Christos Cassandras

Christos CassandrasProfessor
PhD, Harvard University, 1982

Division of Systems Engineering


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Honors, Awards, and Editorships

  • Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Transactions on Autonomic Control
  • Member, IEEE Control Systems Society Board of Governors
  • Fellow, IEEE
  • 1991 Lilly Fellow
  • Fellow, IFAC
  • Distinguished Member Award, IEEE Control Systems Society, 2006
  • Harold Chestnut Prize (IFAC Best Control Engineering Textbook), 1999
  • IEEE Distinguished Lecturer, 2001-2004
  • Department Editor, Journal of Discrete Event Dynamic Systems (1989 – present)
  • Associate Editor, Intl. Journal of Intelligent Computing and Cybernetics (2007 – present)
  • Associate Editor, Intl. Journal of BioSciences and Technology (2008 – present)
  • Associate Editor, Automatica (1993 – 2002)
  • Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (1991 – 1993)
  • Editor, Technical Notes and Correspondence, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (1994 – 1998)
  • Honorary Professor, Huazhong University of Science and Technology
  • Honorary Professor, Wuhan University of Science and Technology

Classes Taught

  • EC/ME 733 Discrete Event and Hybrid Systems
  • EK 500 Probability and Statistical Methods

Research Interests

  • discrete event and hybrid systems
  • stochastic control and optimization
  • computer and communication networks
  • wireless sensor networks
  • manufacturing systems
  • supply chain management
  • computer simulation
  • command-control systems

Selected Publications

  • Cassandras, C.G., Discrete Event Systems: Modeling and Performance Analysis, Irwin Publ., 1993 [Harold Chestnut Prize (IFAC Best Control Engineering Textbook), 1999]
  • Cassandras, C.G., and Strickland, S.G., “On-Line Sensitivity Analysis of Markov Chains”, IEEE Trans. on Automatic Control, AC-34, 1, pp. 76-86, January 1989.
  • Vazquez-Abad, F.J., Cassandras, C.G., and Julka, V., “Centralized and Decentralized Asynchronous Optimization of Stochastic Discrete Event Systems”, IEEE Trans. on Automatic Control, AC-43, 5, pp. 631-655, May 1998.
  • Cassandras, C.G., Pepyne D.L., and Wardi, Y., “Optimal Control of a Class of Hybrid Systems”, IEEE Trans. on Automatic Control, AC-46, 3, pp. 398-415, March 2001.
  • Li, W., and Cassandras, C.G., “A Cooperative Receding Horizon Controller for Multi-Vehicle Uncertain Environments”, IEEE Trans. on Automatic Control, AC-51, 2, pp. 242-257, February 2006.