Carolyn Beck

Associate Professor

Carolyn Beck joined the Department in August 1999. Prior to this she was a faculty member of the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh from September 1996 through July 1999. She was a post-doctoral research assistant at Lund Institute of Technology in Sweden for the first half of 1996, after receiving her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology in January 1996, in the area of control theory. From 1985 through 1989, Dr. Beck was a Research and Development Engineer for Hewlett-Packard in Santa Clara, CA.

Her primary research interests lie in the development of model reduction and control analysis theory, multiobjective optimization techniques, communications networks analysis and bioengineering applications.

Education:
Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, 1996
M.S., Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, 1985
B.S., Electrical and Computer Engineering, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, 1984

Awards:
ONR Young Investigator Award, 2001
NSF CAREER Award, 1998
Alcoa Foundation Award, 1997
Oak Ridge Associated Universities Junior Faculty Enhancement Award, 1997
Accenture Outstanding Advisor Award, College of Engineering, 2004 and 2005

Selected Publications :
“Entropy-based Framework for Dynamic Coverage and Clustering Problems,” P. Sharma, S. Salapaka and C. L. Beck. To Appear, IEEE Trans. on Automatic Control, December 2011. Preliminary version available in the Proceedings of the American Control Conference, 2008.

"L1-Adaptive Methods for Control of Patient Response to Anesthesia", M. Ralph, C.L. Beck and M. Bloom, Proceedings of the American Control Conference, 2011.

"Impact of file arrivals and departures on buffer sizing in core routers," A. Lakshmikantha, C.L. Beck and R. Srikant, IEEE Transactions on Networking, 19(2): 347-58, 2010.

“Differential Equation Models of Flow-size Based Priorities in Internet Routers,” Lakshmikantha, A., R. Srikant, and C. L. Beck. International Journal of Systems, Control and Communications, 2(1/2/3): 170-196, 2010.

"Dynamic Maximum Entropy Algorithms for Clustering and Coverage Control", Y. Xu, S. Salapaka and C. L. Beck. Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Atlanta, Georgia 2010.

“Model Reduction, Optimal Prediction, and the Mori-Zwanzig Representation of Markov Chains,” C. L. Beck, S. Lall, T. Liang and M. West. Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Shanghai, China 2009.

“A Scalable Approach to Combinatorial Library Design for Drug Discovery,” P. Sharma, S. Salapaka and C. L. Beck. Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, 48(1): 27-41, 2007.

“Coprime Factors Reduction Algorithms for Linear Parameter Varying and Uncertain Systems,” C. L. Beck. Systems and Control Letters, 55(3):199-213, 2006.

"On the Use of Hybrid Multivariable Models for Predicting Human Response to Anesthesia," H-H. Lin, C. L. Beck and M. Bloom.  IEEE Trans. on Biomedical Engineering, 51(11):1876-1887, 2004.

“Noncomuting Multi-Dimensional System Realization Theory: Minimality, Reachability and Observability,” C. L. Beck and R. D'Andrea. IEEE Trans. On Automatic Control, 49(10):1815-1822, 2004.

"Guaranteed Error Bounds for Model Reduction of Linear Time-Varying Systems," S. Lall and C. L. Beck. IEEE Trans. on Automatic Control, 48(6):946-956,2003.

"On Formal Power Series Representations for Uncertain Systems," C. L. Beck. IEEE Trans. on Automatic Control, 46(2):314-319, 2001.

Contact Information
Office: 110 Transportation Building
Mailing Address:
117 Transportation Building MC-238
104 S. Mathews Ave.
Urbana IL 61801
Phone: (217) 244-9714
Fax: (217) 244-5705
e-mail: beck3@illinois.edu

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