Koopman Operator Theory: Fundamentals, Approximations and Applications 2

Igor Mezić works in the field of artificial intelligence (AI), dynamical systems, control theory and applications to security, energy efficient design, and operations in complex systems. He graduated in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Rijeka and earned his Ph.D. in Dynamical Systems at the California Institute of Technology. Dr. Mezić is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Department of Mathematics and the Director of the Centre for Energy Efficient Design at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is also the co-founder and CTO at AIMdyn, Inc. and Chief Scientist and CTO at Mixmode.ai. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, and a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. He won the NSF CAREER Award from National Science Foundation, the George S. Axelby Outstanding Paper Award on “Control of Mixing” from IEEE and the United Technologies Senior Vice President Award for Science and Technology Special Achievement Prize in 2007. He is the recipient of the 2021 Crawford Prize, awarded once in two years to a researcher in Dynamical Systems Theory.

Antonio Navarra is a Full Professor at the University of Bologna. He graduated in Physics at the University of Bologna in 1980. He then moved to Princeton University to get a PhD at the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory. He is also President of the Foundation “Centro Euromediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici” (CMCC), a multidisciplinary research center whose mission is to investigate and model the human climate system. He has an extensive experience in climate numerical experiments and on numerical methods as a tool of scientific investigation and discovery. He has also held appointments as Affiliate Scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR, Boulder) and in the advisory board of the Asia-Pacific Climate Center in South Korea. He is or has been on the board of the ECMWF Council, Joint Programming Initiative “Climate” and he is on the Board of the UN Adaptation Fund.

Ervin Kamenar is a researcher specializing in mechatronics, soft robotics, and the application of Koopman operator theory. He earned his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering and his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Rijeka’s Faculty of Engineering. Currently, he is an associate professor at the Faculty of Engineering, where he teaches courses in Mechatronics Systems Control, Mechatronics Systems Components, Fundamentals of Mechatronics, Applied Mechatronics, and Advanced Control Methods in Precision Engineering. In 2021, he was awarded a Fulbright grant and subsequently served as a visiting researcher at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is a member of SIAM and has published his work in top-tier scientific journals, including Science Robotics.