Southampton academic promoted to IEEE Senior Member
Dr Dina Shona Laila has been promoted by the IEEE to the grade of Senior Member -the highest grade for which IEEE members can apply; only 8% of their members worldwide reach this level.
Dina has been an active researcher in the area of control engineering, particularly in nonlinear sampled-data control and its applications. She has been a member of the IEEE for 17 years, starting as a student member during her undergraduate study. She has also been an active member of the IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS) and is among few active members of the IEEE Women in Control Engineering.
In 2003, she was the first Vice President (Acting President) of the University of Melbourne IEEE Student Branch, and currently she is serving as a member of the IEEE CSS Conference Editorial Board.
According to Dina, what she has achieved, particularly in research, is not only due to hard work, but importantly it is also due to strong support from her supervisors, senior colleagues and collaborators. This is also one of the many benefits of being an active member of the IEEE CSS itself.
With her promotion to an IEEE Senior Member, Dina feels it is now her turn to support and encourage other colleagues and young researchers to get to that level. She comments: "As a new member of academics in the University of Southampton, I am looking forward to working together with all my colleagues to contribute more in engineering research, education and development within and beyond the university."
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Dina obtained her BEng and MEng in Electrical Engineering from the Institute of Technology Bandung, Indonesia. She did her MSc project while she was an exchange research student at Kyoto University. Dina has obtained her PhD in Control Engineering from the University of Melbourne. Since then, she has continuously contributed to control engineering research and education, through various professional activities, as a postdoctoral research associate at the Control and Power Group, Imperial College London, UK (2003-2006 and 2007-2009) and at the Institute for Design and Control of Mechatronic Systems, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria (2006-1007). She was a senior lecturer at Kingston University, before she joined as a lecturer at the Electro-Mechanical Engineering Group, Engineering and the Environment, University of Southampton from September 2011.