Claire J. Tomlin
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Claire Tomlin (b. Southampton, England 1969) is an American researcher in hybrid systems, distributed and decentralized optimization and control theory.
Tomlin received her B.A.Sc. from the University of Waterloo in 1992. She then attended Imperial College London, where she earned her M.Sc. in 1993 and moved on to perform her PhD studies at the University of California, Berkeley, which she completed in 1998. She currently holds a joint appointment as an associate professor in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics and the Department of Electrical Engineering, at Stanford University where she is part of the Hybrid Systems Laboratory and as an associate professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Berkeley.
Prof. Tomlin's research focuses on applications, unmanned aerial vehicles, air traffic control and modeling of biological processes. She was named a MacArthur Fellow in September 2006.