Abstract :
In this issue of IEEE Control Systems Magazine (CSM), we speak with Elena Zattoni, assistant professor in the School of Engineering at the University of Bologna, Italy. Elena has worked on a wide range of linear and nonlinear problems for applications that include automotive and railway systems. She is currently the standing chair for the IEEE Control Systems Society Standing Committee on Women in Control. We also speak with Eyad Abed, who is a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park. Abed is serving a two-year term as vice president for financial activities of the IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS). He has also been director of the Institute for Systems Research at the University of Maryland since 2002.