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Professor Robert Shorten The
Hamilton Institute |
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I am originally from
Dublin, Ireland. I graduated from University
College Dublin in
1990 with a B.E., and in 1992 with a Masters Degree in Image Processing. After
completion of my studies I spent six years working and studying in Berlin,
Germany. At various times I worked with AEG, Daimler-Benz Research, and
was a Marie Curie Fellow in Berlin. I completed the
requirements for a Ph.D. while at Daimler-Benz Research in Berlin and then spent a short period as a visiting
post-doc at the Center for Systems Science at Yale University. I returned to Ireland in
1997, joined NUI Maynooth in 1998, and I co-founded the Hamilton Institute in
2001. I am a former local co-ordinator of the Marie Curie Association in Ireland. I am a member of the
IEEE, SIAM and ILAS, and I am the Irish representative of the European Union
Control Association.
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Current position I am a Full Professor
at the Hamilton Institute, NUI Maynooth. I have taught
Architecture (SE103, SE111), Signal Processing (SE206), Non-linear Modelling
courses (CS416) and a course on Hybrid Dynamical Systems in the Department of
Mathematics at TCD. At present I am a full-time researcher at the Hamilton
Institute. I am also visiting TU Berlin as a visiting Prof. this summer. Research interests My current research involves investigating the stability properties of time-varying linear systems and hybrid systems. I am particularly interested in spectral characterisations of various types of stability. A second interest involves the study of feedback congestion control mechanisms for communication networks (such as TCP/IP). In particular, I am interested in the dynamics of such networks. A third interest is in the area of software configurable cars; specifically in the area of adaptive handling dynamics. Publications, theses in these areas, and patents can be found here. Current projects 2. SFI Basic research award in stability theory 3. SFI investigator award in communication networks 4. SFI PI Grant in Decentralised systems (with Doug
Leith as PI) Recently completed projects 2. Basic research award in stability theory 3. Basic research
award in chaos theory (With Professor Heffernan as PI) Work on Hybrid Systems (2001-2005) Professor Peter Wellstead, UMIST, (Walton Visitor, 2004) Professor Uri Rothblum, Technion, (Visitor 2007) Professor Avi Berman, Technion, (Visitor, 2003, 2004, 2005,2006) Professor Arie Leizarowitz, Technion, (Visitor, 2004,2005) Professor Kumpati S. Narendra, Yale, (Visitor, 2003-2006, Walton Visitor
2007) Professor Christopher King, Northeastern, (Visitor,
2004,2006,2007) Professor Ezra Zeheb, Technion, (Visitor, 2005,2007) Professor Michael Neumann, U. Conn., (Visitor 2006,2007) Professor Martin Corless, Purdue, (Visitor 2007) Dr. Kai Wulff, TU Berlin, (Visitor 2006, 2007) Mehmet Akar (Researcher, 2005-2007) Christopher Kellett (Researcher, 2005-2006) John Foy (Researcher, 2003) Christos Yfoulis (Researcher, 2003) Fabian Wirth (Researcher, 2003-2006) Rade Stanojevic (Ph.D. Candidate – Communication
networks) Carlos Villegas (Ph.D. Candidate – Automotive ) Selim Solmaz (Ph.D. Candidate – Stability theory) Jonathan Eppelien (Studienarbeit, Stability theory,
Completed 2007) Alan Rogers (Ph.D. completed – Random maps, 2006) Florian Knorn (Studienarbeit completed, Graph theory,
2006) Oliver Mason (Ph.D. completed – Stability, Graph theory,
2004) - Thesis Kai Wulff (Ph.D. completed – Stability theory, 2005) |
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