Jeff S. Shamma

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name = Jeff S. Shamma

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residence = Atlanta, Georgia
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fields = Control theory Game theory Robotics
workplaces = Georgia Institute of Technology
alma_mater = Massachusetts Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology
doctoral_advisor = Michael Athans
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awards = Donald P. Eckman Award
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Jeff S. Shamma is an American control theorist and the Professor and Julian T. Hightower Chair in Systems & Control Systems and Controls at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Shamma is a Fellow of the IEEE, and a recipient of the American Automatic Control Council Donald P. Eckman Award. [http://www.a2c2.org/awards/eckman/index.php]

Shamma was born in New York City and raised in Pensacola, Florida. He received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Georgia Tech in 1983 and a Ph.D. in Systems Science and Engineering from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1988. His Ph.D. thesis, "Analysis and Design of Gain Scheduled Control Systems", was advised by Michael Athans. [http://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=45891] After graduating from MIT, Shamma held faculty positions at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, University of Texas, Austin, and University of California, Los Angeles. He also held visiting positions at the California Institute of Technology and MIT. Shamma returned to Georgia Tech to join the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2007, and is currently the Julian T. Hightower Chair in Systems & Control Systems and Controls.

Shamma is a recipient of the NSF Research Initiation Award and the NSF Young Investigator Award. He received the American Automatic Control Council Donald P. Eckman Award in 1996, and was made an IEEE Fellow in 2006.

References

External links

* [http://www.prism.gatech.edu/~jshamma3/ Home page]
* [http://www.ece.gatech.edu/faculty-staff/fac_profiles/bio.php?id=152 Faculty profile at Georgia Tech]
* [http://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=45891 Mathematics Genealogy Project profile]