Monique Chyba

Monique Chyba (born 1969)^[1] is a control theorist who works as a professor of mathematics at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Her work on control theory has involved the theory of singular trajectories, and applications in the control of autonomous underwater vehicles.^[2] More recently, she has also applied control theory to the prediction and modeling of the spread of COVID-19 in Hawaii.^[3]

Education and career

Chyba's parents Mirek and Jana Chyba were Czech, but settled in Geneva, Switzerland.^[4] Chyba earned a Ph.D. through the University of Burgundy in Dijon, France, in 1997,^[5] while working as a teaching assistant at the University of Geneva.^[6] Her dissertation, Le Cas Martinet en Geometrie Sous-Riemannienne [the Martinet case in sub-Riemannian geometry], was supervised by Bernard Bonnard.^[5]

After postdoctoral research at Pierre and Marie Curie University, Harvard University, INRIA Sophia Antipolis, Princeton University, and the University of California, Santa Cruz,^[6] she joined the University of Hawaiʻi faculty in 2002.^[6][7] and was promoted to full professor in 2012.^[6]

Book

Chyba is an author of the book Singular Trajectories and their Role in Control Theory (with Bernard Bonnard, Springer, 2003).^[8]

Recognition

In 2014, Chiba University in Japan gave Chyba their Science and Lectureship Award.^[9]

References

1. Birth year from Library of Congress catalog entry, retrieved 2020-09-20
2. "Monique Chyba", Chair of Computational Mathematics, University of Deusto, retrieved 2020-09-20
3. Can the spread of COVID-19 be predicted in Hawaiʻi?, Hawaiʻi Free Press, July 7, 2020
4. "Mirek Chyba" (PDF), Avis mortuares, Le Nouvelliste (in French), p. 29, June 9, 2010
5. Monique Chyba at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
6. Curriculum vitae (PDF), La Sapienza University, October 2015, retrieved 2020-09-20
7. "Monique Chyba", People, University of Hawaii Department of Mathematics, retrieved 2020-09-20
8. Reviews of Singular Trajectories and their Role in Control Theory:
   • Akutowicz, A., zbMATH, Zbl 1022.93003
   • Grasse, Kevin A. (2004), MathSciNet, MR 1996448
   • van der Schaaft, A. J. (December 2007), "Review" (PDF), Nieuw Archief voor Wiskunde, 5/8 (4): 300
   • Sussmann, Héctor J. (February 2005), IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 50 (2): 278–279, doi:10.1109/tac.2004.841883, S2CID 17760577
9. Mathematics professor Monique Chyba receives science and lectureship award, University of Hawaii Department of Mathematics, January 16, 2014, retrieved 2020-09-20

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