R ShortenR. Shorten is a Professor of Control Engineering and Decision Science at University College Dublin. He is a co-founder of, and former Professor at, the Hamilton Institute at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth. He has also held a Visiting Prfessor position at TU Berlin, and a Senior Manager position at IBM Research Ireland, where he led the Control and Optimization activities in the area of Smart Cities. He has been active in computer networking, automotive research, collaborative mobility (including smart transportation and electric vehicles), and basic control theory and linear algebra. His main field of theoretical research is hybrid dynamical systems and stability theory for linear time-varying systems. Read More Read Less