Professor Lin Huang in Department of Mechanics and Aerospace Engineering, College of Engineering was elected recently as Fellow of International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) “for fundamental contributions to linear quadratic optimal control, the theory of robust stability of families of polynomials, and pole assignment”.

IFAC, founded in September 1957 with current Secretariat in Austria, is a multinational federation of National Member Organizations (NMOs), each one representing the engineering and scientific societies concerned with automatic control in its own country. According to IFAC rules, the IFAC Fellow Award, starting from 2005, is given to persons “who have made outstanding and extraordinary contributions in the field of interest of IFAC, in the role as an Engineer/Scientist, Technical Leader, or Educator”.

Huang received his higher education (including graduate school) in Department of Mathematics and Mechanics at Peking University during 1953-1961, and then worked through positions of assistant, lecturer, associate professor and finally professor in 1984. His research areas and interests lie in Stability Theory, Robust Control, and Complex Systems Control. He became member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2003.