William Heath

Member of the Management Board

William Heath is Head of the School of Computer Science and Engineering at Bangor University and Chair of the United Kingdom Automatic Control Council. He was previously Head of the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University of Manchester. He received his BA and MA in Mathematics from the University of Cambridge and his MSc and PhD in Systems and Control from UMIST.

His research is focused on feedback control for systems with simple nonlinearities such as actuator saturation, rate constraints, backlash or hysteresis. Recent highlights include new frequency domain characterisations of the O’Shea-Zames-Falb multipliers for absolute stability. He has closed the loop for several industrial applications, including nanopositioners, high speed Diesel engines, plastic film extruders, edible oil refiners and water management systems.