Uri Shaked

Uri Shaked (Hebrew: אורי שקד; born: 15 June 1943) is an Israeli professor of Electrical Engineering in the Engineering Faculty at Tel Aviv University, specializing in control theory of uncertain systems. In 2017 he was awarded the Israel Prize for engineering research.

Early life and education Uri Shaked was born in Petah Tikva, Israel. He studied at "Brenner" high school and received his B.Sc in Physics and Mathematics (1963) and M.Sc in Physics (1966) from the Hebrew University. His Ph.D. degree was received in 1974 from the Department of Applied Mathematics at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel. Shaked authored the thesis Synthesis of Multivariable Linear Time Invariant Feedback Control Systems, under the supervision of Prof. Isaac M. Horowitz.

Career Shaked was a visiting scholar at Cambridge, UK in the years 1974-1976, and then joined the Department of Engineering at Tel Aviv University as a lecturer. He became a senior lecturer in 1977. In 1981 he was also an adjunct lecturer at the Electrical Engineering Faculty of the Technion, and in 1982 he became an associate professor at the Engineering faculty of Tel Aviv university.

In 2017 he was elected as chairman of the Israeli section of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

Work His research interests include linear and non-linear control of uncertain systems; digital control; H-infinity optimization in filtering and control; control and estimation of systems with time delay.

Upon receiving the Israel Prize (2017) for engineering research, his work and its implications were described by the award committee:

Membership in professional societies 1993- Fellow of IEEE, Control Systems Society 2011- Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, UK (IMA) E. Gershon and U. Shaked, Advanced Topics in Control and Estimation of State-multiplicative Noisy Systems (LNCIS 439), LondonSpringer 2013 E. Gershon and U. Shaked, Advances in H∞ Control Theory: Switched, Delayed and Biological Systems. (LNCIS 481), LondonSpringer 2019

Selected articles 1976: U. Shaked, “A General Transfer Function Approach to the Steady-State Linear Quadratic Gaussian Stochastic Control Problem”, Int. J. Control 24, pp. 771–800 1976: B. Kouvaritakis and U. Shaked, “Asymptotic Behavior of Root-Loci of Multivariable Systems”, Int. J. Control 23, pp. 297–340 1992: I. Yaesh and U. Shaked, “Game Theory Approach to Optimal Linear State Estimation and Its Relation to the Minimum H∞-Norm Estimation”, IEEE Trans. Autom. Control, AC-37, pp. 828–831 1995: U. Shaked and C. E. de Souza, “Robust Minimum Variance Filtering”, IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing SP-43, pp. 2474–2483 1996: Y. Theodor and U. Shaked, “Robust Discrete-Time Minimum Variance Filtering”, IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing SP-44, pp. 181–189 1996: N. Berman and U. Shaked, “H∞ Nonlinear Filtering”, Int. J. of Robust and Nonlinear Control 6, pp. 281–295 2002: E. Fridman and U. Shaked, “A Descriptor System Approach to H∞ Control of Linear Time-Delay Systems”, IEEE Trans. on Automat. Contr. AC-47, pp. 253–270 2002: E. Fridman and U. Shaked, “An Improved Stabilization Method for Linear Time-Delay Systems”, IEEE Trans. on Automat. Contr. AC-47, pp. 1931–1937 2003: E. Fridman and U. Shaked, “Delay Dependent Stability and H∞ Control: Constant and Time-Varying Delays”, Int. J. Control 76, 1, pp 48–60 2005: V. Suplin and U. Shaked, “Robust H∞ Output-Feedback Control of Linear Discrete-Time Systems”, System & Control Letters 54, pp. 799–808 2008: E. Gershon and U. Shaked,“H∞ Output-Feedback Control of Discrete-Time Systems With State-Multiplicative Noise.” Automatica, vol. 44, pp. 574–579 2012: L. I. Allerhand and U. Shaked, “Robust State Dependant Switching of Linear Systems With Dwell Time”, IEEE Trans. Automat. Contr. 58, pp. 994–1001 2019: E. Gershon and U. Shaked, “Robust Predictor Based Control of State Multiplicative Noisy Retarded Systems”, Systems and Control Letters, Volume 132

Personal life Shaked is married to Zippora, a professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot. They have two daughters and 5 grandchildren, and live in Rehovot.