RICHARD W. LONGMAN

Curriculum Vita

Full Time Positions: 

• Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Columbia University, on the faculty since 1970

• Previously, Member of the Technical Staff, Control Systems Research Department, Bell Telephone Laboratories

Education: 

• B.A. Physics-Mathematics double major, University of California, Riverside (1965)

• M.S. in Aerospace Engineering, University of California, San Diego (1967)

• Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering, University of California, San Diego (defended 1968)
          Advisor: Prof. Robert E. Roberson, conducted the first study of satellite attitude control for The RAND Corporation, 1951

• M.A. in Mathematics, University of California, San Diego (1969)

• Undergraduate financial support: 
          Research Assistant to Willard F. Libby, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry
          NSF Undergraduate Research Participation Grant in Physics
          Grader for Advanced Applied Analysis, Mathematics Department

• Graduate support: 
          Three year NDEA Fellowship
          Consultant to The RAND Corporation

Part Time Positions:

• Served as a visiting faculty member at MIT (Mechanical Engineering)

• Visiting positions at other universities
          The University of Bonn, Germany (Applied Mathematics Institute)
          Technische Hochschule Darmstadt, Germany  (Mechanics)
          The University of Newcastle, Australia (Electrical Engineering)
          National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan (Aeronautics and Astronautics)
          Nanjing Aeronautical Institute, China (Aeronautics and Astronautics)
          The University of Augsburg, Germany (Mathematics)
          The University of Heidelberg, Germany (Computer Science)

• Consultant or part time positions in industries and government laboratories: 
  NASA Langley, NASA Goddard, General Electric Research Labs, Naval Research Labs, Xerox Research Labs, Lockheed Missiles and Space Company, Martin Marietta Corporation, System Development Corporation, The RAND Corporation, Sandia National Laboratories (lecture series), Harris Corporation, Designatronics Inc., Marine Environments Corporation, Jasper Asset Management, ICASE, Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing (Germany), European Space Operations Center, and Consultant to the International Advisory Panel and The Chinese Review Commission of the State Education Commission

Engineering Society Positions:

For the American Astronautical Society (AAS) and American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

• Vice President-Publications (AAS)

• Vice President-Technical (AAS)

• First Vice President (AAS)

•  Member of the Board of Directors (AAS)

•  Editor, The Journal of the Astronautical Sciences

• Guest Editor for three Special Issues: on Robotics in Space, System Identification, and Flexible Space Structures

• Astrodynamics Technical Committee (AIAA)

• Space Flight Mechanics Technical Committee (ex-officio)

• Technical Committee on Space Automation and Robotics (AIAA)

Currently serving as Guest Editor for Special Issue on nD Systems of the
International Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science

Honors:

• AAS Dirk Brouwer Award
          for contributions to Space Flight Mechanics and Astrodynamics

• Fellow AIAA

• Fellow AAS

• Best paper award from ASME

• Best paper award from AIAA/AAS

• NASA Technical Brief Award

• Two Alan Berman Research Publication Awards from Naval Research Laboratory

•  Proctor and Gamble Publication Award

Invited Lectures at Universities and Laboratories: 

Universities: MIT, Princeton, Yale, Columbia, Stanford, UC Berkeley, UCLA, UCSD, Carnegie Mellon (Robotics), Michigan, Maryland, Kansas, Connecticut, Florida, Rutgers, VPI & SU, ODU, CUNY, SUNY Stony Brook, Hawaii, Czech Technical University, Shanghai Jiao Tong, Delft, Hannover, Bonn, Darmstadt, Augsburg, Heidelberg, Munich, Parma, Louvain, Teheran, Bangalore, IIT Kanpur, Tokyo, Nagoya, Taegu, Andong, Pohang, British Columbia, Australian National, etc.

Governement Laboratories and Industries: European Space Operations Center, European Space Research and Technology Center, Indian Space Research Organization, Communications Research Centre (Canada), Royal Aircraft Establishment (Australia), Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology (Taiwan), International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis (Austria), Korean Aerospace Research Institute, Halla Aerospace Corporation (Korea), Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA Langley Research Center, Lockheed Palo Alto Research Laboratory, Martin Marietta Corporation, Bell Telephone Laboratories, Bellcom, Inc., The RAND Corporation, International Paper Co. Corporate Research, ORMEC Motion Control Company, Xerox Webster Research

Paid External Examiner/Reviewer:

Universities: The University of Kuwait, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, McMaster University, Canada, The University of Heidelberg, Germany, Federal University of Technology, Owerri, Nigeria

Publishers: Addison Wesley, Prentice Hall; Springer-Verlag; Holt, Rinehart and Winston; Simon and Schuster; Funk and Wagnalls; Columbia University Press; Cambridge University Press; Times Mirror Mosby; West Educational Publishing; W. B. Saunders Company; Saunders College Publishing, Gordon and Breach, Science Publishers

Conference and Committee Activities:

Keynote and Plenary Lectures: 
Second International Workshop on Multidimensional (nD) Systems,
        Lagów, Poland, June 2000.
First South East Asian Conference on High Performance Scientific Computing,
        Hanoi, Vietnam. March 2000
Third International Conference on Dynamics and Control of Structures in Space,
        London, England, May 1996
International Conference on Structural Dynamics, Vibration, Noise and Control,
        Hong Kong, December 1995
Second and Third International Symposia on Spacecraft Flight Dynamics,
        European Space Agency, Darmstadt, Germany, 1986 and 1991
The Ninth, Tenth, and Eleventh Yale Workshops on Adaptive and Learning Systems,
        1996, 1998, 2001 scheduled (lectures by invitation only)
Conferences at the German Mathematical Research Institute Oberwolfach
        (attendance is sponsored and by invitation only)
        Conference on Optimal Control, 1986
        Conference on Mathematical Problems in Robotics, 1991
        Conference on Kinematics and Robotics, 1995

Conference Co-Chairman:
NCKU/AAS Symposium on Engineering Science and Mechanics
        Tainan, Taiwan, Republic of China, 1981
        Keynote Speech by Ex-President of Taiwan, H. E. Yen Chia-Kan
Conference on Mathematical Problems in Robotics
        (attendance is sponsored and by invitation only)
         German Mathematical Research Institute Oberwolfach, 1991

Tutorials and Workshops on Iterative Learning Control:
39^th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Sydney Australia, 2000
        (with Moore, Phan, Rogers, Xu)
Sixth Internationa Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision,
        Singapore, 2000
37^th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Florida, 1998
        (with Moore, Owens, Phan, Rogers, Xu)
IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Control, Arlington, 1991
        (organizer and lecturer, with lecturers Arimoto, Phan, Juang)

Tutorial on Optimal Control for Robotics, Short Course on Robotics:
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Sacramento
The University of Newcastle, Australia (lecture series to EE faculty), 1984

Tutorials or Lecture Series on Control, Flexible Spacecraft Control, System Identification:
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (1973)
Beijing Institute of Control Engineering (1981)
Lockheed Missiles and Space Company (1984)
Nanjing Aeronautical Institute (1991)
        Invited by the Chinese State Education Commission through the United States Academy of Sciences, paid through the World Bank
AIAA Guidance, Navigation and Control Conference
Sandia National Laboratory