{"id":15135,"date":"2014-08-05T12:40:24","date_gmt":"2014-08-05T16:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/systems\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=15135"},"modified":"2022-11-16T12:44:13","modified_gmt":"2022-11-16T17:44:13","slug":"david-castanon","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/profile\/david-castanon\/","title":{"rendered":"David Casta\u00f1\u00f3n"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>David Casta\u00f1\u00f3n is a Professor and<span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0the former Chair of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> (ECE) and co-founder of the Center for Information and Systems Engineering (CISE) at Boston University. He is <\/span><\/span>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<a href=\"http:\/\/www.northeastern.edu\/alert\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span>\u00a0<\/span>Department of Homeland Security ALERT Center of Excellence<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. <span>Casta\u00f1\u00f3n&#8217;s<\/span> current research interests include: stochastic control, estimation and detection, combinatorial optimization and scheduling, inverse problems, and subsurface imaging.<\/p>\n<p>He is actively involved in IEEE and \u00a0has served in numerous leadership positions in the IEEE Control Systems Society, including President, receiving the Society\u2019s Distinguished Member Award. He is also the adviser for Boston University\u2019s Society for Hispanic Professional Engineers. David Casta\u00f1\u00f3n received his PhD degree in Applied Mathematics from MIT. He was chief scientist at ALPHATECH, Inc. in Burlington, MA until 1990, when he joined Boston University\u2019s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1500,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/15135"}],"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":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/15135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35106,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/15135\/revisions\/35106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}