Roger W. Brockett

Roger Ware Brockett (born October 22, 1938 in Seville, Ohio) is an American control theorist and the An Wang Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Harvard University, who founded the Harvard Robotics Laboratory in 1983.

Brockett received his B.S. in 1960, his M.S. in 1962, and his Ph.D. in 1964 (under the supervision of Mihajlo D. Mesarovic), all from Case Western Reserve University.

After teaching at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1963 to 1969, he joined the faculty at Harvard University where he became the Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Mathematics and in 1989 the An Wang Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering.

Brockett received several awards and honors, including:

• Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) since 1974
• Elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1991
• In 1989 the Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award from the American Automatic Control Council
• In 1991 the IEEE Control Systems Science and Engineering Award
• In 1996 the "W.T. and Idalia Reid Prize in Mathematics" from the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
• In 2005 the Rufus Oldenburger Medal from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
• In 2009 the IEEE Leon K. Kirchmayer Graduate Teaching Award
• In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

• Roger Brockett and Donald Knuth were classmates at Case Western