Arthur E. Bryson
Arthur E. Bryson | |
|---|---|
| Citizenship | American |
| Awards | Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Control theory |
Arthur Earl Bryson, Jr. is the Pigott Professor of Engineering Emeritus at Stanford University and the "father of modern optimal control theory".
He received his Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology in 1951. His thesis An Interferometric Wind Tunnel Study of Transonic Flow past Wedge and Circular Arcs was advised by Hans W. Liepmann.
Bryson is the Ph.D. advisor to the Harvard control theorist Yu-Chi Ho.
Awards and honors
He was awarded membership into the National Academy of Engineering in 1970 and the National Academy of Sciences in 1973. He was awarded the IEEE Control Systems Science and Engineering Award in 1984,[1] and the Daniel Guggenheim Medal in 2009.
References
- ^ "IEEE Control Systems Award Recipients" (PDF). IEEE. Retrieved January 15, 2011.
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