Rate My Professor Christopher Kellett

Christopher Kellett is an Honorary Professor in the School of Engineering at the University of Newcastle, with a focus on Electrical and Computer Engineering. He holds a PhD (2002) and MS (2000) in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and a BS (1997) in Electrical Engineering and Mathematics from the University of California, Riverside. After postdoctoral positions at École des Mines de Paris, the University of Melbourne, and the Hamilton Institute in Ireland, Kellett joined the University of Newcastle's School of Electrical Engineering and Computing in 2006. There, he taught subjects in electrical, computer, and telecommunications engineering, as well as Carbon Accounting and Energy Auditing (ENGG3860) and the online course CCL201x - International Climate Change Law and Policy. In 2020, he relocated to the Australian National University as Director of the Research School of Electrical, Energy, and Materials Engineering, while retaining a conjoint appointment at the University of Newcastle in the School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences. Currently, he also holds part-time roles as Principal Researcher at ResTech Pty Ltd and Research Specialist at RACE for 2030 CRC, starting in 2025.

Kellett's research interests encompass mathematical systems theory, autonomous systems, control engineering, and the stability and performance analysis of nonlinear systems, with applications to power networks, telecommunications, signal processing, social systems, and climate change economics. He has authored or co-authored books including "Introduction to Nonlinear Control: Stability, Control Design, and Estimation" (2023, with P. Braun) and "(In-)Stability of Differential Inclusions: Notions, Equivalences, and Lyapunov-like Characterizations" (2021, with P. Braun and L. Grüne). His publications also feature chapters on model predictive control for smart grids and numerous conference papers on control Lyapunov functions, input-to-state stability, and climate modeling. Kellett has earned prestigious awards such as the University of Newcastle Vice-Chancellor's Award for Teaching Excellence (2011), Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship (2012-2013), IET Control Theory and its Applications Premium Award (2012), inaugural IFAC Foundation Award (2017) for sustainable development applications, and IFAC Automatica Best Paper Prize (2023). He serves as Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, IEEE Control Systems Letters, and Mathematics of Control, Signals, and Systems.