KIM AND LEWIS: OPTIMAL DESIGN OF NEURAL-NETWORK CONTROLLER Frank L. Lewis(S78-M81-SM'86-F94)was he Bs legree in physics and electrical engineering and ngineering at rice niversity, Houston, Tx, in 1971. He received the niversity of West Florida, Pensacola, in 1977. He received the Ph. D. degree from Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, in 1981 trical Engineering with the University of Texas, Ar- gton. He spent six years in the United States Navy, serving as Navigator board the frigate USS Trippe(FF-1075) and Executive Officer and Acti Commanding Officer aboard USS Salinan(ATF-161) He has studied the ge netric, analytic, and structural properties of dynamical systems and feedback control automation. His current interests include robotics, intelligent control ural and fuzzy systems, nonlinear systems, and manufacturing process con- rol. He is the author/coauthor of two U.S. patents, 12 ters and encyclopedia articles, 210 refereed conference papers, and 7 bo tered Professional engineer in the State of Texas and was selected to the Editorial Boards of International Journal of Control Neural Computing and Applications, and International Journal of Intelligent Control Systems. He is the recipient of an NSF Research Initiation Grant and has been continuously funded by NSF since 1982. Since 1991, he has received $1. 8 mil- lion in funding from NSF and upwards of SI million in SBIR/industry/state funding. He was awarded the Moncrief-O Donnell Endowed Chair in 1990 at he Automation and Robotics Research Institute. Arlington. TX. He received a Fulbright Research Award, the American Society of Engineering Education F. E. Terman Award three Sigma Xi Research Awards, the UTA Halliburton En- g Research Award, the UTA University- the ARRI Patent Award, various Best Paper Awards, the IEEE Control Systems Society Best Chapter Award, and the National Sigma Xi Award for Outstanding Chapter(as President). He was selected as Engineer of the year in 1994 by the Ft. Worth, TX, IEEE Section. He was appointed to the NAE Committee on Space Station in 1995 and to the IEEE Control Systems Society Board of Governors in 1996. In 1998, he was selected as an IEEE Control Sys. ems Society Distinguished Lecturer. He is a Founding Member of the board of Governors of the mediterranean Control AssociationKIM AND LEWIS: OPTIMAL DESIGN OF NEURAL-NETWORK CONTROLLER 31 Frank L. Lewis (S’78–M’81–SM’86–F’94) was born in Wuzburg, Germany. He received the B.S. degree in physics and electrical engineering and the M.S. degree in electrical engineering at Rice University, Houston, TX, in 1971. He received the M.S. degree in aeronautical engineering from the University of West Florida, Pensacola, in 1977. He received the Ph.D. degree from Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, in 1981. In 1981, he was employed as a Professor of Elec￾trical Engineering with the University of Texas, Ar￾lington. He spent six years in the United States Navy, serving as Navigator aboard the frigate USS Trippe (FF-1075) and Executive Officer and Acting Commanding Officer aboard USS Salinan (ATF-161). He has studied the geo￾metric, analytic, and structural properties of dynamical systems and feedback control automation. His current interests include robotics, intelligent control, neural and fuzzy systems, nonlinear systems, and manufacturing process con￾trol. He is the author/coauthor of two U.S. patents, 124 journal papers, 20 chap￾ters and encyclopedia articles, 210 refereed conference papers, and 7 books. Dr. Lewis is a registered Professional Engineer in the State of Texas and was selected to the Editorial Boards of International Journal of Control, Neural Computing and Applications, and International Journal of Intelligent Control Systems. He is the recipient of an NSF Research Initiation Grant and has been continuously funded by NSF since 1982. Since 1991, he has received $1.8 mil￾lion in funding from NSF and upwards of $1 million in SBIR/industry/state funding. He was awarded the Moncrief-O’Donnell Endowed Chair in 1990 at the Automation and Robotics Research Institute, Arlington, TX. He received a Fulbright Research Award, the American Society of Engineering Education F. E. Terman Award, three Sigma Xi Research Awards, the UTA Halliburton En￾gineering Research Award, the UTA University-Wide Distinguished Research Award, the ARRI Patent Award, various Best Paper Awards, the IEEE Control Systems Society Best Chapter Award, and the National Sigma Xi Award for Outstanding Chapter (as President). He was selected as Engineer of the year in 1994 by the Ft. Worth, TX, IEEE Section. He was appointed to the NAE Committee on Space Station in 1995 and to the IEEE Control Systems Society Board of Governors in 1996. In 1998, he was selected as an IEEE Control Sys￾tems Society Distinguished Lecturer. He is a Founding Member of the Board of Governors of the Mediterranean Control Association