Congratulations to Dr. Andrew Alleyne for winning the University of Illinois campus award for Excellence in Graduate Student Mentoring.  Dr. Alleyne was nominated and selected for his sustained excellence in graduate student mentoring and contributions to improving the graduate student experience. For more details about the award, visit: http://www.provost.illinois.edu/programs/awards/campus/mentor.html.

Yangmin Xie successfully defended her PhD thesis on Integrated Plant and Control Design for Vehicle-Environment Interaction on August 22nd, 2013.  Congratulations Yangmin!

Nanjun Liu was awarded “Best Paper in Session” for her 2013 American Control Conference presentation entitled, Time-Varying Norm Optimal Iterative Learning Identification.

Congratulations to Nanjun Liu who passed her preliminary exam. Nanjun’s research is highlighted here.

Congratulations to Erick Sutanto who passed his preliminary exam. Erick’s research is highlighted here.

Congratulations to Tim Deppen and fellow business partner Nishana Ismail on their 1st place finish in the 2013 Cozad competition.  The team won $25,000, among other prizes, for use with their new venture, Servabo. For more information, click here.