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Prof. George Irwin
Director of Intelligent Systems & Control research cluster 		Profile
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Phone: +44 (0)28 9097 5439 / 4058
E-mail: g dot irwin at ee dot qub dot ac dot uk
Recent Publications

 

Biography

 

Degrees

BSc (1st Hons), 1972. PhD, 1976. DSc, 1998.

Memberships

FREng, MRIA, CEng, IEEE Fellow, IFAC Fellow, FIEE, FInstMC

Appointments
  • Lecturer, Department of Engineering Mathematics,  University of Technology, Loughborough, England (1976-1980)
  • Lecturer (1980), Reader (1987), Professor of Control Engineering (1989), Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, QUB
  • Director, Virtual Engineering Centre (2001), QUB
  • Research Director, Intelligent Systems and Control (2005), School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, QUB

Research Interests

These include identification, monitoring and control, including neural networks, fuzzy neural systems and multivariate statistics.  He is currently working on wireless networked control systems and guidance/control of UAVs.

Professor Irwin has published over 400 papers in his field, including 10 edited books.

Honours & Awards

Prizes awarded include four IEE Premiums (1985, 1987, 1991, 1997), the Honeywell Prize from the Institute of Measurement and Control (1995), an Honourable Mention at the IFAC World Congress, in San Francisco (1996), a Best Paper Award from the Czech Academy of Sciences (1997), and an IFAC Outstanding Service award (2008).

Professor Irwin is an Honorary Professor at Harbin University of Technology (1999), Shanghai University (2005) and Shandong University (2005). He was elected Member of the Royal Irish Academy and Fellow of the UK Royal Academy of Engineering in 2002, and elected Fellow of the International Federation of Automatic Control in 2009.

Professional Activity

Professor Irwin currently chairs the IFAC Awards Committee and serves on the IFAC Executive Board.

He is an editor (formerly Editor-in-Chief) of the IFAC Journal Control Engineering Practice and is on the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Automation and Computing.

He has wide experience on the programme and organising committees of many international conferences, currently co-chairing the International Conferences on Life Science Modelling and Simulation, Intelligent Computing for Sustainable Energy and Environment to be held in Wuxi, China, September 17 - 20, 2010.

He is a member of the IFAC technical committees on 'Fuzzy and Neural Systems' and 'Networked Control Systems'.

Professor Irwin is a past chair of the executive committee of the UK Automatic Control Council and is a College member of the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, where he both chairs and serves on grant review panels.