Stéphane Lafortune

Education

École Polytechnique de Montréal

B.S. Electrical Engineering 1980

McGill University

M.S. Electrical Engineering 1982

University of California at Berkeley

Ph.D. Electrical Engineering 1986

Professional Career

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science since 1986

Elected Fellow of the IEEE (1999)

Contributions to the theory of discrete event systems

Served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Discrete Event Dynamic Systems: Theory and Applications and of the International Journal of Control

Axelby Outstanding Paper Award from the IEEE Control Systems Society

1994 - Limited Lookahead Policies in Supervisory Control of Discrete Event Systems

Co-author(s): Sheng-Luen Chung, Feng Lin

2001 - Decentralized Supervisor Control with Communicating Controllers

Co-author(s): George Barrett