Editorial Boards:
- Editor-in-Chief of Control Engineering Practice (July 2005 to June 2010)
- Editor: Control for the Journal of the South African Institute of Electrical Engineers (2001-2005)
International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC)
- President (2011-2014)
- President-Elect (2008-2011)
- Chair of the Election Committee (2008-2011)
- Chair of the Administration and Finance Committee (2008-2011)
- Council Member (2002-current)
- Member of the Technical Board (1999-2002)
- Member of the IFAC Technical Committee on Mining, Metals, and Minerals processing
South African Council for Automation and Control (SACAC), the IFAC NMO in RSA (SACAC)
- President (1997-1999)
- Past President and Executive committee member (1999-current)
MIT Club of South Africa (MIT Club of South Africa)
- President and Founder (2003-2005)
- Executive Committee Member (2005-2010)
South African Institute of Electrical Engineers(SAIEE)
- Council Member (2002-2005)
- Chair of the Publications Committee (2004-2006)
Visiting Address:
Engineering Tower Building 14-21
Main Campus, University of Pretoria
0002 Pretoria
South Africa
Mailing Address
Department of Electrical Electronic & Computer Engineering
University of Pretoria
0002 Pretoria
South Africa
Research Topics
- Economic performance assessment of advanced process control
- HIV/Aids modelling, identification and control with X.Xia
- Modelling and control of systems in mineral and metal processing
Teaching Postgraduate
Multivariable Control Systems EMB732
Honors/Awards:
- IFAC Outstanding Service Award (2008).
- Elected Fellow of the South African Academy of Engineering (2006).
- Certificate of merit for paper published in the Journal of the South African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (2004).
- Academic achiever of excellence, University of Pretoria (2002).
- Mintek Achievement Award for “Process control of ROM milling circuits” (1992).
- Dean's Prize for the best final year student in Electronic Engineering (1985).
Some Recent Publications:
General
1. I. Craig et al., Control in the Process Industries, in “The Impact of Control Technology”, T. Samad and A.M. Annaswamy (eds.), IEEE Control Systems Society, 2011, available at http://www.ieeecss.org/main/IoCT-report.
2. Last CEP Editorial: Craig, I.K., Valedictory editorial, Control Engineering Practice, Vol. 18, No. 8, 2010, pp. 837-838.
3. IEEE CSM Interview with Ian Craig: People in Control - Model and Metal. Re, L.D.; Craig, I., IEEE Control Systems Magazine, Vol. 27, Issue 5, 2007, pp. 18-23.
Process control and economic performance assessment
1. Muller, C.J., Craig, I.K., and Ricker, N.L., Modelling, Validation, and Control of an Industrial Fuel Gas Blending System, Journal of Process Control, Vol. 21, No. 6, 2011, pp. 852-860.
2. Wei, D., and Craig, I.K., Economic performance assessment of two ROM ore milling circuit controllers. Minerals Engineering, Vol. 22, No. 9-10, 2009, pp. 826-839.
3. Bauer, M., and Craig, I.K., Economic assessment of advanced process control - A survey and framework, Journal of Process Control. Vol. 18, No. 1, 2008, pp. 2-18.
4. Bauer, M., Craig, I.K., Tolsma, E., and de Beer, H., A profit index for assessing the benefits of process control, Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research. Vol. 46, No. 17, 2007, pp. 5614-5623.
5. Craig, I.K., and Koch, I., Experimental design for the economic performance evaluation of industrial controllers, Control Engineering Practice. Vol. 11, No. 1, 2003, pp. 57-66.
6. Craig, I.K., and Henning, R.G.D., Evaluation of advanced industrial control projects: a framework for determining economic benefits, Control Engineering Practice, Vol. 8, No. 7, 2000, pp. 769-780.
Modelling and control of systems in mineral and metal processing
1. Olivier, L.E., Craig, I.K., and Y.Q. Chen, Fractional Order and BICO Disturbance Observers for a Run-of-Mine Ore Milling Circuit, Journal of Process Control, Vol. 22, No. 1, 2012, pp. 3-10.
2. Meyer, E.J., and Craig, I.K., The development of dynamic models for a dense medium separation circuit in coal beneficiation, Minerals Engineering, Vol. 23, No. 10, 2010, pp. 791–805. doi:10.1016/j.mineng.2010.05.020.
3. Coetzee, L.C., Craig, I.K., and Kerrigan, E.C., Robust model predictive control of a run-of-mine ore milling circuit. IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, Vol. 18, No. 1, Jan. 2010, pp. 222-229.
4. Wei, D., Craig, I.K., Grinding Mill Circuits - A Survey of Control and Economic Concerns, International Journal of Mineral Processing, Vol. 90, No.1-4, 16 Feb. 2009, pp. 56-66.
5. Oosthuizen, D.J., Craig, I.K., and Pistorius, P.C., Economic evaluation and design of an Electric Arc Furnace controller based on economic objectives, Control Engineering Practice, Vol. 12, No. 3, 2004, pp. 253-265.
6. Camisani-Calzolari, F.R., Craig, I.K., and Pistorius, P.C., Quality Prediction in Continuous Casting of Stainless Steel Slabs, J.S. Afr. Inst. Min. Metall, Vol. 103, No. 10, 2003, pp. 651-666.
7. Craig, I.K., Special section on future trends in automation in mineral and metal processing, Control Engineering Practice, Vol. 10, No. 4, 2002, pp. 431-432.
HIV/Aids modelling, identification and control
1. Jeffrey, A.M., Xia, X., and Craig, I.K., Structured Treatment Interruptions: A control mathematical approach to protocol design, Journal of Process Control, Vol. 17, No. 7, 2007, pp. 586-590.
2. Doyle III, F.J., Jovanovic, L., Seborg, D.E., Parker, R.S., Bequette, B.W., Jeffrey, A.M., Xia, X., Craig, I.K., and Mc Avoy, T.J., A tutorial on biomedical process control, Journal of Process Control, Vol. 17, No. 7, 2007, pp. 571-572.
3. Craig, I.K., and Xia, X., Can HIV/AIDS be controlled?, IEEE Control Systems Magazine, February 2005, pp. 80-83.
4. Craig, I.K., Xia, X., and Venter, J.W., Introducing HIV/AIDS Education into the Electrical Engineering Curriculum at the University of Pretoria, IEEE Transactions on Education, Vol. 47, No. 1, 2004, pp. 65-73. This paper is used extensively as a Progressive Analysis and Design Problem in the textbook “Control Systems Engineering” by Norman S. Nise, 5th Edition, John Wiley and Sons, 2008.
5. Jeffrey, A.M., Xia, X., and Craig, I.K., When to Initiate HIV Therapy: A Control Theoretic Approach, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, Vol.50, No. 11, 2003, pp. 1213- 1220.
