Munther Dahleh, PhD

Munther Dahleh is the William A. Coolidge Professor in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) and a member MIT’s Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS). Dahleh was the founding director of the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS), serving from July 1, 2015 to June 30, 2023. He was previously the associate department head of EECS. Prof. Dahleh is internationally known for his fundamental contributions to robust control theory, computational methods for controller design, the interplay between information and control, the fundamental limits of learning and decision in networked systems, and the detection and mitigation of systemic risk in interconnected and networked systems.