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Kotta
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.


Tonso
Maris Tõnso, PhD
SENIOR RESEARCHER
Maris Tõnso was born in Estonia in 1971. She received her PhD degree in informatics and system engineering from Tallinn University of Technology in 2010. Her research interests focus on the application of polynomial methods and differential geometry to nonlinear control problems. She has been the main developer of the Mathematica package NLControl, developed in the IoC and devoted to modeling, analysis and synthesis problems of nonlinear control systems.


Kaparin
Vadim Kaparin, PhD
RESEARCHER
Vadim Kaparin was born in 1985. He received his BSc degree in mathematics from Tallinn University, and his MSc and PhD degrees both in computer and systems engineering from Tallinn University of Technology. His main research interests lie in the domain of nonlinear control system theory, both for discrete- and continuous-time cases.


Kaldmae
Arvo Kaldmäe, PhD
TECHNICIAN
Arvo Kaldmäe was born in 1987 in Estonia. He received his BSc and MSc degrees in mathematics in 2010 and 2012, respectively, both from Tallinn University and his PhD degree from Tallinn University of Technology and Ecole Centrale de Nantes (France) in 2016. His scientific work belongs to the field of nonlinear control theory. In his work, he considers both, time-delay and delay-free systems.


FORMER MEMBERS

Belikov
Juri Belikov, PhD
POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHER IN TECHNION – ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Juri Belikov was born in 1985 in Ukraine. He received his BSc degree (cum laude) in mathematics from Tallinn University, and his MSc and PhD degrees both in computer and systems engineering from Tallinn University of Technology. At present he holds the positions of Researcher in the Institute of Cybernetics and Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Control at Tallinn University of Technology. His main research interests lie in the domain of nonlinear control theory.


Mullari
Tanel Mullari, PhD
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Tanel Mullari was born in 1964. He received his MSc and PhD degrees in theoretical physics from Taru University and had the postdoc-study in University of Linz, Austria. He worked as a researcher in the Institute of Cybernetics from 2000 to 2015. At present he holds the positions of Associate Professor at Tallinn University of Technology. His main research interests lie in domains of special relativity and of nonlinear control theory.


Nurges
Ülo Nurges, PhD
SENIOR RESEARCHER
Ülo Nurges was born in 1939. He received his MSc degree in control engineering from Tallinn University of Technology and PhD degree in computer and systems from Estonian Academy of Sciences. His main research interests lie in the domain of linear control systems and especially in robust control theory.


Vain
Jüri Vain, PhD
SENIOR RESEARCHER
Jüri Vain received his BSc degree in system engineering from the Tallinn Polytechnic Institute and PhD degree from the Institute of Cybernetics at the Estonian Academy of Sciences, in 1979 and 1987, respectively. He is currently a Professor at the Department of Computer Science, Tallinn University of Technology and he also holds a position of Senior Researcher in the Institute of Cybernetics. His research interests include embedded systems, modeling of discrete-event and hybrid dynamic systems, formal verification in system design, and fault-tolerance.