Robert Babu?ka

Robert Babuska was born in 1967 in Prague, Czechoslovakia. He received the M.Sc. degree (with honors) in Electrical Engineering from the Czech Technical University Prague (1990), and the Ph.D. degree (cum laude) in Control from the Delft University of Technology (1997). He has had faculty appointments at the Technical Cybernetics Department of the Czech Technical University Prague (1991-1993) and at the Faculty of Information Technology and Systems of the Delft University of Technology (1993-2003). In 1992 he spent six months as a visiting research scientist at Laboratoire d'Automatique de Grenoble, France. Currently he is Antoni van Leeuwenhoek professor at the Delft Center for Systems and Control, Delft University of Technology.

His research interests include fuzzy systems for modeling and identification, data-driven construction and adaptation of neuro-fuzzy systems, multiple-model approaches to modeling and control, fuzzy clustering for data analysis and learning control. He is active in applying these techniques in the areas robotics, mechatronics, aerospace and process control. Robert Babuska has co-authored over 340 publications, including one research monograph, two edited books and more than 70 journal papers.