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Stephen Boyd (born August 22, 1972) is a former American football player in the National Football League. He was a two time Pro Bowl selection as middle linebacker from the Detroit Lions. He was selected in the fifth round of the 1995 NFL Entry Draft out of Boston College, the 141st selection, where he starred for four seasons.
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Stephen Boyd (57) is Chairman of Pittards plc, a company whose shares are admitted to trading on AIM. A chemical engineer by training, Mr. Boyd has worked in a number of manufacturing industries, including five years as Group Chief Executive of Capital Industries plc. He now owns a number of companies from plastic injection moulding to building materials businesses.
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Stephen Boyd received the AB degree in Mathematics from Harvard University in 1980, and the PhD in EECS from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1985. In 1985 he joined the Electrical Engineering Department at Stanford University, where he is now the Samsung Professor of Engineering and Director of the Information Systems Laboratory. He has held visiting Professor positions at Katholieke University (Leuven), McGill University (Montreal), Ecole Polytechnique Federale (Lausanne), Qinghua University (Beijing), Université Paul Sabatier (Toulouse), and Royal Institute of Technology (Stockholm). In 1999, during a leave from Stanford, he co-founded Barcelona Design, and still serves as its Chief Scientist and a Director. He was a member of the Board of Governors, IEEE Control Systems Society, from 1989 through 1992, is a Fellow of the IEEE, and has been a Distinguished Lecturer of the Control Systems Society since 1993. Awards and honors for his research in control systems engineering and optimization include the AACC Donald P. Eckman Award, an ONR Young Investigator Award, a Presidential Young Investigator Award, and an IBM faculty development award.
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Stephen Boyd received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. Since 1985 he has been a member of the Electrical Engineering Department at Stanford University where he is now the Samsung Professor of Engineering and Director of the Information Systems Laboratory. He has won numerous awards for research and teaching, and is a fellow of the IEEE. He is the co-author of two previous books, Linear Controller Design: Limits of Performance and Linear Matrix Inequalities in System and Control Theory.
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Stephen Boyd was born in 1959. He grew up in Glasgow. He was educated at the Glasgow School of Art (1976– 81). On completion of his postgraduate studies, he was awarded The Elizabeth Greenshield Foundation Fellowship and The Gillies Bequest from the Royal Scottish Academy. This allowed him to continue his studies in Italy for a further two years. He lives in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England.
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From 2003 to 2005, Mr. Boyd was Director of Research and Development at Opus Medical, an orthopedic sports medicine company (acquired by Arthrocare for $130 million). Between 2001 and 2003, he was one of the first employees and Director of Operations for Volcano Therapeutics, an interventional cardiology company, which acquired the assets of JOMED in 2003. Mr. Boyd was an initial employee and Manager of Research and Development for Fox Hollow Technologies from 1997 to 2001. Fox Hollow completed a highly successful IPO in 2004.
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