Brian David Outram Anderson (born 15 January 1941) is Professor in the Research School of Information Sciences and Engineering at the

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. His research interests include circuits, signal processing and control, and his current work focuses on distributed control of

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s, sensor network localization, adaptive and non-linear control. Professor Anderson served as President of the

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from 1998 to 2002. Anderson was elected as a member into the

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in 2002 for his contributions to system and control theory, and for international leadership in promoting engineering science and technology. Dianne Anderson is Brian's wife. They both live in Canberra.

Education

Anderson received a BS (1962) in mathematics and BE (1964) in electrical engineering from the

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and a PhD (1966) in electrical engineering from

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, under Robert W. Newcomb.

Awards and honours

* 1992 – Matthew Flinders Medal and Lecture * 1992 – Hendrik W. Bode Lecture Prize * 1993 –

Officer of the Order of Australia The Order of Australia is an Australian honours and awards system, Australian honour that recognises Australian citizens and other persons for outstanding achievement and service. It was established on 14 February 1975 by Elizabeth II, Monarch ...

* 1997 – IEEE Control Systems AwardList of recipients
/ref> * 1999 – Giorgio Quazza Medal * 2001 – IEEE James H. Mulligan, Jr. Education Medal * 2001 –

Centenary Medal The Centenary Medal is an award which was created by the Australian Government in 2001. It was established to commemorate the centenary of the Federation of Australia and to recognise "people who made a contribution to Australian society or g ...

(Australia) * 2002 – M A Sargent Medal * 2007 – Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon (Japan) Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA)
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, 2008; accessed 6 October 2010. * 2016 –

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* 2016 – John R. Ragazzini Award

Membership of learned societies

* 1974 –

, Fellow.CV: Brian D.O. Anderson
anu.edu.au * 1975 –

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, Fellow. * 1980 – Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Fellow. * 1985 –

Institution of Engineers Australia Engineers Australia (EA), known formally as the Institution of Engineers, Australia, is an Australian professional body and Non-profit organization, not-for-profit organisation whose purpose is to advance the science and practice of engineerin ...

, Honorary Fellow. * 1989 – Royal Society, London, Fellow. * 2002 – National Academy of Engineering, USA, Foreign Associate. * 2005 –

International Federation of Automatic Control The International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC), founded in September 1957 in France, is a multinational federation of 49 national member organizations (NMO), each one representing the engineering and scientific societies concerned with a ...

, Fellow.

References

External links

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1941 births Living people Academic staff of the Australian National University Companions of the Order of Australia Officers of the Order of Australia Fellows of the Australian Academy of Science Fellows of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering Fellows of the Royal Society Recipients of the Order of the Rising Sun Fellows of the IEEE Presidents of the Australian Academy of Science Recipients of the M. A. Sargent Medal Foreign associates of the National Academy of Engineering {{Australia-academic-bio-stub