Honors From The Scientific Community

2023:Automatica Paper Prize Award for our paper "Projection-Based Integrators for Improved Motion Control: Formalization,Well-posedness and Stability of Hybrid Integrator-Gain Systems" received at IFAC World Congress 2023, Yokohama, Japan.
2022: Fellow of IFAC (International Federation of Control) for my contributions to the field of Systems and Control.
2022: ERC ADVANCED GRANT. Projection-based Control: A Novel Paradigm for High-performance Systems ( PROACTHIS).
2022: Martinus van Marum prijs for my PhD Student Victor Dolk's thesis "Resource-aware and Resilient Control with Applications to Cooperative Driving." The price is awarded by the Koninklijke Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen and the J.C. Ruigrok Stichting.
2022: Plenary talk at the 8th International Conference on Event-based Control, Communication, and Signal Processing June 22-24, 2022
2021: Plenary talk at the 3rd Workshop on Stability and Control of Infinite-Dimensional Systems (SCINDIS 2021) to be held on September 27-29, 2021 in cyber-Wuppertal (Germany).
2020: DISC PhD Award: My PhD student Stefan Heijmans won the prestigious 2020 Best DISC PhD Award for his thesis "Exploring the uncharted territories of networked control systems: by scavenging for structure in dynamics and communication." The PhD Thesis Award was established in 2009. It is an annual award for the best defended thesis of a DISC PhD student.
2019: IEEE Control Systems Letters Outstanding Paper Award. It is a single annual award given based on originality, potential impact on the theoretical foundations of control, importance and practical significance in applications, and clarity. The winning paper is entitled "Consistent Threshold-Based Policy for Event-Triggered Control" written by Behnam Asadi Khashooei, Duarte Antunes, and Maurice Heemels.
2019: Invited to give a plenary lecture at the 2019 IFAC Workshop on Distributed Estimation and Control in Networked Systems (NECSYS2019), 16-17 September 2019, Chicago, USA.
2019: My PhD student Victor Dolk won the EECI European PhD Award on Control for Complex and Heterogeneous Systems with his PhD thesis ""Resource-aware and resilient control with applications to cooperative driving"
2019: Invited to give a keynote lecture at the CoDIT’19, the sixth (6th) edition in the series of the International Conference on Control, Decision and Information Technologies, sponsored by IEEE, and held in Paris, France, 23-26 April 2019.
2018: Invited to give a keynote lecture at the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, December 17-19, 2018, Miami Beach, FL, USA.
2017: Winner of the 2016/2017 Simon Stevin Education Prize for the best teacher in the Master program "Mechanical Engineering" (TU/e) - elected by students.
2017: Best Paper Award" at the 3rd International Conference on Event-Based Control, Communication and Signal Processing (EBCCSP'17) in Madeira Portugal with the paper "Suboptimal Event-triggered Control over Unreliable Communication Links with Experimental Validation" written by Behnam Asadi, Bas van Eekelen, Duarte Antunes and Maurice Heemels
2016: Fellow of the IEEE "for contributions to analysis and design of hybrid, networked, and event-triggered systems."
2016: Invited lecturer at the ANR Workshop entitled "Control subject to computational and communication constraints'', Toulouse 26-28, October 2016.
2016: One of my MSC students (Yuri Steinbuch) won the Young Talent Tata Steel Award (5000 euro) for his MSC Thesis entitled "Sequential Optimal and Predictive Control for Cascaded Systems with Applications to Quadcopters"
2015: Invited keynote presentation at 1st IEEE International Conference on Event-based Control, Communication, and Signal Processing (EBCCSP), Krakow, Poland, 17-19 June 2015.
2015: Invited keynote speech at the 5th International Workshop on Cyber-Physical Systems (CyPhy 2015), in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The workshop is part of Embedded Systems Week (ESWeek 2015).
2015: The paper "Event-triggered Control: Tradeoffs Between Transmission Intervals and Performance," by Victor Dolk, Niek Borgers and Maurice Heemels was finalist for the Best Student Paper Award at CDC 2015 in Los Angeles, CA, USA.
2015: One of my MSC students (Stefan Heijmans) won the Unilever Research Award for his MSC Thesis on spatially invariant systems with networked communication.
2015: Invited semi-plenary presentation at the IFAC Conference on Nonlinear Model Predictive Control 2015, Seville, Spain (based on paper with Florian Brunner and Frank Allgower).
2014: Invited semi-plenary presentation at European Control Conference 2014.
2014: Invited keynote presentation at IEEE International Meeting on Analysis and Applications of Nonsmooth Systems (AANS 2014) on 10-12 September 2014 in Como, Italy
2014: Our paper "Optimal Cost-NOx Trade-Off in Diesel Engines by Integrated Emission Management" written by J. van Schijndel, M.C.F. Donkers, F.P.T. Willems and W.P.M.H. Heemels has won the "Student Best Paper Award" at the 35th FISITA Congress 2014.
2014: “Automatica Outstanding Service Award” received for 6 years of high-quality service for Automatica
2014: The paper "Robust Self-Triggered MPC for Constrained Linear Systems," by Florian Brunner, Maurice Heemels and Frank Allgower was finalist for the Best Student Paper Award at ECC 2014 in Strasbourg, France.
2013: Winner of the 2012/2013 Simon Stevin Education Prize for the best teacher in the master program of the department of Mechanical Engineering (TU/e) - elected by students.
2012: Invited Tutorial on "Event-triggerd and self-triggered control" at the 51st IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, December 10-13, 2012
2012: Invited lecture at the London Workshop on the Control of Cyber-Physical Systems, 19-21 October 2012.
2012: Invited semi-plenary presentation at the IFAC Conference on Nonlinear Model Predictive Control 2012.
2010: Recipient of VICI grant for the proposal “Wireless control systems: A new frontier in automation.” Only winner of this prestigious personal grant (1.5MEuro) in the Netherlands in the area of systems and control.
2010: Invited mini-course on “Networked control systems” at the Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control 2010.
2009: Winner of the 2008/2009 Simon Stevin Education Prize for the best teacher in the master program of the department of Mechanical Engineering (TU/e) - elected by students.
2007: One of my PhD students (Mircea Lazar) received the European PhD Award on Embedded and Networked Control for his thesis in 2007
2000: Winner of the ASML-award for the best Ph.D. thesis of the TU/e in the period 1999/2000.
1999: Finalist of the “Best student paper award” on the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control 1999 in Phoenix, Arizona (USA) with the paper “Well-posedness of linear complementarity systems.”
1999: PhD degree was awarded the predicated summa cum laude (< 5% of students).
1995: M.Sc. degree was awarded the predicated summa cum laude (top 5% of students).