His research interests include intelligent and autonomous control techniques, nonlinear analysis of intelligent control systems, failure detection and identification systems, and scheduling and stability analysis of flexible manufacturing systems. He received a PhD in electrical engineering from the University of Notre Dame in 1989. He is an associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. He is a member of the IEEE Control Systems Society Board of Governors; the IEEE Computer Society; the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society; and the IEEE Society for Social Implications of Technology. Reach him at the Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Ohio State Univ., 2015 Neil Ave., Columbus, OH 43210-1272; passino@osu.edu; http://eewww.eng.ohio-state.edu/~passino.