Sean P. Meyn will join the University of Florida in January 2012, where he will begin his appointment as the Robert C. Pittman Eminent Scholar Chair, in the Department of ECE. For the previous 22 years he was a professor at the Department of ECE and the Coordinated Science Laboratory at the University of Illinois. He is well known for research in stochastic control and complex systems. Over the past decade, he has conducted research on operations and economics in energy.