{"223531":{"#nid":"223531","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Magnus Egerstedt Named as KTH Alumnus of the Year","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMagnus Egerstedt has been named as the 2013 Alumnus of the Year by the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm, Sweden. He will be presented with this honor on October 5 at the Institute, where he will deliver a lecture to the KTH community.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETogether with KTH President Peter Gudmundson, a board of alumni, students, and faculty makes the selection for this honor. Dr. Egerstedt graduated with his M.S. degree in engineering physics and a Ph.D. degree in applied mathematics from KTH in 1996 and 2000, respectively, and he earned his B.A. degree in philosophy from Stockholm University in 1996. \u0022This is a great honor and I\u0027m both humbled and excited about the prospect of returning to Stockholm in October to accept the award,\u0022 Dr. Egerstedt said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn the nomination for this honor, Dr. Egerstedt was cited for his work in robotics and automatic control as the Schlumberger Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at Georgia Tech and for his very high international research visibility. He is also being recognized for his global impact through his massive open online course (MOOC), \u0022Control of Mobile Robots,\u0022 that attracted over 40,000 students in its first offering earlier this year.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDr. Egerstedt joined the ECE faculty in 2001, where he leads the Georgia Robotics and Intelligent Systems Laboratory. He has published four books and over 250 refereed journal and conference publications, and he serves as associate editor for both the\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EJournal of Discrete Event Dynamical Systems\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003Eand the\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EJournal of Nonlinear Analysis: Hybrid Systems\u003C\/em\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EElected a Fellow of the IEEE in 2012, Dr. Egerstedt was recently named as an IEEE Control Systems Society Distinguished Lecturer and as the inaugural deputy editor-in-chief of the new journal,\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EIEEE Transactions on Control of Networked Systems.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003EHe is a past recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER Award and the Georgia Tech ECE Outstanding Junior Faculty Member Award. Earlier this year, Dr. Egerstedt was elected by a majority vote of the ECE senior class to receive the 2013 W. Marshall Leach, Jr.\/Eta Kappa Nu Outstanding Teacher Award. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EECE Professor Magnus Egerstedt has been named as the 2013 Alumnus of the Year by the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"ECE Professor Magnus Egerstedt has been named as the 2013 Alumnus of the Year by the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden."}],"uid":"27241","created_gmt":"2013-07-18 15:23:26","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:14:34","author":"Jackie Nemeth","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2013-07-22T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2013-07-22T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"224041":{"id":"224041","type":"image","title":"Magnus Egerstedt","body":null,"created":"1449243551","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:39:11","changed":"1475894896","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:48:16","alt":"Magnus Egerstedt","file":{"fid":"197376","name":"egerstedtheadshot.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/egerstedtheadshot_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/egerstedtheadshot_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":116278,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/egerstedtheadshot_0.jpg?itok=k7SfLRrp"}}},"media_ids":["224041"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/","title":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/","title":"Georgia Tech"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/faculty-staff\/fac_profiles\/bio.php?id=30","title":"Magnus Egerstedt"},{"url":"http:\/\/gritslab.gatech.edu\/home\/","title":"GRITS Lab"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.kth.se\/en","title":"Royal Institute of Technology"}],"groups":[{"id":"1255","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"42911","name":"Education"},{"id":"42941","name":"Art Research"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"147","name":"Military Technology"},{"id":"150","name":"Physics and Physical Sciences"},{"id":"152","name":"Robotics"}],"keywords":[{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"11528","name":"Magnus Egerstedt"},{"id":"70091","name":"Royal Institute of Technology"},{"id":"166855","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39501","name":"People and Technology"},{"id":"39521","name":"Robotics"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJackie Nemeth\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E404-894-2906\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}