Professor Rajni Patel received the B.Eng. degree in Electronics with First Class Honors from the University of Liverpool, England, in 1969, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Cambridge, England, in 1973.

 From 1973 to 1998 he held postdoctoral and faculty positions at the University of Cambridge, England, Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden, NASA Ames Research Center, USA, University of Waterloo, Canada, Delft University of Technology, Holland, and the Control Systems Centre, UMIST, England, and Concordia University, Canada.  At present, he holds the position of Professor and Chair in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Western Ontario, Canada.

 Rajni Patel has a broad research background with expertise in such areas as design and control of electromechanical systems; practical applications of modern control theory; neural network applications; real-time control, numerical techniques for robotics and control; modeling, simulation and 3-D graphics animation of robotic systems; application of virtual-reality and haptics in human-computer interaction.  He has published over 190 technical papers, and has co-authored a control systems textbook and three research monographs on robotics.  In 1994, he edited (with A.J. Laub and P.M. Van Dooren) an IEEE Press Reprint Book on Numerical Linear Algebra Techniques for Systems and Control.

 Rajni Patel was elected a Fellow of the IEEE in 1992 for his contributions to the numerical analysis and design of control systems.  He has served as an Associate Editor of several leading journals in the areas of control systems and robotics, including the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control and Automatica. He is a Registered Professional Engineer in the Province of Ontario, Canada.

Rajni V. Patel

Professor and Chair