Awards and Prizes




Awards Ceremonies



DateEventLocationAward
August 24Opening CeremonyAuditorium 1, Cape Town International Convention CentreGiorgio Quazza Medal 2014
Nataniel B. Nichols Medal 2014
Industrial Achievements Award 2014
High Impact Paper Award 2014
IFAC Advisors 2014
August 28Congress BanquetGreen Point Park and Biodiversity GardenIFAC Fellow Awards 2011-2014
August 29Closing CeremonyAuditorium 1, Cape Town International Convention CentreHarold Chestnut Control Engineering Textbook Award 2014

IFAC Journals Awards
 
  • Automatica Best Paper Awards
     
  • Control Engineering Practice Best Paper Awards
     
  • Journal of Process Control Best Paper Awards
     
  • Engineering Application of Artificial Intelligence Best Paper Awards
     
  • Mechatronics Best Paper Awards

    Congress Awards
     
  • Young Authors Prize
     
  • Application Paper Prize
     
  • Best Interactive (Poster) Paper Prize


    Awards Committees



    IFAC Awards CommitteeChair: Tohru Katayama (JP)
    Giorgio Quazza Medal 2014Chair: Graham Goodwin (AU)
    Brian Anderson (AU)
    Karl Astrom (SE)
    Tamer Basar (US)
    Edward Davison (CA)
    Alberto Isidori (IT)
    Petar Kokotovic (US)
    Lennart Ljung (SE)
    Nataniel B. Nichols Medal 2014Chair: Karl Hedrick (US)
    Siva Banda (US)
    Katsuhisa Furuta (JP)
    Graham Goodwin (AU)
    Manfred Morari (CH)
    Gunter Stein (US)
    Industrial Achievements Award 2014Chair: Tariq Samad (US)
    Masuyuki Fujita (JP)
    Rolf Isermann (DE)
    Heikki Koivo (FI)
    Kevin Wise (US)
    High Impact Paper Award 2014Chair: Paul van den Hof (NL)
    Christos Cassandras (US)
    Hidenori Kimura (JP)
    Lennart Ljung (SE)
    David Mayne (UK)
    Carsten Scherer (DE)
    Fellow Selection Committee 2011 - 2014Chair: S. Engell (DE)
    Robert Bitmead (US/AU)
    Katsuhisa Furuta (JP)
    Wook Kwon (KR)
    Mike Masten (US)
    Roberto Tempo (IT)
    Fei-Yue Wang (CN)
    Harold Chestnut Control Engineering Textbook Award 2014Chair: Bozenna Pasik-Duncan (US)
    Karl Astrom (SE)
    Tamer Basar (US)
    Christos Cassandras (US)
    Sebastian Dormido (ES)
    Alexander Fradkov (RU)
    Graham Goodwin (AU)
    Abraham Haddad (US)
    Lei Guo (CN)
    Vladimir Havlena (CZ)
    Stephen Kahne (US)
    Hassan Khalil (US)
    Petar Kokotovic (US)
    Alberto Leva (IT)
    Lennart Ljung (SE)
    Jan Maciejowski (UK)
    Manfred Morari (CH)
    Richard Murray (US)
    Rodolphe Sepulchre (BE)
    M. Vidyasagar (IN)
    Ljubo Vlacic (AU)
    Automatica Best Paper AwardsChair: Alexander Kurzhanski (RU)
    Murat Arcak (US)
    Marco Campi (IT)
    Rolf Findisen (DE)
    Matthew James (AU)
    Anders Rantzer (SE)
    Control Engineering Practice Best Paper AwardsChair: Alexander Horch (DE)
    Nina Thornhill (UK)
    Lei Xie (CN)
    Tore Hägglund (SE)
    Jie Yu (US)
    Gudi Ravindra (IN)
    Journal of Process Control Best Paper AwardsChair: Thomas McAvoy (US)
    Richard Braatz (US)
    Denis Dochain (BE)
    Wolfgang Marquardt (DE)
    Engineering Application of Artificial Intelligence AwardsChair: Rob Vingerhoeds (FR)
    Leo Motus (EE)
    Jus Kocijan (SI)
    Gerhard Weiss (NL)
    Mechatronics Best Paper AwardsChair: Georg Schitter (AT )
    Abu Sebastian (CH)
    Rob Munnig-Schmidt (NL)
    Raymond de Callafon (US)
    Sean Andersson (US)
    Maarten Steinbuch (NL)
    Tong Heng Lee (SG)
    Congress Young Author PrizeChair: Zoltan Nagy (US)
    Frank Doyle (US)
    Hideaki Ishii (JP)
    Thomas Jones (ZA)
    Jay H Lee (KR)
    Wolfgang Marquardt (DE)
    Sigurd Skogestad (NO)
    Moses Tade (AU)
    Congress Application Paper PrizeChair: Klaus Janschek (DE)
    Richard Braatz (US)
    Benoit Frapard (FR)
    Ulrich Jumar (DE)
    Philipp Nenninger (DE)
    Jurek Z. Sasiadek (CA)
    Jan Wikander (SE)
    Takashi Yamaguchi (JP)
    Best Interactive (Poster) Paper Prize
    Main Committee
    Chair: John Baillieul (US)
    Robert Bitmead (US/AU)
    Christos Casandras (US)
    Daizhan Cheng (CN)
    Jay Farrell (US)
    Stephen Morse (US)
    Maria Elena Valcher (IT)
    Yutaka Yamamoto (JP)
    Torsten Söderström (SE)
    Local Subcommittee
    Loutjie Coetzee (ZA)
    Derik le Roux (ZA)
    Otis Nyandoro (ZA)