We send our congratulations to Professor Uri Shaked on his declaration as the winner of the 2017 Israel Prize in Engineering.

The President of the Israeli Association for Automatic Control (IAAC, a Full Member of IAIN) has sent the following for which we are most grateful:

Professor Uri Shaked from the Department of Electrical Engineering-Systems, The Iby and Aladar Fleischman Faculty of Engineering, Tel Aviv University, is the recipient of the 2017 Israel Prize in Engineering.

Professor Shaked is a world-renowned leading scientist in control theory. His groundbreaking contributions to modern optimal control in the presence of uncertainties are pivotal in many engineering disciplines, ranging from automatic flight control to stability of distributed systems for energy management.