Prize History

Citation

TThe 2026 W.T. and Idalia Reid Prize is awarded to Anthony Bloch for his deep scientific contributions to geometric mechanics and control theory, particularly for nonholonomic dynamics and control.

Selection Committee

• Helena J. Nussenzveig Lopes (Chair)
• Jeff Borggaard
• Eduardo Cerpa
• Kirsten Morris
• Linda Petzold

Citation

The 2025 W.T. and Idalia Reid Prize is awarded to Marius Tucsnak for his fundamental work on the mathematical analysis and control of fluid-structure interaction and for his deep contributions to control theory and partial differential equations.

Selection Committee

• Robert Lipton (Chair)
• Jeff Borggaard
• Eduardo Cerpa
• Helena J. Nussenzveig Lopes
• Linda Petzold

Citation

The 2024 W.T. and Idalia Reid Prize is awarded to Benedetto Piccoli for his contributions to the fields of optimal control, conservation laws, and applications to vehicular traffic, robotics, and biology.

Selection Committee

• Alina Chertock (Chair)
• Jeff Borggaard
• Robert Lipton
• Helena J. Nussenzveig Lopes
• Kirsten Morris

Citation

The 2023 W.T. and Idalia Reid Prize is awarded to Robert McCann for pioneering and fundamental results in the field of optimal transport theory with deep applications to analysis and geometry.

Selection Committee

• Jean-Michel Coron (Chair)
• Alina Chertock
• Robert Lipton
• Helena J. Nussenzveig Lopes
• Kirsten Morris

Citation

The 2022 W.T. and Idalia Reid Prize is awarded to Enrique Zuazua for fundamental theoretical and computational contributions to the Control, Numerics and Analysis of nonlinear PDEs and multi-physical systems with impactful scientific and industrial applications.

Selection Committee

• Lorenz Biegler (Chair)
• Chertock
• Jean-Michel Coron
• Robert Lipton
• Helena J. Nussenzveig Lopes

Citation

The 2021 W.T. and Idalia Reid Prize is awarded to Karl Kunisch for his fundamental and lasting theoretical, numerical and computational contributions to nearly all aspects of PDE control theory, infinite dimensional optimization and applications to complex systems.

Selection Committee

• Maria Esteban (Chair)
• Lorenz Biegler
• Alina Chertock
• Jean-Michel Coron
• Robert Lipton

Citation

The 2020 W.T. and Idalia Reid Prize is awarded to Roland Glowinski for seminal and fundamental contributions to the controllability for hyperbolic problems, indicating the need for developing efficient filtering methods to attenuate the effect of high frequency spurious components, and explaining how this could be done using a Tychonoff regularization procedure of the discrete models and a two-grid approach in the finite element setting.

Selection Committee

• Maria Esteban (Chair)
• Lorenz Biegler
• Jean-Michel Coron
• Alina Chertock
• Robert Lipton

Citation

The 2019 W.T. and Idalia Reid Prize is awarded to Miroslave Krstić for outstanding contributions to control and stabilization of nonlinear deterministic and stochastic dynamical systems governed by ordinary differential, functional differential, and partial differential equations. In addition to high-level theoretical work, he has developed applications in engineering, mechanics, and industry.

Selection Committee

• Boris Mordukhovich (Chair)
• Lorenz Biegler
• Suncica Canic
• Jean-Michel Coron
• Maria Esteban

Citation

The 2018 W. T. and Idalia Reid Prize is awarded to Volker Mehrmann for his fundamental contributions to the broad area of differential-algebraic equations, their control and optimization,and their practical applications. Volker Mehrmann is a specialist in numerics and theory related in particular to the vast area of differential-algebraic equations and their control and optimization. He has been linked to important efforts to study numerical pencils and design performant algorithms for the approximation of nonlinear eigenvalue problems. He has been part of the very important SLICOT project and also of other projects leading to important toolboxes in MATLAB, addressing issues related to differential-algebraic problems and control systems theory. His impact and influence on a very large community is spectacular. Coming from the field of algebra, he has evolved towards the study of differential-algebraic equations, being one of the main founders of the corresponding theory, and also towards the search for efficient and important algorithms linked to the control of linear systems, matrix pencils, etc. Together with a large group of students, post-docs, and collaborators, he has interacted strongly with industry, being able to solve concrete problems posed mainly by German and European industry.

Selection Committee

• Boris Mordukhovich (Chair)
• Maria Esteban
• Kirsten Morris

Citation

The 2017 W. T. and Idalia Reid Prize is awarded to Jean-Michel Coron for fundamental contributions with lasting impact to both the analysis and control of nonlinear ordinary and partial differential equations, and in particular the Coron return method for feedback stabilization of nonlinear systems using time-varying controls, as well as applications of control theory to practical problems.

Selection Committee

• Ricardo Nochetto (Chair)
• Peter Benner
• Suncica Canic
• Maria Esteban
• Boris Mordukhovich

Citation

The 2016 W. T. and Idalia Reid Prize is awarded to Ioannis G. Kevrekidis for his pioneering work on the "equation-free" framework for computational study of complex dynamical systems, and for his many contributions to control theory and its applications.

Selection Committee

• Michael Weinstein (Chair)
• Peter Benner
• Suncica Canic
• Boris Mordukhovich
• Ricardo Nochetto

2013 Francis Clarke

Citation

The 2015 W.T. and Idalia Reid Prize is awarded to Francis Clarke for his pioneering and influential work on the analysis of generalized derivatives and subdifferentials and for its applications in PDE optimization and control of nonsmooth systems.

Selection Committee

• Suzanne Lenhart (Chair)
• Peter Benner
• Boris Mordukhovich
• Ricardo Nochetto
• Michael Weinstein

2014 Alain Bensoussan

Citation

The 2014 W. T. and Idalia Reid Prize is awarded to Alain Bensoussan for his fundamental contributions in partial differential equations, deterministic as well as stochastic, including applications in filtering, stochastic and impulsive control, optimal stopping, variational inequalities and mean field game theory.

Selection Committee

• Suzanne Lenhart (Chair)
• Peter Benner
• Irena Lasiecka
• Ricardo Nochetto
• Michael Weinstein

2013 Tyrone Duncan

Citation

The 2013 W. T. and Idalia Reid Prize is awarded to Tyrone E. Duncan for his fundamental contributions to nonlinear filtering, stochastic control, and the relation between probability and geometry.

Selection Committee

• Gang George Yin (Chair)
• Alain Bensoussan
• Suzanne Lenhart
• Ricardo Nochetto
• Michael Weinstein

2012 Ruth F. Curtain

Citation

The 2012 W.T. and Idalia Reid Prize is awarded to Ruth Curtain for her fundamental contributions to the theory of infinite dimensional systems and the control of systems governed by partial and delay differential equations.

Selection Committee

• Jim Cushing (Chair)
• Alain Bensoussan
• Suzanne Lenhart
• Gang George Yin

2011 Irena Lasiecka

Selection Committee

• John Mallet-Paret (Chair)
• Alain Bensoussan
• Jim M. Cushing
• Suzanne Lenhart
• Gang George Yin

2010 John A. Burns

Selection Committee

• H. T. Banks
• Chris Byrnes
• Jim Cushing
• Terry Herdman
• John Mallet-Paret

2009 Anders Lindquist

Selection Committee

• H. T. Banks
• Chris Byrnes
• Jim Cushing
• Terry Herdman
• John Mallet-Paret

2008 Max Gunzburger

Selection Committee

• H. T. Banks
• Chris Byrnes
• Jim Cushing
• Terry Herdman
• John Mallet-Paret

2007 Héctor J. Sussmann

Selection Committee

• H. T. Banks
• Terry Herdman
• James Keener
• Alan Laub
• John Mallet-Paret

2006 Peter E. Kloeden

Selection Committee

• H. T. Banks (Chair)
• Max Gunzburger
• Terry Herdman
• James Keener
• Alan Laub

2005 Christopher I. Byrnes

Selection Committee

• John Burns (Chair)
• H. T. Banks
• Max Gunzburger
• James Keener
• Alan Laub

2004 Arthur J. Krene

Selection Committee

• John Burns (Chair)
• H. T. Banks
• Max Gunzburger
• James Keener
• Alan Laub

2003 Harold J. Kushner

Selection Committee

• John Burns (Chair)
• H. T. Banks
• Max Gunzburger
• James Keener
• Alan Laub

2002 H. Thomas Banks

Selection Committee

• John Burns (Chair)
• Ruth Curtain
• James Glimm
• Max Gunzburger
• Arthur Krener

2001 Eduardo D. Sontag

Selection Committee

• John Burns (Chair)
• Ruth Curtain
• James Glimm
• John Guckenheimer
• Arthur Krener

2000 Constantine M. Dafermos

Selection Committee

• John Burns
• H. T. Banks
• James Glimm
• John Guckenheimer
• Arthur Krener

1998 Jacques-Louis Lions

Selection Committee

• John Burns
• H. T. Banks
• Wendell Fleming
• Franz Kappel
• Richard Miller

1996 Roger W. Brockett

Selection Committee

• John Burns
• Wendell Fleming
• Franz Kappel
• Richard Miller
• Allen TannenBaum

1994 Wendell H. Fleming