Harvard and 3 students at Tsinghua. Professional activities Yu-Chi Ho is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering and a foreign member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is also an IEEE Life Fellow and an INFORMS Inaugural Fellow, and a Distinguished Member of the IEEE Control Systems Society. In addition to services on various governmental and industrial panels, and professional society administrative bodies, he was the program chairman for the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control 1972, the general chairman of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Conference 1987, and President of the IEEE Robotics & Automation Society in 1988. Ho co-founded Network Dynamics, Inc., a software firm specializing in industrial automation. He is on the editorial boards of several international journals and is the founding editor-in-chief of the international Journal on Discrete Event Dynamic Systems. Community service Yu-Chi Ho was the founder and the first chair of the annual United Asian American Dinner of Massachusetts. He also served as the Chairman of the Board of Greater Boston Chinese Cultural Association from 1995 to 1998, the President of the New England Chapter of the Organization of Chinese Americans from 1982 to 1985, a board member of the Mass Endowment for Humanities from 1985 to 1989, and a founding member and member of the steering committee of the 80-20 Initiative, a national political movement for Asian Americans. Honors and awards Guggenheim Fellowship (1970) IEEE Control Systems Science and Engineering Award (1989) Chiang Technology Achievement Award (1993) Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award from the American Automatic Control Council (1999) Rufus Oldenburger Medal from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1999) 2002 class of Fellows of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences Isaacs Award from the International Society of Dynamic Games (2004) Member, US National Academy of Engineering Foreign member, China Academy of Engineering Foreign member, China Academy of Sciences Personal life Ho became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1961. He and his wife Sophia have three children and six grand children. They currently reside in Lexington, Massachusetts. Since April 25, 2007, Ho blogs on ScienceNet.cn, a science blog network sponsored by the Chinese Academy of Engineering and the Academy of Sciences. Work Control theory and optimization Yu-Chi Ho's research in control theory began when he was a graduate student at MIT. His 1955 paper time-domain compensation