Dr. Mark Balas has been appointed to the Leland T. Jordan Professorship.
Balas, a professor in the J. Mike Walker '66 Department of Mechanical Engineering, joined Texas A&M University in January 2020.
“I am truly grateful to the L.T. Jordan family for this wonderful professorship," he said.
Balas’ research interests are in the theory and application of adaptive control systems with particular emphasis on large-scale and infinite-dimensional systems and quantum information systems.
His research has been cited more than 9,000 times and he is a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.