Biography:
Lucy Pao is a Palmer Endowed Chair Professor in the Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engineering Department and a Professor (by courtesy) in the Aerospace Engineering Sciences Department at the University of Colorado Boulder (CU Boulder) in the USA. She is also a Fellow of the Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute, a joint institute between the US National Renewable Energy Laboratory and CU Boulder. She earned B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. Her research has focused on engineering control systems, with applications ranging from atomic force microscopes to multi-megawatt wind energy systems. She is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) and is a foreign corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Selected recent recognitions include the 2017 American Automatic Control Council (AACC) Control Engineering Practice Award, 2017 European Academy of Wind Energy (EAWE) Scientific Award, 2019 American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Nyquist Lecturer Award, 2022 CU Boulder campus-wide Outstanding Postdoc Mentor of the Year Award, 2024 CU Boulder campus-wide Outstanding Mentor Award for Faculty Mentoring, and 2020–2026 IFAC Pavel J. Nowacki Distinguished Lecturer.