Alexander Fay
(M'02-SM'07) is a Full Professor of Automation Technology in the Mechanical
Engineering Department at the Helmut-Schmidt-University / University
of the Federal Armed Forces in Hamburg, Germany. Prior to that,
1999-2003, he was with ABB Corporate Research in the research labs
at Heidelberg and Ladenburg, Germany.
His research interests include engineering of control systems (large
scale, for industrial plants in process and manufacturing industry,
also building control systems and train system control), engineering
workflow, engineering processes and methodologies, engineering tools
and their interfaces, function-block oriented control engineering,
engineering of field devices, techniques to formally describe
control functions and control systems such as Petri nets and FSM,
techniques to describe systems from different perspectives (prefered
means is CAEX according to IEC 62424), knowledge-based systems,
agents, and the use of robots for applications in medicine, esp.
surgery.
In 1999, he received the DB Research Award. In 2002, he has been
appointed to the „World’s 100 Top Young Innovators“ of the M.I.T,
Cambridge, Ma. He has published more than 90 journal and conference
papers. He has served as a program committee member and special
session chair for several conferences. He is General Co-Chair of the
13th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and
Factory Automation which will be held in Hamburg, Germany, in
September 2008.
Alexander Fay received the Diplom degree with honors (summa cum
laude) in Electrical Engineering and the PhD with honors (summa cum
laude) in Engineering Science (Dr.-Ing.) from the Technical
University of Braunschweig in 1995 and 1999, respectively.
Contact email address: a.fay@iestcfa.org
Carla
Seatzu is an Assistant Professor of Automatic Control at the
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering of the University of
Cagliari, Italy. She received the Laurea degree in Electric Engineering
from the University of Cagliari, Italy in 1996, and the Ph.D. degree in
Electronic Engineering and Computer Science from the same university in
2000.
Her research interests include discrete event systems, Petri nets,
hybrid systems, manufacturing systems, networked control systems,
control of mechanical systems. She has published around 150 papers and
one textbook on these topics.
She teaches or taught courses such as “Automated Manufacturing”,
“Production Management”, “Systems Theory”, “Automatic Control Theory”.
She is co-chair IEEE IES Technical Committee on Factory Automation -
Subcommittee on Industrial Automated Systems and Control.
She was Chair of the National Organizing Committee of ADHS'06 (2nd IFAC
Conf. on the Analysis and Design of Hybrid Systems) and member of the
International Program Committee of around forty international
conferences. She is associate editor of the international journal "
Hybrid Systems" (Elsevier) and Associate Editor of the Conference
Editorial Board of the IEEE Control System Society. She is member of the
IFAC Technical Committee on Discrete Event and Hybrid Systems.
She is one of the organizers of the DISC PhD School on “Supervisory
Control of Discrete Event Systems – Automata and Petri nets”, Cagliari, Italy, June 2011.
She was a visiting researcher at: CEMAGREF, Research Institute for
Agriculture and Environment Engineering (Montpellier, France),
University of Zaragoza (Spain), Aalborg University (Esbjerg, Denmark).
Contact email address:
c.seatzu@iestcfa.org
