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Dr. Beck's primary research interests lie in the development of modeling and control methods for complex systems, with applications in bioengineering and networked control systems. She received the National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 1998, and the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award in 2001.

Professor Bragg's two primary areas of research are aircraft icing and unsteady aerodynamics. Both of these areas involve the study of unsteady and highly separated fluid flows. Much of this research is conducted in the wind tunnels of the Aerodynamics Research Laboratory, which Dr. Bragg co-directs.

Prof. Bretl develops tools for motion analysis, planning, and control. These tools include geometric search algorithms, methods of model reduction, and convex optimization routines that take advantage of problem structure.

Prof. Coverstone is the director of the Computational Astrodynamic Research Lab at UIUC. Dr. Coverstone's research activities are dynamics, control, and design of aerospace systems. Specific applications are the control of spacecraft and the design of optimal spacecraft trajectories.

Professor Dankowicz conducts dynamical systems research at the intersection of engineering, math and physics. This work involves studying a wide range of systems that are governed by differential equations and learning the behavior of those systems through algorithms.

Prof. Domínguez-García's research lies at the interface of system reliability theory and control theory, with special emphasis on applications to power electronics, electric power systems, and safety-critical/fault-tolerant aircraft, aerospace, and automotive systems.

Professor Dullerud is interested in controls and dynamics, especially networked, distributed and multirate hybrid control. He is currently a principal investigator in a large, interdisciplinary research effort sponsored by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research on cooperative networked control of small uninhabited aerial vehicles (UAVs).

Naira Hovakimyan's current research interests are in the theory of robust adaptive control and estimation with an emphasis on aerospace applications, control in the presence of limited information, networks of autonomous systems, and game theory. Her research work is being supported by AFOSR, ARO, AFRL, ONR, NASA, and The Boeing Co.