Ioan Doré Landau

Ioan Doré Landau (born July 1, 1938 in Bucharest) is a French scientist specializing in automatic control.

He is an emeritus research director at the CNRS, has published many groundbreaking papers and articles on the theory and applications of system identification, adaptive control, robust digital control, nonlinear systems, and is internationally recognized in these fields.

He is notably the author of numerous algorithms known as "Model Reference Approach" for adaptive control and identification of systems.

Biography Landau obtained an engineering degree in electronics from the Polytechnic Institute of Bucharest in 1959, training which he completed in 1965 with a doctorate in electrical engineering at the same Institute and, in 1973, with a doctorate in physical sciences from the Joseph-Fourier University of Grenoble.

After having held several jobs in R&D until 1972 (Design Institute for Automation in Bucharest, Institute of Energy of the Romanian Academy (Group of Vasile M. Popov), Alsthom, NASA- Ames Research Center...), he became an associate professor at the Grenoble Institute of Technology (from 1973 to 1976), then joined the CNRS where he rose, in 1983, to the position of research director.

In June 1998, the CNRS organized in his honour an international conference entitled "Perspectives in Control - Theory and Applications" .

Main works published also in French and Romanian:.

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Awards and recognition

1968: gold medal at the International Exhibition of Inventions in Vienna (Austria) 1981-84: Best Review Paper Award from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, for his article on adaptive control published in the Journal of Dynamical Systems Measurement and Control 2001-2003: "Distinguished lecturer" from the IEEE Control Systems Society 2009: Life Achievement Award from the Mediterranean Control Association 2014: Robert-Houdin prize 2017: honorary doctorate from the Polytechnic University of Bucharest (, )

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