Edmond A. Jonckheere

Edmond A. Jonckheere was born in Belgium, in 1950. He received the Electrical Engineer degree from the Universite de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, in 1973; the Doctor in Engineering degree in Aerospace Engineering from the Universite Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France, in 1975; and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, in 1978.

From 1973 to 1975, he was with the Laboratoire d'Analyse et d'Architecture des Systemes, Toulouse, France, as a Research Fellow of the European Space Agency. From 1975 to 1978, he was a Fulbright/Hays Fellow and aTeaching and Research Assistant in the Department of Electrical Engineering--Systems and subsequently a Research Associate in the same department. From 1978 to 1979 he was with the Royal Military Academy, Brussels, Belgium. From 1979 to 1980, he was with the Philips Research Laboratory, Brussels, Belgium. In 1980, he returned to the University of Southern California, where he is currently a Full Professor of Electrical Engineering and Mathematics, an Associate Member of the Center for Applied Mathematical Sciences (CAMS), and a member of the newly established Center for Computer Systems Security (CCSS) of the Information Sciences Institute (ISI) of the University of Southern California.

Dr. Jonckheere has had short term Visiting Professor appointments with the Research School of Information and Systems Engineering of the Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia and the Department of Mathematics of the Facultes Universitaires Notre Dame de la Paix, Namur, Belgium. He held other short term appointments with the European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany, the Max-Planck-Institut fur Biophysikalische Chemie, Gottingen, Germany, and the Institute for Mathematics and Its Applications (IMA), Minneapolis, NM. He has had consulting affiliations with the Department of Radiology of Memorial Medical Center, Long Beach, California, the Honeywell Systems and Research Center, Minneapolis, MN, Lockheed Martin, the Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, the Association for Network Care, and the American GNC Corporation.

In the course of his consulting work for Memorial Medical Center, Long Beach, CA, he was a member of the team that developed the first robot for brain surgery, a work that is cited in the Medicine and Virtual Reality knowledge base.

Dr. Jonckheere is the (sole) author of the book, Algebraic and Differential Topology of Robust Stability, Oxford University Press, New York,  1997. His past research interests included topological methods in robust control, "complicated" non linear dynamics, and propulsion control of aerospace vehicles. Still active among these past research activities are flight formation control and control of a spacecraft to a rendez-vous with a Trojan asteroid in libration around the Jupiter Lagrange L4 point. His currently active and long term biomedical project is spinal surface electromyographic (sEMG) signal processing. Dr. Jonckheere's most recent research interests are in Cyber security, network traffic modeling for Active Queue Management (AQM) and Random Early Drop (RED), hyperbolic geometry of networks, and worm propagation. He is currently an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control.

Dr. Jonckheere was elected Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 1991, for Contributions to the spectral theory of linear-quadratic and H-infinity control. In 1999, he was listed in the Marquis Who's Who in Science and Engineering.

Extra Curricular Activities

Edmond Jonckheere's main extra academic activity is flying sailplanes and airplanes. He has the A, B, and C glider pilot certificates from the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), the glider pilot license from the Belgian Aviation Administration, and the private pilot license from the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Single Engine Land (SEL), with complex, high performance, and retractable gear aircraft qualifications, and the Instrument rating.


Other extra academic activities include jogging, hiking, and skiing.