Jose Bejar Cruz Jr.

Jose B. Cruz has compiled an enviable record of accomplishments in engineering research and education. During his 27 years on the faculty of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois, he was one of the original founders of the Allerton Conference on Circuits, Systems, and Computers, served as associate director of the Coordinated Science Lab, and as associate head of the department. He was chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, Irvine, from 1986 to 1990 and then served as dean of engineering at The Ohio State University. He retired from the deanship in 1997 and was awarded the first Winbigler Chair in Engineering.

In research, he has made major contributions to the theory and practice of automatic control. His work in the 1970s and 1980s on the control of leader-follower systems is still considered one of the major contributions of the half-century in the theory of hierarchical control systems. Still active in research, he leads a major research effort by a consortium of four universities and one company, funded by DARPA, to apply his work on the leader-follower control problem to the design of optimum strategies for human-automaton resource entity deployment with potential applications in future combat systems. He was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 1980 and is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and AAAS. One of his strongest assets is his ability to work with people, and he has used it effectively to benefit the engineering profession.

Jose B. Cruz Jr. is a noted control theorist and a Distinguished Professor of Engineering in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ohio State University. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the International Federation of Automatic Control, and the American Society for Engineering Education.[1] He is also the recipient of the IEEE Centennial Medal in 1984, the Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award in 1994, and the IEEE James H. Mulligan, Jr. Education Medal in 2009.[2]

Jose B. Cruz Jr.
Born:
Malolos, Bulacan, Philippines

Nationality:
Filipino

Citizens:
American

Awards:
Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award (1994)
IEEE James H. Mulligan Jr. Education Medal (2009)

Scientific career:
Fields
Control theory