Robert R. Bitmead (S' 79-M'79-SM' 86-F'91) was born in Sydney in 1954. He received the B.Sc. degree in applied mathematics from the University of Sydney and the M.E. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Newcastle, Australia, in 1976, 1977, and 1979, respectively.He has been on the faculty of the Australian National University in Canberra since 1983, where he currently holds the position of Senior Fellow of Systems Engineering and is the Director of the Cooperative Research Centre for Robust and Adaptive Systems. He has held faculty positions at the University of Newcastle and James Cook University of North Queensland, and visiting positions at Cornell University, USA, and the University of Louvain, Belgium.
Dr. Bitmead has been a Subject Editor for the International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing, an Associate Editor of Automatica, and an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. He is currently the Chairman of the IFAC Technical Committee on Mathematics of Control. His research interests encompass adaptive systems in control, signal processing and telecommunications, stochastic processes and multivariable control.