Abraham H. Haddad is an Israeli control theorist and the Henry and Isabelle Dever Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,

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, United States. Haddad is known for his contributions to the theory of hybrid systems.

Biography

Abraham Haddad received his

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and

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degrees from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology in 1960 and 1963, respectively. He received his

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and

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(Ph.D.) in

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in 1964 and 1966, both from

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. Shortly after receiving his Ph.D., Haddad joined the faculty of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where he eventually held the title of professor of electrical engineering and research professor in the Coordinated Science Laboratory. He was a visiting associate professor at Tel-Aviv University from 1972 to 1973. He joined the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the

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in 1983, and moved to

in 1988. At Northwestern, Haddad served as chairman of the department from 1988 to 1998, and as of September 1, 1998, he is also serving as director of the Master of Science in Information Technology Program. He was the interim chairman of the ECE Department during 2001–02. From 1968 to 1979 Haddad was an advisor to the

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In 1979, he became a senior staff consultant with the

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and served as the program director for Systems Theory and Operations Research at the

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from 1979 to 1983. Haddad is a Fellow of the

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and

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. He is the recipient of the Distinguished Member Award from IEEE Control Systems Society, the

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(1984), and the IEEE Third Millennium Medal.

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