About Frank L. Lewis

Frank L. Lewis

F.L. Lewis, Fellow IEEE, Fellow IFAC, Fellow U.K. Institute of Measurement & Control, PE Texas, and U.K. Chartered Engineer, is Distinguished Scholar Professor and Moncrief-O’Donnell Chair at University of Texas at Arlington’s Automation & Robotics Research Institute. He obtained his Bachelor’s Degree in Physics/EE and the MSEE at Rice University, his MS in Aeronautical Engineering from Univ. W. Florida, and his Ph.D. at Ga. Tech.  He works in feedback control, intelligent systems, and sensor networks.  He is author of 5 U.S. patents, 186 journal papers, 305 conference papers, and 12 books.  He received the Fulbright Research Award, NSF Research Initiation Grant, and ASEE Terman Award.  He also received an Outstanding Service Award from Dallas IEEE Section, was selected as Engineer of the year by Ft. Worth IEEE Section, and was listed in the Ft. Worth Business Press Top 200 Leaders in Manufacturing.  He was appointed to the NAE Committee on Space Station in 1995.  He is an elected Guest Consulting Professor at both South China University of Technology and Shanghai Jiao Tong University and a founding member of the Board of Governors of the Mediterranean Control Association.  He helped win the IEEE Control Systems Society Best Chapter Award (as Founding Chairman of DFW Chapter), the National Sigma Xi Award for Outstanding Chapter (as President of UTA Chapter), and the US SBA Tibbets Award in 1996 (as Director of ARRI’s SBIR Program).