February 28, 2023,Professor Peng Shi (The University of Adelaide) was named the winner of the 2023 IETI Ramesh Agarwal Lifetime Achievement Award in Science, Engineering or Technology. This award honors individuals with lifetime achievements in research, education, and service towards the advancement of any discipline of engineering and technology.

Peng Shi is now a professor at the University of Adelaide, Australia, Leader in Systems and Control, and Director of Laboratory of Advanced Unmanned Systems.  He has received many recognitions, prizes and awards, including the Highly-Cited Researcher in both fields of engineering and computer science (2014-2022, Thomson Reuters/Clarivate Analytics), the 2nd ranked Top Electronics and Electrical Engineering Scientists (2022, Research.com), the honour of Lifetime Achiever Leader-Board and Field Leader (2019-2022, THE AUSTRALIAN), the Outstanding Achievement Award of Excellence in Research (2020, University of Adelaide), and a number of Best/Most Cited Paper awards from international journals and conferences, including the Andrew Sage Best Transactions Paper award from IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society in 2016. He was a member of Board of Governors, and the Vice President of IEEE SMC Society. He now serves as the President of the International Academy of Systems and Cybernetic Science, and a Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE SMC Society. He is a member of the Academy of Europe, the European Academy of Science and Arts, and an honorary member of the Academy of Romanian Scientists. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the Institution of Engineering and Technology, the Institution of Engineers Australia, and the Chinese Association of Automation. He has served on the editorial board of many leading international journals as Editor-in-Chief, Senior Editor, Editor, Subject Editor-in-Chief, Special Issue Editor and Associate Editor, including IEEE Transactions on (Automatic Control, Fuzzy Systems, Circuits and Systems, Artificial Intelligence), IEEE Control Systems Letters, and Automatica. Currently he serves as the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, Senior Editor of IEEE Access, and Co-Editor of Australian Journal of Electrical and Electronics Engineering.

Prof Shi’s research interests include systems and control theory and applications to autonomous and robotic systems, intelligence systems, network systems and cyber-physical systems. He has published widely in those areas. His work has received over 80000 citations from Google Scholar with an H-index 156. He has delivered over 100 plenary/keynote/invited talks at international conferences, symposiums, workshops, and institutions.  In 2022, he was awarded the M. A. Sargent Medal, the highest award of the Electrical College Board of Engineers Australia for highly significant contribution, through technical innovation, to the science or practice of electrical engineering.