Dante C. Youla is Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering at Polytechnic Institute of New York University. He has worked in the areas of microwave systems

Microwave

Microwaves, a subset of radio waves, have wavelengths ranging from as long as one meter to as short as one millimeter, or equivalently, with frequencies between 300 MHz and 300 GHz. This broad definition includes both UHF and EHF , and various sources use different boundaries...

 and control theory

Control theory

Control theory is an interdisciplinary branch of engineering and mathematics that deals with the behavior of dynamical systems. The desired output of a system is called the reference...

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The IEEE Circuits and Systems Society

IEEE Circuits and Systems Society

The IEEE Circuits and Systems Society is a society of the IEEE. It is also known by the acronym IEEE CASS. In the hierarchy of IEEE, the Circuits and Systems Society is one of close to 40 technical societies organized under the IEEE's Technical Activities Board.From the , the field of interest of...

 awarded him the Vitold Belevitch Award in 2005.
In 1988 he received the IEEE Control Systems Science and Engineering Award, "for original contributions in the areas of circuits, systems and control theory, and the rigorous solution of engineering problems". And Youla received in 1965 the IEEE W.R.G. Baker Award, for his paper "A New Theory of Broad-Band Matching". The Youla–Kucera parametrization

Youla–Kucera parametrization

In control theory the Youla–Kucera parametrization is a formula that describes all possible stabilizing feedback controllers for a given plant P, as function of a single parameter Q....

in control theory is named after him.