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Faculty Profile - David G Taylor

Professor
Systems and Controls

Phone: 404.894.8910
Fax: 404.894.4641
Office: VL 474

Biography

Professor Taylor was born in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. He received his bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, in 1983. He did his graduate work at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where he earned his master's and doctoral degrees in electrical engineering in 1985 and 1988, respectively. He has been with Georgia Tech since 1988, where his teaching and research activities have encompassed both the theory and application of control systems, with a particular emphasis on control of electromechanical systems such as robotic motion systems, electric machine systems and power electronic systems.

Selected Publications, Patents

Research Interests
  • Nonlinear control systems
  • Electromechanical systems and devices
  • Optimization of manufacturing machines
  • Automotive control systems
  • Hybrid electric vehicles
Distinctions
  • NSF Research Initiation Award, 1989
  • NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award, 1991
  • Sigma Xi Research Awards (as thesis advisor)
    • Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis, 1994
    • Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis, 2001
    • Outstanding M.S. Thesis, 2002
    • Outstanding B.S. Thesis, 2011
  • Publications Chair, 1998 American Control Conference
  • Senior Member, IEEE

Last revised on April 29, 2011.