Awards
Was a Fellow at the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg Institute for Advanced Study, Delmenhorst, Germany, October 2016 - July 2017
Received the Control Engineering Practice Award from the American Automatic Control Council (May 2017)
Was a Resident Scholar at the Center for Information and Systems Engineering, Boston University, September 2016 - October 2016
Plenary on "Combined Feedforward/Feedback Control of Flexible Structures: Recurring Themes across Diverse Applications" at the 2016 American Control Conference (Friday, July 8, 2016)
Elevated to IEEE Fellow (January 2012).
Visiting Miller Professor Fellowship at the University of California at Berkeley, August 2008 - December 2008
CDC Plenary on "Control of Flexible Structures: From Large Space Structures to Disk Drive Read/Write Arms (Thursday, December 14, 2006).
University of Colorado Faculty Fellowship, 2001-2002
2001 American Control Conference Best Student Paper Award for paper
- M. A. Lau and L. Y. Pao. "Comparison of Input Shaping and Time-Optimal Control of Flexible Structures," Proc. American Control Conf., Arlington, VA, pp. 1485-1490, June 2001.
- Colorado Advanced Software Institute Exemplary Project Award, October 2000
- University of Colorado Junior Faculty Development Award, July 1997
- 1996 IFAC World Congress Young Author Prize for paper
- L. Y. Pao. "Input Shaping Design for Flexible Systems with Multiple Actuators," Proc. IFAC World Congress, Vol. P (Aerospace and Transportation Systems), San Francisco, CA, pp. 267-272, July 1996.
- NSF Early Faculty CAREER Award, 1996-2001