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Lucy Pao Professor Control Systems, Sensor Fusions, and Robotics Laboratory Department of Electrical Engineering University of Colorado at Boulder Boulder, CO 80309

1993

2003

Contact Information

• Phone: (303) 492-2360
• Fax: (303) 492-2758
• E-mail: pao@colorado.edu

Biography

• Lucy Y. Pao was born in Washington, D.C. in 1968. She received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. She was a Hughes Aircraft Company Master's Fellow and a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow.

• From 1983-1993, Dr. Pao spent periods of time working at the Naval Surface Warfare Center (Silver Spring, Maryland), Pacific Gas & Electric Company (San Francisco, California), Hughes Aircraft Company (El Segundo, California), AT&T Bell Laboratories (Holmdel, New Jersey), and The MITRE Corporation (Bedford, Massachusetts). From 1993-1995, she was an Assistant Professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. Since 1995, she has been with the University of Colorado at Boulder, where she is now a Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. She spent a sabbatical year during 2001-2002 at Harvard University. Her current research interests include the control of flexible structures, multisensor data fusion, and human-machine and haptic interfaces.

• Dr. Pao is the recipient of a National Science Foundation Early Faculty CAREER Award *(1996-2001) and an Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award (1997-2000). She was also a winner of the 1996 IFAC World Congress Young Author Prize, and she was the co-author and advisor on the paper that received the Best Student Paper Award at the 2001 American Control Conference. Recently, she was a co-author of the paper that received the Best Commercial Potential Award at the 2004 International Symposium on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environments and Teleoperator Systems, and she was also a co-author of the paper that received the Best Paper Award at the 2005 World Haptics Conference. She was an invited participant of the National Academy of Engineering's 1997 Frontiers of Engineering Symposium and 2000 German-American Frontiers of Engineering Symposium, and she was a keynote speaker at the 1998 and 2000 Japan/USA/Vietnam Workshops on Research and Education in Systems, Computation, and Control Engineering. She has been recognized for her teaching with a 2003 Subaru Teaching Excellence Award.

• Dr. Pao served on the Program Committees for the 1995, 1997, 2000, and 2001 American Control Conferences and was also on the Program Committee for the 2000 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control. She was on the Organizing Committees for the Pioneering International Symposium on Motion and Vibration Control in Mechatronics held in 1999 in Tokyo, Japan and the 1999 International Symposium on Motion and Vibration Control in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. Dr. Pao also served on the International Program Committees for the 2000 Japan/USA/Vietnam Workshop on Research and Education in Systems, Computation, and Control Engineering and for the 2002 IFAC Conference on Mechatronic Systems. Prof. Pao has been an Associate Editor (1995 - 1997) on the Conference Editorial Board of the IEEE Control Systems Society. She was also the Editor (1995-2001) for the American Automatic Control Council Newsletter (past issues).

• Recently, Dr. Pao was an appointed member of the IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS) Board of Governors (BoG) (2003), Vice Chair for Invited Sessions for the 2003 American Control Conference, and Program Chair for the 2004 American Control Conference. She is currently an elected member on the IEEE CSS BoG (2005--2007), a member of the IFAC Committee on the Past, Present, and Future of Control Education, an Associate Editor for the International Journal of Control, Automation, and Systems, and a member of the Technical Program Committee for the 9th International Conference on Information Fusion.

Recent Highlights

• CDC Semi-Plenary on "Control of Flexible Structures: From Large Space Structures to Disk Drive Read/Write Arms (Thursday, December 14, 2006).
• Daughter Sarah wins in Colorado Rapids Dribble, Pass, Score finals (Wednesday, September 13, 2006).
• Photo of rest of family makes the front page of the Daily Camera (Friday, June 23, 2006).
• People in Control: Rocky Mountain High, IEEE Control Systems Magazine, pp. 18-21, Dec. 2005.
• Our paper

D. A. Lawrence, L. Y. Pao, and S. Aphanuphong. "Bow Spring/Tendon Actuation for Low Cost Haptic Interfaces," Proc. 1st Joint EuroHaptics Conf. and Symp. on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environments and Teleoperator Systems, Pisa, Italy, Mar. 2005. received the Best Paper Award at the 2005 World Haptics Conference.

• One of our projects was chosen to be featured in the National Science Foundation's Fiscal Year 2004 Performance Highlights report (see page 21) to Congress and the White House.
• Holiday Letters
• Pictures of Sarah and Matthew
• Pictures from June 2000 Travels