{"id":56731,"date":"2014-01-08T10:20:59","date_gmt":"2014-01-08T15:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/experts\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=56731"},"modified":"2022-05-20T16:58:04","modified_gmt":"2022-05-20T20:58:04","slug":"christos-g-cassandras","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/profile\/christos-g-cassandras\/","title":{"rendered":"Christos G. Cassandras"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christos G. Cassandras\u00a0is Head of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/se\/\">Division of Systems Engineering<\/a>\u00a0and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at\u00a0Boston\u00a0University. He is also co-founder of\u00a0Boston\u00a0University\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/systems\/\">Center for Information and Systems Engineering<\/a>\u00a0(CISE). He received degrees from\u00a0YaleUniversity\u00a0(B.S., 1977),\u00a0Stanford\u00a0University\u00a0(M.S.E.E., 1978), and\u00a0Harvard\u00a0University\u00a0(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, and computer simulation, with applications to computer and sensor networks, manufacturing systems, and transportation systems. He has\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/people.bu.edu\/cgc\/FullPubs\/\">published over 300 refereed papers<\/a>\u00a0in these areas, and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/people.bu.edu\/cgc\/Books\/\">five books<\/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\u00a0MathWorks, Inc. in the development of the discrete event and hybrid system simulator\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mathworks.com\/products\/simevents\/\">SimEvents<\/a>\u00ae.<b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Cassandras was Editor-in-Chief of the\u00a0<i>IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control<\/i>\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\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ieeecss.org\/\">IEEE Control Systems Society<\/a> (CSS) and has served as Vice President for Publications. He has also served on the IEEE CSS Board of Governors, as Chair of several conferences, and chaired the CSS Technical Committee on Control Theory. He has been a plenary speaker at various international conferences, including the\u00a0<i>American Control Conference<\/i>\u00a0in 2001 and the\u00a0<i>IEEE Conference on Decision and Control<\/i>\u00a0in 2002, and an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer (2001-04).\u00a0He is the recipient of several awards, including the 2011 IEEE Control Systems Technology Award, the Distinguished Member Award of the IEEE Control Systems Society (2006), the 1999 Harold Chestnut Prize\u00a0(IFAC Best Control Engineering Textbook) for\u00a0<i><a href=\"http:\/\/people.bu.edu\/cgc\/Book1\/\">Discrete Event Systems: Modeling and Performance Analysis<\/a><\/i>,\u00a0a 2011 prize for the\u00a0IBM\/IEEE Smarter Planet Challenge competition for a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/codes\/research\/smartparking\/\">\u201cSmart Parking\u201d system<\/a>,\u00a0a 1991 Lilly Fellowship and a 2012 Kern Fellowship. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and\u00a0Tau\u00a0Beta Pi. He is also a Fellow of the IEEE and a Fellow of the IFAC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11144,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/56731"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11144"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/56731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71929,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/56731\/revisions\/71929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}