Ruth Bars

Dr. Ruth Bars

eMail: bars[at]aut.bme.hu

Organization: Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary

Address: Dept. of Automation and Applied Informatics, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, H-1117, Budapest, Magyar Tudósok Körútja 2, QB 215, Hungary

Ruth Bars graduated at the Electrical Engineering Faculty of the Budapest University of Technology, Hungary. She gained the Candidate of Sciences degree of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and PhD degree based on research on predictive control algorithms. Currently she is honorary professor at the Department of Automation and Applied Informatics at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics. Her research interests are in predictive control and in developing new ways of control education. She has more than 100 publications. She is the coauthor of book Predictive Control in Process Engineering, from the basics to the applications by R. Haber, R. Bars, U. Schmitz, WILEY-VCH, 2011. She has published with co-authors several university lecture notes and textbooks including MATLAB exercises for control education. Between 1996 and 2002 she was the head of the IFAC TC on Optimal Control. From 2002 to 2008 she served IFAC as the head of the Coordinating Committee on Design Methods.