2023-06-252023-06-25https://tore.tuhh.de/handle/11420/37053Roy S. Smith is a professor of Electrical Engineering at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zürich. Prior to joining ETH in 2011, he was on the faculty of the University of California, Santa Barbara, from 1990 to 2010. His Ph.D. is from the California Institute of Technology (1990) and his undergraduate degree is from the University of Canterbury (1980) in his native New Zealand. He has been a long-time consultant to the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory and has industrial experience in automotive control and power system design. His research interests involve the modeling, identification, and control of uncertain systems. Particular control application domains of interest include chemical processes, flexible structure vibration, spacecraft and vehicle formations, aerodynamic control of kites, automotive engines, Mars aeromaneuvering entry design, building energy control, and thermoacoustic machines. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and the IFAC, an Associate Fellow of the AIAA, and a member of SIAM.