Richard Chiang

PhD, Boeing Technical Fellow, Spacecraft Attitude Control System Engineering Department, Boeing Satellite Development Center, El Segundo, California. Richard is a nationally and internationally recognized expert in robust control design and system identification. His 47 publications and MATLAB software have made this modern control technology accessible across tens of thousands of universities and companies. His methodology has become a universal standard.

At Boeing, Richard has successfully designed attitude control laws for 13 programs and analyzed control systems stability and robustness for 16 programs. In August 2002, Richard developed an innovative in-flight system identification and robustness analysis technique to support at company-level on two NSP programs. His pioneering work turned out to be the key to hold the entire ACS design concept together.

Richard holds five U.S. patents and has five pending at the U.S. Patent Office. Prior to Boeing, he successfully designed and implemented over 15 aerospace control systems, e.g., NASA Cassini, NASA/TRW Large Space Structures, F-18, F-15, F-16 Flight Control, and high-precision laser pointing servos, etc. He taught control courses at USC on five separate occasions and also gave control seminars at DEC, Northrop, General Dynamics, and JPL during the 1990s. He has been with UCLA Extension since 2004, teaching three different courses (Robust Control: Toolbox, Theory, and Applications; Spacecraft Dyanmcis and Control; and MATLAB).

Personal Information: Wife--Iris, Children--Brian and Evette. Richard loves to play basketball and ballroom dancing. He and Iris are the National Amateur Senior Latin Dance Champions of 2009 and 2010.