Posted March 18, 2013 Atlanta, GA
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Magnus Egerstedt has been appointed as the Schlumberger Professor, effective March 1. He is the first faculty member in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) to hold this new professorship.
Dr. Egerstedt joined the Georgia Tech ECE faculty in 2001 and conducts research in the areas of control theory and robotics, with particular focus on control and coordination of complex networks, such as multi-robot systems, mobile sensor networks, and cyber-physical systems. He leads the Georgia Robotics and Intelligent Systems Laboratory, where he currently advises 15 graduate students. He has published four books and over 250 refereed journal and conference publications, and he serves as associate editor for both the Journal of Discrete Event Dynamical Systems and the Journal of Nonlinear Analysis: Hybrid Systems.
Dr. Egerstedt is not only an established educational leader in ECE and in the systems and controls group, but also on campus and in the massive open online course (MOOC) arena. He was instrumental in establishing the multidisciplinary Ph.D. program in robotics and was one of the first faculty members at Georgia Tech to teach a Coursera MOOC called "Control of Mobile Robots," which has an enrollment of over 40,000 students this semester.
Elected an IEEE Fellow in 2012, Dr. Egerstedt was recently named an IEEE Control Systems Society Distinguished Lecturer and as the inaugural deputy editor-in-chief of the new journal, IEEE Transactions on Control of Networked Systems. He is also a past recipient of the NSF CAREER Award and the ECE Outstanding Junior Faculty Member Award.
About the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
The School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) is one of eight schools and departments in the College of Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. All ECE undergraduate and graduate programs are in the top 10 of the most recent college rankings by U.S. News & World Report. Over 2,500 students are enrolled in the School’s graduate and undergraduate programs, and in the last academic year, 723 degrees were awarded.
Over 110 ECE faculty members are involved in 11 areas of research, education, and commercialization – bioengineering, computer systems and software, digital signal processing, electric power, electromagnetics, electronic design and applications, microsystems, optics and photonics, systems and controls, telecommunications, and VLSI systems and digital design.
About the Georgia Institute of Technology
The Georgia Institute of Technology is one of the world's premier research universities. Ranked seventh among U.S. News & World Report's top public universities and the eighth best engineering and information technology university in the world by Shanghai Jiao Tong University's Academic Ranking of World Universities, Georgia Tech’s more than 20,000 students are enrolled in its Colleges of Architecture, Computing, Engineering, Liberal Arts, Business, and Sciences. Tech is among the nation's top producers of women and minority engineers. The Institute offers research opportunities to both undergraduate and graduate students and is home to more than 100 interdisciplinary units plus the Georgia Tech Research Institute.
