Education

• B.S. Electrical Engineering 1980 (École Polytechnique de Montréal)
• M.S. Electrical Engineering 1982 (McGill University)
• Ph.D. Electrical Engineering 1986 (University of California at Berkeley)

Professional Career

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

• Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science since 1986
• Appointed as the N. Harris McClamroch Collegiate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (March 2018)

Visiting Positions

• Visiting Professor at Boston University (2017-2018), Northwestern University (2010-2011), the University of Cagliari (2007 and 2011), the University of Bologna (2004), and École Polytechnique de Montréal (1993).

Selected Honors and Awards

• Elected Fellow of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) (2017), for Contributions to control and diagnosis of discrete event systems
• Elected Fellow of the IEEE (1999), for Contributions to the theory of discrete event systems
• Twice Recipient of the Axelby Outstanding Paper Award from the IEEE Control Systems Society
  – Limited Lookahead Policies in Supervisory Control of Discrete Event Systems.
  Co-authors: Sheng-Luen Chung and Feng Lin (1994)
  – Decentralized Supervisor Control with Communicating Controllers. Co-author: George Barrett (2001)
• Editor-in-Chief, Discrete Event Dynamic Systems: Theory and Applications (1/1/2015 to 12/31/2020)

Textbooks

• Introduction to Discrete Event Systems (Third Edition, 2021), co-authored with Christos Cassandras
• A Guide to Signals and Systems in Continuous Time (2022)