Biographical Sketch

Mireille Broucke was born in Antwerp, Belgium. She obtained a BS in EE at University of Texas at Austin in 1984 and an MS in EECS at University of California, Berkeley in 1987. She has six years of industry experience in the areas of aerospace controls and software tools for control design at Texas Instruments, General Dynamics, Lockheed, Intergraph Corp, and Integrated Systems. From 1993 to 1996 she acted as program manager and researcher at Partners for Advanced Transportation and Highways (PATH) in the Institute for Transporation Studies at UC Berkeley. She was a PhD student from 1996 to 2000 in EECS at UC Berkeley where she did a thesis on hybrid systems theory under Prof. Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli and Prof. Maria Di Benedetto. In 1998 and 1999 she was a visiting researcher at PARADES in Rome, Italy. During 2000-2001 she was a postdoctoral researcher in the Vehicle Dynamics Laboratory at UC Berkeley under Prof. Karl Hedrick. She was an assistant professor at University of Toronto from July 2001 to July 2006. During July 2007 -- July 2008 she was a visiting professor at University of Bologna, Italy. She is presently an associate professor at University of Toronto.