UWEE Faculty
Howard Jay Chizeck
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Howard Jay Chizeck
253B EE Building chizeck at u.washington.edu |
Case Western Reserve University, Systems and Control Engr., 1976 MS
Case Western Reserve University, Systems Engr., 1974 BS
Biosketch
Howard Jay Chizeck received his B.S. (1974) and M.S. (1976) degrees from Case Western Reserve University and the Sc.D. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1982. He has been a faculty member and Department Chair at two major research universities - in a small department at a private university and in a large department at a public university. From 1981 until 1998 he was at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, serving as Chair of the Department of Systems, Control and Industrial Engineering from 1995 - 1998. Professor Chizeck was recruited to the University of Washington, as the Chair of the Electrical Engineering Department from August 1998- September 2003. Currently he is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and also an Adjunct Professor of Bioengineering at the UW.
Professor Chizeck has a
strong interest in innovative, multidisciplinary
education. At CWRU he developed a course for freshman,
exploring topics of systems behavior and stability
through computer simulation. Topics included
engineering, biological and economic systems. At the UW
he helped to develop a "hands-on" freshman introductory
course (Secret Life of the Electron) and
organized a very successful seminar course on
Intellectual Property for Engineers and Scientists
in partnership with a Seattle law firm (described in
"Student Engineers Take to the Law"
in The Chronicle of Higher Education,
June 18, 1999). During his term as Department Chair at
UW, the EE Department developed and implemented
innovative K-12 outreach activities that involved the
participation of faculty and students. A volunteer-based
outreach to elementary schools and high schools was
directed toward elementary school students. The
department also actively participated in the FIRST
robotics program, with EE undergraduates serving as
technical advisors to high school teams. During the
"Early Fall Start" period in 2007, he taught the course Indistinguishable from Magic:
New Technologies, Science Fiction, and Us [Discovery
Seminar ].This course is scheduled again for 2008.
Professor Chizeck's research interests include control engineering theory and the application of control engineering to biomedical problems. His work has primarily been in three areas: (1) stochastic control theory (2) mathematical modeling, system identification and adaptive control theory and applications to regulation of physiological variables, (3) the development of assistive devices for individuals having physical disabilities. Professor Chizeck was elected a Fellow of the IEEE in 1999 "for contributions to the use of control system theory in biomedical engineering."
Systems Theory for Biology and Bioengineering. Professor Chizeck is currently working on the application of systems theory to problems biology and bioengineering. One topic of this research includes the application of algebraic systems theory to the modeling and analysis of DNA, genomic and proteomic processes. This work is aimed at discovering and exploiting underlying mathematical structures that are involved in these biological systems. A somewhat related topic is the development of methods for the modeling, simulation and control of multiscale systems (having different scales of spatial or temporal resolution). Professor Chizeck has been working with researchers in the UW Biorobotics laboratory, exploring the design and analysis of remotely-operated robotic systems -- with attention to the effects of random, time-varying communication delays. A particular application of interest is geographically-distributed control of robotic surgery
Stochastic Control Theory. His research in stochastic control theory has focused on the optimal control of continuous or discrete time systems that would be linear, except for randomly jumping parameters. This theoretical work has found applications that include the design of fault tolerant controllers that can perform well despite component or communication failures, and the control of nonlinear systems that jump between different operating points, and the design and simulation of mixed-signals systems.
System Identification and Adaptive Control theory for Biomedical Systems. The mathematical modeling, parameter identification and control of physiological processes is challenging because of the time-varying, nonlinear and multi-scale nature of these systems. Professor Chizeck's work has addressed algorithmic issues, and applications involving the modeling and parameter estimation of electrically-stimulated muscle and joint dynamics, the system identification of the dynamics of lactate and oxygen uptake during incremental exercise, and real-time gait event detection in spinal cord injury patients during paraplegic walking. Other research concerns adaptive controllers that operate in real time, to regulate patient physiological variables through the simultaneous computer-controlled delivery of one or more therapeutic drugs or other inputs. These algorithms are components of 'closed loop drug delivery' devices for use in the operating room, intensive care unit of or devices used by ambulatory patients in the home and workplace.
Applications of Systems and Control Engineering to Rehabilitation. At CWRU, Professor Chizeck was an active member of a several large projects developing medical devices to assist individuals with physical handicaps, using Functional Electrical Stimulation (FES). The goal of this work is to enable individuals with impaired motor control of the lower extremities (due to spinal cord injury, stroke, or head injury) to stand, achieve locomotion and negotiate stairs. At the UW, Professor Chizeck has been a participant in an effort to develop a voice recognition-based systems (the "Vocal Joystick") to provide individuals with impaired hand control to attain computer access and control of automated home systems.
Honors and Awards
* Fellow of the IEEE (1999): "for contributions to the use of control system
theory in biomedical engineering."
* Enterprise Development Inc. [Cleveland, Ohio] Innovation Award (1998), "for
the ORICA adaptive predictive controller."
* The Motion Study Laboratory of the Cleveland VA Medical Center received the
Computerworld Smithsonian Award in Medicine, in recognition of research
conducted in the use of Functional Electrical Stimulation research to provide
locomotion for individuals paralyzed by spinal cord injury). (1994)
* Nominee for Wittke Award (Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching), Case Western
Reserve University, 1984
* National Science Foundation Engineering Research Initiation Grant, 1983-1985
* National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship, 1975-1978
Selected Recent Publications
S. D.. Hawley, L. E. Atlas and H. J. Chizeck, "Some Properties of an Empirical Mode Type Signal Decomposition Algorithm," to appear ICASSP 2008, Las Vegas, Mar 3-April 4, 2008.
J. B. Bassingthwaighte and H. J. Chizeck, "The Physiome Projects and Multiscale Modeling," IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, March 2008.
Xiaolong Yu, H. J. Chizeck and B. Hannaford, "Comparison of transient performance in the control of soft tissue grasping," International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, California, San Diego, CA: Oct. 29-Nov. 2, 2007.
H.J. Chizeck, C. Chen, Y. Ji, "Discussion on: Mean Square Exponential Stability for Some Stochastic Linear Discrete Time Systems," European Journal of Control, 12:396-397 (2006).
S. D. Hawley, A. Chiu, and H.J. Chizeck, "Model Identification for DNA Sequence-Structure Relationships," Mathematical Biosciences, 204:119-131, 2006.
Jeff A. Bilmes, Jonathan Malkin, Xiao Li, Susumu Harada, Kelley Kilanski, Katrin Kirchhoff, Richard Wright, Amarnag Subramanya, James A. Landay, Patricia Dowden and Howard Chizeck, "The Vocal Joystick," ICASSP 2006, Toulouse, France, May 2006.
T. L. Chia, D. Simon and H.J. Chizeck, "Kalman Filtering with Statistical State Constraints," Control and Intelligent Systems, Vol. 34, No. 1, pp.73-79, 2006.
J. B. Bassingthwaighte, H. J. Chizeck and L.E. Atlas, "Strategies and Tactics in Multiscale Modeling of Cell-To-Organ Systems," Proc. IEEE., Vol. 94, No. 4, pp. 819-831, 2006.
J.B. Bassingthwaighte, H.J. Chizeck, L. E. Atlas and H. Qian, "Multiscale Modeling of Cardiac Cellular Energetics," in The Communicative Cardiac Cell., Ann. New York Acad. Sci., edited by Sideman S, Beyar R, and Landesberg A., 2005.
Administrative Roles
Professor Chizeck was Chair of the Department of Systems, Control and Industrial Engineering at Case Western Reserve University from 1995 - 1998. He was the Chair of the Electrical Engineering Department at the University of Washington from August 1998 - September 2003. During this time the department experienced a period of dramatic and positive change. Both the undergraduate and graduate programs grew in quality, size and national rankings. Research activity and funding rapidly increased, from ($5.0M new grants/$6M expenditures) in 1998-1999 to approximately ($20M new grants/$15M expenditures) in both 2001-2002 and 2002-2003. External recognition of the departmental improvement, at least in terms of the US News and World Report rankings, improved (undergraduate and graduate) from the high 20's to the mid-teens.
This rapid growth in research activity was accomplished by several actions. The most important step in increasing departmental research was the strategic hiring of both senior and junior faculty, primarily in interdisciplinary areas of increasing importance while maintaining the best of the department's historical strengths and fitting the goals of the larger institution and region. Fourteen faculty members joined the department during Professor Chizeck's term, including nine Assistant Professors. All but one of those eligible among these new professors have received the NSF CAREER Award. During this time the number of female tenure track faculty in the department increased from five to nine (out of 44).