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President's Message

by Imre J. Rudas

Five SMCS Members
Elevated to
IEEE Fellow

t gives me great plea sure to
announce that five elite members of our Society have been
elevated to the grade of Fellow in
2020. It is customary to celebrate
this through a formal ceremony at
the IEEE International Conference
on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics,
our flagship annual conference in
October. The IEEE grade of Fellow
is conferred by the IEEE Board
of Directors upon a person with
an outstanding record of accomplishment s i n a ny of t he I EEE
fields of interest. The total number selected in any one year cannot exceed one-tenth of 1% of the
total voting membership.
IEEE Fellow is the highest grade
of membership and recognized by
the technical community as a prestigious honor and an important career
achievement. As the world's leading
professional association for advancing technology for humanity, with
more than 400,000 members in 160
countries, IEEE is a leading authority on a wide variety of areas ranging
from aerospace systems, computers
and telecommunications to biomedical engineering, electric power, and
consumer electronics.
I am proud to present a short biography of the newly elevated IEEE Fellows along with their contributions.

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Jianbo Lu
Jianbo Lu earned
his Ph.D. degree
in aerospace engineer ing from
Purdue University in 1997. Since
2000, he has been
with Ford Motor Company, where he
is currently the technical expert and
group leader in robotics for mobility
solutions at the Research and Innovation Center. He has published more
than 80 papers on systems and controls and their applications in automotive systems, including chassis
controls, driver assistance, active
safety, and robotics and autonomous
vehicles. He holds 143 U.S. patents.
Lu was twice awarded with the highest Ford corporate award-the Henry
Ford Technology Award (2002 and
2013)-for developing and implementing automotive technologies with
significant business impact. Applications of his work can be found in a
number of current implementations in
tens of millions of vehicles.
Lu is on the editorial board of
International Journal of Vehicle
Autonomous Systems, International
Journal of Vehicle Performance, and
ASME Journal of Autonomous Vehicles and Systems. He was an associate editor for IEEE Transactions on
Control Systems Technology (2010-
2016) and IFAC Journal of Control
Practice Engineering (2008-2014). He
served as the vice chair for industry

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and application at the 2015 American
Control Conference. He is the founding chair and cochair of the Intelligent Vehicular Systems and Control
Technical Committee.
Bin Jiang
Bin Jiang earned
his Ph.D. degree
in automatic control from Northeastern University,
Shenyang, China,
in 1995. From 1998
to 2013, he was a postdoctoral fellow,
a research fellow, an invited professor,
and a visiting professor in Singapore,
France, the United States, and Canada, respectively. Since 2004, he has
been with Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (NUAA),
China. He is currently a chair professor of the Cheung Kong Scholar Program in the Ministry of Education and
the vice president of NUAA.
Jiang's research interests include
fault diagnosis and fault-tolerant control. He has deeply and systematically
investigated intelligent fault diagnosis and fault-tolerant control methods
and technologies for various complex
dynamic systems with applications to
flying and ground vehicles, including
satellites, near-space vehicles, helicopters, and high-speed rain trains.
He has authored eight books and
more than 200 referred international
journal and conference papers.
He is the chair of the IEEE Control
Systems Chapter in the IEEE Nanjing
Section and a member of the IFAC
Technical Committee on Fault Detection, Supervision, and Safety of Technical Processes. He was a recipient of
the Second Class Prize of China's National Natural Science Award in 2018.
He has served as an associate editor or as an editorial board member
for a number of journals, including

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