» John H. Seely Professor with the Florida A&M University-Florida State University Department
        of Mechanical Engineering, 4/04 to present. (Professor, 8/99 to present, Associate Professor,
        7/94 to 7/99.) Teach both graduate and undergraduate courses in Controls, Dynamics and
        Vibrations. Conduct research in controls with a current emphasis on robust control, robust
        estimation and fault detection, and the control of manufacturing processes. Serve as the FSU
        Coordinator of the FGLSAMP (Florida-Georgia Alliance for Minority Participation) Program,
        whose mission is to increase the retention and matriculation in graduate school of STEM
        students from underrepresented minorities, 12/04 to Present. Served as Associate Chair of
        Graduate Studies, 9/96 – 8/01. Appointed College Director of Graduate Student         Recruitment,  9/01 – 6/05. Director of the Center of Intelligent Systems, Controls and
        Robotics (CISCOR, http://www.eng.fsu.edu/ciscor/) since 8/03.
 

     » Staff Engineer for Harris Corporation, Melbourne, FL, 7/87 to 8/94. (Promoted from Associate
        Principal Engineer to Staff Engineer in 6/92.) Served as principal investigator for two studies to
        develop numerical algorithms for robust, reduced-order control design. Job responsibilities
        included control design leadership in the NASA Control-Structures Interaction (CSI) Guest
        Investigator Program. This project required the application of modern control to ground-based
        structural testbeds and involved structural identification, simulation, and control system design
        and implementation. Also served as project leader for an IR&D project in noise cancellation.
        Other job responsibilities included basic research in robustness analysis and robust control
        design, adaptive neural identification and control, and acoustic control.
     » Adjunct Faculty for the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the Florida
        Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL, 1/92 to 8/94. Served as an advisor for two Ph.D.
        dissertations and one Master's thesis. Taught a course in classical control and part of a course in
        nonlinear control.


     » Technical Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, 6/92 to
        12/01. Solicited reviews and recommend publication of applications oriented research papers in
        automatic control.


     » Research Assistant for the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Purdue University, West
        Lafayette, IN, 8/82 to 5/87. Research involved modeling and control system design for flexible
        space structures and was sponsored under grants from NASA and the National Science
        Foundation. Individual responsibilities included theoretical and experimental investigations of
        control design for multiple objectives.


     » Member of Technical Staff for AT&T Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, NJ, 7/81 to 9/81. Helped to
        design components for undersea implementation of fiber optic cable.


     » Senior Technical Associate for AT&T Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, NJ, 6/80 to 9/80.
        Investigated heat transfer mechanisms from resistors mounted on printed circuit boards.

     » Graduate Student Supervision

          • Resulting Degrees:

               - J. Combey, “Comparison of Univalued and Multivalued Fuzzy Behavior Systems for
                 Autonomous Robot Navigation Control,” M.S., December 2003.

               - R. Madden, “Open Modular Architecture Control for an Industrial Weigh Belt Feeder,” M.S.,
                 December 2002.

               - Y. Zhao, “Autotuning of an Industrial Weigh Belt Feeder,” Ph.D., December 2001.

               - M. Selekwa, “Fuzzy Logic Approaches for the Design of Multi-Objective Control Systems
                 Using H2 and H∞ Methods,” Ph.D., August 2001.

               - A. Sivaprasad, “Initialization of a Quasi-Newton Algorithm for Reduced Order H2 Optimal
                 Controller Design Using Indirect Reduction Methods,” M.S., December 2000.

               - C. Fan, “Radial Error Feedback Geometric Adaptive Control for Bar Turning in CNC
                 Turning Centers,” Ph.D., August 2000.

               - T. Curry , “Robust Fault Detection Using Robust l1 Estimation and Fuzzy Logic,” M.S., May
                 2000.

               - T. Song, “Robust Control and Estimation for Discrete-Time Systems with Applications to
                 Finite Word Length Design and Robust Fault Detection,” Ph.D., August 1999.

               - R. Walker, “Parameter Identification for a Continuous Stirred Tank Reactor,” M.S., August
                 1999.

               - D. Sadhukhan, “Development of Algorithms for Synthesis of Fixed-Architecture Robust
                 Controllers,” Ph.D., August 1998.

               - R. Moser, "Structured Singular Value Analysis and Synthesis using Fixed- Structure
                 Dynamic D-Scales," Florida Institute of Technology, Florida Institute of Technology, Dept. of
                 Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Ph.D., Dec.1994.

               - S. Ying, "Reduced-Order, H2 Modelling and Control: Theoretical Issues and Computational
                 Algorithms," Florida Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical and Aerospace
                 Engineering, Ph.D., Dec. 1993.

               - Y. Ge, "Homotopy Algorithms for H2/H∞ Control Analysis and Synthesis," Virginia
                 Polytechnic Institute, Dept. of Computer Science, Ph.D., Dec. 1993.

               - D. Zigic, "Homotopy Methods for Solving the Optimal Projection Equations for the Reduced
                 Order Model Problem," Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Dept. of Computer Science, M.S.,
                 June 1991.

     » Courses Taught:

               EML 3013C............................Dynamic Systems I
               EML 3014C............................Dynamic Systems II
               EML 4311/5312.....................Control System Design and Analysis
               EML 4316/5317.....................Advanced Control System Design and Analysis
               EML 4930/5930.....................Mobile Robotics
               EML 6365...............................Robust Control
               EML 5930...............................Linear Multivariable Control  
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