Stephen P. Boyd is the Samsung Professor of Engineering, and Professor
of Electrical Engineering in the Information Systems Laboratory
at Stanford University. His current research focus is on convex
optimization applications in control, signal processing, and circuit
design.
Professor Boyd received an AB degree in Mathematics, summa cum
laude, from Harvard University in 1980, and a PhD in EECS from
U. C. Berkeley in 1985. In 1985 he joined the faculty of Stanford's
Electrical Engineering Department. He has held visiting Professor
positions at Katholieke University (Leuven), McGill University
(Montreal), Ecole Polytechnique Federale (Lausanne), Qinghua University
(Beijing), Universite Paul Sabatier (Toulouse), Royal Institute
of Technology (Stockholm), and Kyoto University.
Professor Boyd has received many awards and honors for his research
in control
systems engineering and optimization, including an ONR Young Investigator
Award, a Presidential Young Investigator Award, and an IBM faculty
development award. In 1992 he received the AACC Donald P. Eckman
Award. In 1993 he was elected Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE
Control Systems Society, and in 1999, he was elected Fellow of
the IEEE, with citation: "For contributions to the design
and analysis of control systems using convex optimization based
CAD tools.
