Professor Jan Maciejowski

Professor Maciejowski was a Fellow of Pembroke from (1977) 1982.  He studied at the University of Sussex (BSc 1971) and Cambridge (PhD 1978). He became Director of Studies in Engineering and Professor of Control Engineering within the University.  From 2014, he was head of the Information Engineering Division within the Department of Engineering. From 2008 to 2018, he was President of Pembroke.  His research has dealt with various aspects of control engineering, notably fault tolerant control, autonomous systems, model predictive control and system identification.  When awarding him a Fellowship, the IEEE cited Maciejowski's "contributions to system identification and control". He is the author of two prize-winning graduate-level textbooks, Multivariable Feedback Design (1989) and Predictive Control with Constraints (2002).
He has played an active role in the activities of several learned societies, being President of the Institute of Measurement and Control ini 2002, and President of the European Union Control Association from 2003 to 2005.