A. Stephen Morse

A. Stephen Morse, the Dudley Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering at Yale, was born in Mt. Vernon, New York. He received a BSEE degree from Cornell University, an MS degree from the University of Arizona, and a PhD from Purdue University. For three years he was associated with the Office of Control Theory and Application {OCTA} at the NASA Electronics Research Center in Cambridge, Mass. Since 1970 he has been with Yale University, where his main research interest is in system theory, and he has done work in network synthesis, optimal control, multivariable control, adaptive control, urban transportation, vision-based control, hybrid and nonlinear systems, sensor networks, and coordination and control of large grouping of mobile autonomous agents. He is the recipient of several career-level awards including the 1999 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering Technical Field Award for Control Systems, the American Automatic Control Council’s 2013 Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award, and the International Federation of Automatic Control’s 2023 Giorgio Quazza Medal. He is a member of the US National Academy of Engineering and the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering.