David Mayne
David Quinn Mayne, FRS, FIEEE, FREng[1] (born 23 April 1930) is a British academic, engineer, teacher and author.
Career edit
Mayne began his career in 1950 as a lecturer at the University of the Witwatersrand (1950–54; 1957–59).
He lectured at Imperial College London from 1959-67 and also received his PhD in 1967 at the University of London under John Westcott.[2] He was a Research Fellow at Harvard (1971). At Imperial College he was professor of control theory (1971–91) as well as concurrently heading the Department of Electrical Engineering (1984–88).
He was a professor in the Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of California, Davis from 1989-96. From 1996 he has been a professor emeritus.
He was named honorary professor at Beihang University in Beijing in 2006.
His students include Peter Caines.
Awards and affiliations edit
- Giorgio Quazza Medal, 2014
- IEEE Control Systems Award, 2009[3][4]
- Hon. DTech Lund University, 1995
- Hon, Fellow Imperial College London, 2000
- FIEEE - 1981
- FRS - 1985
- FREng[1] - 1987
- Fellow, International Federation of Automatic Control, 2006
Selected publications edit
- Differential Dynamic Programming ISBN 9780444000705 (1970)
References edit
- ^ a b . Royal Academy of Engineering. Archived from the original on 21 May 2020. Retrieved 21 April 2018.
- ^ "David Mayne". The Mathematics Genealogy Project. Retrieved 9 September 2022.
- ^ "IEEE Control Systems Award Recipients" (PDF). IEEE. Retrieved 30 March 2011.
- ^ . IEEE Control Systems Society. Archived from the original on 29 December 2010. Retrieved 30 March 2011.
External links edit
- Biodata at Debrett's
- Control Global website
- David Q. Mayne aided the creation of software that he contributed to algorithmically
- David Mayne at the Mathematics Genealogy Project