Dr. Bernard Friedland
Dr. Bernard Friedland
Dr. Bernard Friedland is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the New Jersey Institute of Technology which he joined in January 1990. He was a Lady Davis Visiting Professor at the Technion--Israel Institute of Technology and has held appointments as an Adjunct Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Polytechnic University, New York University, and Columbia University. He was born and educated in New York City and received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from Columbia University.
Dr. Friedland is author of two textbooks on automatic control and co-author a textbook on circuit theory and another on linear system theory. He is the author or co-author of over 100 technical papers on control theory and its applications. His theoretical contributions include: a technique of quasi-optimum control, treatment of bias in recursive filtering, design of reduced-order linear regulators, modeling of pulse-width modulated control systems, maximum likelihood failure detection, friction modeling and compensation, and parameter estimation.
For 27 years prior to joining NJIT, Dr. Friedland was Manager of Systems Research in the Kearfott Guidance and Navigation Corporation in Little Falls, NJ. While at Kearfott, he was awarded 12 patents in the field of navigation, instrumentation, and control systems.
Dr. Friedland is the recipient of the 1982 Oldenberger Medal of the ASME. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and the ASME and has received the the IEEE Third Millennium Medal and the IEEE Control Systems Society's Distinguished Member Award.