Selected Plenary Talks

“Let’s Control Everything!”
2001 American Control Conference
June 2001 [ DOWNLOAD ]

“From Discrete Event to Hybrid Systems”
6th Intl. Workshop on Discrete Event Systems
October 2002 [ DOWNLOAD ]

“Bargain Hunting in the No-Free-Lunch Mall of Complex Systems”
41st IEEE Conference on Decision and Control
December 2002  [ DOWNLOAD ]

“A View of Cooperative Control for Autonomous Vehicles and Sensor Networks”
2005 IEEE Intl. Symposium on Intelligent Control
June 2005 [ DOWNLOAD ]

“Distributed Optimization for Cooperative Missions in Uncertain Environments”
8th International Conference on Cooperative Control and Optimization
January 2008 [ DOWNLOAD ]

“Cooperative Control and Optimization in an Uncertain, Asynchronous, Wireless Networked World”
18th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation
June 2010 and
Distinguished Lecture, Information Science and Technology Center, Colorado State University
October 2010 [ DOWNLOAD ]

“Event-Driven Control and Optimization: Where Less is Often More”
24th Chinese Control and Decision Conference
May 2012 [ DOWNLOAD ]

“Control and Optimization in Cyber-Physical Systems: From Sensor Networks to “Smart Parking” Apps”
2012 Society of Instrument and Control Engineers Annual Conference
August 2012 [ DOWNLOAD ]

“Discrete Event Systems: Modeling and Performance Analysis”
2012 Brazil Automation Conference
August 2012 [ DOWNLOAD ]

“Event-Driven Control, Communication and Optimization”
32nd Chinese Control Conference
July 2013 [ DOWNLOAD ]

“Complexity Made Simple (at a small price)”
2014 Distinguished Scholar Award Lecture,
March 2014 [ DOWNLOAD ] – watch LECTURE VIDEO

“Smart Cities as Cyber-Physical Systems”
ACM/IEEE 6th Intl. Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems
April 2015 [ DOWNLOAD ]

“Smart Cities as Cyber Social Physical Systems”
55th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC),
December 2016 [ DOWNLOAD ]

“Automating Mobility in Smart Cities”
20th IFAC World Congress,
July 2017 [ DOWNLOAD ] – watch LECTURE VIDEO

“Bridging the Gap Between Optimal Control and Provably Safe Real-Time Control: Theory and Applications to Autonomous Vehicles”
16th IEEE Intl. Conference on Control and Automation,
October 2020 – watch LECTURE VIDEO