Roger W Brockett

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Nationality American Institutions Harvard University Fields Robotics, Control theory		Name Roger Brockett

Born October 22, 1938 (age 86) Seville, Ohio ( 1938-10-22 ) Alma mater Case Western Reserve University. Education Case Western Reserve University (1960–1964) Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Natural Sciences, US & Canada
Doctoral advisor Mihajlo D. Mesarovic Notable students Jan Camiel Willems Residence United States of America

IFAC MICNON 2015, Saint Petersburg - Lecture by R. Brockett

Roger Ware Brockett (born October 22, 1938 in Seville, Ohio) is an American control theorist and the An Wang Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Harvard University, who founded the Harvard Robotics Laboratory in 1983.

Biography

Brockett received his B.S. in 1960, his M.S. in 1962, and his Ph.D. in 1964 (under the supervision of Mihajlo D. Mesarovic), all from Case Western Reserve University.

After teaching at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1963 to 1969, he joined the faculty at Harvard University where he became the Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Mathematics and in 1989 the An Wang Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering.