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Karl Henrik Johansson, Ph.D. |
Fellow of IEEE and the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences. IEEE Control Systems Society Distinguished Lecturer 2017-2019. Swedish Research Council Distinguished Professor (rådsprofessor). IEEE Control Systems Society Vice President Diversity, Outreach & Development 2024-2025. President of the European Control Association 2022-2023 and member of the Council 2015–2025. Member of the IFAC Council 2020-2026. Member of the IEEE Control Systems Society Board of Governors (2009,2016-2018,2024-2025). Editorial Board member of Annual Reviews in Control and ACM Transactions on Cyber-Physical Systems. Past Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Automatica, European Journal of Control, Annual Review of Control, Robotics, and Autonomous Systems, ACM Transactions on Internet of Things, and IET Control Theory & Applications, and past Senior Editor of IEEE Transactions on Network Systems. Past Director of ACCESS Linnaeus Centre, 2009-2016, and Strategic Research Area ICT TNG, 2013-2020. Chair of the IFAC Technical Committee on Networked Systems, 2008-2011, and IFAC Awards Committee, 2017-2020. Member of ACM, IIASA Society, and SIAM.
Research Interests
Networked and distributed control and estimation; Cyber-physical and cyber-secure control systems; Hybrid and embedded systems; Applications in transportation, energy, and automation networks
Short popular description of our research (in Swedish): Vad är nätverksbaserad reglerteknik?
News
- Plenary speaker at the 15th Asian Control Conference (ASCC), Bali, Indonesia, 2026.
- Keynote speaker at the 38th Chinese Control and Decision Conference (CCDC), Nanjing, China, 2026.
- Plenary speaker at the 10th IFAC Conference on Networked Systems (NECSYS), Hong Kong, 2025.
- Awarded IEEE Control Systems Society Hendrik W. Bode Lecture Prize 2024. Slides with reference list from the lecture.
- General Co-Chair, 22nd European Control Conference, Stockholm, 25-28 June, 2024
- Program Committee Co-Chair, 62nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Singapore, 13-15 December, 2023
- Plenary speaker 31st Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, Limassol, Cyprus, 2023.
- Keynote 29th International Conference on Information, Communication and Automation Technologies, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2023
- Keynote speaker International Conference on Vehicle Technology and Intelligent Transport Systems, Prague, Czech Republic, 2023
- Plenary speaker Global Artificial Intelligence Technology Conference (GAITC), Hangzhou, China, 2022
- Keynote speaker IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics, Anchorage, USA, 2022
- Keynote speaker International Conference on Control, Decision and Information Technologies (CoDIT), Istanbul, Turkey, 2022
- Keynote speaker CPS-IoT Week, Milan, Italy, 2022
- Dayawansa Memorial Lectures, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Texas Tech University, USA, 2022
- Plenary speaker CAA International Conference on Vehicular Control and Intelligence (CVCI), Tianjin, China, 2021
- Plenary speaker 5th IEEE International Conference on Control and Fault-Tolerant Systems, Saint-Raphaël, France, 2021
- Plenary speaker 25th International Conference on Methods and Models in Automation and Robotics, Miedzyzdroje, Poland, 2021
- Plenary speaker World Artificial Intelligence Conference, Shanghai, China, 2021
- Keynote speaker IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) Workshop on Time-Sensitive and Deterministic Networking, Montreal, Canada, 2021
- Plenary speaker on "Wireless Networked Control Systems" at XXIII Congresso Brasileiro de Automatica, Nov 23-26, 2020.
- Plenary speaker at 14th APCA International Conference on Automatic Control and Soft Computing (CONTROLO), Bragança, Portugal, 2020.
- Plenary lecture at Regelungstechnisches Kolloquium, Boppard, Germany, 2020.
- Digitalize in Stockholm, 25-27 Nov, 2019.
- Plenary lecture at IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications, Hong Kong, 2019.
- Keynote speaker at IEEE International Conference on Control and Automation, Edinburgh, Scotland, 2019.
- Keynote speaker at IFAC Workshop on Control of Transportation Systems, Haifa, Israel, 2019.
- Invited talk at IAVSD Workshop on Dynamics of Road Vehicles, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, 2019.
- Invited talk at Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM) Workshop on Autonomous Vehicles, UCLA, USA, 2019.
- Keynote speaker at the 8th International Conference on the Internet of Things, Santa Barbara, USA, 2018.
- Invited tutorial at the Brazilian Conference on Automation (CBA), Joao Pessoa, Paraiba, Brazil, 2018.
- Plenary talk at IFAC Symposium on Robust Control Design, Florianopolis, Brazil, 2018.
- Keynote presentation at the ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (Mobihoc), Los Angeles, USA, 2018.
- Harry Nicholson Distinguished Lecture in Control Engineering, University of Sheffield, 2018.
- IAS Distinguished Lecture, Institute for Advanced Study, City University of Hong Kong, 2018.
- Dagstuhl Seminar on The Logical Execution Time Paradigm: New Perspectives for Multicore Systems, Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany, 2018.
- Awarded Distinguished Professor Grant 2018-2027 by the Swedish Research Council.
- IEEE Distinguished Lectures at University of Texas, Dallas, University of Texas, Arlington, and University of North Texas, Denton, 2017.
- Distinguished Lectures at the Chinese Control and Decision Conference, Chongqing, China, 2017.
- Pierce Laboratory Seminar Series, MIT, USA, 2017.
- Control Seminar Series, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2017.
- Center for Control, Dynamical-Systems, and Computation, UC Santa Barbara, 2017.
- Decision and Control Lecture Series, Coordinated Science Laboratory, UIUC, 2017.
- Center for Cyber-Physical Systems and Internet of Things and Ming Hsieh Institute for Electrical Engineering Joint Seminar Series on Cyber-Physical Systems, University of Southern California, 2017.
- Institute of Transportation Studies Seminar, UC Berkeley, 2017.
- Elected member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences. See press release (in Swedish).
- Here you find a list of our papers on collaborative freight transport as of Jan 2017. Many of the papers can be download from my publications page.
IEEE Distinguished Lecturer within the IEEE Control Systems Society Distinguished Lecturer program, 2017-2019.
- Plenary talk at International Symposium on Networked Cyber-physical Systems, Munich, Germany, 2016.
IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering Best Application Paper Award for the paper A. Ebadat, G. Bottegal, D. Varagnolo, B. Wahlberg, and K. H. Johansson, Regularized deconvolution-based approaches for estimating room occupancies. IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, 12:4, 1-12, 2015.
Keynote lecture at the IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing, Wurzburg, Germany, Jul 18-22, 2016.
Plenary lecture at the European Control Conference, Aalborg, Denmark, Jun 29-Jul 1, 2016.
Invited seminar Scenario-based model predictive control applied to building automation systems at the European Control Conference Workshop on Distributed and Stochastic Optimization: Theory and Applications, Aalborg, Denmark, Jun 29-Jul 1, 2016.
Plenary lecture at the Swedish Control Conference, Gothenburg, Jun 8-9, 2016.
Granted 5-year extension as Wallenberg Scholar, May 2016.
Awarded 5-year project SoPhy on Smart Systems from the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research, April, 2016.
Complex cyber-physical system: a great engineering challenge discussed at the Singapore-Sweden Excellence Seminar, Nov 3-5, 2015.
Awarded 5-year project from Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation on Engineering the Interconnected Society: Information, Control, Interaction. Article in Swedish about the project. And another article about the project.
PhD student positions in networking and control of cyber-physical systems. Application deadline Nov 1.
Elected member of the IEEE Control Systems Society Board of Governors, 2016-2018.
IBM Business Connect keynote presentation on Internet of everything: a smorgasbord of challenges and possibilities, Oct 19, 2015
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Jockey Club Institute for Advanced Study Distinguished Lecture on Cyber-physical systems: why connecting the physical world?, Aug 7, 2015
Invited lecture on Optimizing cooperative driving for road goods transportation, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, August 2015
Guan Zhao-Zhi Award at the Chinese Control Conference, Hangzhou, 2015, for the paper Stability conditions and phase transition for Kalman filtering over Markovian channels formation, by J. Wu, G. Shi, B. D. O. Anderson, and K. H. Johansson.
Short course about "Topics on cyber-physical control systems" given at Department of Electronic & Computer Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, July 2015: Lecture 1, Lecture 2, Lecture 3
Popular article (in Swedish) about our vehicle platooning research: Lastbilar kan bli rullande kontor.
Plenary lecture at the 15th International Conference on Control, Automation and Systems (ICCAS), Busan, Korea, Oct 13-16, 2015.
Keynote presentation on "Event-Based Control of Multi-Agent Systems" at the IEEE International Conference on Event-based Control, Communication, and Signal Processing, Krakow, Poland, Jun 17-19, 2015.
YouTube presentation of the Strategic Research Area ICT The Next Generation in November 2014.
Popular presentation of former PhD student Chithrupa Ramesh about her research on state-based channel access for a network of control systems, 2014.
The Impact of Control Technology, 2nd Ed. includes the section Road Grade Estimation for Advanced Driver Assistance Systems by P. Sahlholm and K. H. Johansson.
Plenary lecture at the IEEE Multi-Conference on Systems and Control (MSC), Antibes, Oct 8-10, 2014.
Plenary lecture at the 33rd Chinese Control Conference, Nanjing, Jul 28-30, 2014.
Best Theory Paper Award of the World Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation, Shenyang, China, 2014, for the paper "Consensus of quantum networks with continuous-time Markovian dynamics" by G. Shi, K. H. Johansson, D. Dong, and I. R. Petersen.
Keynote talk at the 27th International Conference on Architecture of Computing Systems (ARCS), Luebeck, Feb 25-28, 2014.
Control of cyber-physical systems: fundamental challenges and applications to energy and transportation networks, Institute for Systems Research Distinguished Lecture, University of Maryland, Dec, 2013.
General Chair of the 5th ACM Workshop On Embedded Systems For Energy-Efficient Buildings (BuildSys), Rome, 13-14 November, 2013.
Lectures at the 2013 Nano-Tera/Artist International Summer School on Embedded System Design in Aix-les-Bain organized by ETH Zurich and EPFL.
Popular article by KAW on our research: Energibesparing genom uppkopplade apparater och fordon.
2013 Summer School of Information Engineering in Bressanone. Networked control and autonomy: Lecture 1, Lecture 2.
EECI Graduate School on Control 2013 on Event-triggered and Self-triggered Control by Maurice Heemels, Karl H. Johansson, and Paulo Tabuada. Here is the lecture notes by Johansson: Lecture 10, Lecture 11, Lecture 12, Lecture 13, Lecture 14.
Guest Editor of IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control Special Issue on Control of Cyber-Physical Systems, Dec 2014.
Tutorial Session on An Introduction to Event-Triggered and Self-Triggered Control at IEEE CDC, Maui, HI, 2012. Lecture 1 by Paulo Tabuada, Lecture 2 by Maurice Heemels, Lecture 3 by Karl H. Johansson.
Named Fellow of the IEEE for contributions to the applications of hybrid and networked systems.
Keynote presentation on Networked control challenges and applications in the Internet of Things given at the Workshop on Internet of Things, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Oct, 2012.
Presentation on Distributed event-based control given at the DFG Workshop on Event-based control and optimization, Institute of Advanced Studies, TU Munich, Oct, 2012.
Presentations on Cyber-security of networked control systems and Wireless control given at the Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Science, Jul, 2012.
Excellent results in the mid-term evaluation of the ACCESS Linnaeus Centre, Jun, 2012.
Guest Editor of Special Issue on Event-Based Control and Optimization for the journal Discrete Event Dynamic Systems.
CPS Week Tutorial on Resilient Control Systems at CPS Week, Beijing, China, 2012.
Keynote presentation Building smart cities and smart infrastructures at IoT Industry Development Forum, Shanghai, China, 2011.
Keynote Speaker at IFAC Workshop on Distributed Estimation and Control in Networked Systems, Annecy, France, 2010.
Keynote Speaker at Reglermöte, Lund, Sweden, 2010.
General Chair of CPSWEEK 2010 hosting the conferences CPC, HSCC, IPSN, LCTES, RTAS, Apr 12-16, Stockholm
Guest Editor of IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control Special Issue of on Wireless Sensor and Actuator Networks. Guest Editorial. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 56:10, 2244-2246, 2011.
IEEE MASS 2009 Best Paper Award for A Generalized Markov Model for Effective Analysis of Slotted IEEE 802.15.4, by Pangun Park, Piergiuseppe Di Marco, Pablo Soldati, Carlo Fischione and Karl Henrik Johansson
Piergiuseppe Di Marco receives the “Confindustria S.I. - AICA Award 2009” for his MSc theses
Wallenberg Scholar, individual grant awarded by Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, Jun 1, 2009. Interview, Nov 25, 2009. report of KAW 2009.
Plenary presentation on event-based control for wireless systems at NESCOC Symposium on the occasion of the 10th Anniversary of the Institute for Systems Theory and Automatic Control, University of Stuttgart, 28 Sep, 2009
Lectures on event-based control at the Dutch Summer school on Distributed Control and Estimation, June 2-5, 2009
Invited presentation on Wireless control: opportunities and challenges at Automationsdagarna, Globen, Stockholm, 2009
TPC co-chair for 1st IFAC Workshop on Estimation and Control of Networked Systems (NecSys’09), 24-26 September, 2009, Venice, Italy
VINNOVA grants research project on Networked Embedded Control Systems, Apr 18, 2008. Press release (in Swedish).
Program Co-Chair for IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE), Washington DC, USA, Aug 23-26, 2008.
Keynote presentation at 6th International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks (WiOpt), Berlin, Germany, March 31-April 4, 2008.
Our research project RUNES featured in ScienceDaily (Mar14, 2008).
Our research on wireless control for mining industry within the project SOCRADES featured in Process Nordic (Jan 1, 2008).
Special Issue of the International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control on “Industrial Control over Wireless Networks”
RUNES Minitutorial Session at ECC 2007 in Kos, Greece, July 2-5, 2007
Plenary talk at 15th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, Athens, Greece, June 27-29, 2007
Control over wireless networks, Invited talk, CTS-HYCON Workshop, Université Paris Sorbonne, France, July 10-12, 2006
Modeling and analysis of hybrid control systems, Tutorial Lecture, Modelling and Verifying Parallel Processes (MOVEP), Bordeaux, France, June 19-23 2006
Control over wireless networks (Parts I and II), Plenary Lectures, 25th Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control, Heeze, The Netherlands, March 13-15, 2006
Ninth International Workshop on Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control (HSCC 2006), Santa Barbara, CA, 2006-03-29–31
Utbrott på Lava, European Research Night, Kulturhuset, Stockholm, 2005-09-23
Senior Researcher Position awarded in Network Interconnected Sensing and Control by Swedish Research Council, 2005-09-19
Third Swedish Workshop on Autonomous Robotics, Stockholm, 2005-09-01–02
1st HYCON PhD School on Hybrid Systems, Siena, 2005-07-19–22
Individual Grant for the Advancement of Research Leaders, Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research (pressrelease, KTH News, ceremony, interview), 2004-12-15, 2005-04-11
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Department of Automatic Control
School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
KTH Royal Institute of Technology
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