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Instructor

Dr. Lucy Pao

Professor at the University of Colorado Boulder

Total Students

4,144

Reviews

11

Total Students

4,144

Reviews

11

About

Dr. Lucy Y. Pao is the Richard and Joy Dorf Professor in the Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engineering Department at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her research primarily focuses on control systems, with applications in flexible structures, atomic force microscopes, disk drives, tape systems, and wind turbines and farms. She earned her B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. Dr. Pao has held several notable positions in professional societies, including General Chair for the 2013 American Control Conference and IEEE Control Systems Society Distinguished Lecturer. She was elevated to IEEE Fellow in 2012 and received the IEEE Control Systems Magazine Outstanding Paper Award in the same year. Additionally, she was elected Fellow of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) in 2013. Dr. Pao teaches "Control Systems Analysis: Modeling of Dynamic Systems" and has delivered plenary talks on wind energy control at prominent conferences.