Communications and Control

Communications and control encompasses a broad area of research involving modern technological systems, with applications ranging from the Internet and information technology systems to manufacturing and transportation systems to robotics.

Two current major projects in place are the use of sparse representation for automatic human face recognition and an NSF-sponsored IGERT effort whereby 30 to 40 engineering and neuroscience students are being cross-trained to better facilitate and expand neuroengineering research.

Research topics in the discipline include:

Topic
Adaptive control and identification
Coding theory and applications
Communication networks
Decentralized and distributed control
Discrete-event, switched and hybrid systems
Dynamic games and decision theory
Information theory
Multi-agent systems and robot control
Networked control systems
Nonlinear systems and control
Optical communications
Random processes
Reliable and robust control
Robotics
Signal detection and estimation
Stochastic systems and control
Vision-based control
VLSI in communications
Wireless communication systems

Faculty list for this main area

Name	Title	E-mail
Alvarez, Juan	Lecturer	alvarez@illinois.edu
Başar, Tamer	Professor	basar1@illinois.edu
Belabbas, Mohamed Ali	Assistant Professor	belabbas@illinois.edu
Blahut, Richard E.	Professor	blahut@illinois.edu
Hajek, Bruce	Professor	b-hajek@illinois.edu
Liberzon, Daniel M.	Professor	liberzon@illinois.edu
Milenkovic, Olgica	Associate Professor	milenkov@illinois.edu
Raginsky, Maxim	Assistant Professor	maxim@illinois.edu
Sarwate, Dilip	Professor Emeritus	sarwate@illinois.edu
Singer, Andrew Carl	Professor	acsinger@illinois.edu
Srikant, Rayadurgam	Professor	rsrikant@illinois.edu
Veeravalli, Venugopal V.	Professor	vvv@illinois.edu
Viswanath, Pramod	Professor	pramodv@illinois.edu
Wu, Yihong	Assistant Professor	yihongwu@illinois.edu