David Quinn Mayne, FRS, FIEEE, FREng (born 23 April 1930) is a British academic, engineer, teacher and author.
Career
Mayne began his career in 1950 as a lecturer at the University of the Witwatersrand (1950–54; 1957–59).
He lectured at Imperial College London from 1959-67 and also received his PhD in 1967 at the University of London under John Westcott. He was a Research Fellow at Harvard (1971). At Imperial College he was professor of control theory (1971–91) as well as concurrently heading the Department of Electrical Engineering (1984–88).
He was a professor in the Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of California, Davis from 1989-96. From 1996 he has been a professor emeritus.
He was named honorary professor at Beihang University in Beijing in 2006.
His students include Peter Caines.
Awards and affiliations
Giorgio Quazza Medal, 2014
IEEE Control Systems Award, 2009
Hon. DTech Lund University, 1995
Hon, Fellow Imperial College London, 2000
FIEEE - 1981
FRS - 1985
FREng - 1987
Fellow, International Federation of Automatic Control, 2006
Selected publications
Differential Dynamic Programming (1970)
References
External links
Biodata at Debrett's
Control Global website
David Q. Mayne publications (with Saša V. Raković, and others) David Q. Mayne aided the creation of software that he contributed to algorithmically