Speakers

Raymond de Callafon is a Professor with the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE) at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). His research interests include topics in the field of experiment-based approximation modeling, control relevant system identification and recursive/adaptive control. Raymond de Callafon received his M.Sc. (1992) and his Ph.D. (1998) degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands and moved to San Diego for a postdoctoral position in 1997 with the Structural Systems and Control Laboratory of Prof. Skelton at the Dept. of MAE. During 1998 he also started as a Assistant Professor with the Dept. of MAE and he is currently directing the System Identification and Control Laboratory (SICL) and is an affiliated faculty of the Center for Magnetic Recording Research (CMRR) directing the CMRR servo laboratory. He has also created a new UnderGraduate Control Laboratory (UGCL).