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Stéphane Lafortune: News
Stéphane Lafortune voted 2024 HKN Professor of the Year
Prof. Lafortune is receiving this honor for the second time. Last year, he taught the introductory course in signals and systems, and a new introductory course focused on the challenges of reducing greenhouse gas emissions.Necmiye Ozay is the Recipient of the First Faculty Development Professorship in ECE
Dr. Enke Chen and Huiyi Luan established the fund in honor of Prof. Stéphane Lafortune.Congrats ECE alumni who joined academia
Congratulations to these ECE graduates who have recently joined academia as faculty members!Andrew Wintenberg awarded Predoctoral Fellowship to support research impacting the safety of smart systems
Wintenberg is developing computer algorithms and tools to improve the security of cyber and cyber-physical systems.Aaditya Hambarde awarded Towner prize for his outstanding contributions as a Graduate Student Instructor
Hambarde is recognized for his tremendous dedication to students and for the creation of new course resources for Introduction to Signals and Systems.New textbook provides streamlined guide for undergrads studying Signals and Systems
The textbook, authored by Prof. Stéphane Lafortune, covers the main material students need to know for continuous-time signals and systems with a focus on linear time-invariant systems and their response to different classes of input signals.Introduction to Discrete Events Systems: Third Edition
This popular textbook, first published in 1999, is now available as an e-book, or hard cover on demand.Data security for a safer world
ECE alum Kurt Rohloff helped create one of the world’s best homomorphic encryption software libraries, and he reflects on how his time at Michigan helped shape his career.
Stéphane Lafortune Voted 2019 HKN Professor of the Year in ECE
An expert in discrete event systems, Lafortune is currently teaching a sophomore level class in Signals and Systems.
Stéphane Lafortune named N. Harris McClamroch Professor of EECS
Lafortune’s research in discrete event systems includes multiple problem domains, with applications to computer and software systems.
Xiang Yin receives honorable mention for ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award
Yin researched cyber-physical systems and discrete-event systems.
Stéphane Lafortune receives Research Excellence Award from College of Engineering
The award honors his contributions to system and control theory.
Stéphane Lafortune named Fellow of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC)
Prof. Lafortune has been a leading researcher in the field of discrete event systems (DES) for the last 25 years. His fundamental work covers the gamut from modeling, analysis, diagnosis, control, and optimization.
Xiang Yin earns Pre-Doc Fellowship for research in cyber-physical systems
Xiang’s research focuses on developing new methods to synthesize different control and sensing strategies in a discrete-event system.
ECE welcomes new engineering robotics center
The center, to be built on North Campus, will offer state-of-the-art facilities in a 3-story, 100,000 square foot building.
Yi-Chin Wu receives ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award for research in network security
Her dissertation focused on “opacity,” which captures whether a given secret of the system can be inferred by intruders who observe the behavior of the system.
Four ECE faculty selected for 2014-15 College of Engineering Awards
Congratulations to Profs Guo, Lafortune, Liu, and Lu!
Six ECE Faculty Selected for 2013-14 College of Engineering Awards
Congratulations to the following ECE Faculty recipients of 2013-14 College of Engineering Awards:U-M researcher involved in $10 million project to advance computer programming
The five year project includes multiple research institutions, partners in industry, and educational outreach to the next generation of computer scientists.
Hongwei Liao, EE Systems Grad Student, awarded Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship
Liao’s research contributes theoretical developments on the control of Petri nets, and has potential to be extended to a broader class of resource allocation systems.