1939
Born to Charles Keld Hanson and Violet Ellen (Bliss) Hanson in New York, NY.
1962
Marries Ethel Louisa Hutchins on July 28.
1962
Earns a Bachelor of Science in engineering science from Antioch College.
1962
Is a physicist at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
1964
Achieves a Master of Science in engineering from Brown University.
1967
Becomes an associate research scientist within the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University, remaining until 1969.
1968
Obtains a Doctor of Philosophy from Brown University.
1969
Teaches as an assistant and associate professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago until 1982.
1977
Serves as an election judge for the East View Park Condominium Association in Chicago, IL until 1990.
1982
Assumes the role of full professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, remaining until 2005.
1988
Is a research associate at Argonne National Laboratory in DuPage County, Illinois and continues in this role.
1990
Is the associate director of the Laboratory for Advanced Computing at the University of Illinois at Chicago until 2005.
1993
Serves as the associate director within the Laboratory for Control & Information at the University of Illinois at Chicago until 2005.
2002
Serves on the technical committee on control education within the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
2007
Publishes “Applied Stochastic Processes and Control for Jump-Diffusions” and later the revised edition in 2011.
2020
Receives the Lifetime Achievement Award from ARLE (The International Association for Research in L1 Education).