Prof. Anders Lindquist
Foreign Academician CAS, Zhiyuan Chair Professor, Thousand-Talents Scholar
Department of Automation and School of Mathematics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

Anders Lindquist is a foreign Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and a Zhiyuan Chair Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He is also an Emeritus Professor at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden. He started his career in the United States, where he had a full academic career from Assistant to Full Professor. After this he was appointed to the Chair of Optimization and Systems Theory at KTH, where he also served as the Director of the Center for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. For ten years he was also the Head of the Mathematics Department there. Lindquist is a Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, a foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, an Honorary Member the Hungarian Operations Research Society, a Life Fellow of IEEE, a Fellow of SIAM, and a Fellow of IFAC. He is an honorary doctor at the Technion, Israel, and the recipient of the 2009 Reid Prize in Mathematics from SIAM and of the 2003 Axelby Outstanding Paper Award from the IEEE Control System Society.