Ülle Kotta, DSc
LEADING RESEARCHER
Ülle Kotta received the PhD degree from Estonian Academy of Sciences, in 1980 and the DSc degree from Russian Academy of Sciences, in 1993. In 1996 she was awarded the prestigious Estonian Science Award. She is the author of the research monograph "Inversion Method in the Discrete-time Nonlinear Control Systems Synthesis Problems" (Springer, London, 1995) and a (co)author of more than 200 refereed papers. She has supervised numerous PhD students /postdocs and is (was) a member of editorial board of 3 international journals. Between 1997-2009 she served as Vice Director of the IoC at TUT. She has been a PI of numerous governmental funding projects and ESF grants. Her present research interests are in nonlinear control theory.