Rate My Professor Graham Goodwin

Emeritus Laureate Professor Graham Goodwin is Professor of Electrical Engineering in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computing, College of Engineering, Science and Environment, at the University of Newcastle, Australia. He received his B.Sc. in Physics (1965), B.E. with First Class Honours in Electrical Engineering (1967), and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (1971) from the University of New South Wales. His career started as Lecturer at Imperial College London (1971-1974), followed by roles at the University of Newcastle from Lecturer (1974-1975) to Senior Lecturer (1975-1976), Associate Professor (1976), and Professor (1983-present). He was Head of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (1977-1983), Dean of the Faculty of Engineering (1990-1993), and Director of the Centre for Industrial Control Science (1983-1996), Centre for Integrated Dynamics and Control (1997-1999), and ARC Centre of Excellence for Complex Dynamic Systems and Control (2002-2010). Currently, he directs the Artificial Pancreas Program, a national multi-disciplinary effort on diabetes management, and holds distinguished professorships at Harbin Institute of Technology, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Zhengzhou University, and Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María.

Goodwin's research specializes in control theory (adaptive, robust, stochastic, model predictive, networked, nonlinear, hybrid systems, fault detection), system identification, digital signal processing, and applications including biomedical closed-loop glucose control for type 1 diabetes, power electronics, mining optimization, telecommunications, and process control. He has published nine research monographs, notably Adaptive Filtering, Prediction and Control (1984), Digital Control and Estimation: A Unified Approach (1990), Fundamental Limitations in Filtering and Control (1997), Control System Design (2001), and Constrained Control and Estimation (2005), plus over 218 journal papers and 330 conference papers. He has supervised 38 PhD students. Key awards include the IEEE Control Systems Field Award (2010), ASME Rufus T. Oldenburger Medal (2013), IEEE Hendrik Bode Lecture Prize (1999), and IFAC Quazza Medal (2008). Goodwin is a Fellow of IEEE, Australian Academy of Science, Royal Society London, and others, with 60 keynote addresses at international conferences.