.
• 1972: Visiting Scientist (Research Scholarship) at the Laboratory for Adaptive Systems, Institute for Control Problems, Moscow, USSR.

Professional Assignments

Committees and Similar:

• 2000 - 2006: Member of Akademinämnden, the Board of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (KVA)
• 2000 - 2006: Chairman of Class VIII (Engineering) of The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (KVA).
• 1998 - 2006: Member of the University Board, Linköping University
• 2001 - 2006: Member of the Board of The Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet)
• 2001 - 2004: Member of the Board of SUNET
• 1995-2001: Member and Vice Chairman of the Swedish Research Council for Engineering Sciences (TFR).
• 1993-2001: Member of the Steering Committee for the Programme for Complex Systems, at the Swedish National Board for Industrial and Technical Development (NUTEK).
• 1994-1996:Member of the Working Group for Base Technologies at the Foundation for Strategic Research (Stiftelsen för Strategisk Forskning).
• 1993 - 2000: Member of the Mathematics Committe for the HCM and TMR programs at the European Community, Brussels.
• 1989-1991: Chairman of Division II (Electrical Engineering) of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences.
• 1989-1993Chairman of the reference committee on Information Technology for the DUP-program, Swedish National Board for Technical Development.
• 1987-1993: Chairman of the steering committee for the Programme on Digital Communication, The Swedish National Board for Technical Development (STUs for Digital Kommunikation).

Editorships:

• 1978-1988: Associate Editor of STOCHASTICS, Gordon and Breach Science Publishers
• 1980-1988: Associate Editor for SYSTEMS AND CONTROL LETTERS, North Holland.
• 1983-present: Associate Editor for IMA JOURNAL OF MATHEMATICAL CONTROL AND INFORMATION, Oxford University Press.
• 1983-1984: Guest Co-Editor for the Special Issue of AUTOMATICA on Adaptive Control, September, 1984.
• 1984-present: Associate Editor for CONTROL - THEORY AND ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY: Mita Press, Japan.
• 1982-1986: Subject Editor for ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SYSTEMS AND CONTROL, Pergamon Press.
• 1988-present: Associate Editor for STOCHASTICS, Analysis and Applications, Marcel Dekker.
• 1987-present: Associate Editor for INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ADAPTIVE CONTROL AND SIGNAL PROCESSING, John Wiley & Sons.
• 1990-present: Associate Editor for MATHEMATICS OF CONTROL, SIGNALS AND SYSTEMS, Springer Verlag.
• 1992 - 1999Associate Editor at Large for IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control.
• 2003-present: Associate Editor at Large for the European Journal of Control.

International organizations:

• 1978 -1984: Member of IFAC's Technical Committee on Education.
• 1981 - 1984:Member and Vice-Chairman of IFAC's Technical Committee on Theory.
• 1984 - 1987: Chairman of IFAC's Technical Committee on Theory and member of IFAC's Technical Board.
• 1987 - 1993: Chairman of IFAC's Technical Board and Vice-President of IFAC.
• 1994 - 2001: Member of the Council of the European Community Control Association (ECCA).

Publications:

• 10 books
• About 150 articles in refereed international journals
• About 200 articles in international conferences
• A major software package: The System Identification Toolbox (for use with MATLAB)

See http://www.control.isy.liu.se/~ljung/ for more information.

Lennart Ljung, Dec 2006