Short CV

Eduardo Sontag's major current research interests lie in several areas of systems molecular biology, control and dynamical systems theory, and computational biology.

He received his Licenciado degree from the Mathematics Department at the University of Buenos Aires in 1972, and his Ph.D. (Mathematics) under Rudolf E. Kalman at the University of Florida, in 1976.

Since 1977, Sontag has been with the Department of Mathematics at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, where he is currently Professor II (distinguished) of Mathematics as well as a Member of the Graduate Faculty of the Department of Computer Science and the Graduate Faculty of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He is also the director of SYCON, the Rutgers Center for Systems and Control, and is a co-founder and Member of the Advisory Committee of the BioMaPS Institute for Quantitative Biology. as well as a Member of the Cancer Institute of NJ at the RWJ Medical School.

Sontag has authored over four hundred journal and conference papers and book chapters in the above areas, as well as the books Topics in Artificial Intelligence (in Spanish, Buenos Aires: Prolam, 1972), Polynomial Response Maps (Berlin: Springer, 1979), and Mathematical Control Theory: Deterministic Finite Dimensional Systems (Texts in Applied Mathematics, Volume 6, Second Edition, New York: Springer, 1998). He is an ISI Highly Cited researcher, and had an h-index of 62 as of September 2009.

Recent major presentations include addresses to the Second q-bio Conference, Los Alamos, August 2008, the Workshop on Analysis and Design of Nonlinear Control Systems, London, May 2008, the Conference on Recent Advances in Control and Learning, Hyderabad, January 2008, the International Conference on Systems Biology, Long Beach, October 2007, the Algebraic Methods in Control Theory and Signal Processing Conference, Paris, March 2006, the International Congress on the Applications of Mathematics, Santiago, Chile, March 2006, the Foundations of Systems Biology in Engineering (FOSBE'05) Conference, Santa Barbara, August 2005, the Biology and Systems Symposium, Keystone, April 2005, the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Las Vegas, December 2002 (Hendrik W. Bode Lecture), the SIAM Annual Meeting, San Diego, July 2001 (Reid Lecture), the Chemical Process Control Conference, Tucson, January 2001, the European Community Nonlinear Control Workshop, Paris, June 2000, and the British Applied Mathematics Colloquium, Bath, April 1999.

Sontag is in the Editorial Board of several journals, including: IET Proceedings Systems Biology, Synthetic and Systems Biology, International Journal of Biological Sciences, Nonlinear Dynamics and Systems Theory, Journal of Computer and Systems Sciences, and Neural Computing Surveys (Board of Advisors), and a former Board member of SIAM Review, IEEE Transactions in Automatic Control, Systems and Control Letters, Dynamics and Control, Neurocomputing, Neural Networks, Control-Theory and Advanced Technology, Nonlinear Analysis: Hybrid Systems, and Control, Optimization and the Calculus of Variations. In addition, he is a co-founder and co-Managing Editor of the Springer journal MCSS (Mathematics of Control, Signals, and Systems).

Sontag is an IEEE Fellow, and a SIAM Fellow. He has been Program Director and Vice-Chair of the Activity Group in Control and Systems Theory of SIAM, and member of several committees at SIAM and the AMS, including Chair of the Committee on Human Rights of Mathematicians of the latter. He was awarded the Reid Prize in Mathematics in 2001, the 2002 Hendrik W. Bode Lecture Prize from the IEEE, the 2002 Board of Trustees Award for Excellence in Research from Rutgers, and the 2005 Teacher/Scholar Award from Rutgers. He is the receipient of the 2011 IEEE Control Systems Field Award.

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