Monique Chyba (born 1969)[1] is a control theorist who works as a professor of mathematics at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Her work on control theory has involved the theory of singular trajectories, and applications in the control of autonomous underwater vehicles.[2] More recently, she has also applied control theory to the prediction and modeling of the spread of COVID-19 in Hawaii.[3]
Education and career
Chyba's parents Mirek and Jana Chyba were Czech, but settled in Geneva, Switzerland.[4] Chyba earned a Ph.D. through the University of Burgundy in Dijon, France, in 1997,[5] while working as a teaching assistant at the University of Geneva.[6] Her dissertation, Le Cas Martinet en Geometrie Sous-Riemannienne [the Martinet case in sub-Riemannian geometry], was supervised by Bernard Bonnard.[5]