| Authorised form of name | Mayne; David Quinn; academic and engineer |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Germiston, East Rand, Gauteng, South Africa |
| Date of birth | 23/04/1930 |
| Place of death | Oxford, England |
| Date of death | 27 May 2024 |
| Occupation | academic and engineer |
| Research field | Mathematical optimisation |
| Electronic Engineering |
| Computer engineering |
| Engineering |
| Activity | Education:
University of the Witwatersrand BSc (1950); MSc; University of London DSc (1967); Imperial College, London PhD
Career:
Lecturer at University of the Witwatersrand (1950-54 and 1957-59); electrical engineer at the British Thomson-Houston Company, Rugby, England (1954-56); Lecturer, Imperial College, London (1959); Reader (1967); Professor (1971); Head of the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College, London (1984-1988); retired (1989); returned to Imperial as Emeritus Professor (1996).
Memberships:
IFAC
IEEE
IET
Royal Academy of Engineering
Awards/Medals:
IFAC Giorgio Quazza Medal
IEEE Control Systems Award
IFAC High Impact Paper Award |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 21/03/1985 |
| Age at election | 54 |
| RSActivity | Sectional Committee 4: Engineering and Materials Science (November 1998 - November 2001) |
| Relationships | Parents:
Spouse: Josephine Mayne.
Children: Sue, Máire, and Ruth. |
| OtherInfo | Made numerous contributions to the theory of control, and to computational techniques for solving control problems. He pioneered a number of techniques in identification, including the use of Kalman filters for identification, the use of ‘instrumental variables’, canonical forms for identification, and the use of autoregressive models.
In systems theory, David developed computational methods for minimal realisations, and contributed to an extension of the Weierstrass excess-function theorem.
His best known work is the development of computer algorithms for the optimisation of stochastic and deterministic systems, with proofs of existence and convergence. He developed two different approaches to the design of control systems, and implemented these as interactive computing methods. In addition, he made a number of contributions to finite-dimensional optimisation, and participated in a range of projects in which his own and other methods have been used to solve industrial problems of control. |
| Source | The Royal Society Fellows Directory, Professor David Mayne FREng FRS, [URL: https://royalsociety.org/people/david-mayne-11916/; last accessed: 29/01/2025]
Imperial, Thomas Parisini, Alessandro Astolfi, 10 June 2024, Professor David Q Mayne FREng FRS 1930 - 2024, [URL: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/253973/professor-david-mayne-freng-frs-1930/; last accessed: 29/01/2025]
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| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/107749404 |
| Code | NA4587 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| EC/1985/25 | Mayne, David Quinn: certificate of election to the Royal Society | 1980 |