About the Conference
The 2026 American Control Conference (ACC) will be held Tuesday through Friday, May 26-29, 2026 in New Orleans, Louisiana at the Hilton New Orleans Riverside. ACC is the annual conference of the American Automatic Control Council (AACC), the U.S. national member organization of the International Federation for Automatic Control (IFAC). National and international society co-sponsors of ACC include the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), IEEE Control Systems Society (IEEE-CSS), Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), International Society of Automation (ISA), Society for Modeling & Simulation International (SCS), and Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics (SIAM).
Keynote Speakers
Mehran Mesbahi
Geometric and Analytic Facets of Feedback Design: Control Theory Meets Policy Optimization and Modern Applications · University of Washington
Eugene Lavretsky
Control of Flight · Boeing
Necmiye Ozay
Some Fundamental Limitations of Learning for Dynamics and Control · University of Michigan
Panagiotis Tsiotras
From Covariance Control to Covariance Steering: The First 40 Years · Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering
Yang Zheng
Convex and Nonconvex Optimization for Control · UC San Diego
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Committee
General Chair
Randal W. Beard
Brigham Young University
Program Chair
Eric Frew
University of Colorado Boulder
Finance Chair
Yan Wan
The University of Texas at Arlington
Local Arrangements Chair (LAC)
Ahmet Özkan Özer
Western Kentucky University
Registration Chair
Rafael Fierro
University of New Mexico
Vice Chair for Industry & Applications
Alberto Speranzon
Lockheed Martin
Vice Chair for Invited Sessions
David Casbeer
Air Force Research Laboratory
Publications Chair
Andrea L’Afflitto
Virginia Tech
Vice Chair for Special Sessions
May-Win Thein
University of New Hampshire
Vice Chair for Tutorial Sessions
Jason Marden
University of California Santa Barbara
Vice Chair for Student Affairs
Matthew T. Hale
Georgia Tech
Vice Chair for Outreach & Broadening Participation
Behrouz Touri
University of California San Diego
Publicity/Social Media Chair
Philip E. Paré
Purdue
Exhibits/Sponsors Chair
John Hedengren
Brigham Young University
Workshops Chair
Dimitra Panagou
University of Michigan
Registration Desk & LAC Assistant
Angie Ellis
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
AIAA Society Review Chair
Animesh Chakravarthy
University of Texas at Arlington
AICHE Society Review Chair
Wentau Tang
North Carolina State University
ASCE Society Review Chair
Jeff Scruggs
University of Michigan
ASME Society Review Chair
Jin-Oh Hahn
University of Maryland
INFORMS-APS Society Review Chair
Mark S. Squillante
IBM Research
ISA Society Review Chair
Lili Dong
Cleveland State University
SCS Society Review Chair
Xin Wang
Southern Illinois University
SIAM Society Review Chair
Lorena Bociu
North Carolina State University
IEEE Society Review Chair
Amir Aghdam
Concordia University
Christophe Prieur
CNRS
Program Committee
John Bird
Philip N. Brown
University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
D. Gebre-Egziabher
Mitch Hebert
Alex Von Moll
Isaac Weintraub
Sze Zheng Yong
Hamidreza Modares
Elisa Capello
Vaibhav Srivastava
Anastasia Bizyaeva
Jack Langelaan
Cammy Peterson
Marco Nicotra
Emily Jensen
John Valasek
Jorge I. Poveda
University of California, San Diego
Sayak Mukherjee
Dipankar Maity
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Jaskaran Grover
Michael Malisoff
Krishna B Kidambi
David Casbeer
Jason R. Marden
University of California, Santa Barbara
Abhinav Sinha
Ahmad Taha
Marcos Vasconcelos
Bryce Ferguson
Dartmouth Engineering
