Anders Lindquist - Biography#

Anders Lindquist is Zhiyuan Chair Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and an Emeritus Professor at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden. After receiving a PhD from KTH in 1972, he came to the University of Florida as the first postdoctoral fellow of R.E. Kalman in his new Center of Mathematical Systems Theory, and then he had a full academic career from Assistant to Full Professor in the United States. In 1983 he was appointed to the Chair of Optimization and Systems Theory at KTH, where he also served as the Director of the Center for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. For ten years he was also the Head of the Mathematics Department there.

Lindquist is a Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, a foreign Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, a foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, an Honorary Member the Hungarian Operations Research Society, a Life Fellow of IEEE, a Fellow of SIAM, and a Fellow of IFAC. He is an honorary doctor at the Technion, Israel, and the recipient of the 2009 Reid Prize in Mathematics from SIAM and of the 2003 Axelby Outstanding Paper Award from the IEEE Control System Society. He is the recipient of the 2020 IEEE Control Systems Award, the IEEE field award in Systems and Control. He is also an Honorary Professor at the China University of Petroleum, Qingdao.

Lindquist is a frequent keynote and plenary speaker at international scientific conferences. He is presently serving on the editorial boards of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London and European Mathematical Society Surveys in Mathematical Sciences, and previously he served on the editorial boards of Proceedings of the Royal Society A, SIAM Review, Acta Automatica Sinica, Systems and Control Letters, International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing, and Journal of Mathematical Systems, Estimation, and Control. He holds four United States patents.