Member Roster

Membership roster for the IFAC Industry Committee.
Name Details
Hans Aalto Affiliation: Take Control Oy
Country: FI
Type: Industry
Industry Sector(s): Process industries (petroleum refining, petrochemicals, chemicals); natural gas transmission
Industry Vice-chair for TC: 5.4

Daniel Abramovitch Affiliation: Agilent
Country: US
Type: Industry
Industry Sector(s): Mechatronic storage (optical and magnetic disk drives); high-performance instrumentation; atomic force microscopes; mass spectrometers

Sergey Abrashov Affiliation: Continental Engineering Services
Country: FR
Type: Industry
Industry Sector(s): Automotive (Tier 1)

Lounis Adouane Affiliation: Université de Technologie de Compiègne
Country: FR
Type: Academia
Industry Sector(s): Automotive (autonomous vehicles, hybrid-electric vehicles), defense (autonomous ground vehicles, cooperative air/land robots, swarm robots)
Industry Vice-chair for TC: 7.5

David A. Anisi Affiliation: Norwegian Univ. of Life Sci.
Country: Norge
Type: Academia
Industry Sector(s): Robotics, Oil&Gas, Agriculture

Finn Ankersen Affiliation: ESA, Consultant
Country: NL
Type: Industry
Industry Sector(s): Aerospace; power generation and conversion
Industry Vice-chair for TC: 7.3

Aitor Arnaiz Affiliation: Tekniker
Country: ES
Type: Industry
Industry Sector(s): process industries; manufacturing; renewable energy
Industry Vice-chair for TC: 5.1

Lidia Auret Affiliation: Stone Three
Country: South Africa
Type: Industry
Industry Sector(s): Mineral processing (sensors, control, monitoring, modelling)
IFAC Role(s): TC 6.2 vice-chair (publications)

Thomas Badgwell Affiliation: University of Texas at Austin
Country: US
Type: Academia
Industry Sector(s): Oil and gas
Industry Vice-chair for TC: 6.1

Jayesh Barve Affiliation: GE
Country: IN
Type: Industry
Industry Sector(s): Power generation, oil & gas, appliances, transportation, water management, cement, discrete manufacturing

Martin Bayliss Affiliation: MBDA UK Ltd
Country: UK
Type: Industry
Industry Sector(s): Aerospace and defence

Abdessattar Ben Amor Affiliation: Nat. Inst. of Appl. Sci. & Tech.
Country: TU
Type: Academia

Abdelkrim Benchaib Affiliation: SuperGrid Institute
Country: FR
Type: Industry
Industry Sector(s): Power systems

Neila Bhouri Affiliation: IFSTTAR
Country: FR
Type: Government
Industry Sector(s): 0
Industry Vice-chair for TC: 7.4

Rogier Blom Affiliation: GE
Country: US
Type: Industry
Industry Sector(s): Renewables; power generation; aviation; oil & gas; transportation; additive manufacturing; robotics

Nunzio Bonavita Affiliation: ABB
Country: IT
Type: Industry
Industry Sector(s): Technology ventures

Ali Borhan Affiliation: Cummins
Country: US
Type: Industry
Industry Sector(s): Automotive (connected, electric, and fuel-cell vehicles; powertrains); freight operations

Scott Bortoff Affiliation: Mitsubishi Electric
Country: US
Type: Industry
Industry Sector(s): HVAC; buildings (elevators); factory automation (robotics); HVAC; aerospace (engines, power distribution)

Delphine Bresch-Pietri Affiliation: Mines-Paristech
Country: FR
Type: Academia
Industry Sector(s): 0
Industry Vice-chair for TC: 2.6

Kevin Brooks Affiliation: APC Smart
Country: ZA
Type: Industry
Industry Sector(s): oil refining; pulp and paper; mining, metals, minerals (MMM)
Industry Vice-chair for TC: 6.2
IFAC Role(s): Chair of the Industry Committee

John Burchell Affiliation: Sibanye-Stillwater
Country: ZA
Type: Industry
Industry Sector(s): Mineral processing; mining

Leo Chiang Affiliation: Dow
Country: US
Type: Industry

Moncef Chioua Affiliation: Polytechnique Montreal
Country: CA
Type: Academia
Industry Sector(s): Pulp and paper, oil and gas, chemicals, mining
IFAC Role(s): Exec Comm

Loutjie Coetzee Affiliation: Draslovka
Country: ZA
Type: Industry
Industry Sector(s): Mineral processing

Francesco Corona Affiliation: Aalto University
Country: FI
Type: Academia
Industry Sector(s): Process industries; environmental (water treatment)
Industry Vice-chair for TC: 8.4

Robert David Affiliation: Technord
Country: BE
Type: Industry
Industry Sector(s): Food and beverage; pharma; cement; water distribution

Lane Desborough Affiliation: Nudge BG
Country: US
Type: Industry
Industry Sector(s): Biomedical; process industries

Stefano Di Cairano Affiliation: Mitsubishi Electric
Country: US
Type: Industry
Industry Sector(s): Automotive; aerospace; industrial automation
Industry Vice-chair for TC: 2.4
IFAC Role(s): Exec Comm

Mamadou Lamine Diagne Affiliation: UCSD
Country: US
Type: Academia
Industry Sector(s): Mineral processing

Japie Engelbrecht Affiliation: Stellenbosch University
Country: ZA
Type: Academia
Industry Sector(s): Aerospace, UAVs

Lars Eriksson Affiliation: Linkoping University
Country: SE
Type: Academia
Industry Sector(s): Transportation and vehicle systems
IFAC Role(s): Chair CC7

Yongsoon Eun Affiliation: Daegu Gyeongbuk Inst. of Sci. & Tech.
Country: KR
Type: Academia

Lorenzo Fagiano Affiliation: Politecnico Milano
Country: IT
Type: Academia
Industry Sector(s): Power systems (generation and transmission); industrial, manufacturing, and grid automation

Antonella Ferrara Affiliation: University of Pavia
Country: Italy
Type: Academia
Industry Sector(s): Automotive, Energy Systems, Robotics
Industry Vice-chair for TC: 2.3
IFAC Role(s): Member of IFAC Conference Board, Program Chair IFAC WP 2029, Member of the IFAC Fellow Search committee, Member of the IFAC Manfred Thoma Medal Award Selection Committee

Eduardo Gallestey Alvarez Affiliation: Honeywell
Country: CH
Type: Industry
Industry Sector(s): Power generation; process industries; mining and minerals processing; upstream oil & gas

Ankur Ganguli Affiliation: General Motors
Country: US
Type: Industry
Industry Sector(s): Automotive

Mario Garcia-Sanz Affiliation: Department of Energy
Country: US
Type: Government
Industry Sector(s): Renewable energy

Rafael Gonzalez Martin Affiliation: Repsol
Country: ES
Type: Industry
Industry Sector(s): Oil refining

Bhushan Gopaluni Affiliation: Univ. of British Columbia
Country: CA
Type: Academia
Industry Sector(s): Forest products; oil & gas; chemicals; pharmaceuticals

Philippe Goupil Affiliation: Airbus
Country: FR
Type: Industry
Industry Sector(s): Aerospace
Industry Vice-chair for TC: 7.3
IFAC Role(s): Exec Comm

Benny Grosman Affiliation: Medtronic
Country: US
Type: Industry
Industry Sector(s): Medical technology 

Carlos Guardiola Affiliation: Univ. Polit. Valencia
Country: ES
Type: Academia
Industry Sector(s): Automotive
Industry Vice-chair for TC: 7.1

Oleg Gusekhin Affiliation: Ford Motor Company
Country: US
Type: Industry
Industry Sector(s): Supply chain management, manufacturing, IoT, automotive, smart mobility
Industry Vice-chair for TC: 5.2

Christoforos Hadjicostis Affiliation: Univ. of Cyprus
Country: CY
Type: Academia
Industry Sector(s): Social networks
Industry Vice-chair for TC: 1.3

Vahid Hassani Affiliation: OsloMet University
Country: NO
Type: Academia
Industry Sector(s): Marine vehicles and platforms
Industry Vice-chair for TC: 7.2

Vladimir Havlena Affiliation: Czech Technical University
Country: CZ
Type: Academia
Industry Sector(s): advanced localization, sensor fusion (GPS, inertial, odometry, video, Lidar etc.), advanced driver assistance systems, and collision avoidance for trams

Marcel Heertjes Affiliation: ASML
Country: NL
Type: Industry
Industry Sector(s): Semiconductor processing; motion control

Gernot Herbst Affiliation: Zwickau Univ. of Applied Sci.
Country: DE
Type: Academia
Industry Sector(s): Power electronics

Mitsuo Hirata Affiliation: Utsunomiya University
Country: JP
Type: Academia
Industry Sector(s): Mechatronics
Industry Vice-chair for TC: 4.2
IFAC Role(s): TC 4.2 vice chair

Marija Ilic Affiliation: Mitsubishi Electric
Country: US
Type: Academia
Industry Sector(s): Power systems
Industry Vice-chair for TC: 9.2

Laurens Jacobs Affiliation: Nikwist
Country: BE
Type: Industry
Industry Sector(s): Mechatronics, high-precision motion control, active bearing technology, robotics

Christoph Jansen Affiliation: Flensburg Univ. of Applied Sci.
Country: DE
Type: Academia
Industry Sector(s): Energy management; digital engineering and IT security
Industry Vice-chair for TC: 9.5

Qing-Shan Jia Affiliation: Tsinghua University
Country: CN
Type: Academia
Industry Sector(s): Buildings; power systems
IFAC Role(s): TC 9.3

Thomas Jones Affiliation: S-PLANE Automation
Country: ZA
Type: Industry
Industry Sector(s): Aerospace (specifically aero)
IFAC Role(s):  TC7.3

Ulrich Jumar Affiliation: IFAK
Country: DE
Type: Industry
Industry Sector(s): Electrical and electronics manufacturing; automation industry

Esko Juuso Affiliation: Univ. of Oulu
Country: FI
Type: Academia
Industry Sector(s): Process industries (forest, steel, mining); energy systems; biomedical; buildings; machines; water treatment

Steve Kahne Affiliation: [retired]
Country: US
Type: Other/retired
Industry Sector(s): Aircraft systems
IFAC Role(s): Exec Comm, IFAC Advisor

Manabu Kano Affiliation: Kyoto University
Country: JP
Type: Academia
Industry Sector(s): Process industries (chemical, pharmaceutical, steel, semiconductor); medical/healthcare
IFAC Role(s): WC2023 Ind Cochair

Jay Katupitiya Affiliation: Univ. of New South Wales
Country: AU
Type: Academia
Industry Sector(s): Agriculture; mining; road construction
Industry Vice-chair for TC: 8.1

Dejan Kihas Affiliation: 1) Engineering Consulting 2) BCIT - Instructor / Faculty / Electrical Engineering and Technology
Country: CA
Type: Industry
Industry Sector(s): Automotive; process industries; agriculture; heavy machinery;

Hiroshi Kitada Affiliation: Nippon Steel
Country: JP
Type: Industry

Heikki Koivo Affiliation: Aalto University
Country: FI
Type: Academia
Industry Sector(s): Process industries (pulp and paper, mining, mineral processing); renewable energy; mechatronics

Arthur Kordon Affiliation: Kordon Consulting LLC
Country: BU
Type: Industry
Industry Sector(s): Process industries

Zdzisław  Kowalczuk Affiliation: Gdansk Univ. of Technology
Country: PL
Type: Academia
Industry Sector(s): Process industries; automotive; aircraft; maritime industries
IFAC Role(s): TC7.5 Chair

Michael Lees Affiliation: Carlton & United Breweries
Country: AU
Type: Industry
Industry Sector(s): Process industries (food and beverage)

Lihua Li Affiliation: General Motors
Country: US
Type: Industry
Industry Sector(s): Automotive; powertrains

Ruixing Long Affiliation: General Motors
Country: US
Type: Industry
Industry Sector(s): Automotive

Robert Mahoney Affiliation: Australian National University
Country: AU
Type: Academia
Industry Sector(s): UAVs
Industry Vice-chair for TC: 2.3

Chris Manzie Affiliation: Univ. of Melbourne
Country: AU
Type: Academia
Industry Sector(s): Automotive; aerospace; mechatronics; transportation; energy systems

Andres Marcos Affiliation: Tech. for Aerospace Control
Country: UK
Type: Industry
Industry Sector(s): Aerospace 

Iven Mareels Affiliation: Federation University Australia
Country: AU
Type: Industry
Industry Sector(s): Healthcare; financial services; energy; buildings; process industries
IFAC Role(s): Exec Comm

Silvia Mastellone Affiliation: FHNW
Country: CH
Type: Academia
Industry Sector(s): Power and energy

Jérôme Mendes Affiliation: Universidade de Coimbra
Country: PT
Type: Academia
Industry Sector(s): Process industry, Manufacturing

Jonathan Meyer Affiliation: Anvil Sparks Modelling Ltd
Country: UK
Type: Industry
Industry Sector(s): Pharma; mining
IFAC Role(s): IFAC Industry Committee Member

Ge Ming Affiliation: KT Control
Country: CN
Type: Industry
Industry Sector(s): Process industries

Marysia Nowacka Affiliation: Alfa Laval
Country: DK
Type: Industry
Industry Sector(s): Marine energy; powertrains; alternative energy sources; energy storage

Eduardo Nunez Affiliation: Molycop
Country: CA
Type: Industry
Industry Sector(s): Mineral processing, mining, process control

Peter Odgaard Affiliation: Goldwind Energy
Country: DK
Type: Industry
Industry Sector(s): Wind energy; fossil-fired power plants; power grid; consumer electronics
Industry Vice-chair for TC: 6.4, 6.3

Bhagyesh Patil Affiliation: John Deere
Country: IN
Type: Industry
Industry Sector(s): Autonomous Off-highway Vehicle Planning & Control, Hybrid Electric Vehicles, Supply Chain Management, Operations Research

Jaroslav Pekar Affiliation: Garrett Motion
Country: CZ
Type: Industry
Industry Sector(s): Automotive

Carlos Pereira Affiliation: UFRGS
Country: BR
Type: Academia
Industry Sector(s): Process industries; buildings
IFAC Role(s): TB VC

Stefano Pickl Affiliation: Univ. Bundeswehr Munchen
Country: DE
Type: Academia
Industry Sector(s): 0
Industry Vice-chair for TC: 6.3

Gilberto Pin Affiliation: Electrolux
Country: IT
Type: Industry
Industry Sector(s): Electrical & Electronic Home appliances

Paul Puleston Affiliation: Univ. Nacional de La Plata
Country: AR
Type: Academia
Industry Sector(s): Renewable energy; fuel cells; hybrid energy systems

O. Lucia Quintero Montoya Affiliation: Univ. EAFIT
Country: CO
Type: Academia
Industry Sector(s): Oil & gas

Mirco Rampazzo Affiliation: Univ. Padova
Country: IT
Type: Academia
Industry Sector(s): Buildings; HVAC; Refrigeration; Appliances

Russ Rhinehart Affiliation: Oklahoma State University
Country: US
Type: Other/retired
Industry Sector(s): Process industries (chemicals and refining)

Daniel Rivera Affiliation: Arizona State University
Country: US
Type: Academia
Industry Sector(s): Process industries; behavioral medicine; semiconductor manufacturing

David Romero Affiliation: Tecnológico de Monterrey
Country: Mexico
Type: Academia
Industry Sector(s): Automotive, Aerospace, Home Appliances
Industry Vice-chair for TC: 5.3
IFAC Role(s): TC5.3 Vice-chair Industry

Alisa Rupenyan Affiliation: ETH Zurich
Country: CH
Type: Academia
Industry Sector(s): Manufacturing; robotics; technology transfer
IFAC Role(s): Exec Comm

Tariq Samad Affiliation: Univ. of Minnesota
Country: US
Type: Academia
Industry Sector(s): Process industries, homes and buildings, aerospace, automotive, manufacturing
IFAC Role(s): Exec Comm

Bran Selic Affiliation: Malina Software
Country: CA
Type: Industry
Industry Sector(s): Automotive; subsea oil & gas; telecommunications; embedded software

Atanas Serbezov Affiliation: Rose-Hulman Inst. of Tech.
Country: US
Type: Academia
Industry Sector(s): Process industries (chemicals and pharmaceuticals)
Industry Vice-chair for TC: 9.4
IFAC Role(s): Exec Comm

Hannes Seyrkammer Affiliation: voestalpine Stahl
Country: AT
Type: Industry

Pedro Sousa Affiliation: Oncontrol Technologies

Country: PT
Type: Industry
Industry Sector(s): Process industry; mining and cement; micro-algae production; energy

Greg Stewart Affiliation: Geco Engineering
Country: CA
Type: Industry
Industry Sector(s): Agriculture; automotive; process industries; papermaking; manufacturing; public health

Gian Antonio Susto Affiliation: Univ. Padova
Country: IT
Type: Academia
Industry Sector(s): Semiconductor manufacturing; home appliances; oil & gas
Industry Vice-chair for TC: 3.2

Trygve Thomessen Affiliation: PPM Robotics
Country: NO
Type: Industry
Industry Sector(s): Manufacturing; robotics
Industry Vice-chair for TC: 4.3

Thanh-Binh To Affiliation: Volkswagen
Country: DE
Type: Industry
Industry Sector(s): Automotive

Marta Tortajada Affiliation: Universidad Cardenal Herrera - CEU
Country: España
Type: Industry
Industry Sector(s): Biotechnology, Fermentation, Agrofood, Chemical Industry
Industry Vice-chair for TC: 8.4
IFAC Role(s): TC 8.4 vice chair

Bill Tubbs Affiliation: B. Tubbs & Associates Consulting
Country: CA
Type: Industry
Industry Sector(s): Process industry, operational excellence
IFAC Role(s): Exec comm

Nikolai Vatanski Affiliation: Metso Outotec
Country: FI
Type: Industry
Industry Sector(s): Mineral processing; mining

Pratik Vernekar Affiliation: General Motors
Country: US
Type: Industry
Industry Sector(s): Automotive

Tomas Vyhlidal Affiliation: Czech Tech University
Country: CZ
Type: Academia
Industry Sector(s): Steel industry
Industry Vice-chair for TC: 2.2

Zhe Wan Affiliation: China National Gold Group
Country: CN
Type: Government
Industry Sector(s): Finance and economics 
Industry Vice-chair for TC: 9.1

Yalin Wang Affiliation: Central South University
Country: CN
Type: Academia
Industry Sector(s): Process industries (minerals, metals, oil refining)

Georg Weichhart Affiliation: Primetals Technologies
Country: AT
Type: Industry
Industry Sector(s): Metals and Steel Industry; Automation; Digital Transformation;
Industry Vice-chair for TC: 5.3
IFAC Role(s): TC 5.3 vice-chair; Conference Board Member;

Tobias Weissbach Affiliation: TransnetBW
Country: DE
Type: Industry
Industry Sector(s): Power systems
Industry Vice-chair for TC: 6.3

Michael Weyrich Affiliation: Univ. of Stuttgart
Country: DE
Type: Academia
Industry Sector(s): Automotive; manufacturing
Industry Vice-chair for TC: 3.1

Dennis Williams Affiliation: LyondellBasell
Country: US
Type: Industry
Industry Sector(s): Process industries

Takashi Yamaguchi Affiliation: Ricoh
Country: JP
Type: Industry
Industry Sector(s): Hard disk drives, printers, medical devices.
Industry Vice-chair for TC: 4.2
IFAC Role(s): WC2023 Ind Cochair

Insoon Yang Affiliation: Seoul National University
Country: KR
Type: Academia
Industry Sector(s): 0
Industry Vice-chair for TC: 1.4

Inseok Yang Affiliation: Korea Aerospace Industries
Country: KR
Type: Industry

Xiaofeng Yuan Affiliation: Central South University
Country: CN
Type: Academia
Industry Sector(s): Manufacturing; petrochemicals; iron and steel
IFAC Role(s): IFAC TC 1.1 Member

Kaiqiang Zhang Affiliation: UK Atomic Energy Authority
Country: UK
Type: Government
Industry Sector(s): Nuclear engineering (fusion energy, decommissioning); robotics (inspection, surveys, maintenance); mechatronics

Alf isaakson Affiliation: ABB
Country: SE
Type: Industry

Alex van Delft Affiliation: Consultant
Country: NL
Type: Industry
Industry Sector(s): Process industry (chemicals)
IFAC Role(s): Exec Comm

Ronald van Nooyen Affiliation: TU Delft
Country: NL
Type: Academia
Industry Sector(s): Water management (irrigation, drainage, reservoir management, urban drainage, ground water management)
Industry Vice-chair for TC: 8.3