Romeo Ortega was born in Mexico. He obtained his BSc in
Electrical and Mechanical Engineering from the National University of
Mexico, Master of Engineering from Polytechnical Institute of
Leningrad, USSR, and the Docteur D`Etat from the Politechnical
Institute of Grenoble, France in 1974, 1978 and 1984, respectively.
He then joined the National University of Mexico, where he worked until
1989. He was a Visiting Professor at the University of Illinois in
1987-88 and at the McGill University in 1991-1992, and a Fellow of the
Japan Society for Promotion of Science in 1990-1991.
He has been a member of the French National Researcher Council (CNRS) since
June 1992. Currently he is in the Laboratoire de Signaux et Systemes (SUPELEC)
in Paris. His research interests are in the fields of
nonlinear and adaptive control, with special emphasis on applications. He has published two books and more than 200 scientific papers in
international journals.
Dr Ortega is a Fellow Member of the IEEE since 1999. He has served as chairman in several IFAC and IEEE committees and editorial boards.
Currently he chairs the Automatica Paper Prize Award Committee (2009-2012) is an Editor at Large of IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, and an Associate
Editor of Systems and Control Letters and International Journal of Adaptive
Control and Signal Processing.
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