CURRICULUM VITAE

Bruce Allen Francis

Born: Toronto, Canada, October 8, 1947

Citizenship: Canadian

Education

BASc	1969	Mech Eng	U of Toronto
MEng	1971	Mech Eng	U of Toronto
PhD	1975	Elec Eng	U of Toronto	Supervisor: W. M. Wonham
PhD student	1971-2	Elec Eng	Concordia U	Supervisor: M. Vidyasagar

Postdoctoral Education

Postdoc Fellow	1975-6	EECS	Berkeley	Host: C. A. Desoer
Postdoc Fellow	1976-7	Engineering	U of Cambridge	Host: A. MacFarlane

Past University Positions

Assistant Prof	EE	Jan 1978 - June 1979	McGill
Assistant Prof	Eng and Appl Sci	July 1979 - June 1981	Yale
Associate Prof	EE	June 1981 - Aug 1984	U Waterloo
Associate Prof	EE	Sep 1984 - June 1986	U Toronto

Past Visiting Positions

Assistant Prof	EE	June 1977 - Dec 1977	McGill and Concordia
Assistant Prof	EE	July 1980	U Waterloo
Professor	EE	Jan - March 1988	Caltech
Professor	EE	Sep - Dec 1990	U Minnesota

Current Position

Professor, ECE, since July 1986, U Toronto

Scholarships

NRC Scholarship, 1971-4

Ontario Graduate Scholarship, 1974-5

NSERC Postdoc Fellowship, 1975-7

Honours and Awards

Teaching Award, presented by fourth-year class of 1985, Electrical Engineering, University of Toronto

1986 Outstanding Paper Award, IEEE Control Systems Society

1990 George S. Axelby Outstanding Paper Award, IEEE Control Systems Society

1991 IEEE W.R.G. Baker Prize Award for the most outstanding paper reporting original work in the IEEE Transactions, Journals, Magazines, and Proceedings

IEEE Fellow, since 1988

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Fellowship, July 27-Sept. 1, 1989

Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Control Systems Society, 1993-4

Teaching Award, presented by second-year class of 1995, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto

Teaching Award, fall term 2008, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto

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Publications

Invited Short Courses and Lectures

Course on “H-infinity Optimal Linear Control Systems,” Division of Automatic Control, Linkoping University, Sweden, August 22-26, 1983.

Course on “H-infinity Control and Sampled-Data Systems," Centro Internazionale Matematico Estivo, Como, Italy, June 18-26, 1990.

“Sampled-Data Control Theory,” Plenary talk, Benelux Systems and Control Meeting, Veldhoven, the Netherlands, 1992.

Course on “Advanced Digital Control,” given with Chen Tongwen and Jacob Apkarian, the Fields Institute, May 1992.

Course on “Sampled-Data Control Systems,” Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, China, June 1992.

“Sampled-Data Systems, Parts I and II,” Lectures at CRM, Montreal, July 22, 23, 1992.

Diplomarbeit Supervision

Johannes Dold, Otto von Guericke University of Magdeburg, 2007

Florian Dorfler, Stuttgart University, 2008.

Alumni

Editorial Positions

Associate Editor, IEEE Trans. Automatic Control, 1979-80.

Associate Editor, Automatica, 1981-85.

Associate Editor, SIAM J. Cont. Opt., 1985-87.

Associate Editor, Mathematics of Control, Signals, and Systems, 1987-2007.

Associate Editor, Systems and Control Letters, 1988-94.

Associate Editor, Journal of Systems and Control Engineering, 1990-92.

Associate Editor, European Journal of Control, 1995-97.

Administrative Positions (partial list)

Chairman, Linear Systems Technical Committee, IEEE Control Systems Society, 1979-80

Appointed member of IEEE Administrative Committee, 1980

Appointed member of IEEE CSS Awards and Fellows Nominations Committee, 1985

Program Chairman, Optimization Days, 1979

Program Committee, 1980, IEEE Conference on Decision and Control

Session Organizer and Chairman, Workshop on the Math. Theory of Networks and Systems, Virginia Beach, 1980

Session Co-organizer and Co-chairman, 1983, IEEE Conference on Decision and Control

Program Committee, 1984, IEEE Conference on Decision and Control

Session Organizer and Chairman, 1985, Symposium on Math. Theory Networks and Systems

Associate Chair, Division of Engineering Science, U. of T., 1991/2

IEEE Control Systems Award Committee, 1995-1999