A Tale of Two Telescopes: HKN Eminent Member Asad M. Madni Discusses the Similarities and Differences Between the Two Extraordinary Machines

Dr. Asad M. Madni is an IEEE-HKN Eminent Member, our Society’s highest membership classification. He is an IEEE Life Fellow and was awarded the 2022 IEEE Medal of Honor, adding to the many honors and awards he has earned throughout his career. He currently serves as a Distinguished Adjunct Professor/Distinguished Scientist in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), a Faculty Fellow with UCLA’s Institute of Transportation Studies, and a Faculty Fellow of UCLA’s Connected Autonomous Electric Vehicle consortium. He previously served as the chairman, president, and chief executive of Systron Donner, and president, chief operating officer, and chief technology officer of BEI. Among his accomplishments at BEI was the development of the extremely slow-motion servo control system for the Hubble Space Telescope’s Star Selector System.