David Quinn Mayne, FRS,

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, FREng (born 23 April 1930) is a British academic, engineer, teacher and author.

Career

Mayne began his career in 1950 as a lecturer at the

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(1950–54; 1957–59). He lectured at

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from 1959-67 and also received his PhD in 1967 at the

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under

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. He was a Research Fellow at

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(1971). At

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he was professor of control theory (1971–91) as well as concurrently heading the Department of Electrical Engineering (1984–88). He was a professor in the Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering at

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from 1989-96. From 1996 he has been a professor emeritus. He was named honorary professor at Beihang University in

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in 2006. His students include Peter Caines.

Awards and affiliations

* Giorgio Quazza Medal, 2014 * IEEE Control Systems Award, 2009 * Hon. DTech

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, 2000 * FIEEE - 1981 * FRS - 1985 * FREng - 1987 * Fellow, International Federation of Automatic Control, 2006

Selected publications

''Differential Dynamic Programming''
(1970)

References

External links

Biodata at Debrett's

David Q. Mayne publications (with Saša V. Raković, and others)

David Q. Mayne aided the creation of software that he contributed to algorithmically
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Mayne, David 1930 births Living people British electrical engineers Academics of Imperial College London University of California, Davis faculty Fellows of the Royal Society Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering Fellow Members of the IEEE Academic staff of the University of the Witwatersrand