Kevin L. Moore, Ph.D., P.E.
February ****
Coordinates
Kevin L. Moore, Ph.D., P.E. Office: Brown Building W331C
Dean 1500 Illinois Street
G.A. Dobelman Distinguished Chair Golden, CO 80401
Professor of Electrical Engineering Phone/Fax: 303-***-****/3602
Colorado School of Mines ******@*****.***
inside.mines.edu/~kmoore/
Education
Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Texas A&M University, August 1989
- Emphasis in control systems
M.S.E.E., University of Southern California, December 1983
B.S.E.E., Louisiana State University, May 1982
Professional Experience
Colorado School of Mines, Division of Engineering
- Dean, College of Engineering and Computational Sciences (Jan 2012-present
- Interim Dean, new College (August- December 2011)
- Interim Director, Division of Engineering (January-August, 2011)
- G.A. Dobelman Distinguished Chair and Professor of Engineering (June 2005-present)
- Director, Center for Automation, Robotics, and Distributed Intelligence (August 2006-present)
Systems Analysis and Control Company, Principal Engineer (June 1995-present)
SACC is my personal consulting company
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Research and Technology Development Center
- Senior Scientist (May 2004 June 2005)
Research and program development in autonomous systems and control
Utah State University, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering (July 1998-May 2004)
- Director, Center for Self-Organizing and Intelligent Systems (CSOIS, July 1998-May 2004)
o Managed a staff as large as 40 people, both vertically-integrated (undergrads, grad students,
technicians, full-time engineers, faculty) and horizontally-integrated (electrical, mechanical,
computer science)
o Conducted research in intelligent control and autonomous robotics with up to eight on-going projects
at a time and a budget averaging $2.26M/year, with two spin-off companies
o Engaged in programmatic activities to attract, execute, and disseminate the results of research
funding, including proposal writing and sponsor interaction
o Recruited, developed, directed, and motivated staff to achieve CSOIS s objectives. I successfully
handled over $13.5M in projects in six years
o Led the commercialization of a CSOIS robot developed for physical security applications.
- Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering (2000-May 2004; Associate Professor, 1998-2000)
o Academic leader in the area of control systems at USU, researcher, and engineering educator
o Developed interdisciplinary collaboration between electrical and mechanical engineering in the area
of control systems and a curriculum and laboratories in mobile robots and mechatronics
o Upgraded the capstone senior design experience to have a system engineering perspective
Idaho State University, College of Engineering (August 1989-May 1998)
- Associate Professor (1993-1998) and an Assistant Professor (1989-1993)
- Interim Associate Dean (1994-1995)
o Responsible for daily operational decision-making for the College (19 faculty and 420 students)
o Participated in all the decision-making processes associated with the University
- Founding Director, Measurement and Control Engineering Center (MCERC, 1993-1998), a center
focused on research and industrial applications of control engineering.
Texas A&M University, Dept. of Electrical Engineering (September 1985-August 1989)
- Instructor (1986-1989); Graduate Assistant (1985-1986)
Hughes Aircraft Company, El Segundo, Calif. (May 1982-August 1985) - Member of Technical Staff
- Control system analysis (antenna servo design); System engineering (multi-mode radar)
Texas Instruments, Houston, Texas (May-August 1981) - Summer Intern
- Production engineering, QA, and reliability for DRAM devices
Publications and Research Funding
Three books:
1. Iterative Learning Control: Robustness and Monotonic Convergence for Interval Systems, Hyo-Sung
Ahn, Kevin L. Moore, and YangQuan Chen, Springer-Verlag CEE Series, Springer-Verlag, London,
2007
2. Modeling, Sensing, and Control of Gas Metal Arc Welding, D.Subbaram Naidu, Selahattin Ozcelik, and
Kevin L. Moore, Elsevier, Oxford, 2003
3. Iterative Learning Control for Deterministic Systems, Kevin L. Moore, Springer-Verlag Series on
Advances in Industrial Control, Springer-Verlag, London, January 1993 (This monograph was the first
book explicitly covering the topic of iterative learning control and is often referenced by other
researchers in the field)
41 refereed journal articles (counting three recently accepted), 113 refereed and 41 abstract-based
conference papers, over 150 technical reports, white papers, and other works, 9 workshops, and over 350
technical and professional presentations
International reputation in the research area of iterative learning control, a field in which I am an active
leader and research contributor, often organizing workshops and invited sessions
Mentored 30 MS students (two more expected May 2012), 4 PhD students (three more expected Dec 2011,
Dec 2012, May 2013), 12 post-docs, and 22 visiting scholars
Managed over $16M in research funding from local industry, state, federal, and university sources,
including serving as the primary technical leader, PI, and project manager for a >$12M federally-funded
research program in robotics
Awards and Honors
Plenary and Invited Speaker
- Plenary Speaker, 7th International Workshop on Multidimensional (nD) Systems, Portiers, France,
September 5-7, 2011
- Keynote Speaker, 18th IEEE International Conf. and Workshops on Engineering of Computer-Based
Systems, Las Vegas, Apr 27, 2011
- Plenary Speaker, Artificial Neural Networks in Engineering (ANNIE), St. Louis, Missouri, USA, 3
November 2009
- Introductory Plenary Speaker, Symposium on Learning Control at the IEEE CDC 2009, Shanghai, China,
14 December 2009
- Keynote Speaker, IFAC World Congress Invited Session on Recent Advances in Intelligent Autonomous
Systems, July 2008
- Distinguished Speaker, International Symposium on Advanced Robotics and Machine Intelligence,
Beijing China, October 2006
- Invited Plenary Speaker, IEEE Int. Conf. on Mechatronics and Automation, Luoyang, China, June 2006
Invited Plenary Session Panelist
- Future Vistas for ILC Research, Symposium on Learning Control at the IEEE CDC 2009, Shanghai,
China, 15 December 2009
- Challenges in Control Theory, 2007 IEEE Multi-Conference on Control, Singapore, October 2007
- Information and Communication Technologies in Control, 2005 IFAC World Congress, Prague, 2005
- Biologically-Inspired Learning, 2003 IEEE Inter. Symp. on Intelligent Control, Houston, Oct. 2003
- Intelligent Technologies for Future Farming, DaNet Thematic Workshop, sponsored by the Danish
Ministry of Agriculture Horsens, Denmark, March 2003
- Present and Future Trends in Robotics and Education Workshop, sponsored by IFAC, Weingarten,
Germany, July 2001
- The Past, Present, and Future of Iterative Learning Control, 2nd Asian Control Conference, Seoul,
Korea, July1997
2006 Walter G. Berl Award for the Outstanding Paper in the Johns Hopkins APL Technical Digest
College of Engineering Outstanding Researcher Award, co-recipient, 1999-2000
ECE Department Outstanding Researcher Award, 1999-2000
ISU Outstanding Researcher of the Year, co-recipient, 1996-1997
ISU College of Engineering Most Influential Professor, 1994 and 1991
1993 DOW Outstanding Young Faculty Award (ASEE Pacific Northwest Section Award)
AWU-DOE Summer Faculty Fellowship 1991 and 1994
1990 U.S. Air Force AFOSR Summer Faculty Fellow
Hughes Aircraft Company Master's Fellowship, 1982-1983
LSU Alumni Scholar, T.H. Harris Scholarship, 1978-1982
High School Valedictorian, 1978; Eagle Scout, 1974
Professional Activities
ABET Program Evaluator for ASEE, 2011-2012 and 2010-2011 cycles
Editorial Board, IET Control Theory and Applications
Editorial Board, International Journal of Control.
Past Associate Editor, Journal of Control Science and Engineering (2005-2010), IEEE Transactions on
Control System Technology (1999-2004), Intelligent Automation and Soft Computing, Journal of Intelligent
and Fuzzy Systems, and IEEE Control System Society s Conference Editorial Board (1994-1999)
Professional Society Memberships: IEEE (senior member), AUVSI, SIAM, ASEE, ASME
Honorary Societies: Tau Beta Pi; Eta Kappa Nu; Sigma Xi
IEEE Society Memberships: Control Systems; Robotics and Automation
Chair, IEEE Control System Society Technical Committee on Intelligent Control
Member IFAC Technical Committee on Computers, Communications, and Telematics
Program Chair for 2008 IEEE Control System Society Multi-Conference on Control
Tutorial Workshops Program Chair and Organizing Committee for the 2007, 2003 IEEE International
Symposium on Intelligent Control
Active reviewer for numerous journals and conference
Program board member for numerous international-level technical meetings and conferences
Frequent reviewer and panel member for funding agencies and for government and industry panels
Chair, 2006-2011, Peer Review and Advisory Committees, Idaho National Laboratory Distinctive Science
Signature on Instrumentation, Control, and Intelligent Systems.
Frequently invited as an external censor on graduate committees at various international universities.
Active in K-12 science and engineering outreach activities
PE License: State of Idaho # 7066
Personal
U.S. citizenship; Have held employment-related U.S. DOD (secret) and DOE security clearances