Lucy Ya Pao is an American electrical engineer and control theorist known for her work on controlling and maximizing the energy capture of wind turbines[1][2] and more generally on the control of flexible structures.[3] She is Richard and Joy Dorf Professor of Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engineering and a Fellow of the Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute at the University of Colorado Boulder.[4]
Education and career edit
Pao earned bachelor's, master's, and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering at Stanford University in 1987, 1988, and 1992 respectively. Her doctoral advisor was Gene F. Franklin. After working for two years at the Mitre Corporation, she became an assistant professor at Northwestern University in 1993, and moved to the University of Colorado in 1995.[4]
Recognition edit
Pao was given the Richard and Joy Dorf Professorship in 2009.[4] She was named an IEEE Fellow in 2012 "for contributions to feedforward and feedback control systems",[5] and named a fellow of the International Federation of Automatic Control in 2014.[6] In 2017 the American Automatic Control Council gave her their Control Engineering Practice Award "for pioneering applications of advanced control to wind turbines and wind farms".[3]
Personal life edit
Pao is married to Russian-American condensed matter physicist Leo Radzihovsky; they have two children.[7]
References edit
- ^ Brennan, Charlie (October 12, 2018), "CU Boulder researcher sees inspiration for new turbine technology in nature", Boulder Daily Camera
- ^ Nikolewski, Rob (March 13, 2016), "Cutting Edge: Researchers' idea will blow you away: 656-foot long blades on wind turbines", Los Angeles Times
- ^ a b "Lucy Y. Pao, 2017", Control Engineering Practice Award, American Automatic Control Council, retrieved 2020-07-26
- ^ a b c Curriculum vitae (PDF), University of Colorado Boulder, February 2017, retrieved 2020-07-26
- ^ CSS IEEE Fellows Archive, retrieved 2020-07-26
- ^ IFAC Fellows, International Federation of Automatic Control, retrieved 2020-07-26
- ^ "Scientists and Poets: A Round Table Discussion", Caritas Consciousness Project, September 5, 2017
External links edit
- Home page
- Lucy Pao publications indexed by Google Scholar