Control Manager
Resume:
James H. Taylor, PhD
Professor Emeritus, Systems and Control
Electrical & Computer Engineering Department,
P.O. Box 4400
Fredericton, N.B. E3B 5A3 Canada
Telephone: +1-506-***-****
Fax: +1-506-***-****
EMail: ***.******@****.***
Education:
BSEE (with Distinction), University of Rochester; Bausch & Lomb Scholar
MSEE, University of Rochester; NASA Trainee
PhD, Yale University, Engineering and Applied Science; NSF Trainee
Positions:
July 1994 to present - Department of Electrical
& Computer Engineering,
University of New Brunswick; NSERC/Monenco AGRA Professor (Industrial Research
Chair in Instrumentation & Control) until October 2002; Professor until July
2005; Honorary Research Professor until May 2008; Professor Emeritus
March 1992 to June 1994 - Odyssey Research Associates, Inc.,
Ithaca, NY; Manager, Control and Manufacturing
1981 to 1992 - GE Corporate Research and Development,
Control Systems Laboratory, Schenectady, NY; Senior Research Staff
1978 to 1981 - Oklahoma State University, Stillwater,
OK; Associate Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
1973 to 1978 - The Analytic Sciences Corporation (TASC), Reading,
MA; Member of Technical Staff
1969 to 1972 - Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India;
Research Associate, Visiting Assistant Professor
Current Professional Affiliations:
Life Member of the IEEE (Board of Governors, Control System Society, 1992-95)
Tau Beta Pi, Sigma Xi, Iron Ring (Canada)
Brief Career Overview:
James H. Taylor received his BSEE (with Distinction) and MSEE from the
University of Rochester, and his PhD in Engineering and Applied Science
from Yale University. From 1969 to 1972, he was a Visiting Assistant
Professor at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. In
1973, he joined The Analytic Sciences Corporation (TASC), Reading, MA,
where he developed several new analysis techniques for nonlinear systems.
During 1978-81, he was an Associate Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace
Engineering at Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK.
Dr. Taylor was a Research Engineer at GE Corporate Research & Development
from 1981 to 1992. There he conducted research in nonlinear systems
analysis and design, computer-aided control engineering (CACE), and
expert systems for control (both for CACE and for real-time control).
He became Manager of Control and Manufacturing at Odyssey Research
Associates, Inc., Ithaca, New York in March 1992, where he led an ARPA
Project in Theory and CAE for Intelligent Nonlinear Hybrid Controls.
Finally, in July 1994 he joined UNB as NSERC/Monenco AGRA Professor of
Instrumentation & Control. Current research projects focus on the
development of theory, design methodologies and software tools for
nonlinear &/or intelligent systems, with applications ranging from
semiconductor manufacturing to paper production to petroleum production
to autonomous vehicles to distributed generators . . . (see Research Projects).
Methodologies include nonlinear control system synthesis approaches
based on describing function techniques, applied artificial
intelligence (rule-based systems, fuzzy logic, neural nets) for
real-time control and for CACE (computer-aided control engineering),
self-optimizing supervisory control, rigourous modelling and simulation
of hybrid systems with discontinuous dynamics, and development of
nonlinear controls CACE tools and software environments. He officially retired in
2005, but continued to teach until 2008, and guide graduate students and
conduct research until 2011.
Dr. Taylor is a Life Member of the IEEE (Board of Governors,
Control System Society, 1992-94), Sigma Xi, Tau Beta Pi, and a former member of
The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME; Chairman, Dynamic Systems and Control Division,
1992-93), The American Institute of Aeronautics and
Astronautics (AIAA) and The American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI).
He has served as Finance Chair,
Publications Chair and Program Co-chair for several IEEE Conferences, and
was appointed General Chair of the IEEE Conference on Control Applications,
held in Hartford, CT in October 1997. He has numerous publications
in intelligent control, nonlinear systems theory and computer-aided control
engineering (see Publications).
International Experience:
His career has been enriched by a number of significant collaborations
abroad. Three years teaching in India (1969-1972) taught him to enjoy the
warm people and culture there, as well as allowing him to co-author a
textbook. A six-month sabbatical in 2001 provided opportunities
to (1) get to learn of the rich history and civilization of Israel during a four-month stay
teaching and collaborating with a colleague at the Technion, (2) get an
introduction to Egypt for a month (working with a professor at Cairo University and touring) and (3) revisit
South India and the Indian Institute of Science on a one-month stay there. In the winter term of 2006
Dr. Taylor had the opportunity to spend four months in Egypt, where he taught a
course at the Akhbar Elyom Academy and particularly enjoyed making a good number of
new friends, as well as appreciating their culture (ancient and modern) and food.
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