Management Committee

The Center is led by CISE Director Ayse Coskun and a Management Committee of nine senior faculty (including the CISE Director). The CISE management committee provides direction and oversight to the center.

JOHN BAILLIEUL
John Baillieul is a Distinguished Professor of Engineering and co-founder of the Center for Information & Systems Engineering (CISE) at Boston University. He is also Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Professor of Systems Engineering at Boston University. His research deals with robotics, the control of mechanical systems, and mathematical system theory. Over the past decade, he has focused on information-based control and neuro-inspired perception-based control. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, of the International Federation of Automatic Control and of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.

MICHAEL C. CARAMANIS
Michael C. Caramanis is Professor of Mechanical and Systems Engineering at Boston University and co-founder of Boston University’s Center for Information and Systems Engineering (CISE). He teaches in the areas of Stochastic Control, Supply Chains and Electric Power Markets, and the application domains of his research include active electricity grid enabled demand response and distributed renewable and other resource integration. Professor Caramanis is widely published in the areas of supply chain control and in Power system capacity expansion, markets, demand response and operational planning, including co-authorship of Spot Pricing of Electricity Kluwer, 1988. 

CHRISTOS G. CASSANDRAS
Christos G. Cassandras is Distinguished Professor of Engineering at Boston University. He is Head of the Division of Systems Engineering, and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and co-founder of Boston University’s Center for Information & Systems Engineering (CISE). He specializes in the areas of discrete event and hybrid systems, cooperative control, stochastic optimization, distributed optimization in network systems, and computer simulation, with applications to computer and sensor networks, manufacturing systems, and transportation systems. Dr. Cassandras was the previously Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (1998 – 2009) and 2012 President of the IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS). He is the recipient of several awards and a Fellow of the IEEE and a Fellow of the IFAC.

DAVID CASTAÑÓN
David Castañón is a Professor and former Chair of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department (ECE), and co-founder of the Center for Information & Systems Engineering (CISE) at Boston University. He is deputy director of the National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center, the Bernard M. Gordon Center for Subsurface Sensing and Imaging Systems (CenSSIS), and Associate Director of the Department of Homeland Security ALERT Center of Excellence. Dr. Castañón’s current research interests include: stochastic control, estimation and detection, combinatorial optimization and scheduling, inverse problems, and subsurface imaging.

AYSE K. COSKUN
Ayse K. Coskun is Director of CISE, a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and  the Interim Associate Dean of Educational Initiatives at Boston University College of Engineering. She is also the Head of the Performance and Energy Aware Computing lab (Peac Lab).

BENJAMIN LUBIN
Benjamin Lubin is Clinical Associate Professor in Information Systems, and Faculty Director of the MS in Digital Technology (MSDT) Program at Questrom School of Business, Boston University. His research is in three primary areas: (1) mechanism design, especially of combinatorial auctions and exchanges, mechanisms that support efficient reallocation of goods when participants have complex preferences regarding bundles of items, (2) exploring ways to integrate machine learning techniques into mechanism design (3) application of mechanism design to areas such as computational resource allocation, spectrum allocation, and fintech.

YANNIS PASCHALIDIS
Ioannis (Yannis) Paschalidis is the Director of the Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering (as of July 1, 2022) at Boston University. He is a Professor, Data Science Faculty Fellow, and Charles DeLisi award recipient at the College of Engineering with joint appointments in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the Division of Systems Engineering, and the Department of Biomedical Engineering. He is also a Founding Professor of Computing &  Data Sciences and former Director of CISE. His current research interests lie in the fields of systems and control, optimization, machine learning, networks, computational biology, and computational medicine. 

VENKATESH SALIGRAMA
Venkatesh Saligrama is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Data Science Faculty Fellow and founding member of the Faculty of Computing and Data Science (CDS). He is also Affiliated Professor of Computer Science and Systems Engineering at Boston University. Professor Saligrama’s research interests are in machine learning and its applications, including resource efficient machine learning (budgeted ML), learning with limited supervision, AI and society, and learning and estimation on graphs/networks.

ROBERTO TRON 
Roberto Tron is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Affiliate Professor of Systems Engineering at Boston University. Before joining BU, he was a Post-doctoral Researcher in the GRASP Laboratory at University of Pennsylvania under the supervision of Professor Kostas Daniilidis and Prof. Vijay Kumar. He received his PhD. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Johns Hopkins University in 2012, and was a Postdoctoral Researcher with the GRASP Lab at the University of Pennsylvania until 2015.  He received his M.Sc. (2007) and B.Sc. (2004) degrees (highest honors) from the Politecnico di Torino, Italy. He received a Diplome d’Engenieur from the Eurecom Institute in 2006.