Bozenna Pasik-Duncan

BOZENNA PASIK-DUNCAN received her Master's degree in Mathematics from University of Warsaw in 1970, and her Ph.D. and D.Sc. (Habilitation) degrees in Mathematics from the Warsaw School of Economics in 1978 and 1986 respectively. She is a Professor of Mathematics, a Courtesy Professor of both EECS and AE, and an ITTC Investigator at the University of Kansas. Her research interests are primarily in stochastic systems and stochastic adaptive control, system identification and estimation, and control education as a field that spans science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education.

Dr. Pasik-Duncan is actively involved with IEEE CSS and currently serves as Deputy Chair of the IEEE CSS Technical Committee on Control Education. Furthemore, Dr. Pasik-Duncan currently serves on the Board of Goveners for the IEEE SSIT and is a voting member of the IEEE Women In Engineering Committee. Dr. Pasik-Duncan was the 2017-2018 Chair of IEEE Women in Engineering (WIE) She has been the CSS Vice-President of Member Activities, the IEEE CSS Liaison to IEEE WIE, an Associate Editor and Associate Editor at Large of the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Chair of the Standing Committees on Assistance of Engineers at Risk and International Affairs, and Founder and First Chair of the WiC Group. Dr. Pasik-Duncan is also associated with the IFAC as a past Chair of the IFAC Technical Committee on Control Education and currently serves on the IFAC Harold Chestnut Control Engineering Textbook Prize Selection Committee and on the IFAC Technical Board as the Education Liaison to all IFAC Technical Committees. She is the past Program Director of the SIAM Activity Group on Control and Systems Theory and was formerly involved with SIAM in several other capacities.

Dr. Pasik-Duncan is an IFAC Fellow, an IEEE Fellow, Distinguished Member of the CSS, and a recipient of the IEEE Third Millennium Medal. She has received many awards, including the Kemper Award, H.O.P.E Award, L. Hay Award, Steeples Service to Kansas Award, KU Chancellors Club Teaching Professorship and is a member of the KU Women's Hall of Fame. She served on the Friends of the Lied Center Board and currently serves on the SMA Academic Program Advisory Board. She is Founder and Faculty Advisor to the AWM Student Chapter at KU, Founder and Coordinator of the MAM / Outreach Program, and faculty advisor for the NSF GK-12 Program at KU.

Bozenna Pasik-Duncan
Professor, Department of Mathematics
503 Snow Hall, University of Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas 66045
Telephone: (785) 864-5162
Email: bozenna@ku.edu

Recent Events

SIAM Conference on Control and Its Applications (CT19), June 19-21, 2019, Chengdu, China

ECC2019 - European Control Conference, June 25-28, Naples, Italy

IFAC-ACE 2019 - International Federation of Automatic Control Advances in Control Education, July 7-9, 2019, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

ACC2019 - American Control Conference, July 10-12, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM) July 15-19, Valencia - Spain

ILC 2019 - IEEE Women in Engineering International Leadership Conference, May 23-24, 2019, Austin Texas, USA

Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) Research Symposium, April 6-7, 2019, Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA

The IFIP TC 7 Conference on System, Modeling and Optimization, July 23-27, Essen, Germany

American Control Conference - ACC 2018 June 27 - June 29, 2018, Milwaukee, WI, USA

STEM Workshop for K-12 students and their parents and teachers, June 27, 2018, at ACC Milwaukee, WI>

The 20th European Conference on Mathematics for Industry - ECMI 2018, June 18-22, 2018, Budapest, Hungary

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Spring 2020 Courses

Math 526 - Applied Mathematical Statistics I

News

Bozenna Pasik-Duncan receives IFAC Outstanding Service Award

LAWRENCE — Bozenna Pasik-Duncan, professor of mathematics and courtesy professor of aerospace engineering, electrical engineering and computer science, will receive the Outstanding Service Award from the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC), acknowledging her many years of service to IFAC in senior positions. more (see pg. 1)

Professor will chair organization supporting women in science, engineering

LAWRENCE — The Member and Geographic Activities Assembly of the Institute of Engineering and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the world’s largest technical professional organization with over 429,000 members in 160 countries, recently selected Bozenna Pasik-Duncan, professor of mathematics, courtesy professor of the departments of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science and Aerospace Engineering, and an investigator at the Information & Telecommunication Technology Center at the University of Kansas, as the 2017 Global Chair of the IEEE Women in Engineering (WIE) Committee. more (see pg. 1)

A champion of STEM education

LAWRENCE — Bozenna Pasik-Duncan, professor of mathematics, courtesy professor of the departments of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science and Aerospace Engineering, and an investigator at the Information & Telecommunication Technology Center at the University of Kansas, has been awarded the 2016 IEEE Educational Activities Board (EAB) Meritorious Achievement Award in Continuing Education for innovative developments in teaching control systems and inspiring STEM education. more (see pg. 1)

Bozenna Pasik-Duncan is general chair at IFAC Symposium

LAWRENCE — Bozenna Pasik-Duncan, professor of mathematics and courtesy professor of aerospace engineering and electrical engineering and computer science, served as the general chair of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) Symposium on Advances in Control Education (ACE 2016) earlier this month in Bratislava, Slovakia. more (see pg. 1)

Bozenna Pasik-Duncan awarded a Chancellor's Club Teaching Professorship

LAWRENCE — University of Kansas professor of mathematics Bozenna Pasik-Duncan, Ph.D., has been selected to receive a Chancellors Club Teaching Professorship. The award will provide a salary stipend of $10,000 for each of the next five years. more (see pg. 1)

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