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ACADEMIC DEGREES

M. Sc., 1956 (with distinction), from the Institute of Electrical Communications, St. Petersburg. Major: Analog and digital telecommunications. Thesis: Phase-Sensitive Voltmeter.

Ph. D., 1962, from the Institute of Transportation Engineering, St. Petersburg. Major: Electrical network synthesis. Thesis: Synthesis of Active Two-Pole.

Dr. of Engineering Sciences*, 1973, from the Higher Attestational Commission, USSR, in Circuit Theory and Automatic Control, for the monograph: Feedback Maximization in Nonlinear Single-Loop and Multi-Loop Feedback Systems.

* The degree is awarded in average proportion of 1:20 to Ph.D. degree holders for "results of fundamental scientific or applied significance, such as initiating a new direction in the science or solving a fundamental scientific or engineering problem" (see Proc. IEEE, v. 66, no. 8, 1978).

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WORK HISTORY

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PERSONAL DATA: Citizen of USA. Married, two children. Hobbies: backpacking, down-hill and cross-country skiing.

LANGUAGES: English, Russian, some knowledge of German and Hebrew, C, SPICE, PROTEL, MATLAB

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JPL ASSIGNMENTS

Optical Communication Demonstration attitude control, Space Interferometer Model optical delay control, Rover drilling station control, Microwave Limb Sounder GHz and TeraHerz antennas attitude control, New Millennium s/c solar panel attitude control, Stardust instrument attitude control, TES retroreflector carriage control, Mars Pathfinder antenna pointing, Measur accelerometer filter, Optical space communication transmitter attitude control, Microgravity accelerometer electronics and control loops, Cassini Narrow View Camera thermal control, Cassini VIMS attitude control, Cassini radar telemetry electronics and PLL, Cryogenic cooler vibration control for STRV s/c, Precision pointing control research, Flexible structure vibration control, Active vibration isolation for Stellar Interferometer, 70 kV, 1.2 MW precision voltage regulator for Deep Space Network radar transmitter, 40 kV power regulator for radar transmitter, 7 kW switching amplifier.

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NASA AWARDS (in addition to those related to Patents and NASA Tech Briefs)

Technology and Applications Programs Group Achievement Award for the STRV 1B Payload Development Team.
Nova Award, 1997
Cassiny Scientific Payload Develompent Team Award
Mars Pathfinder Group Award
Deep Space One, NASA Attitude control and Flight Software Team Group Awards, and JPL Awards

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RESEARCH AREAS

Motor control with active driver impedance. Nonlinear main-vernier controllers. Multiwindow nonlinear controllers. Flexible structure vibration control. Balanced bridge three loop pointing control using collocated sensors of torque and angular velocity. Nonlinear dynamic time-optimal feedback control. Active vibration isolation. (1987-99)

Feedback representation of a noisy two-port employing only two noncorrelated noise sources. Synthesis of the front-end receiver for achieving maximal signal to noise ratio and, simultaneously, matching to a resistive source or providing maximal gain from a reactive source. (1984-86)

Multi-loop nonlinear absolutely stable feedback system with the utmost available feedback. Generalization of the describing function approach to the synthesis of globally-stable Nyquist-stable feedback system. Optimization of fiber-optic receivers. (1980-83)

Nonminimum phase-shift and the penalty in available feedback introduced in the common loop by a local loop. Estimation of eigenvectors by conformal mapping of the Nyquist plane. (1979)

High frequency sensor noise as the feedback constraint. Improvement of nonlinear control by introduction of an auxiliary nonlinear low-power feedback channel. (1978-79)

Absolute stability approach to the synthesis of nonlinear multi-loop feedback system with enlarged bandwidth. Optimization of noncascade configuration of the amplifier elements in feedback amplifiers. (1970-72)

Synthesis of nonlinear dynamic links which provide maximum feedback in wide-band amplifiers while preserving global stability. (1969-77)

Oscillation, forced oscillation, jump-resonance and subharmonics in nonlinear high-order single-loop and multi-loop systems. Sensitivity minimization in the linear multi-loop feedback system. (1963-70)

Constant and variable equalizers. Wideband feedback amplifiers. (1960-63)

Synthesis of active two-pole. Feedback system as a two-pole: stability margins, sensitivity and its upper limit, noise, relationship between the nonlinear properties and the frequency response. Negative impedance converters. Bi-directional matched amplifiers. (1956-62)

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REFERENCES: Prof. I. M. Horowitz characterized B. J. Lurie in his latest book as "one of the most knowledgeable and extender of Bode's work."

Prof. H. W. Bode commented on the curriculum of the graduate control course which B. Lurie has been teaching at the Weizmann Institute, and on some of his papers: "With a few additions, perhaps from other sources, including my past work, the papers make a very interesting and provocative basis for systematic treatment on a large scale."

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