Rate My Professor Robert Shorten

Shorten's research focuses on smart mobility and smart cities, control theory and dynamics, hybrid dynamical systems, networking, linear algebra, the sharing economy, and DAG-based distributed ledgers. He has co-authored key books such as AIMD Dynamics and Distributed Resource Allocation (SIAM, 2016), which examines the AIMD algorithm central to TCP congestion control, and Electric and Plug-in Vehicle Networks: Optimisation and Control (CRC Press, 2017), addressing optimization in connected vehicles. He also edited Analytics for the Sharing Economy: Mathematics, Engineering and Business Perspectives (Springer, 2019). With over 160 journal publications as of 2020 in leading outlets including IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control and Automatica, his work spans stability analysis of switched systems, congestion control protocols, positive systems, vehicle platooning, and smart grid applications. Shorten contributes to professional bodies as a member of the IEEE Control Systems Society Technical Group on Smart Cities, IFAC Technical Committees for Automotive Control and Discrete Event and Hybrid Systems, and was the Irish representative on the European Union Control Association assembly from 2016 to 2019. He currently acts as interim Director of the Centre for Sectoral Economic Performance at Imperial College London.