Jan M. Maciejowski FIEEE is a British

electrical engineer Electrical engineering is an engineering discipline concerned with the study, design, and application of equipment, devices, and systems which use electricity, electronics, and electromagnetism. It emerged as an identifiable occupation in the ...

. He is Professor Emeritus of Control Engineering at the

University of Cambridge , mottoeng = Literal: From here, light and sacred draughts. Non literal: From this place, we gain enlightenment and precious knowledge. , established = , other_name = The Chancellor, Masters and Schola ...

. He is notable for his contributions to

system identification The field of system identification uses statistical methods to build mathematical models of dynamical systems from measured data. System identification also includes the optimal design of experiments for efficiently generating informative data f ...

and control.

Career

Maciejowski studied at the

University of Sussex , mottoeng = Be Still and Know , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £14.4 million (2020) , budget = £319.6 million (2019–20) , chancellor = Sanjeev Bhaskar , vice_chancellor = Sasha Roseneil , ...

(BSc 1971) and the

(PhD 1978). As an academic, he joined the University of Cambridge where he became

Professor Professor (commonly abbreviated as Prof.) is an academic rank at universities and other post-secondary education and research institutions in most countries. Literally, ''professor'' derives from Latin as a "person who professes". Professor ...

Control Engineering Control engineering or control systems engineering is an engineering discipline that deals with control systems, applying control theory to design equipment and systems with desired behaviors in control environments. The discipline of controls o ...

and a fellow of Pembroke College. From 2009 to 2014, Maciejowski was head of the Information Engineering Division within the University of Cambridge's Department of Engineering. From 2008 to 2018, he was President of Pembroke College. Maciejowski's research has dealt with various aspects of control engineering, notably fault-tolerant control,

autonomous systems An autonomous robot is a robot that acts without recourse to human control. The first autonomous robots environment were known as Elmer and Elsie, which were constructed in the late 1940s by W. Grey Walter. They were the first robots in history t ...

model predictive control Model predictive control (MPC) is an advanced method of process control that is used to control a process while satisfying a set of constraints. It has been in use in the process industries in chemical plants and oil refineries since the 1980s. In r ...

and

. When awarding him a fellowship, the

IEEE The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is a 501(c)(3) professional association for electronic engineering and electrical engineering (and associated disciplines) with its corporate office in New York City and its operati ...

cited Maciejowski's "contributions to system identification and control". He has played an active role in the activities of several learned societies, and was president of the European Control Association from 2003 to 2005. He retired in 2018.

Awards

* Fellowship of the IEEE, awarded in 2011.

Career

Awards

See also

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