The ECC21 Best Student Paper award recognizes excellence in a paper presented at the European Control Conference whose primary author is a student at the time of submission. In order to be eligible, the candidate must:
The nominations will be only possible after the final paper has been uploaded. To apply, nominators must upload to PaperCept the nomination application on a letterhead of the nominator. The letter should also include a declaration that the nominee was enrolled as a student at the date of the paper submission. Each nominator can apply for only one student. The nomination deadline is June 1, 2021.
The ECC 2021 Award Committee chaired by Prof. Arjan van der Schaft (University of Groningen) is formed by: Prof. Carsten Scherer (University of Stuttgart), Prof. Paolo Rapisarda (University of Southampton), and Prof. Joaquin Carrasco Gómez (University of Manchester).
The five finalists of the ECC2021 Best Student Paper were:
Finalist
Thomas Chaffey, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, Cambridge
Co-authors
R. Sepulchre
Title of paper
Monotone RLC circuits
Scheduling
ThA3.4
Rami Katz, School of Electrical Engineering, Tel Aviv University, Israel.
Emilia Fridman
Finite-dimensional control of the heat equation: Dirichlet actuation and point measurement
FrB8.4
Hamed Taghavian, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Mikael Johansson
Preservation of external positivity in discretization of linear systems
WeB03.5
Omar Farhat, Control and Optimization Lab, American University of Beirut
Dany Abou Jaoude, Mathias Hudoba de Badyn
H∞ Network Optimization for Edge Consensus
ThB5.3
Manuel Schaller, Technische Universitat Ilmemau, Institute for Mathematics, Germany
Friedrich Philipp, Timm Faulwasser, Karl Worthmann and Bernhard Maschke
Control of port-Hamiltonian systems with minimal energy supply
FrA8.3