Professor John O'Reilly

Telephone: 0141-330 5228

E-Mail: J.Oreilly@elec.gla.ac.uk

Room Number: 616

Personal Information

John O'Reilly was born in Portadown, Northern Ireland in 1951. He was educated (1962-1969) at St. Patrick's College, Armagh, better known for it's poets and priests. Dr. O'Reilly is a Fellow IEE, Fellow IMA and Senior Member IEEE, and obtained BSc (First Class Honours), PhD and DSc degrees in Engineering in 1972, 1976 and 1985, all from the Queen's University of Belfast. Having previously held faculty positions at Queen's University Belfast, University of Liverpool and University of Strathclyde, U.K., he is currently Professor of Control Engineering in the Centre for Systems and Control and Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, U.K. He was heavily involved in founding the Centre for Systems and Control, a unique U.K. cross-departmental research grouping at Glasgow University. Professor O'Reilly is also a founding Director of the SHEFC funded Glasgow-Strathclyde Inter-University Centre for Economic Renewable Power Delivery.

In the 1970's, John O'Reilly significantly contributed to the control of linear systems with incomplete state information culminating in the classic 1983 Academic Press monograph Observers for Linear Systems. In the 1980's, O'Reilly with Professor M. M. Fahmy pioneered the parametric approach to eigenstructure assignment; in the 1980's, he also made significant contributions to multi-time scale control problems leading to the 1986 Academic Press book Singular Perturbation Methods in Control: Analysis and Design, co-authored with Professors P. V. Kokotovic and H. K. Khalil, and republished in 1999 as a SIAM Classic in Applied Mathematics. In the 1990's, O'Reilly invented with Professor W. E. Leithead the revolutionary and powerful frequency-response framework for multi-input multi-output complex systems known as individual channel analysis and design (ICAD).

Currently, his main research interests centre on integrated and nonlinear control of complex systems with particular application to aerospace and distributed renewable generation systems. Research opportunity enquiries particularly welcome. Professor O'Reilly was Editor (1988-1996) and is now Consultant Editor of the International Journal of Control. He was also Editor (1992-2002) of the International Book Series on Systems and Control (Taylor & Francis). He has held a number of visiting positions including University of Illinois, Urbana, and Stanford University USA. Dr. O'Reilly spent the year 1999-2000 as Visiting Erskine Fellow at the Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand with the additional support of a UK Royal Academy of Engineering Foresight Award.

Hobbies include bad piano playing, newspaper bridge columns (hasn't played for 20 years), mountaineering, seen below with New Zealand colleague Dr. Alan Wood atop Mount Rolleston, Southern Alps, NZ; and great archival music with a blues/jazz touch, for example, see www.geocities.com/davygraham/