应我院段玉岗副院长、张小栋教授的邀请，美国佐治亚理工学院陈义华教授将于2017年9月27日来访我院进行学术交流，主要日程、嘉宾生平和学术报告摘要如下，欢迎感兴趣师生参与相关活动。

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附1：陈义华教授生平简介

Ye-Hwa Chen received his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the National Taiwan University in 1979. He then received his M.S. and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1983 and 1985, respectively. He served as a faculty in Syracuse University during 1986-1988. Since 1988, he has been with the School of Mechanical Engineering of Georgia Institute of Technology. He is currently a full professor with tenure.

He has been serving as regional editor and associate editor for four journals. He has received the IEEETransactions on Fuzzy SystemsOutstanding Paper Award, Sigma Xi Best Research Paper Award, and Sigma Xi Junior Faculty Award. A paper of his received the second highest citation in the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics. He is the recipient of the Campanile Award from the Georgia Institute of Technology, the highest honor of the institute. His research interests include fuzzy dynamical systems and mechatronic systems modeling and control.

Address: School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology,Atlanta, Georgia 30332, USA

E-mail: yehwa.chen@me.gatech.edu

附2：学术报告内容简介

报告题目：When Kalman Met Zadeh--控制学前沿研究与发展

报告摘要/Abstract：

Rudolf E. Kalman (1930-2016) made groundbreaking contributions to modern systems and control theory in the 50’s and 60’s. His Kalman filtering, LQG, and state space representations have set the foundations for researchers and practitioners in this area for the past 50 years. He is generally recognized as the father of modern control theory.

Lotfi A. Zadeh (1921-2017) proposed the unique idea of fuzzy theory in 1965. Since then, numerous development in the theory and applications in this area have emerged. He is generally recognized as the father of fuzzy theory.

In 1972, they met in a conference in France. After Zadeh delivered a presentation regarding fuzzy decision making, Kalman fiercely criticized the very idea of fuzzy theory. The criticism not only represented Kalman’s own lack of confidence in this new area, but also set the tone for all major skepticism toward fuzzy theory in the years to come.

We will review the transcript of this contention. In addition, we will seek reconciliation between the two very different schools of research, represented by Kalman and Zadeh.

Embarking from here, we will present a new frontier for system and control theory.

In 2002, exactly 30 years since they last met, they were set to meet again at a conference in Los Angeles.

So, guess what happened?