James H. Taylor, PhD Professor Emeritus, Systems and Control Electrical & Computer Engineering Department, University of New Brunswick P.O.  Box 4400 Fredericton, N.B.  E3B 5A3 Canada Telephone: +1.506.453.5101 Fax: +1.506.453.3589 EMail: jim.taylor@ieee.org Education: BSEE (with Distinction), University of Rochester; Bausch & Lomb Scholar MSEE, University of Rochester; NASA Trainee PhD, Yale University, Engineering and Applied Science; NSF Trainee Positions: July 1994 to present - Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of New Brunswick; NSERC/Monenco AGRA Professor (Industrial Research Chair in Instrumentation & Control) until October 2002; Professor until July 2005; Honorary Research Professor until May 2008; Professor Emeritus March 1992 to June 1994 - Odyssey Research Associates, Inc., Ithaca, NY; Manager, Control and Manufacturing 1981 to 1992 - GE Corporate Research and Development, Control Systems Laboratory, Schenectady, NY; Senior Research Staff 1978 to 1981 - Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK; Associate Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering 1973 to 1978 - The Analytic Sciences Corporation (TASC), Reading, MA; Member of Technical Staff 1969 to 1972 - Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India; Research Associate, Visiting Assistant Professor Professional Affiliations: Life Member of the IEEE (Board of Governors, Control System Society, 1992-95) Member of the ASME (Chairman, Dynamic Systems and Control Division, 1992-93) Tau Beta Pi, Sigma Xi, Iron Ring (Canada) Brief Overview: James H. Taylor received his BSEE (with Distinction) and MSEE from the University of Rochester, and his PhD in Engineering and Applied Science from Yale University.  From 1969 to 1972, he was a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.  In 1973, he joined The Analytic Sciences Corporation (TASC), Reading, MA, where he developed several new analysis techniques for nonlinear systems.  During 1978-81, he was an Associate Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK. Dr. Taylor was a Research Engineer at GE Corporate Research & Development from 1981 to 1992.  There he conducted research in nonlinear systems analysis and design, computer-aided control engineering (CACE), and expert systems for control (both for CACE and for real-time control).  He became Manager of Control and Manufacturing at Odyssey Research Associates, Inc., Ithaca, New York in March 1992, where he led an ARPA Project in Theory and CAE for Intelligent Nonlinear Hybrid Controls. Finally, in July 1994 he joined UNB as NSERC/Monenco AGRA Professor of Instrumentation & Control.  Current research projects focus on the development of theory, design methodologies and software tools for nonlinear &/or intelligent systems, with applications ranging from semiconductor manufacturing to paper production to petroleum production to autonomous vehicles to distributed generators . . . (see Research Projects).  Methodologies include nonlinear control system synthesis approaches based on describing function techniques, applied artificial intelligence (rule-based systems, fuzzy logic, neural nets) for real-time control and for CACE (computer-aided control engineering), self-optimizing supervisory control, rigourous modelling and simulation of hybrid systems with discontinuous dynamics, and development of nonlinear controls CACE tools and software environments. Dr. Taylor is a Life Member of the IEEE (Board of Governors, Control System Society, 1992-94), a member of the ASME (Chairman, Dynamic Systems and Control Division, 1992-93), and Sigma Xi.  He has served as Finance Chair, Publications Chair and Program Co-chair for several IEEE Conferences, and was appointed General Chair of the IEEE Conference on Control Applications, held in Hartford, CT in October 1997.  He has numerous publications in intelligent control, nonlinear systems theory and computer-aided control engineering (see Publications). Return to my Home Page Information supplied by: James H. Taylor Updated by: James H. Taylor Last update: 2009 December 2 Email comments/suggestions to: Jim Taylor (jtaylor@unb.ca)