{"194351":{"#nid":"194351","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Magnus Egerstedt Appointed to Two IEEE Posts","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMagnus Egerstedt has been appointed to two IEEE posts\u2013IEEE Distinguished Lecturer and inaugural deputy editor-in-chief for a new journal, \u003Cem\u003EIEEE Transactions on Control of Networked Systems\u003C\/em\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS) named Dr. Egerstedt as a Distinguished Lecturer for a three-year term. The two topics on which he will lecture are \u0022Control of Multi-Robot Systems: From Formations to Human-Swarm Interactions\u0022 and \u0022Choreographic Abstractions in Robotics.\u0022 The purpose of the IEEE CSS Distinguished Lecturer Program is to help the Society\u0027s chapters provide interesting and informative programs for the membership, as well as to industry, universities, and other interested organizations.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDr. Egerstedt was also recently named as the inaugural deputy editor-in-chief of\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EIEEE Transactions on Control of Networked Systems\u003C\/em\u003E, which will focus on how one organizes, controls, and coordinates networks of \u0022agents\u0022 such as robots, sensors, computers, or even people on social networks. Everyday applications of topics to be covered in the journal include robotics, manufacturing, computer networks, communications systems, and sensor networks, just to name a few. The editorial board is currently being assembled, and the first issue of the journal will be published in January 2014.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech since 2001, Dr. Egerstedt is the director of the Georgia Robotics and Intelligent Systems Laboratory. He was elected as an IEEE Fellow in 2012 \u0022for hybrid and networked control, with applications in robotics.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EECE Professor Magnus Egerstedt has been appointed to two IEEE posts\u2013IEEE Distinguished Lecturer and deputy editor-in-chief for a new IEEE journal.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"ECE Professor Magnus Egerstedt has been appointed to two IEEE posts\u2013IEEE Distinguished Lecturer and deputy editor-in-chief for a new IEEE journal."}],"uid":"27241","created_gmt":"2013-02-21 16:55:25","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:13:40","author":"Jackie Nemeth","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2013-02-21T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2013-02-21T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"144291":{"id":"144291","type":"image","title":"Magnus Egerstedt","body":null,"created":"1449178739","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:38:59","changed":"1475894754","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:45:54","alt":"Magnus Egerstedt","file":{"fid":"195030","name":"magnus_egerstedt_portrait.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/magnus_egerstedt_portrait_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/magnus_egerstedt_portrait_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":847425,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/magnus_egerstedt_portrait_0.jpg?itok=q2L5ZsS5"}},"144301":{"id":"144301","type":"image","title":"GRITS Lab - Magnus Egerstedt","body":null,"created":"1449178739","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:38:59","changed":"1475894777","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:46:17","alt":"GRITS Lab - Magnus Egerstedt","file":{"fid":"195031","name":"magnus_in_lab.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/magnus_in_lab_1.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/magnus_in_lab_1.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":2637312,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/magnus_in_lab_1.jpg?itok=5t6BKstn"}}},"media_ids":["144291","144301"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/","title":"Georgia Tech"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/","title":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/faculty-staff\/fac_profiles\/bio.php?id=30","title":"Magnus Egerstedt"},{"url":"http:\/\/gritslab.gatech.edu\/home\/","title":"GRITS Lab"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.ieeecss.org\/","title":"IEEE Control Systems Society"}],"groups":[{"id":"1255","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"42911","name":"Education"},{"id":"42941","name":"Art Research"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"153","name":"Computer Science\/Information Technology and Security"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"147","name":"Military Technology"},{"id":"150","name":"Physics and Physical Sciences"},{"id":"152","name":"Robotics"}],"keywords":[{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"59441","name":"GRITS Lab"},{"id":"59451","name":"IEEE Control Systems Society"},{"id":"11528","name":"Magnus Egerstedt"},{"id":"166855","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39521","name":"Robotics"},{"id":"39541","name":"Systems"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJackie Nemeth\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E404-894-2906\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}