{"id":15084,"date":"2014-07-25T14:19:02","date_gmt":"2014-07-25T18:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/systems\/?post_type=profile&p=15084"},"modified":"2026-07-28T11:34:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T15:34:19","slug":"christos-cassandras","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/profile\/christos-cassandras\/","title":{"rendered":"Christos G. Cassandras"},"content":{"rendered":"

Christos G. Cassandras is Distinguished Professor of Engineering at the Boston University\u00a0College of Engineering<\/a>. He is the former Head\u00a0(2008-2026)\u00a0of the\u00a0Division of Systems Engineering<\/a>, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and co-founder of Boston University\u2019s\u00a0Center for Information and Systems Engineering<\/a>\u00a0(CISE). He received degrees from Yale University (B.S., 1977), Stanford University (M.S.E.E., 1978), and Harvard University (S.M., 1979; Ph.D., 1982). In 1982-84 he was with ITP Boston, Inc. where he worked on the design of automated manufacturing systems. In 1984-1996 he was a faculty member at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Massachusetts\/Amherst. 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. He has\u00a0published over\u00a0550\u00a0refereed papers<\/a>\u00a0in these areas, and\u00a0seven\u00a0books<\/a>. He has guest-edited several technical journal issues and serves on several journal Editorial Boards. In addition to his academic activities, he has worked extensively with industrial organizations on various systems integration projects and the development of decision-support software. He has most recently collaborated with The MathWorks, Inc. in the development of the discrete event and hybrid system simulator\u00a0SimEvents<\/a>\u00ae.<\/p>\n

Dr. Cassandras was Editor-in-Chief of the\u00a0IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control<\/a><\/em>\u00a0from 1998 through 2009 and has also served as Editor for Technical Notes and Correspondence and Associate Editor. He was the 2012 President of the\u00a0IEEE Control Systems Society<\/a>\u00a0(CSS). He has also served as Vice President for Publications and on the Board of Governors of the CSS, as well as on several IEEE committees, and has chaired several conferences. He has been a plenary\/keynote speaker at numerous international conferences, including the\u00a0American Control Conference<\/em>\u00a0in 2001, the\u00a0IEEE Conference on Decision and Control<\/em>\u00a0in 2002 and 2016, and the\u00a020th IFAC World Congress<\/em>\u00a0in 2017, and has also been an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer.<\/p>\n

He is the recipient of several awards, including\u00a0the 2026 IEEE Intelligent Transportation System Society Outstanding Research Award, the 2011\u00a0IEEE Control Systems Technology Award<\/a>, the\u00a0Distinguished Member Award<\/a>\u00a0of the IEEE Control Systems Society (2006), the 1999\u00a0Harold Chestnut Prize<\/a>\u00a0(IFAC Best Control Engineering Textbook) for\u00a0Discrete Event Systems: Modeling and Performance Analysis<\/a><\/em>, a 2011 prize and a 2014 prize for the IBM\/IEEE Smarter Planet Challenge competition (for a\u00a0\u201cSmart Parking\u201d system<\/a>\u00a0and for the analytical engine of the\u00a0Street Bump system<\/a> respectively), the 2014 Engineering\u00a0Distinguished Scholar Award<\/a>\u00a0at Boston University, several honorary professorships, a 1991 Lilly Fellowship and a 2012 Kern Fellowship. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Tau Beta Pi. He is also a Fellow of the IEEE and a Fellow of the IFAC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1500,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/15084"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1500"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/15084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43809,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/15084\/revisions\/43809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}