doctoral_advisor birth_place awards nationality fields workplaces residence article_title name alma_mater
michael athans new york city donald p. eckman award american control theory game theory robotics king of technology abdullah university of science and technology georgia institute atlanta , georgia jeff s. shamma
 jeff s. shamma massachusetts institute of technology georgia institute of technology
jeff s. shamma

jeff s. shamma -lrb- born c. 1961 -rrb- is an american control theorist and the professor and julian t. hightower chair in systems & control systems and controls at the georgia institute of technology .
in august 2014 , he joined the king abdullah university of science and technology in thuwal , saudi arabia , as a professor of electrical engineering .
he is known for his early work in nonlinear and adaptive control , particularly on gain scheduling , robust control , and more recently , distributed systems .
