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Yu-Chi Ho, Ph.D.
Dr. Yu-Chi
(Larry) Ho received his S.B. and S.M. degrees in Electrical Engineering
from M.I.T. and his Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from Harvard
University. Except for three years of full time industrial work
he has been on the Harvard faculty. Since 1969 he has been Gordon
McKay Professor of Engineering and Applied Mathematics. In 1988,
he was appointed to the T. Jefferson Coolidge Chair in Applied
Mathematics and Gordon McKay Professor of Systems Engineering at
Harvard and as visiting professor to the Cockrell Family Regent's
Chair in Engineering at the University of Texas, Austin . In
2001, he retired from teaching duties at Harvard and became a
Research Professor and also was appointed to be a chair professor
and chief scientist (part time), at the Center for Intelligent
and Network Systems, Tsinghua University, Beijing China
Dr. Ho
has published over 120 articles and four books, one of which
(co-authored with A.E. Bryson, Jr.) has been translated into both
Russian and Chinese and made the list of Citation Classics as one
of the most referenced works on the subject of optimal control.
He is on the editorial boards of several international journals
and is the editor-in-chief of the international Journal on
Discrete Event Dynamic Systems.
Dr. Ho is the recipient of various
fellowships and awards including the Guggenheim (1970),
the IEEE Field Award for Control Engineering and Science
(1989), the Chiang Technology Achievement Award (1993),
The American Automatic Control Council Bellman Control
Heritage Award (1999), and the ASME Rufus Oldenburger
Award (1999). He is a Life Fellow of IEEE, a
Distinguished Member of the Control Systems Society, a member of
the U.S. National Academy of Engineering and a foreign
member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and the
Chinese Academy of Sciences. In addition to services on
various governmental and industrial panels, and professional
society administrative bodies, Dr. Ho was the President of the IEEE
Robotics & Automation Society in 1988 and co-founder of Network
Dynamics, Inc., a software firm specializing in industrial
automation.
His
research interests ranges from differential games, information
structure, multi-person decision analysis, to incentive control,
and since 1983, exclusively in
discrete event dynamic systems,
ordinal optimization, perturbation analysis, and
manufacturing automation.
On the community
service side, Dr. Ho is the founder and first chair of the annual
United Asian American Dinner of Massachusetts, Chairman of the
Board of Greater Boston Chinese Cultural Association (1995-98),
President of the New England Chapter of the Organization of
Chinese Americans (1982-85), board member of the Mass Endowment
for Humanities (1985-89) and a founding member and member of the
steering committee of the 80-20 Initiative, a national political
movement for Asian Americans. |
