Michael Rotkowitz

Michael C. Rotkowitz
Alma mater Stanford University
Awards

PECASE (2014)
NSF CAREER Award (2014)
SIAM Control and Systems Theory Prize (2011)

IEEE Axelby Award (2007)
Scientific career
Institutions University of Maryland
University of Melbourne Australian National University Royal Institute of Technology
Thesis Tractable Problems in Optimal Decentralized Control (2005)
Website www.isr.umd.edu/~mcrotk/

Michael Charles Rotkowitz (born 1974) is an applied mathematician best known for his work in decentralized control theory. He is a professor at the University of Maryland, College Park where he holds appointments in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and the Institute for Systems Research (ISR), and is also affiliated with the Applied Mathematics & Statistics, and Scientific Computation Program (AMSC).

Rotkowitz is currently on leave from his university position, and is working as a Research Scientist with Lyft Marketplace Labs in San Francisco.

Born in Brooklyn, Rotkowitz grew up in Old Bridge Township, New Jersey.[1]

Education

Rotkowitz received a B.S. in Mathematical and Computational Science, an M.S. in Statistics, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Aeronautics and Astronautics, all from Stanford University.

Academic career

Rotkowitz was the Postdoctoral Fellow in Networked Embedded Control at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm, Sweden from 2005-6, and a Research Fellow with the Australian National University in Canberra, Australia from 2006-8. From 2008-11 he served as a Research Fellow, Senior Research Fellow, and Queen Elizabeth II Fellow at the University of Melbourne. Since 2012 he has been Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and the Institute for Systems Research (ISR), and is also affiliated with the Applied Mathematics & Statistics, and Scientific Computation Program (AMSC).

Honors and awards

References

  1. ↑ Rotkowitz, Michael; and Lall, Sanjay. "A Characterization of Convex Problems in Decentralized Control", IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. 51, No. 2, February 2006. Accessed June 1, 2018. "Michael Rotkowitz was born in Brooklyn, NY, in 1974, and was raised in Old Bridge, NJ."
  2. ↑ "A Characterization of Convex Problems in Decentralized Control"
  3. ↑ Control and Systems Theory Prize
  4. ↑ "SIAM award for Dr Michael Rotkowitz - The Melbourne Engineer". The Melbourne Engineer. 6 July 2011.
  5. ↑ "President Obama names Michael Rotkowitz a recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers". www.ece.umd.edu. Retrieved 24 May 2018.
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