说说Mark Spong

说说Mark Spong吧。个人是非常欣赏这头大牛的。想起来，我买的第一本Robotics的书，就是他写的一本很经典的Robotics教材。那本书还是在马来西亚的时候不知为啥会在Kinokuniya买下的，比起美国的价格便宜多。可惜上次“水患”吧那书给毁了。后来赔回来的是那本书的再版，很新很新。他算是Robotics方面的先锋，很多今天很重要的Robot控制系统都是他导出来的。看看这些吧：

Mark W. Spong is Donald Biggar Willett Professor of Engineering, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Research Professor in the Coordinated Science Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He received the B.A. degree, magna cum laude, in mathematics and physics from Hiram College, Hiram, Ohio in 1975, the M.S. degree in mathematics from New Mexico State University in 1977, and the M.S. and D.Sc. degrees in systems science and mathematics in 1979 and 1981, respectively, from Washington University in St. Louis.

He has been at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign since 1984. From 1981 to 1982 he was with the Department of Electrical Engineering at Lehigh University. From 1982 to 1984 he was with the School of Electrical Engineering at Cornell University. He has held visiting positions at the National Polytechnic Institute of Mexico, the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, the Laboratoire d’Automatique de Grenoble, France, The Lund Institute of Technology, Lund, Sweden, the Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven, Belgium, The Universite d’Tecnologie de Compiegne, France, the National University of Singapore, and the Technical University of Munich, Germany.

Dr. Spong was the 2005 President of the IEEE Control Systems Society. He was Vice President for Publication Activities of the IEEE Control Systems Society from 2000-2002, Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology from 1997-2000, and a member of its Board of Governors from 1994-2002. His research interests are in nonlinear control theory and robotics. He has published over 200 technical articles in control and robotics and is co-author of four books, Robot Dynamics and Control, John Wiley & Sons, 1989, Robot Control: Dynamics, Motion Planning, and Analysis, IEEE Press, 1992, Robot Modeling and Control, John Wiley & Sons, 2005 and The Reaction Wheel Pendulum, Morgan & Claypool Publishers, 2007.

Dr. Spong is a Fellow of the IEEE, a Distinguished Member of the IEEE Control Systems Society and a member of Phi Beta Kappa. His recent awards include the 2007 IROS Fumio Harashima Award for Innovative Technologies, the Senior Scientist Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Bonn, Germany, the IEEE Third Millennium Medal, and the O. Hugo Schuck Award and John R. Ragazzini Award from the American Automatic Control Council. In addition, he is President of Mechatronic Systems, Inc., a company he founded in 1996.

怎么说呢？我觉得我在他的手下压力还是很大的。看了他很多博士生的论文的Acknowledgment，觉得他还是一个很善良的老师，是个优点。我觉得比较容易从这种老师学到很多。他的成就也真的太夸张了。现在去开会，我常常得说我是Krovi的学生，有些人还认识。有时得加说Krovi是Kumar的学生我才占得了一点名气。如果和Spong的话，我想我不需要这样了吧，就说我是Spong的postdoc，全世界都知道是谁了。晕了，明显我在发梦了。