# Brian Anderson (electrical engineer) > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Brian_Anderson_(electrical_engineer) > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Brian_Anderson_(electrical_engineer).md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Anderson_(electrical_engineer) > Source revision: 1341261448 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) Australian engineer Brian D. O. Anderson AC FRS Brian Anderson in 2024 Born (1941-01-15) 15 January 1941 (age 85) Alma mater Stanford University Awards M. A. Sargent Medal Scientific career Institutions Australian National University **Brian David Outram Anderson** [AC](/source/Companion_of_the_Order_of_Australia) [FRS](/source/Fellow_of_the_Royal_Society) (born 15 January 1941) is Professor in the Research School of Information Sciences and Engineering at the [Australian National University](/source/Australian_National_University). His research interests include circuits, signal processing and control, and his current work focuses on distributed control of [multi-agent systems](/source/Multi-agent_system), sensor network localization, adaptive and non-linear control. Professor Anderson served as President of the [Australian Academy of Science](/source/Australian_Academy_of_Science) from 1998 to 2002. Anderson was elected as a member into the [National Academy of Engineering](/source/National_Academy_of_Engineering) in 2002 for his contributions to system and control theory, and for international leadership in promoting engineering science and technology. Dianne Anderson is Brian's wife. They both live in Canberra. ## Education Anderson received a BS (1962) in mathematics and BE (1964) in electrical engineering from the [University of Sydney](/source/University_of_Sydney) and a PhD (1966) in electrical engineering from [Stanford](/source/Stanford), under [Robert W. Newcomb](/source/Robert_W._Newcomb).[1][2] ## Awards and honours - 1992 – [Matthew Flinders Medal and Lecture](/source/Matthew_Flinders_Medal_and_Lecture)[3] - 1992 – [Hendrik W. Bode Lecture Prize](/source/Hendrik_W._Bode_Lecture_Prize) - 1993 – [Officer of the Order of Australia](/source/Officer_of_the_Order_of_Australia)[4] - 1997 – [IEEE Control Systems Award](/source/IEEE_Control_Systems_Award)[5] - 1999 – [Giorgio Quazza Medal](/source/Giorgio_Quazza_Medal) - 2001 – [IEEE James H. Mulligan, Jr. Education Medal](/source/IEEE_James_H._Mulligan%2C_Jr._Education_Medal) - 2001 – [Centenary Medal](/source/Centenary_Medal) (Australia)[6] - 2002 – [M A Sargent Medal](/source/M_A_Sargent_Medal) - 2007 – [Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon](/source/Order_of_the_Rising_Sun) (Japan)[7] - 2016 – [Companion of the Order of Australia](/source/Companion_of_the_Order_of_Australia)[8] - 2016 – [John R. Ragazzini Award](/source/John_R._Ragazzini_Award) ## Membership of learned societies - 1974 – [Australian Academy of Science](/source/Australian_Academy_of_Science), Fellow.[9] - 1975 – [Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers](/source/Institute_of_Electrical_and_Electronics_Engineers), Fellow.[9] - 1980 – [Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering](/source/Australian_Academy_of_Technological_Sciences_and_Engineering), Fellow.[9] - 1985 – [Institution of Engineers Australia](/source/Engineers_Australia), Honorary Fellow.[9] - 1989 – [Royal Society, London](/source/Royal_Society), Fellow.[9] - 2002 – [National Academy of Engineering, USA](/source/National_Academy_of_Engineering), Foreign Associate.[9] - 2005 – [International Federation of Automatic Control](/source/International_Federation_of_Automatic_Control), Fellow.[9] ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** ["Brian D. O. Anderson"](http://users.cecs.anu.edu.au/~briandoa/cv.html). *Brian D. O. Anderson*. Retrieved 31 August 2022. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** ["Brian Anderson"](https://www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=63675). *The Mathematics Genealogy Project*. Retrieved 31 August 2022. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** ["Matthew Flinders Medal and Lecture"](https://www.science.org.au/matthew-flinders-medal-and-lecture). Australian Academy of Science. Retrieved 18 September 2015. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-AO_4-0)** ["Officer of the Order of Australia (AO)"](https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/1131003). *It's an Honour*. 26 January 1993. [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20170118065237/http://www.itsanhonour.gov.au/honours/honour_roll/search.cfm?aus_award_id=1131003&search_type=simple&showInd=true) from the original on 18 January 2017. Retrieved 2 March 2013. In recognition of service to science and to engineering 1. **[^](#cite_ref-IEEE-Control-Systems-Award_5-0)** ["IEEE Control Systems Award"](https://web.archive.org/web/20101229173014/http://www.ieeecss.org/main/awards/control-systems-field-award). [IEEE Control Systems Society](/source/IEEE_Control_Systems_Society). Archived from [the original](http://www.ieeecss.org/main/awards/control-systems-field-award) on 29 December 2010. Retrieved 30 March 2011. [List of recipients](https://web.archive.org/web/20100619234827/http://ieee.org/documents/control_sys_rl.pdf) 1. **[^](#cite_ref-CM_6-0)** ["Centenary Medal"](https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/1115177). *It's an Honour*. 1 January 2001. [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20170118065511/http://www.itsanhonour.gov.au/honours/honour_roll/search.cfm?aus_award_id=1115177&search_type=simple&showInd=true) from the original on 18 January 2017. Retrieved 2 March 2013. For service to Australian society through science policy development 1. **[^](#cite_ref-7)** [Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs](/source/Ministry_of_Foreign_Affairs_(Japan)) (MOFA): [2007 Autumn Conferment of Decorations on Foreign Nationals](http://www.mofa.go.jp/ICSFiles/afieldfile/2007/11/08/2007AutumnConfermentofDecor.pdf), p. 3; [Award ceremony](http://www.au.emb-japan.go.jp/e_web/news/archives/AndersonAwardCeremony_2008.html) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20080615193857/http://www.au.emb-japan.go.jp/e_web/news/archives/AndersonAwardCeremony_2008.html) 15 June 2008 at the [Wayback Machine](/source/Wayback_Machine), 2008; accessed 6 October 2010. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-AC_8-0)** ["Companion of the Order of Australia (AC)"](https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/1153646). *It's an Honour*. 13 June 2016. [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20190129181443/https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/1153646) from the original on 29 January 2019. Retrieved 30 December 2016. For eminent service to information and communications technology, to engineering and to higher education, as an academic, researcher and author, to professional scientific associations, and as a mentor of young scientists 1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-CV_9-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-CV_9-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-CV_9-2) [***d***](#cite_ref-CV_9-3) [***e***](#cite_ref-CV_9-4) [***f***](#cite_ref-CV_9-5) [***g***](#cite_ref-CV_9-6) [CV: Brian D.O. Anderson](https://users.cecs.anu.edu.au/~briandoa/cv.html), anu.edu.au ## External links - [Author profile](https://zbmath.org/authors/?q=ai:anderson.brian-david-o) in the database [zbMATH](/source/Zentralblatt_MATH) v t e IEEE James H. Mulligan Jr. Education Medal 1956–1975 Frederick Terman (1956) William Littell Everitt (1957) J. F. Calvert (1958) Gordon S. Brown (1959) Ernst Weber (1960) George F. Corcoran (1961) Ernst Guillemin (1962) William Gould Dow (1963) B. R. Teare Jr. (1964) Hugh H. Skilling (1965) William H. Huggins (1966) John Roy Whinnery (1967) Edward C. Jordan (1968) Donald Pederson (1969) Jacob Millman (1970) Franz Ollendorff (1971) Mac Van Valkenburg (1972) Lotfi A. Zadeh (1973) John G. Truxal (1974) Charles A. Desoer (1975) 1976–2000 John G. Linvill (1976) Robert Fano (1977) Harold A. Peterson (1978) John R. Ragazzini (1979) Aldert van der Ziel (1980) Ernest S. Kuh (1981) King-Sun Fu (1982) Mischa Schwartz (1983) Athanasios Papoulis (1984) James F. Gibbons (1985) Richard B. Adler (1986) Joseph W. Goodman (1987) Alan V. Oppenheim (1988) Ben G. Streetman (1989) James D. Meindl (1990) Hermann A. Haus (1991) Ronald W. Schafer (1992) Ronald A. Rohrer (1993) Chung Laung Liu (1994) Thomas Kailath (1995) Adel Sedra (1996) David A. Hodges (1997) Stephen W. Director (1998) Andries van Dam (1999) David Patterson (2000) 2001–present Brian Anderson (2001) Petar V. Kokotovic (2002) Yasuharu Suematsu (2003) Paul R. Gray (2004) Vincent Poor (2005) Sanjit K. Mitra (2006) Andrew S. Tanenbaum (2007) Joseph Bordogna (2008) Jose B. Cruz Jr. (2009) Randy Katz (2010) Raj Mittra (2011) Fawwaz T. Ulaby (2012) J. David Irwin (2013) John G. Proakis (2014) Richard Baraniuk (2015) Simon Haykin (2016) Stephen P. Boyd (2017) Delores M. Etter (2018) John G. Webster (2019) Leah Jamieson (2020) John D. Cressler (2021) Ned Mohan (2022) James Truchard (2023) Andrea Goldsmith (2024) Jan M. Rabaey (2025) v t e Fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1989 Fellows Brian Anderson Kenneth Bagshawe John M. Ball Adrian Bird Roger Blandford Arthur Cain Mark Child Alwyn Davies Peter Goddard Michael Green Brian Heap Geoffrey Hewitt Derek Hull Julian Hunt Richard Hynes Michael James Francis Kelly John Lawton Gilbert George Lonzarich Andrew David McLachlan Michael A. Moore Kim Nasmyth Paul Nurse Robert Ladislav Parker Geoff Parker Richard Peto Warren Roper John Martin Rowell Ian John Russell John Philip Simons Roger Slack Marshall Stoneham Roger C. 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