CHRISTOS
G. CASSANDRAS
Head, Division of Systems Engineering, and
Professor of Electrical and
Computer Engineering
Center for Information and Systems
Engineering (CISE)
and Division of Systems Engineering
15 St. Marys St., Boston University
Brookline, MA 02446
Tel. (617) 353-7154 Fax.
(617) 353-4830
e-mail: cgc AT
bu.edu
EDUCATION
1974-77 -
B.S. Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
1977-78 -
M.S.E.E. Stanford University, Stanford, California
1978-79 -
S.M. Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
1979-82 -
Ph.D. Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
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PROFESSIONAL
EXPERIENCE
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VISITING APPOINTMENTS
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PROFESSIONAL
EXPERIENCE
7/08 - present Boston
University, Boston, Massachusetts.
Head, Division of Systems
Engineering, and
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
1/97 - 6/08 Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts.
Professor of Manufacturing Engineering, and
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
9/93 - 12/97 University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts.
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
9/89 - 8/93 University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts.
Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
2/84 - 8/89 University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts.
Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
9/82 - 1/84 ITP Boston, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Senior Systems Engineer.
6/79 - 9/82 Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Research Assistant, Decision and Control Group, Division of Applied Sciences.
11/80 - 9/82 C.S. Draper Laboratory, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Participated in industrial automation projects as part of Ph.D. Thesis research.
VISITING APPOINTMENTS
9/90 - 1/91 Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Visiting Scholar (on sabbatical), Division of Applied Sciences.
3/93 -
7/93 Universite Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve,
Belgium.
Visiting Professor (on sabbatical).
9/03 - 10/03 Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
Visiting Professor (on sabbatical), Center for Intelligent and Networked Systems.
7/10 -
8/10 Unversidad de
los Andes, Bogota, Colombia.
Visiting Professor (on sabbatical).
CONSULTING
9/90 - 1/91 ITP Boston, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Development of advanced software tools for computer integrated systems; capacity and production planning of manufacturing systems.
1/88 - present Network Dynamics, Inc., Natick, Massachusetts.
Development of decision support systems for manufacturing systems and computer/communication networks.
9/99 - 11/03 Alphatech, Inc., Burlington, Massachusetts.
Modeling and decision support for command-control
systems.
9/03 - 12/08 The Mathworks, Inc., Natick, Massachusetts.
Development of discrete event simulation tools.
RESEARCH
INTERESTS
· 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 production control of manufacturing systems
· Computer simulation
· Performance analysis and control of transportation systems
· Command-Control systems
HONORS/AWARDS
· 2011 IEEE CSS Control Systems Technology Award
· Distinguished Member Award, IEEE Control Systems Society, 2006
· Harold Chestnut Prize (IFAC Best Control Engineering Textbook), 1999
· IFAC Fellow, elected 2008
· IEEE Fellow, elected 1996
· IEEE Distinguished Lecturer, 2001-2004
· 2014 Engineering Distinguished Scholar Award, Boston University
· 2011 IBM/IEEE Smarter Planet Challenge competition, 2nd prize (student team led by Yanfeng Geng)
· Zhu Kezhen Award, 2012
· Kern Fellow, 2012
· Lilly Fellow, 1991-92
· Best Student (Yanfeng Geng) Paper Award Finalist, 2011 IEEE Multi-Conference on Systems and Control
· Poster Prize, Third place (with Yanfeng Geng), INFORMS 2011 Northeastern Conference
· Honorary Professor, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 2003
· Honorary Professor, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, 2003
· Best Session Paper Presentation Award, American Control Conf., 1988
· National Science Foundation Research Initiation Award, 1985
· Harvard University Fellowship, 1978-79
· Summa Cum Laude Graduate, Yale University, 1977
· Distinction in Engineering and Applied Science, Yale University, 1977
· Phi
Beta Kappa, Yale University, 1977
· Tau Beta Pi, Yale University, 1977
· Yale University Scholarship, 1974-77
· Scholastic Achievement Award of the Greek Ministry of Education, 1972, 1973
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Fellow, International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC)
Member, Institute for Operations Research and
Management Science (INFORMS)
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
EDITORIAL ACTIVITIES:
Editor-in-Chief,
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (1998 - 2009)
Editor, Technical Notes and Correspondence,
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (1994 - 1998)
Department Editor,
Journal of Discrete Event Dynamic Systems (2008 - present)
Senior Editor,
Journal of Control and Decision (2013 - present)
Section Editor,
Encyclopedia on Systems and Control, 2013
Advisory Editorial Board,
IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems (2013 - present)
Other Editorial Boards:
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (1991 - 1993)
Automatica (1993 - 2002)
Journal of Discrete Event Dynamic Systems (1989 - 2008)
IEEE Control Systems Society Conference Edit. Board (1994)
Encyclopedia of Systems and Control (2013 - present)
Intl. Journal of Intelligent Computing and Cybernetics (2007 - present)
Intl. Journal of BioSciences and Technology (2008 - present)
Guest Editor:
IEEE Trans. on Automation Science and Egineering (with M. Fanti, C. Hadjicostis, S. Reveliotis, C. Seatzu), Special Issue on Advances in Discrete Event Systems for Automation, 2014.
Control Engineering Practice (with A. Giua, C. Seatzu, J. Zaytoon), Special Section on Analysis and Design of Hybrid Systems, August 2008.
Nonlinear Analysis: Hybrid Systems (with A. Giua, C. Seatzu, J. Zaytoon), Special Section on Analysis and Design of Hybrid Systems, March 2008.
Journal on Discrete Event Dynamic Systems (with A. Giua, C. Seatzu, J. Zaytoon), Special Issue on Discrete Event Methodologies for Hybrid Systems , June 2008.
Control Engineering Practice (with J. Zaytoon), Special Issue on Discrete Event Systems, October 2006.
Journal of Mathematical and Computer Modeling (with L. Dai), Special Issue on Advances in Discrete Event Systems, July 1996.
Journal on Discrete Event Dynamic Systems, Special Issue on Parallel Simulation and Optimization, April 1995
IEEE Control Systems Magazine (with P. Ramadge), Special Issue on Discrete Event Systems, June 1990
PLENARY/KEYNOTE LECTURES:
33rd Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control,
March 2014
32nd Chinese Control Conference, July 2013
2013 IEEE CIS School for Computational Intelligence and Automation, July 2013
2012 Society of Instrument and Control Engineers
Annual Conference, August 2012 PDF VERSION
24th Chinese Control
and Decision Conference, May 2012 PDF VERSION
4th HYCON2 School on Control of Networked and Large-Scale Systems,
June 2011
7th Intl. Conference on Electrical Engin.,
Computing Science, and Automatic Control, September 2010
18th IEEE Medit. Conference on New
Directions in Control and Automation, June 2010
2009 LIDS Student Conference, January 2009
2008 UK Automatic Control Conference, September 2008
3rd International Conference on Innovative
Computing, Information and Control, June 2008
8th International Conference on Cooperative Control and Optimization,
January 2008 PDF VERSION
2005 IEEE Intl. Symposium on Intelligent Control,
June 2005 PDF VERSION
41st IEEE Conf. Decision and Control,
December 2002 VIEW
IT ON LINE-IE_BROWSER_ONLY PDF VERSION
17th Intl. Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences, October 2002
6th Intl. Workshop on Discrete Event Systems, October 2002 PDF VERSION
9th IFAC Intl. Symposium on Large Scale Systems, July 2001 VIEW IT ON LINE-IE_BROWSER_ONLY PDF VERSION
2001 American Control
Conference, June 2001 VIEW IT ON LINE-IE_BROWSER_ONLY PDF VERSION
8th IEEE Medit. Conference on New Directions in Control and Automation,
July 2000
Formal Methods in Performance Analysis Summer School, July 2000
11th SPIE Intl. Symposium, April 1997
11th International Conf. on Control and Optim. of Systems, June 1994
Discrete Event System Summer School, June 1993
1st Intl. Workshop on Discrete Event Systems, August 1992
DISTINGUISHED LECTURES:
Boston University, College of Engineering Distinguished Scholar
Award Lecture, March 2014
Zhu Kezhen Distinguished Lecture, Zhejiang University, January 2013
Colorado State University, Information Science and Technology Center Distinguished Lecture, October 2010
OTHER PROFESSIONAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL ACTIVITIES:
President, IEEE Control Systems Society (2012)
Vice President, Publication Activities, IEEE Control Systems Society (2010)
Board of Governors, IEEE Control Systems Society (1996 - present)
Chair, IEEE Control Systems Society Technical Committee on Control Theory
(1994)
Chair, IEEE
Control Systems Society Working Group on Discrete
Event
Systems (1989 - 1993)
Chair, IFAC
Technical Committee on Discrete Event and
Hybrid Systems
(2002 - 2005)
IEEE Periodicals Committee, 2014
IEEE Fellow Evaluation Committee, 2014
Conference Chair:
2nd Intl. Conf. on Performance Evaluation, Methodologies, and Tools, Oct. 2007 (Program Chair with A. Proutiere, K. Trivedi)
1st IFAC Workshop on Dependable Control of Discrete Systems, June 2007 (Vice Chair)
2nd IFAC Conf. on Analysis and Design of Hybrid Systems, June 2006 (Co-Chair)
43rd IEEE Conf. Decision and Control, December 2004 (General Chair)
7th Intl. Workshop on Discrete Event Systems, September 2004 (Co-Chair)
Symposium on Complex Systems Modeling and Optimization
in the Information Age, Boston, MA, June 2001 (Co-Chair)
38th IEEE Conf. Decision and Control,
December 1999 (Program Chair)
9th INFORMS Applied Prob. Conf., June 1997
(with M. Caramanis)
Workshop on Discrete Event Systems, June 1991 (sponsored by NSF)
2nd IEEE Workshop on Computer-Aided Modeling, Analysis
and Design of Comm. Links and Networks, October 1988 (Co-Chair)
Conference Organizing Committees:
5th IEEE Conf. on Industrial Electronics and Applications, June 2010 (Intl. Adv. Committee)
Dynamics of Information Systems, February 2010
37th IEEE Conf. Decision and Control,
December 1998 (Vice Chair)
36th IEEE Conf. Decision and Control,
December 1997 (Vice Chair)
35th IEEE Conf. Decision and Control,
December 1996 (Registr. Co-Chair)
32nd IEEE Conf. Decision and Control,
December 1993 (Workshop Chair)
Conference Program Committees:
12th Intl. Workshop on Discrete Event Systems, May 2014
18th IEEE Intl. Conf. on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, September 2013
8th IFIP/IEEE Intl. Workshop on Feedback
Control Implementation and Design in Computing Systems and Networks, June
2013
12th Intl. Conf. on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision, December 2012
20th IEEE Mediterranean Conf. on Control and
Automation, July 2012
4th IFAC Conf. on Analysis and Design of Hybrid Systems, June 2012
2nd International Conference on Systems and Control, November 2011
6th IFIP/IEEE Intl. Workshop on Feedback
Control Implementation and Design in Computing Systems and Networks, June
2011
19th IEEE Mediterranean Conf. on Control and
Automation, June 2011
3rd Intl. Workshop on Dependable Control of Discrete Systems, June 2011
6th IEEE Conf. on Industrial Electronics and
Applications, June 2011
2010 Chinese Control and Decision Conference, June 2011
18th IEEE Mediterranean Conf. on Control and
Automation, June 2010
DEVS Integrative M&S Symposium (DEVS 2010),
April 2010
3rd IFAC Conf. on Analysis and Design of Hybrid Systems, September 2009
4th IFIP/IEEE Intl. Workshop on Feedback Control
Implementation and Design in Computing Systems and Networks, April 2009
6th Intl. Conf. on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics, July 2009
47th IEEE Conf. Decision and Control, December 2008
9th Intl. Workshop on Discrete Event Systems, May 2008
3rd IFIP/IEEE Intl. Workshop on Feedback
Control Implementation and Design in Computing Systems and Networks, May 2008
5th Intl. Conf. on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics, December 2008
2nd IFIP/IEEE Intl. Workshop on Feedback
Control Implementation and Design in Computing Systems and Networks, May 2007
3rd Intl. Conf. on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics, August 2006
8th Intl. Workshop on Discrete Event Systems, July 2006
1st IFAC Conf. on Analysis and Control of Chaotic Systems, June 2006
Workshop on Feedback Control Implementation and Design in Computing Systems and
Networks, April 2006
Intl. Symp. on Automatic Systems for
Building Infrastructure in Developing Countries, October 2004
Intl. Conf. on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics, August 2004
SPIE Defense and Security Symposium, April 2004
IMACS/IEEE Conference on Computational
Engineering in Systems Applications, July 2003
IFAC
Conference on Analysis and Design of Hybrid Systems, June 2003
17th SPIE Intl. Symposium, April 2003
6th Intl. Workshop on Discrete Event Systems,
October 2002
Intl. Conf. on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision, June 2002
16th SPIE Intl. Symposium, April 2002
5th Intl. Workshop on Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control, March 2002
15th SPIE Intl. Symposium, April 2001
4th Intl. Workshop on Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control, March 2001
IEEE Intl. Symposium on Intelligent Control, July 2000
14th SPIE Intl. Symposium, April 2000
IEEE Symposium on Robotics and Control, July 1999
13th SPIE Intl. Symposium, April 1999
IMACS 2nd Intl. Conf. on Circuits, Systems, and
Computers, October 1998
7th IEEE Conf. on Control Applications, September
1998
3rd Intl. Workshop on Discrete Event Systems,
August 1998
12th SPIE Intl. Symposium, April 1998
5th IEEE Medit. Conference on New Directions in
Control and Automation, July 1997
1997 European Control Conference, June 1997
11th SPIE Intl. Symposium, April 1997
2nd Intl. Workshop on Discrete Event Systems, August 1996
IMACS/IEEE Conf. on Computational Engineering in Systems Applications, July 1996
INRIA/IEEE Conf. on Emerging Technologies and
Factory Automation, October 1995
3rd IEEE Medit. Conference on New Directions in
Control and Automation, July 1995
1994 Intl. Workshop on New Directions in Control and Manufacturing, November 1994
1994 American Control Conf., June 1994
11th International Conf. on Control and Optim. of Systems, June 1994
12th IFAC World Congress, July 1993 (Co-Chair of Target Area Program)
1993 American Control Conf., June 1993
3rd Intl. Computer Integrated Manuf. Conf., May 1992
30th IEEE Conf. Decision and Control, December 1991
IFAC Workshop on Discrete Event System Theo. and Applic., June 1991
3rd IEEE Workshop on Computer-Aided Modeling,
Analysis and Design of Comm. Links and Networks, September 1990
11th IFAC World Congress, August 1990
Developer or Co-Developer of
Short Courses/Workshops:
One-day
workshop on Five Decades of Ho-ntrol and Ho-ptimization, 48th
IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, December 2010
Tutorial workshop on Hybrid
Dynamical Systems: Modeling and Optimal Control, 5th Intl. Workshop on Discrete Event Systems, August 2000
One-day
workshop on Discrete Event Dynamic
Systems: The State of the Art and New Directions, 14th IFAC World Congress, July 1999 and 36th IEEE Conf. on
Decision and Control, December 1997
Short course on Perturbation
Analysis and its Application in Manufacturing Systems, INRIA/IEEE Conf. on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation,
October 1995
Short course on Discrete Event Systems, 3rd European Control Conf., September 1995
One-day workshop on Discrete
Event Systems: Modeling, Performance Analysis and Optimization, 33rd IEEE Conf. on Decision and Control,
December 1994
One-day workshop on Discrete Event Systems: The
State-of-the-Art, Theory and Applications, Amer. Control Conf., June 1991
One-day workshop on Discrete
Event Systems: Modeling, Analysis and Applications, Amer. Control Conf., June 1988
Organizer/Moderator
of Conference Panel Sessions:
When the Hype hits the Fan: Reining in the Expectations of Modeling and
Simulation, 16th SPIE Intl. Symposium,
April 2002
Discrete Event Systems, 29th IEEE Conf. Decision and Control, December 1990
Organizer or
Co-Organizer of Conference Technical Sessions:
Systems and Control Methods for Cybersecurity, 52nd IEEE Conf. Decision and Control, December 2013
Persistent Monitoring, 51st IEEE Conf. Decision and Control, December 2012
Mobile Sensor Networks and Cooperative Control, 49th IEEE Conf. Decision and Control, December 2010
Sensor Networks and Cooperative Control, 48th IEEE Conf. Decision and Control, December 2009
Sensor Networks and Cooperative Control, 47th IEEE Conf. Decision and Control, December 2008
Sensor Networks and Cooperative Control, 46th IEEE Conf. Decision and Control, December 2007
Sensor Networks and Cooperative Control, Tutorial Session, 44th IEEE Conf. Decision and Control, December 2005
Control of Wireless Sensor Networkss, 43rd
IEEE Conf. Decision and Control, December 2004
Cooperative, Dynamic Mission Control for Uncertain, Multi-Vehicle Autonomous Systems, 41st IEEE Conf. Decision and Control, December 2002
Recent Advances in Stochastic Networks, 39th IEEE Conf. Decision and Control, December 2001
Optimal Control of Hybrid Systems, 39th
IEEE Conf. Decision and Control, December 2000
Recent Advances in Manufacturing Systems Research, 38th IEEE Conf. Decision and Control, December 1999
Control and Performance Analysis of Computer Communication Networks, 34th IEEE Conf. Decision and Control,
December 1995
Parallel Processing in the Control and Optimization
of Discrete Event Systems, 32nd IEEE Conf. Decision and Control,
December 1993
Beyond
Perturbation Analysis of Discrete Event Systems,
ORSA/TIMS/INRIA/SMAI Conf. on Applied Probability, June 1993.
Performance Analysis of Discrete Event Dynamic Systems, 29th
IEEE Conf. Decision and Control, December 1990
Discrete Event Systems, 28th IEEE Conf. Decision and Control, December 1989
Discrete Event Systems, 26th IEEE Conf. Decision and Control, December 1987
Invited Speaker at various Universities, Industrial Organizations, Research Institutes, Government Laboratories/Agencies
Chairman or Co-Chairman of various Conference Technical Sessions
Member of various Panels and Award Committees
Reviewer for papers submitted to various technical journals and for proposals submitted to the National Science Foundation and several other federal agencies and international organizations
