H. Kwakernaak
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Editor-in-Chief Emeritus (1994 - 2003), Automatica Netherlands
Huibert Kwakernaak was born in Rijswijk (Z.H.), The Netherlands, in 1937. He obtained the diploma in Engineering Physics from the Delft University of Technology in 1960, the M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering in 1962 and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering in 1963, both from the University of California at Berkeley.
He worked at Delft University of Technology from 1964, first in the Engineering Physics Department and later also in the Mathematics Department, until in 1970 he was appointed Professor in the Applied Mathematics Department (now part of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science) of the University of Twente. He retired from his faculty position in 2002.
Dr. Kwakernaak's research interests are in linear control and systems theory. He co-authored three books, the best known of which is Linear Optimal Control Systems, with R. Sivan, Wiley-Interscience, 1972.
He is a Fellow of the IEEE and holds the Distinguished Service Award of IFAC. From1994 until the end of 2003 he was Editor-in-Chief of Automatica. From 1995 until the end of 1999 he was the Scientific Director of the Dutch Institute of Systems and Control DISC, which is a national graduate school and research institute in the systems and control area in The Netherlands.