EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Mathematics, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, May 1997.
Committee Chairs: Dr. David S. Gilliam, Dr. Victor I. Shubov
M.S. in  Applied Mathematics, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas, August, 1994.
B.S. in Mathematics, Jozsef Attila University of Szeged, Hungary, June 1989.
PROFESSIONAL   SERVICE
IEEE Control Systems Society, Conference Editorial Board Member, 2004-present
International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, Associate Editor, 2004--present
PROFESSIONAL   EXPERIENCE
Professor, School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, 9/15-present.
Department Chair, Department of Mathematics, University of Texas - Pan American, 7/12-8/15.
Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Texas - Pan American, 9/11-8/15.
Interim Chair, Department of Mathematics, University of Texas - Pan American, 6/11-7/12.
Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Texas - Pan American, 9/05-9/11.
Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Texas - Pan American, 9/02-8/05.
Assistant Project Scientist, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California , San Diego, 12/98-7/02.
Visiting Scholar, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, San Diego, 8/98-12/98.
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, Idaho State University, 9/97-5/98.
PUBLICATIONS (Refereed Journal Papers and Book Chapters)
"Output-feedback stabilization of an unstable wave equation," Automatica, Volume 44, Issue 1, pp. 63-74, 2008, with M. Krstic, B-Z. Guo and A. Smyshlyaev.
"Control of a Tip-Force Destabilized Shear Beam by Observer-Based Boundary Feedback," SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, Volume 47, Issue 2, pp. 553-574, 2008, with M. Krstic, B-Z. Guo and A. Smyshlyaev.
"Forced nonlinear oscillations of elastic membranes," Nonlinear Analysis: Real World Applications, Volume 7, Number 5, pp. 1005-1028, 2006, with V. Varlamov.
"Global Boundary Stabilization of 2D Poiseuille Flow," Control of Fluid Flow, Lecture Notes in Control and Inform. Sci., 330, (Eds.: P. Koumoutsakos and I. Mezic), pp. 157-172, Springer, 2006, with M. Krstic.
"Traveling Waves to a Burgers-Korteweg-de Vries-Type Equation," Dynamics of Continuous Discrete and Impulsive Systems - Series B - Applications and Algorithms 2, 2: 488-491 Sp. Iss. SI, 2005, with ZS Feng and XH Wang.
"Asymptotic Distribution of Eigenvalues for Damped String Equation: Numerical Approach," Journal of Aerospace Engineering, Vol. 18, Issue 2, pp. 69-83, 2005, with M. Shubov.
Optimal Mixing Enhancement in 3D Pipe Flow, IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, Vol. 13, Issue 1, pp. 27-41, 2005, with O.M. Aamo and M. Krstic.
"Analysis of Nonlinear Elastic Membrane Oscillations by Eigenfunction Expansion," WSEAS Transactions on Systems, Issue 4, Vol. 3, 2004, pp. 1430-1435, with V. Varlamov.
"Stability of Partial Difference Equations Governing Control Gains in Infinite Dimensional Backstepping," Systems and Control Letters, Vol. 51, No. 2, pp. 151--164, 2004, with M. Krstic.
"Infinite Dimensional Backstepping for nonlinear parabolic PDEs," in Unsolved Problems in Mathematical Systems and Control Theory, (Eds. V.D. Blondel and A.Megretski), pp. 12--18, Princeton University Press, 2004, with M. Krstic.
"Backstepping in Infinite Dimension for a Class of Parabolic Distributed Parameter Systems," Mathematics of Control, Signals, and Systems, Vol. 16, No. 1, 2003, pp. 44--75, with D. Boskovic and M. Krstic,
"Infinite Dimensional Backstepping-Style Feedback Transformations for a Heat Equation with an Arbitrary Level of Instability," European Journal of Control, Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 165-175, 2002, with M. Krstic,
"Stability Enhancement by Boundary Control in 2D Channel Flow," IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. 46, No. 11, pp. 1696-1711, 2001, with W.-J. Liu, and M. Krstic,
"Burgers' Equation with Nonlinear Boundary Feedback: H1 Stability, Well Posedness, and Simulation," Mathematical Problems in Engineering, Vol. 6, pp. 189-200, 2000, with M.Krstic
"Boundary Control of the Korteweg-de Vries-Burgers Equation: Further Results on Stabilization and Well Posedness, with Numerical Demonstration," IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. 45, No. 9, pp. 1739-1745, 2000, with M. Krstic.
"Stationary Solutions for a Boundary Controlled Burgers' Equation," Mathematical and Computer Modeling, Vol. 33, No. 1-3, pp. 21-37, 2001, with D.S. Gilliam and V.I. Shubov.
"Numerical Stationary Solutions for a Viscous Burgers' Equation," Journal of Mathematical Systems, Estimation and Control, Summary: Vol. 8,  No. 2, 1998, pp. 253-256  (Electronic version retrieval code: 55578),    with J. Burns, D.S. Gilliam and V.I. Shubov.
"Modeling Infrared Imaging in Biomaterials,"    in Industrial Mathematics Modeling Workshop for Graduate Students, (Eds. B.Fitzpatric and H.T.Tran) CRSC-TR96-7,    Center for Research in Scientific Computation, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, pp. 66-83,    with E. Cumberbatch, J. Appel, K.R. Fister, M. Luca and Z.P.Yang.
PUBLICATIONS (Refereed Conference Papers)
"Eigenfunction Expansion Method for a Damped Boussinesq Equation," accepted to the International Conference on Nonlinear Problems in Aviation and Aerospace 2004: Mathematical Problems in Engineering and Aerospace Sciences, June 2--4, 2004, The West University of Timisoara, Romania, with V. Varlamov.
"Asymptotic Distribution of Eigenvalues for an Aircraft Wing Model : Numerical Approach," accepted to the International Conference on Nonlinear Problems in Aviation and Aerospace 2004: Mathematical Problems in Engineering and Aerospace Sciences, June 2--4, 2004, The West University of Timisoara, Romania.
"Analysis of Nonlinear Elastic Membrane Oscillations by Eigenfunction Expansion," 6th WSEAS International Conference on Algorithms, Scientific Computing, Modelling and Simulation, Cancun, Mexico, May 12--15, 2004, with V. Varlamov.
"Stability of Difference Equations Arising in Infinite Dimensional Backstepping," Proceedings of the 41st IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pp. 3015--3020, Las Vegas, Nevada, December 2002, with M. Krstic.
"Optimal Mixing by Feedback in Pipe Flow," Proceedings of the 15th IFAC World Congress, July, 2002, Barcelona, Spain, with O.A. Aamo and M. Krstic.
"Boundary Control of a Class of Unstable Parabolic PDEs Via Backstepping," Proceedings of the 15th IFAC World Congress, July, 2002, Barcelona, Spain, with D. Boskovic and M. Krstic.
"Infinite-Step Backstepping for a Heat Equation-Like PDE with Arbitrarily Many Unstable Eigenvalues," Proceedings of the 2001 American Control Conference, Arlington, Virginia, with M. Krstic.
"Stability Enhancement by Boundary Control in 2D Channel Flow-Part II: Numerical Implementation and Stability," Proceedings of the 2000 American Control Conference, Chicago, IL, with M. Krstic.
"Stability Enhancement by Boundary Control in 2D Channel Flow-Part I: Regularity of Solutions," Proceedings of the 38th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Phoenix, AZ, December 1999, with M. Krstic.
"Boundary Control of the Korteweg-de Vries-Burgers Equation: Further Results on Stabilization and Numerical Demonstration," Proceedings of the 7th IEEE Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, Haifa, Israel, June 1999, with M. Krstic.
"Global Boundary Stabilization and Regularization of Burgers' Equation," Proceedings of the 1999 American Control Conference, San Diego, CA, with M. Krstic.
"Some Recent Results on Feedback Regularization of Navier-Stokes Equations," Proceedings of the 36th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pp. 2231--2236, San Diego, CA, 1997, with D. Gilliam and V. Shubov.