Curriculum Vitae Iven Mareels

Professor of Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering

The University of Melbourne Victoria 3010, Australia

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Born Aalst, Belgium, 11 August 1959. Married to Sylvia Cervenjak, with four children.

Belgian citizen and permanent resident of Australia.

 

Membership of Learned and Professional Bodies

§         Fellow of the Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Australia.

§         Fellow of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, USA.

§         Fellow of the Institute of Engineers Australia, Chartered Professional Engineer, Member of the Electrical Engineering College.

§         Member of SIAM (Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics).

 

Awards

§         Best Paper Award, 3rd Asian Control Conference, Shangai, China, July 2000.

§         Best Poster Award, Eight international World Wide Web Conference, Toronto, Canada, May 11-14, 1999.

§         Vice-Chancellor's Award For Excellence In Teaching, 1994.

§         Finalist in the Young Author Best Paper Competition, 1993 IFAC World Congress, Sydney, Australia.

§         Best Paper Award for Automatica, 1990.

§         K.VIV (Royal Flemish Engineering Association) Award For Electro Mechanical Engineering, 1982.

§         Award Boulvin-Van Engelen, 1982. (State University of Gent Award for the engineering student with the highest academic achievement over the entire engineering program.)

§         Jodoigne (National Belgian High-School) Award For Chemistry, 1976-1977.

 

Education

§         PhD Systems Engineering, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, 1987.

§         BE ME ElectroMechanical Engineering, Gent University, Belgium, 1982 (cum maxima lauda).

 

Teaching experience

Undergraduate teaching experience in both mechanical and electrical engineering subjects at various universities in Europe and Australia as well as the National University of Singapore. Experienced user of multi-media techniques in large class teaching environments. Postgraduate subjects taught in Belgian, Dutch, Singaporian and Australian Universities.

 

PhD supervision

Successfully completed the supervision of 17 PhD projects and 6 ME projects. Currently supervising 2ME projects and 2 PhD projects.

 

Research grant income

Obtained in excess of A$10M in funding through the Australian Research Council, Cooperative Research Centres, Defence Science and Technology Organisations and AusIndustry grants.

 

University & Research Management Experience

Head of Department, The University of Melbourne 1996-2000; Research Director for Signal and Systems Laboratory, The University of Melbourne 1998-; Node director for Co-operative Research Centre for Sensors, Signals and Information Processing 1998- .

Professional Service Activities

Voluntary service positions in professional organizations

§         2002, Member of the Board of Governors of the Control Systems Society, IEEE.

§         Nov 2001-, Member of the IEAust National Committee for Automation, Control and Instrumentation (NCACI).

§         Jan 2001-, Vice-Chair of the Asian Control Professors’ Association.

§         1997-, Member of the Asian Control Professors' Association, Member of the Steering Committee for the Asian Control Conference.

§         June 1994 – July 2002, Member of the IFAC Technical Committee on Modelling, Identification and Signal Processing.

§         1991-, Affiliate member of IFAC (International Federation of Automatic Control).

Editorial & Review Work

§         Jan 1995- Editor-in-Chief for Systems and Control Letters, joint editorial responsibility with Prof. A. C. Antoulas

§         April 1989-1993 reviewer for Mathematical Reviews

§         December 1988-Dec 1994 Associate editor of Automatica

§         Reviewer of numerous journal paper and conference papers submissions for all the major journals and conferences in systems theory.

§         Specialist review work for ARC and NSF grants.

§         Member of numerous external review committees for department, school, faculty and research centres in Australia, Europe and Asia.

Conference Organisation

§         Member of  International Program Committee for numerous conferences IEEE CDC, ACC, ASCC, ECC.

§         General Chairman for the ASCC Melbourne, 2004.

Plenary Invited Presentations

§         Presented plenary addresses at IDC 1999 (Adelaide, Australia), ECC 1999 (Karlsruhe Germany), ASCC 2000 (Shangai, China)

 

Consulting & industrial work

§         Scientific Advisor, Rubicon Systems Australia, Pty, Ltd,  1999-.

§         Director Bionic Ear Institute, 1997-.

§         Scientific Advisor, Bandspeed International,  1999-2002.

§         Consulting on a regular basis as an expert witness, patent office.

 

Publications

Iven Mareels has co-authored 3 books, some 80 journal papers and in excess of 150 conference papers. He holds two international patents.

 

Miscellaneous

Language ability: Dutch (mother tongue), English (fluent), French (fairly fluent), German (fair).

Sports: table tennis & basketball.

Games: strategic games (chess, go, epaminondas, checkers, stratego, …)

General interests: mathematics, history of mathematics.

Life’s philosophy: Christian, good knowledge of the Bible, Biblical history.