Dr. John Allwright

Biography

Initially joined the Department of Electrical Engineering at Imperial College London and later worked as a postdoc at Harvard University. He migrated to the Department of Computing and Control at Imperial when it was being established and helped return to the Electrical Engineering Department. He was a founding member of the associated Centre for Process Systems Engineering and the Control & Power Group in the Electrical and Electronic Engineering Department. After retiring, he became an Honorary Senior Lecturer in 2009. In the past, he taught courses on programming, program correctness, grammars, graph theory, linear algebra, optimization, optimal control, and systems engineering, including probability and stochastic processes. He taught the MEng Control Systems and MSc courses on Discrete-time Systems, Computer Control, Stability Control of Nonlinear Systems, and Advanced Process Control (including Model Predictive Control). Additionally, he served as Director of the Control Systems MSc course and Postgraduate Admissions Tutor for the Control & Power Group. He hopes to pursue research in optimization theory, algorithms, and their application in control, especially for time-varying linear and nonlinear systems.

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