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Project
Leader:
Henry
Leung
Professor, Department
of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Calgary
2500 University Drive NW
Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4
Email: leungh@ucalgary.ca
Research Description:
www.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/Leung
Project
Investigators:
1.
Robert James Elliott
(Core Investigator)
Royal Bank Professor of Finance and Adjunct Professor
of Mathematics
University of Calgary
2500 University Drive NW
Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4
Email: relliott@ucalgary.ca
Research
Description:
Robert Elliott received Bachelors and Masters degrees
from Oxford University, and his Ph.D.and D.Sc. from Cambridge
University. He has held positions at Newcastle, Yale, Oxford,
Warwick, Hull, Alberta, and visiting positions in Toronto,
Northwestern, Kentucky, Brown, Paris, Denmark, Hong Kong and
Australia. Currently he is the Royal Bank Professor of Finance
at the University of Calgary, Canada, and is an Adjunct
Professor on the Department of Mathematics. He has authored
six books and over 300 papers. In particular, his book with L.
Aggoun and J. Moore on "Hidden Markov Models: Estimation and
Control" was published in 1995 by Springer Verlag and
reprinted in 1997. His book with PE Kopp "Mathematics of
Financial Markets" was published by Springer in 1999 and has
been reprinted three times. His work in recent years has
investigated stochastic processes in engineering and finance.
He holds a patent with V Krishnamurthy of the University of
Melbourne. Recent work with P Malcolm of the Australian
Defence Science and Technology Organization concerns smoothing
and tracking algorithms. His research areas are random
processes, signal processing, filtering, smoothing,
prediction, mathematical finance. His current grants include
NSERC $37K per year and SSHRC $20K per year.
2.
Michael C. Mackey
(Core Investigator)
Director, Center for Nonlinear Dynamics in Physiology and Medicine
McGill University
3655 Drummond Street, Room 1124
Montreal, Quebec H3G 1Y6
Email: mackey@cnd.mcgill.ca
Research
Description:
Dr.
Mackey is a professor of the McGill University and is the
director of the Center of Nonlinear Dynamics in Physiology and
Medicine. The honors and awards he has received include:
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Visiting Fellow
and Member of the Senior Common Room: Corpus Christi College,
University of Oxford
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Forschungspreise
(Research Prize): Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung, 193
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M. S. Feeler
Lecturer: University of Michigan, 1994
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Distinguished
Lecturer in Applied Mathematics: University of Washingston,
1995
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Fellow: Royal
Society of Canada, 1999
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Fellow: Hanse
Wissenchakftkolleg, Delmenhorst, Germany, 2000
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Leverhulume
Professor of Mathematical Biology: Oxford University,
Jan-June, 2001 and Jan-April, 2002
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Joseph Morley
Drake Professor of Physiology: McGill University, 2001
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Exchange Fellow:
National Academy of Sciences (USA) and Polish Academy of
Sciences, 1982, 1984, 1988
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UK-Canada Exchange
Programme: Royal Society of London, 1994
Dr. Mackey is on the
editorial board of many journals such as Journal of Dynamics
and Differential Equations, Journal of Non-equilibrium
Thermodynamics, Journal of Theoretical Biology, and Chaos.
He has organized many conferences and meetings such as SIAM
Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems and NATO
Conference on Chaos, Order and Patterns. His areas of
expertise are mathematical modeling, cell cycle, gene
control networks, physiological system control, differential
delay equations, nonlinear dynamics.
His current
grants include NSERC $60K per year, and MITACS $10K per
year.
3.
John G. Milton
(Core
Investigator)
Professor,
Joint Science
Department
The Claremont
Colleges
925 North Mills
Avenue
Claremont, CA
91711USA
Email: jmilton@jsd.claremont.edu
Research
Description:
Dr. Milton
received his Bachelors, Doctoral and Medical degrees at
McGill University. He is board certified in Neurology and a
fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of
Canada. He has held positions at McGill University and The
University of Chicago. Currently he holds the Kenan Chair in
Computational Neurosciences at The Claremont Colleges in
Claremont, California. He is also Adjunct Professor in
Physiology in the Department of Physiology and Centre for
Nonlinear Dynamics in Physiology and Medicine, McGill
University. Professor Milton has authored two books and over
80 articles of which 50 are devoted to the study of
time-delayed neural feedback loops in the presence of noise.
His 1996 book on “Dynamics of Small Neural Populations”
introduced the concept of modeling neural dynamics in terms
of stochastic dynamical systems with retarded variables. His
recent work on the role of noise and time delays for the
development of expertise in balancing tasks has earned him
international attention in both the lay (Newsweek, New
Scientist) and scientific press. He has shared the Bellman
prize in mathematical biology (with Andre Longtin). His
current research areas include neural coding, stochastic
delay differential equations, and development of
evidence-based teaching methods. His current grants include
the Kenan Chair start-up funds of $245,000 and the NIMH
competitive grant renewal of $ 2,500,000 for 4 years (in
pending).
4.
Jianhong Wu (Core
Investigator)
Professor, Department
of
Mathematics and Statistics
York University, Toronto, ON Canada
Email: wujh@mathstat.yorku.ca
Research
Description:
Dr. Wu has been
working in a wide range of fields in industrial, applied and
pure mathematics. His expertise includes delay differential
equations, infinite dimensional dynamical systems and
nonlinear analysis, neural networks for prediction, pattern
recognition and for memory storage and retrieval, population
dynamics and infectious diseases. He is holding the Canada
Research Chair in Applied Mathematics (Tier I), and is the
first recipient of the Canadian Applied and Industrial
Mathematics Research Prize, 2003. He was also the recipient
of a prestigious Paul Erdos Visiting Professorship
(Hungarian Academy of Science, 2000), and an Alexander von
Humboldt Fellowship (Germany, 1996-97). He was a Member to
the AARMS Scientific Review Panel, 2002-2005, a Member to
the NSERC Grant Selection Committee, Pure and Applied Math.
(B), 2001-2004; a Member of the Research Committee, Canada
Mathematical Society, 2003-2005; a Member to the Board of
Director for the Canadian Applied and Industrial Society,
2003-06; a member to the Board of Directors for MITACS; the
Chair of the Canadian Applied and Industrial Mathematics
Research Prize Committee, 2004; a Member to College of
Reviewers, Canada Research Chairs Program, 2001-present. He
has been serving as a member to the editorial board for 11
international journals, was featured in Toronto Life
(November 2003: Top 18 Scientists in Toronto), and Featured
in Canada Research Program. He was the AARMS Distinguished
lecturer, 2002. In 2003, and was invited to teach an AARMS
summer (graduate) school on Mathematical Biology. Dr. Wu was
the Chair of the Organizing Committee for the MITACS/MSRI/PIMS
Special Program on Infectious Diseases held at BIRS, Banff,
June 19-July 2, 2004. Over the last five years, he has been
involved as a member of either Scientific Committee or
Organizing Committee for 20 international conferences and
workshops. He is holding a NSERC Discovery Grant (from GSC
337) $34000 per year, and is the leader of another MITACS
project that receives $140,000 per year from MITACS.
5.
Guanrong Chen (Core
Investigator)
Chair Professor,
Department of
Electronic
Engineering
City University of Hong Kong
83 Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon
Hong Kong SAR, P. R. China
Email:
eegchen@cityu.edu.hk
Research
Description:
Professor Chen
received the M.Sc. degree in Computer Science from the Sun
Yatsen University, China, in Fall 1981 and the Ph.D. degree
in Applied Mathematics from Texas A&M University , USA, in
Spring 1987. He worked at Rice University as Visiting
Assistant Professor 1987-1990, at University of Houston
through tenure track till became Full Professor thereafter,
and then at City University of Hong Kong as Chair Professor
and founding Director of Centre for Chaos Control and
Synchronization since 2000. He is a Fellow of the IEEE,
awarded in 1996, for his fundamental contributions to the
theory and applications of chaos control and bifurcation
analysis. Dr. Chen's main research pursuit is in one of the
focusing areas in Electrical Engineering - Nonlinear Systems
Control and Dynamics, with applications in related areas
such as encryption and secure communication, intelligent
systems, chaos generators design, and nonlinear circuits. He
is the (co)author of about 300 refereed journal papers, 200
some conference proceedings abstracts, and 16 research
monographs and advanced textbooks, published since 1981.
Among his publications are the books entitled Kalman
Filtering with Real-Time Applications (Springer-Verlag, 1st
ed. 1987; 3rd ed. 1998), Linear Stochastic Control Systems
(CRC Press 1995),
Discrete H-infinity Optimization (Springer-Verlag, 1997),
Introduction to Fuzzy Sets, Fuzzy Logic, and Fuzzy Control
Systems (CRC Press, 2000) and the edited volumes Approximate
Kalman Filtering (World Scientific, 1993), Controlling Chaos
and Bifurcations in Engineering Systems (CRC Press, 1999),
Chaos Control: Theory and Applications (Springer-Verlag,
2003), and Bifurcation Control: Theory and Applications
(Springer-Verlag, 2003). Dr. Chen received the 1993 Junior
Faculty Research Excellence Award from the University of
Houston, the 1998 Harden-Simons Annual Prize for Outstanding
Journal Paper from the American Society of Engineering
Education, the 2001 IEEE M. Barry Carlton Best Annual Paper
Award from the IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems
Society, and the 2002 Best Paper Award from the Institute of
Information Theory and Automation, Academy of Sciences of
the Czech Republic. He served and is serving as Deputy
Editor-in-Chief for the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and
Systems - II (since 2004), Features Editor for the IEEE
Circuits and Systems Society Newsletter (since 1999), as
Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and
Systems (1993-1995; 1999-2001), the IEEE Transactions on
Automatic Control (since 2004), the Chinese Academy of
Sciences Journal on Control Theory and Applications (since
1995) and Journal of Systems Science and Complexity (since
2001), and the International Journal of Bifurcation and
Chaos (since 2001), and as Advisory Editor for the IEEE
Circuits and Systems Magazine (since 2001) and for the Latin
American Applied Research: An International Journal (since
2000). He served as chairman and organizer for program
committees and technical sessions in many international
conferences, and was the Chairman of the Nonlinear Circuits
and Systems Technical Committee of the IEEE Circuits and
Systems Society (1999-2001). He also has a long-term
relationship with NASA - JSC and some local industries,
served and is serving as Research Consultant for the
McDonnell Douglas Aerospace Systems Company, the Dow
Chemical Company, and the DICentral Corporation, all in USA.
In the past, he was invited to give lecture series and
seminars by more than ten countries. He also is an Honorary
Professor of the Central Queensland University, Australia,
Honorary Professor of Computer Science of the Central China
Normal University, and Honorary Guest-Chair Professor of
University of Houston, USA, Harbin Institute of Technology,
Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Tongji
University, Wuhan University, China etc.
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