Passino, Kevin
Kevin Passino
Biography
Passino values working with a diverse group to create technology that has a direct positive impact on people, is fair, effective, low-cost, and reliable. He collaborates with his research group, and across a range of countries and disciplines (e.g., education, social work, and psychology).
Expertise
- Technology for Social Justice: Technologies to alleviate poverty, racism, and mental illness:
- Antiracist technology
- Humanitarian engineering (anti-poverty technology)
- Mental health treatment with computer/electronic methods
- Special Research Focus: Cooperative sociotechnological systems, and computer-assisted promotion of cooperation in communities, for social justice objectives. Challenges include overcoming perceived self-interest motivations by showing the benefits of working together.
- Technical Approach: Modeling and computational analysis, feedback control of dynamical systems, stability analysis, optimization, and game theory.
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Panos J. Antsaklis, Kevin M. Passino, eds.,
An Introduction to Intelligent and Autonomous Control
Kluwer Academic Publishers, Norwell, MA, 1993.
- Synopsis: An introduction to the field of intelligent control with a broad treatment of topics by several authors (including hierarchical/ distributed intelligent control, fuzzy control, expert control, neural networks, planning systems, and applications). This is an edited monograph with original contributions from each author.
- How to get the book: Book is no longer in print from Kluwer. You may be able to get a used copy off Amazon.com, but DO NOT BUY IT! This book is available in electronic format for a FREE download (see top level, left-bottom)
Kevin M. Passino and Stephen Yurkovich,
Fuzzy Control
Addison Wesley Longman, Menlo Park, CA, 1998 (later published by Prentice-Hall).
- Synopsis: An introduction to the field of fuzzy control with a broad treatment of topics including direct fuzzy control, nonlinear analysis, identification/ estimation, adaptive and supervisory control, and applications. This is a textbook with many examples, exercises and design problems, and code available for downloading (also, this book is listed as a Matlab textbook at Mathworks).
- Supplemental Information: For the errata, code for the book (e.g., fuzzy controllers, estimators, etc.) see top level, left-bottom.
- How to Get the Book: Book no longer in print. You may be able to get a used copy off Amazon.com, but DO NOT BUY IT! This book is available in electronic format for a FREE download (see top level, left-bottom).
Kevin M. Passino and Kevin L. Burgess,
Stability Analysis of Discrete Event Systems
John Wiley and Sons, NY, 1998.
- Synopsis: Covers the theory and application of stability analysis for discrete event systems. The main relevant stability theory is developed, models are introduced, and three classes of applications are considered: load balancing systems for computer networks, scheduling flexible manufacturing systems, and intelligent control systems. This could be used as a textbook and there are many examples and homework problems.
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Veysel Gazi, Mathew L. Moore, Kevin M. Passino, William P. Shackleford, Fredrick M. Proctor, and James S. Albus,
The RCS Handbook: Tools for Real Time Control Systems Software Development
John Wiley and Sons, NY, 2001.
- Synopsis: Shows how to structure and implement hierarchical and distributed real-time control systems (RCS) for complex control and automation problems. Starts with a tutorial introduction showing how to implement an RCS for a university tank experiment using the RCS software library. Provides a user's manual for all software details, with examples from an autonomous vehicles problem.
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Jeffrey T. Spooner, Manfredi Maggiore, Raúl Ordóñez, and Kevin M. Passino
Stable Adaptive Control and Estimation for Nonlinear Systems: Neural and Fuzzy Approximator Techniques
John Wiley and Sons, NY, 2002.
- Synopsis: Introduces stability, approximator structures (neural and fuzzy), and relevant approximation theory. Develops stable indirect and direct adaptive fuzzy/neural controllers for state-feedback, output feedback, and MIMO continuous time cases. Also, shows extensions to discrete-time and decentralized control. Gives many examples, applications, and experimental results (also, this book is listed as a Matlab textbook at Mathworks).
- Supplemental Information: To get Matlab and C code for solutions to some of the problems studied in the book see top level, left-bottom.
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Kevin M. Passino
Biomimicry for Optimization, Control, and Automation
Springer-Verlag, London, UK, 2005.
- Synopsis: Part I: Introduction: Challenges of control and automation, scientific foundations of biomimicry. Part II: Elements of Decision-Making: Neural network substrates for control instincts, rule-based control, planning systems, attentional systems (including stability analysis). Part III: Learning: Learning and control, linear least squares methods, gradient methods, adaptive control. Part IV: Evolution: Genetic algorithm, stochastic and nongradient optimization for design, evolution and learning: synergistic effects. Part V: Foraging: Cooperative forarging and search (including swarm stability), competitive and intelligent foraging.
- Supplemental Information: There is a significant amount of Matlab code that is provided with the book (see top level, left-bottom).
- Ordering Information: See, e.g., Amazon.com.
Veysel Gazi and Kevin M. Passino
Swarm Stability and Optimization
Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany, 2011.
- Synopsis: Introduction, continuous time swarms (single integrator, double integrator, model uncertainty, unicycle agents, formation control), discrete time swarms (one dimensional, distributed agreement, formation control, potential functions), swarm optimization (bacterial foraging optimization, particle swarm optimization).
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Kevin M. Passino
Humanitarian Engineering: Advancing Technology for Sustainable Development
3rd Edition, Bede Publishing, Columbus, OH, 2016.
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Synopsis: Poverty, development, sustainability, culture; Social justice, religious and secular views; Development strategies: economists, health, education, business; Engineering for community development, helping, communities, participatory development, teamwork and project management, community assessment, project selection, humanitarian technology, STEM education. Analytical studies of finance management, social justice, poverty traps and technology diffusion, cooperative management of community technology, community dynamics and sustainable development.
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How to get the book: For a free download of this book (785 pages), and Matlab code for plots and homework problems, and classes at OSU that are taught from this book see top level, left-bottom.
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Racial Sensitivity Training for Police(Racial Justice Seed Grant, OSU ODI/OoR, Dept. Electrical and Computer Engineering) This project focuses on the development of software for racial sensitivity ttraining for Columbus Police Dept. |
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Music, Light, Adaptive Ambience, and Mental Health(BETHA grants (2), Dept. Electrical and Computer Engineering) Stress reduction, attention (ADHD), mood disorders (depression, bipolar illness). Mathematical and computational modeling and analysis. Feedback control theory/engineering. EEG (see left, bottom) and heart rate variability (HRV) signals. Bio-signal generation for auto-generation of music/audio and video. Virtual reality, web sites, apps, psychoeducation and bio-signal driven treatments. For more information, see: "Technology for Mental Health" research group |
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Humanitarian and Development Engineering(IEEE Foundation; Battelle Engineering, Technology, and Human Affairs Endowment; OSU Outreach and Engagement, Engagement Impact Grant; Fulbright Specialist Scholar) Humanitarian/development engineering is the creation of technologies that help people. In this sponsored work, courses on humanitarian and development engineering are being taught in the developing world and OSU, a book on humanitarian engineering has been written (free download), an international inclusive STEM education (iSTEM) program is being supported (picture on left, children constructing an LED flashlight), and other humanitarian engineering fieldwork activities (see photo at left, in Paraguay), including activities in Columbus OH via Tech4Community. Research is being conducted on the use of control theory for social change. |
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Engineering Ethics(National Science Foundation, with the National Academy of Engineering) Development of an "online ethics center for engineering and science". This includes developing and evaluating engineering ethics case studies, gathering resource materials (e.g., courses and letures online) for the above web site, and infusing social justice principles into the philosophy and approach of engineering ethics.
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Smart Lights(Ohio Third Frontier, U.S. Dept. Energy, teamed with Energy Focus Inc.) Future buildings are envisioned to be equipped with two types of sensors for lighting: occupancy sensors and light intensity sensors. Occupancy sensors can be used to determine the pattern of lights that should be turned on or off. Light intensity sensors can be used in energy-saving “daylighting,” the automatic modulation of electric light level depending on what amount of sun is coming in the windows. Research is being conducted on control systems for daylighting so that they provide uniform lighting levels without room-wide lighting oscillations (instabilities) that can result from fast changes in illumination from the windows to a subset of the sensors.
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Control and Optimization for the Smart Grid(U.S. Dept. of Energy) Control and optimization methods for the smart grid, including active and reactive power allocation for renewable energy sources in the electrical grid. Education development in the smart grid area includes a course on control and optimization for the smart grid.
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Robust Distributed Decision Making in Biological and Technological Systems(OSU Office of Research, NSF Mathematical Biosciences Institute) The focus is modeling and analysis of robust emergent behavior (e.g., group motion, social foraging, and group choice) with applications to gray jay scatter-hoarding, honey bee social behaviors, multiagent systems (e.g., autonomous vehicles), and multizone temperature control. I have collaborated with Prof. Thomas Waite (OSU Dept. Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology) on several of the above topics and Prof. Thomas D. Seeley (Cornell Univ., Dept. of Neurobiology and Behavior) on mathematical modeling and analysis of honey bee social decision making (nest site selection, social foraging, in-flight swarms).
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Collaborative Center of Control Science(AFRL/VA, AFOSR) K. Passino was the PI and Director of this center. Four topics were considered: cooperative control for uninhabited autonomous vehicles (UAVs), distributed control for clusters of microsatellites, aerodynamic flow control, and control of reusable hypersonic launch vehicles.
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Intelligent Learning Methods for Autonomous Robots(NIST and DARPA LAGR Program) My role is in the development of an array of learning methods for ground robot navigation, ones that can be implemented in the NIST RCS software for the hardware shown at the left.
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Dynamic Maneuvers in Legged Locomotion(National Science Foundation) For this three year project (2002-2005), in collaboration with Prof. Dave Orin (OSU) and Prof. Ken Waldron (Stanford), Passino contributed expertise in evolutionary algorithms for design and biomimicry for engineering walking robots (e.g., for robot maneuver parameter design and control design).
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Software for Implementation of Hierarchical and Distributed Control Systems(National Institute of Standards and Technology) Three sequential multi-year funded projects have been completed: (1) "Course and Laboratory Experiment Development for the NIST Real-Time Control System (RCS)"; (2) "Development of a Catalog of Decision, Estimation, and Control Algorithms for the NIST RCS Library"; and (3) "RCS for Distributed Implementations of Labview and dSPACE" focused on the development of RCS features, such as networked and decentralized real-time control, in Labview and dSPACE/Matlab, including experimental demonstrations.
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Strategies for Human-Automaton Resource Entity Deployment (SHARED)(DARPA MICA program) The overall project focus is on hierarchical game theoretic approaches to automation of military operations with Prof. J. Cruz as the PI. The project went from Sept. 2001-Dec. 2003. Specific tasks examined by Passino and his students included stability analysis of multiobjective swarms with intelligent agents and cooperative path planning.
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Cooperative control for Autonomous Air Vehicles(DAGSI/AFRL) The focus in this project is on the development of coordination and control methods for uninhabited autonomous air vehicles. Particular attention is given to distributed planning and learning strategies (e.g., distributed learning of cognitive maps, distributed recursive planning, and combined planning/learning methods), response surface methodology for distributed engagement, and stable swarm behavior for groups of vehicles. A benchmark problem being considered is the autonomous munitions (LOCAAS). Biomimicry of optimal social foraging strategies (where animals work together to find food) is also being considered.
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Autonomous Negotiating Teams (ANTS)(DARPA) The OSU focus in this project is on modeling and stability analysis of "distributed dynamic scan scheduling" (DDSS). Here, we develop results for both a single receiver on one platform, and multiple receivers on different platforms that work together to schedule "collaboratively."
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Stability Analysis of Intelligent Control Systems and Distributed Discrete Event Systems(National Science Foundation, Engineering Foundation, others) Several projects have focused on this topic. For instance, the Engineering Foundation supported a project where we studied stability analysis of load balancing in computer networks and scheduling in flexible manufacturing systems (a resource allocation problem). The National Science Foundation supported a project where we studied modeling, controllability, and stability analysis of expert systems that are used as controllers. In particular, we performed modeling and stability analysis for expert control of a process control problem and a distributed resource balancing problem in manufacturing systems.
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Adaptive Estimation, Control, Diagnosis, and Fault Tolerant Control for Jet Engines(General Electric, NASA) A variety of studies on the development and use of adaptive estimation and control methods in jet engines (including failure diagnosis and fault tolerant control methods) have been conducted.
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Nonlinear Adaptive Estimation and Control(General Electric, NASA, NSF, others) A variety of studies have been conducted in the development and use of stable nonlinear adaptive estimation and control methods; particular emphasis has been on the off- and on-line approximation methods using neural and fuzzy systems (i.e., learning control methods). Heuristic methods have also been studied (e.g., adaptive fuzzy control, neural control, genetic adaptive estitimation and control). Applications to jet engines (above), laboratory experiments, and others (below) have been studied.
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Research-Curriculum Development, Other Applications, and Laboratory Experiments(NSF, GM, others) Current work is focusing on hierarchical, distributed, and networked control systems; see here. A variety of applications of intelligent control have been studied (e.g., for automotive, transportation, aerospace, and process control); for a bit more information and a list of projects click here. The National Science Foundation supported a project "A Research-Curriculum Development Program for Enhancement of U.S. Competitiveness in Intelligent Systems and Control" (co-PI: S. Yurkovich) provided general support for research in intelligent control at OSU in a variety of areas (e.g., from stability analysis to applications) and supported lab development.
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Graduate Students, Post Doctoral Researchers, and Visiting Scholars
Listed below are Post Doctoral Researchers, Visiting Scholars, and my graduate students who are working on, or have completed, their PhD or MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Past colleagues are listed in order of completion of their degrees, research activity, or visits.
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Current Graduate Students:
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Phillip Fishbein Using child biodata for stressful event detection using machine learning methods |
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Deepika Giridhar Software for racial sensitivity training for police. |
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Harshith Gunturu Software for racial sensitivity training for police. |
Current/Past Graduate Students, Mental Health:
See photos/information in current research group at Technology 4 Mental Health
Past Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Students:
| Kevin L. Burgess, went to Law School, now a Patent Lawyer, TX |
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| Jeffery L. Layne, Air Force Research Laboratory, WPAFB |
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| Raul E. Ordonez, went to Rowan Univ. as Assist. Prof.; now, Full Prof., University of Dayton |
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| Manfredi Maggiore, went to Univ. of Toronto as Assist. Prof., now Full Professor, University of Toronto |
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| Yixin Diao, IBM Watson Research Center |
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| Hazem N. Nounou, went to King Fahd Univ. of Petroleum and Mines as Assist. Prof.; now, Full Professor, Texas A&M University at Qatar |
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| Yang Liu, Caterpillar Inc. |
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| Veysel Gazi, went to Atilim University, Ankara, Turkey, as Assist. Prof.; now at Istanbul Marmara University |
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| Alvaro Gil, Xerox Corp., Rochester NY |
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| Yanfei Liu, Caterpillar Inc. |
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| Nicanor Quijano, went to Universidad de los Andes, Bogota, Colombia, now a Full Professor |
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| Jorge Finke, went to Universidad Pontificia Javeriana, Cali, Colombia, now an Assoc. Professor |
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| Brandon J. Moore, went to do a Post Doc at Department of Automatic Control at the Grenoble Institute of Technology, France; then became a Research Fellow at the University of Michigan; was at Symbiotic Co.; now at MIT Lincoln Labs |
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| Kevin M. Schultz, went to Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory |
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| Ted Pavlic, after postdocs, tenure-track Assistant Professor, Arizona State University. TEDxASU talk "Be Undisciplined. Lose Your Innocence. Get to Work." |
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| Zhongkui Wang, Autonomous Solutions Inc. |
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| Luis Felipe Giraldo, Assistant Professor, Universidad de los Andes, Bogota, Colombia |
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| Isabel Fernandez, Lecturer/teaching postion in OSU Dept. Electrical and Computer Engineering |
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| Hugo Gonzalez Villasanti, Postdoctoral Researcher, Crane Research Ctr., College of Education and Human Ecology |  |
Past Visiting Scholars and Post Doctoral Researchers:
| Manfredi Maggiore, Visiting Scholar from Univ. Genoa, Italy |
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| Alvaro Gil, Post Doctoral Researcher, OSU, 2003-2005 |
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| Yong Liu, Post Doctoral Researcher, from Univ. of Pittsburgh, went to Missouri Forge Inc., then Indiana University School of Medicine and now with GE Aviation |
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| Jesus Lopez, Visiting Scholar from Univ. del Valle, Cali, Colombia, currently a professor at Autonoma Univ. in Cali, Colombia |
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| Ian Hamilton, Post Doctroal Researcher (in collaboration with T. Waite), became a tenure-track Assistant Professor at the Depts. Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology and the Dept. of Mathematics, OSU |
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| Andrew Nevai, Post Doctoral Researcher, with the OSU Mathematical Biosciences Institute, took tenure-track faculty position at University of Central Florida, Dept. Mathematics |
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| Judy Day, Post Doctoral Researcher, with the OSU Mathematical Biosciences Institute and took tenure track faculty position at University of Tennessee in Knoxville |
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| Andres Pantoja, Visiting Scholar from Universidad de Los Andes, Bogota, Colombia, currently a professor at Universidad de Nariño, Pasto, Colombia |
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| Wilfredo Alfonso, Visiting Scholar from Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia |
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| Jinghui Suo, Visiting Scholar from China |
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| Pablo Velasquez, Visiting Scholar from Venezuela |
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Past Master of Science (MSECE) Students:
| Jeffrey R. Layne |
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| Kevin L. Burgess |
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| Alfonsus D. Lunardhi, Motorola, Austin, TX |
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| Anthony Angsana | |
| Amit T. Magan, Ford Motor Co. | |
| David Jenkins, Artesyn |
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| Vivek G. Moudgal, dSpace Inc. | |
| Eric G. Laukonen, Motorola (Phoenix, AZ) |
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| LaMoyne L. Porter, SC Solutions | |
| Waihon Andrew Kwong, Graduate Student, Northwestern University, now working with Amazon.com on the Kindle |
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| Sashonda R. Morris,went to GM, now with Glenayre Corp. | |
| Jeffrey T. Spooner, Control Subsystems Dept., Sandia National Labs |
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| Scott C. Brown, Caterpillar Inc., IL |
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| Raul E. Ordonez |
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| Jon Zumberge, Delphi Chassis Div. of GM | |
| James R. Gremling, Lucent Technologies(or click here) |
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| William K. Lennon, Ericsson (or click here) |
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| Mustafa K. Guven, Caterpillar Inc., IL |
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| Hazem N. Nounou |
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| Veysel Gazi |
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| Matthew M. Moore, Battelle, Cognitive Systems Group |
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| G. Andrew Bushong, Dupont | |
| Mike Baum |
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| Nicanor Quijano |
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| Sriram Ganapathy, went to Plug Power Inc., now with General Motors Corp., MI |
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| Jorge Finke |
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| Brandon Moore |
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| Burt Andrews, went to PhD program at Johns Hopkins University, now with Bosch Corp., Pittsburgh |
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| Doug Torzewski, Started a business in autonomous robots in Cleveland |
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| Ted P. Pavlic |
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| Kevin M. Schultz |
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| Philip Najlepszy, GE Aviation, Cincinnati, OH |
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| Zhongkui Wang, Ph.D. student OSU |
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| Jacob Lesch, GE Aviation, Cincinnati, OH |
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| Fukui Xu, Mathworks, MA |
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| Swanand Phadke, went to Bloomberg Financial, NY |
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| Mehmet Inan, went to iGate Patni Computer Sytems Inc., then dSPACE Inc., MI, now with General Motors, Milford, MI |
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| Abhijit Bansal, went to dSPACE Inc., MI |
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| Nicholas Dodds, M.S. Student, got job with GE Aviation, Cincinnati |
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| Saranya Ganapathy, M.S. student, got job with Cummins Engine, Columbus, IN |
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| Taha Koroglu, MS student, in PhD program now at OSU in computer vision |
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| Jose Velasquez, M.S. student, got job with Dematic, Grand Rapids, MI |
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| Yingyi Hu, M.S. student, got job with Captora |
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| Veronica Badescu, M.S. student |
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| John Zakelj, M.S. student, Layer Zero Power Systems Inc., Cleveland OH |
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| Jiacheng (Johnny) Tang, M.S. student, continued PhD at OSU |
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Sri Harini Balaji GE, in Pittsburgh |
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- To my past students who may be browsing: If I do not show a picture of you above then please send me one!
Miscellaneous Pictures:
Party at Kevin and Anne's house, Summer 2000 (Manuel, Elizabeth, Carina, Kevin, Juliana, Alvaro, Genesis, Huihui, Jacob, Yang, Ye, Yixin, Veysel, Manfredi, Hazem; Anne took the picture):
At the American Control Conference, Chicago, June 2000 (Yang, Raul, Veysel, Hazem, Manfredi):
Out for dinner in Columbus, during a visit by Profs. Ordonez and Maggiore, April 2001:
Out for dinner in Washington, DC, at the American Control Conference, June 2001 (Raul, Oscar Gonzalez, Alvaro, Manfredi, Veysel, Kevin):
Going to lunch on High Street, Autumn 2001 (Sriram, Doug, Jorge, Kevin, Nicanor, Mike, Yanfei, Alvaro, Veysel):
At the IEEE Conf. on Decision and Control, Orlando, Florida, Dec. 2001 (Veysel, Manfredi, Raul, Kevin, Yang)
Summer Party at Kevin's: Sept. 2002 (Front row: Yanfei, Jacob, Genesis, Juliana, Carina, Sriram, Brandon; Back row: Raul, Alvaro, Jorge, Kevin, Junko, Anne, Nicanor; Elizabeth took the picture)
At the Int. Conf. on Complex Systems, Quincy, MA, May 2004 (Kevin, Jorge, Burt)
Summer Party at Kevin's 2004 (Front row, left to right: Manuel, Genesis, Alvaro, Junko, Nancy, Carina, Greer, Juliana, Nicanor, Yanfei; Back row, left to right: Zac, Kevin, Jorge, Jake, Gonzalo, Andrea, Raul, Lucy, Burt, Jesus, Yong, Brandon; also present, Elizabeth and Anne)
Summer Party at Kevin's 2005 (Back row, left to right: Kevin, Tom, Jorge, Andrea, Brandon, Kevin, Ted; Second row, left to right: Zac, Anne, Monica, Elizabeth, Juliana, Blanca, Nicanor; Front row, left to right: Jake, Carina, Alvaro, Manuel, Genesis)
Lunch, Jan. 12, 2007 (Left to right, Ted, Nicanor, Ian, Brandon, Kevin, Jorge, Kevin)
K. Passino: Selected Professional Activities
Clara M. and Peter L. Scott Faculty Award for Excellence in Engineering Education, College of Engineering, The Ohio State University, 2020.
Distinguished Scholar Award, Ohio State University, 2018 (university-wide). Award cermony, dinner, and recognition at OSU-Tulane football game. Photos, left to right: Half time, congratulations from Dr. Michael Drake (President, OSU), and on the jumbo-tron.
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Framed plaque for Distinguished Scholar Award:
Editorial Board, Int. Journal of Swarm Intelligence Research, 2009-present.
Fulbright Specialist Scholar, elected roster member, U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) and the Institute of International Education’s Council for International Exchange of Scholars (CIES), 2016-2022.
IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology, Distinguished Lecturer, 2007-present
Organizer for: Workshop on the Smart Grid, Dec. 2011; Workshop on the Smart Grid Demand-Response Functions, Jan. 23, 2013; Workshop on Smart and Sustainable Buildings, April 23, 2013.
Lead Organizer, 2007-2008 Mathematical Bioengineering Program workshop on Systems Biology of Decision Making, Mathematical Biosciences Institute (organizing committee: Kevin Passino, Thomas Waite, Roger Ratcliff, Thomas Seeley, Nigel Franks, Naomi Leonard)
Ralph L. Boyer Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Engineering Innovations, College of Engineering, Ohio State University, 2008
“Excellence in Community Partnership Building Award,” 2008. Awarded by the OSU Service Learning Initiative and Project Community/Ohio Union.
Chairman, Conference on Engineers for Community Service, April 2007
Faculty Advisor, OSU student organization, Engineers for Community Service (ECOS), 2004-present
IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society, Technical Committee on Self-Organization and Cybernetics for Informatics, 2006-present
Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2004
IEEE Control Systems Society, Distinguished Member Award, 2002
IEEE Control Systems Society, Distinguished Lecturer, 2001-2013
Program Chair, IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2001
IEEE Control Systems Society, Vice President for Technical Activities, 1999, 2000
Vice Chair for Invited Sessions, IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 1999
IEEE Control Systems Society, Chair, Technical Committee on Intelligent Control, 1997, 1998
Stanley Harrison Faculty Award for Excellence in Engineering Education, College of Engineering, The Ohio State University, 1998
Associate Editor, IEEE Trans. on Fuzzy Systems, 1997
Lumley Research Award (four times), College of Engineering, The Ohio State University
Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 1993-1998.
Editorial Board, International Journal for Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 1991-1997.
IEEE Control Systems Society Board of Governors, Appointed member, 1994, Elected member, 1995-1997.
Program Chairman: IEEE Int. Symp. on Intelligent Control, Chicago IL, Aug., 1993.
General Chairman, IEEE Int. Symp. on Intelligent Control, Dearborn, MI, Sept. 1996.
Task Force on Intelligent Control, IEEE Control Systems Society, 1993.
Guest Editor, IEEE Expert, Special Track on Intelligent Control, 1995-1996.
Guest Editor, Special Issue on Intelligent Control, IEEE Control Systems Magazine, Vol. 13, June 1993.
IEEE Control Systems Society Board of Governors, Appointed member, 1994.
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Humanitarian/ Development Engineering and Engineering Ethics
- Humanitarian Engineering Center:
OSU Humanitarian Engineering Center (Passino, founding Director, served as Director from June 2014 to May 2018),
- Humanitarian Engineering Book:
Kevin M. Passino, Humanitarian Engineering: Advancing Technology for Sustainable Development, 3rd Edition, Bede Pub., Columbus, OH, 2016. Click here for a free download.
- Humanitarian/Development Engineering Courses:
Humanitarian Engineering (ENGR 5050) in OSU College of Engineering (first offered Spring 2014, offered annually). On line videos of lectures, slides, etc. available at this web site. Also, videos of Spring 2015 lectures are at iTunesU and YouTube.
Feedback Control Engineering for Social Justice (ECE 5550) in OSU Dept. Electrical and Computer Engineering.
Anti-Poverty Technology (ARTSSCI 1138-22), Freshman Seminar
Service Learning Courses: (1) ENGR 4692.01S-0040 OSU-Colombia Collaboration, Spring 2015; (2) ENGR 4692.01S-0060 Colaboración Guatemala, Spring 2015
"Early participant" in the IEEE/United Nations Humanitarian Technology Network / Humanitarian Technology Challenge (HTC) (my challenge problem: Reliable Electricity), 2009. Named leader of the education component of this program, named "weHTC" ("world-wide education" for the HTC). Developed course and public wiki for it: "Humanitarian Technology Challenge" a capstone design course, Dept. Electrical and Computer Engineering, OSU, offered Spring 2010, 2011.
- Humanitarian/Development Engineering Projects:
iSTEM: International Inclusive STEM Education
Colaboración Guatemala
Tech4Community, See article "A Grand Challenge? Maybe Not" in the ASEE Prism, Dec. 2017 (about engineering for people who are homeless).
Other work in the US, Colombia, Paraguay, and Honduras
- Fulbright:
A Fulbright Specialist Scholar, 2016-2021, for humanitarian/development engineering education
- Distinguished Lectureship:
IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology, Distinguished Lecturer, 2007-present (for humanitarian/development engineering and engineering ethics)
- Guest Editorships:
K.M. Passino, Guest Editor for Special Issue on Volunteerism and Humanitarian Engineering - Part I, IEEE Technology and Society Magazine, Dec. 2009.
- Committees:
IEEE Humanitarian Activities Committee, 2015-present.
Center for Clinical and Translational Science (CCTS), Community Engagement Program, Faculty Research Advisory Committee, 2015-present
OSU-Athens Albert Schweitzer Fellow Program, Faculty Advisory Committee, 2017-present
Engineering for Change (E4C), Engineering for Global Development (e.g., EGD 101), Education Development Steering Committee, 2017-present
Ohio State University Office of Outreach and Engagement, Evaluation Committee for “Connect and Collaborate” grant program, 2017-2018
- Student Organizations, Faculty Advisor:
- Founding faculty advisor for the OSU College of Engineering student organization, Engineers for Community Service (ECOS). In Autumn 2003, worked with students from my class ECE 3080 Ethics in Electrical and Computer Engineering to form this group; formed official OSU student organization early in 2004.
- Active in a range of ECOS activities, local and international projects, especially in "building bridges over the digital divide" for children at orphanages (see ECOS web site), which has so-far meant installation of computer laboratories and educating kids about computers (at Orphanages in Honduras, and two in Colombia, Medellín and Cali).
- Engineers for Community Service was the recipient of the 2005, 2007, 2012, and 2017 "Spirit of Ohio State" Award for its activities. It also won the OSU best web site award in 2008.
- Founding faculty advisor for the OSU College of Engineering student organization, Code 4 Community, in Autumn 2017. Worked with CSE/ECE students to form this organization. Working with them on projects.
- Courses and Short Courses in Engineering Ethics:
- ECE 3080 Ethics in Electrical and Computer Engineering which covers: (i) Professionalism, social justice, and ethical decision making, (ii) engineering as social experimentation, (iii) safety and risk, (iv) case studies in design (saftey) and workplace professionalism/organizational issues, (v) global issues (e.g., environment/sustainability, appropriate technology, weapons development), and (vi) foundations for engineering volunteerism. Taught this at OSU annually since Fall 1991. Annual enrollment varies, but it has not been below 150, and in Autumn 2004 it was >200, it was >190 Autumn 2005, it was 260 in Autumn 2012, 230 in Autumn 2013, 175 in Autumn 2014,...
- K.M. Passino, Engineering Ethics, Short courses at Universidad Centroamerica and Universidad El Salvador, San Salvador, El Salvador, Aug. 13 and 14, 2013.
- ECE 7080 Ethics and Professionalism, for Dept. Electrical and Computer Engineering graduate students only. Covers topics in ECE 3080 below plus professional standards for the graduate student, research integrity, publication ethics, etc. Course first ran Autumn 2014, runs annually.
- "Engineering Ethics," Short course at workshop (>100 attendees) by International Institute for Developing Engineering Academics (IIDEA), at the Center for Engineering Education, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, July 10-11, 2015.
- Funding Activities:
- Battelle Endowment for Technology and Human Affairs (BETHA), "Engineers for Community Service: Model Programs for the Develoment of a Profession" (K. Passino, PI, co-PIs are H. Walker, J. Merrill, and B. Lilly), 2005-2007. We seek to educate future engineering leaders to become more sensitive to social needs, and to illuminate the path toward life-long professionalism via ethical technological leadership. Model community service programs for engineering education are being established. Each model program provides concrete examples of societal impacts, demands for appropriate technology and sustainable development, cultural interchange, and globalization challenges. Nation-wide impact will be achieved via publication of the model service programs and proceedings of a proposed conference. Many activities under this program are done with the student group Engineers for Community Service (ECOS).
- Co-Principal Investigator (PI, H. Walker, co-PI, J. Merrill), US Environmental Protection Agency (P3 Award: A National Student Design Competition for Sustainability Focusing on People Prosperity and the Planet), "Development of a Sustainable and Appropriate Drinking Water System for Montana de Luz and Nueva Esperanza, Honduras", July 1, 2006-June 30, 2007
- Co-Principal Investigator (Mark Walter, ME, PI, L. Tilder, G. McKenzie, J. Box, S. Korpela, H. Walker also co-PIs), National Renewable Energy Lab, US Dept. of Energy, "Health and Harmony: Solar Decathlon Competition", Feb. 1, 2008-Jan. 31, 2009.
- Investigator on National Academy of Engineering program funded by the National Science Foundation, "Online Resource Center for Ethics Education in Science and Engineering," Jan. 2014 - Dec. 2019.
- Battelle Engineering, Technology, and Human Affairs Endowment (BETHA), "Engineering, Technology, Human Affairs, and Social Justice: From Columbus to Colombia", (K. Passino, PI, co-PIs, Betty Lise Anderson, John Clapp, Leslie Moore, Melissa Wilson), 2014-2016.
- OSU Outreach and Engagement, Engagement Impact Grant, “Creation of the Central Ohio Community Technology Clinic”, (K. Passino, PI, co-PI, John Clapp), 2014-2016
- PI, IEEE Foundation, “Globalizing Humanitarian Engineering Education,” 2015-2016.
- Fulbright Specialist Scholar, travel funds, 2016-2021
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