Anthony Bloch

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Professor Anthony Bloch is a rare contemporary scientific giant that spans across mathematics, control theory, and engineering. He holds multiple top academic honors, including IEEE Fellow, SIAM Fellow, AMS Fellow, and Guggenheim Fellow. As a joint professor of the School of Engineering, Department of Mathematics, and Department of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Michigan, his pioneering "Geometry Mechanics Control Theory" has completely reconstructed the research paradigm of complex dynamical systems. The Bloch Marsden equation, jointly proposed by him and the late mechanics master Jerrold Marsden, for the first time combines Lie group theory with nonholonomic constraints, providing a universal mathematical framework for motion planning of wheeled robots, spacecraft attitude control, and other scenarios. The related achievements have been included in the classic chapters of the Springer Encyclopedia of Nonlinear Control. Professor Bloch's academic field continues to expand: his "energy momentum conservation algorithm" has been successfully applied to the error correction system of quantum computing chips, enabling the Google Quantum team to achieve a breakthrough in logic quantum bit error rates below 1e-5 by 2024. Its latest research, "Chaos Boundary Control Theory for Non Complete Systems," provides a mathematical tool for proving the stability of high-dimensional AI controllers. It has been applied by DeepMind to dynamic balance training of humanoid robots, significantly reducing simulation training energy consumption.