Karen Rudie

**Karen Rudie** is a Professor and Interim Director in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Queen's University, Canada. She holds a cross-appointment to the School of Computing and is affiliated with the Ingenuity Labs Research Institute. Her expertise lies in supervisory control of discrete-event systems, security, and secrecy protocols. Rudie earned her Ph.D. from the University of Toronto and has held visiting roles at the University of Michigan. She leads the Queen’s Discrete-Event Systems Lab (QDES), focusing on theoretical and applied research in control systems.

**Education**: Ph.D. in Systems Control (University of Toronto, 1992), Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute for Mathematics and Its Applications (1992-1993).

**Research Interests**: Discrete-event systems, supervisory control theory, security mechanisms, and applications to industrial automation. Her work bridges theoretical foundations with practical implementations in manufacturing, healthcare, and cybersecurity.

**Awards**: IEEE Fellow (2018), multiple Queen's Golden Apple Teaching Awards, and recognition as a 'Popular Prof' in Maclean's (2001-2005). She is a registered Professional Engineer in Ontario.

**Grants & Leadership**: Editor of the Journal of Discrete Event Dynamic Systems, former IEEE Control Systems Society Board member, and frequent conference committee member (CDC, ACC, WODES). Her lab develops tools like IDES for discrete-event system modeling.

**Lab & Teams**: Directs the QDES Lab, advancing methodologies for system control and security. Her group collaborates on projects like decentralized control architectures and cyber-physical system resilience.