Christos Cassandras

Distinguished Professor (ECE, SE) Head of the Division of Systems Engineering

Office PHO 425
Email cgc@bu.edu
Phone (617) 353-7154
Website Christos G. Cassandras

Honors and Awards

Fellow, IEEE, 1996
Fellow, IFAC, 2008
Fellow, IETI, 2018
Harold Chestnut Prize, IFAC Best Control Engineering Textbook, 1999
IEEE Control Systems Technology Award, 2011
Distinguished Member Award, IEEE Control Systems Society, 2006
Zhu Kezhen Award, 2012
EEE Distinguished Lecturer, 2001-2004
2014 IBM/IEEE Smarter Planet Challenge competition prize (student team led by Theodora Brisimi)
2011 IBM/IEEE Smarter Planet Challenge competition prize (student team led by Yanfeng Geng)
Lilly Fellow, 1991 – 1992
Kern Fellow, 2012
Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 1998-2009
Department Editor, Journal of Discrete Event Dynamic Systems, 1989-Present
Editor, Automatica, 2015-present
Senior Editor, Journal of Control and Decision, 2013-Present
President, IEEE Control Systems Society, 2012
Chair Professor, Tsinghua University, 2014-present
Honorary Professor, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 2003
Honorary Professor, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, 2003
Plenary/Keynote Speaker, 36 international conferences

Areas of Interest

Analysis and control of discrete event and hybrid systems
Stochastic control and optimization
Distributed systems and cooperative control
Dynamic control of computer/communication and sensor networks
Performance analysis and control of manufacturing systems
Computer simulation
Performance analysis and control of transportation systems
Smart Cities

Departments or Divisions: Electrical & Computer Engineering, Robotics & Autonomous Systems, Systems Engineering

Affiliations: Administration & Staff, Energy, Sustainability & Climate, Intelligent, Autonomous & Secure Systems, Primary & Affiliated Faculty

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