Dr. Nathan Van De Wouw

Biography

Nathan van de Wouw is a full professor in the Dynamics Control group at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). His current research interests lie in the field of dynamics control of mechanical systems with a focus on applications in mechatronics, robotics, smart manufacturing, energy exploration processes, and cooperative autonomous driving. His fundamental research emphasizes nonlinear systems control, dynamic system modelling, model complexity reduction, data-driven control, and networked cooperative control. In his teaching, Nathan specializes in modelling dynamical systems, dynamics control of nonlinear systems, and robotics networked control. He obtained his M.Sc. (with honours) in 1994 and his Ph.D. in 1999, both in Mechanical Engineering from Eindhoven University of Technology. He has held part-time adjunct full professorship positions at the University of Minnesota in the USA and full professorship at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. His past roles include working at Philips Applied Technologies and the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO). Nathan has been a visiting professor at several universities including the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the University of Melbourne. He currently serves as an Associate Editor for the journals 'Automatica' and 'IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology'.

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