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Olav Egeland is Professor at the Norwegian
University of Science and Technology (NTNU). He graduated as siv.ing. (1984) and dr.ing.
(1987) from the Department of Engineering Cybernetics, NTNU, and has
been a professor at the department since 1989. In the academic year
88/89 he was at the German Aerospace
Center in Oberpfaffenhofen outside of Munich. In the period 1996-1998 he
was Head of Department of Engineering Cybernetics, Vice Dean of Faculty
of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications, and member of the
Research Committee for Science and Technology at NTNU. He was Associate Editor of the IEEE
Transactions on Automatic Control 1996-1999 and of the
European Journal of Control 1998-2000. He received the Automatica Prize Paper Award in 1996, and the
2000 IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology Outstanding Paper Award. He has
supervised the graduation of 75 siv.ing. and 19 dr.ing.,
and was Program Manager of the
Strategic University Program in Marine Cybernetics at NTNU.
Currently he is coordinator of the
control activity of the
Centre of Ships and
Ocean Structures. He has wide experience as a
consultant for industry, and is co-founder of
Marine Cybernetics,
which is a company at the NTNU
incubator. His research interests are within modeling, simulation
and control of mechanical systems with applications to robotics and marine systems.
Professor Egeland is on sabbatical leave for one year starting from 1
August 2004.
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