David Mayne

David Quinn Mayne, FRS, FIEEE, FREng[1] (born 23 April 1930) is a British academic, engineer, teacher and author.

Career

Mayne began his career in 1950 as a lecturer at the University of the Witwatersrand (1950–54; 1957–59).

He lectured at Imperial College London from 1959-67 and also received his PhD in 1967 at the University of London under John Westcott.[2] He was a Research Fellow at Harvard (1971). At Imperial College he was professor of control theory (1971–91) as well as concurrently heading the Department of Electrical Engineering (1984–88).

He was a professor in the Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of California, Davis from 1989-96. From 1996 he has been a professor emeritus.

He was named honorary professor at Beihang University in Beijing in 2006.

His students include Peter Caines.

Awards and affiliations

Selected publications
  • Differential Dynamic Programming ISBN 9780444000705 (1970)

References
  1. "List of Fellows". Royal Academy of Engineering. Archived from the original on 21 May 2020. Retrieved 21 April 2018.
  2. "David Mayne". The Mathematics Genealogy Project. Retrieved 9 September 2022.
  3. "IEEE Control Systems Award Recipients" (PDF). IEEE. Retrieved 30 March 2011.
  4. "IEEE Control Systems Award". IEEE Control Systems Society. Archived from the original on 29 December 2010. Retrieved 30 March 2011.
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