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

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 Center for Mathematical Systems Theory, 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 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 Steering Committee of the BioMaPS Institute for Quantitative Biology.

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.

Recent or upcoming major presentations include plenaries at 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, SIAM Review, Synthetic and Systems Biology, International Journal of Biological Sciences, Nonlinear Analysis: Hybrid Systems, Nonlinear Dynamics and Systems Theory, Journal of Computer and Systems Sciences, and Neural Computing Surveys (Board of Advisors), and a former Board member of IEEE Transactions in Automatic Control, Systems and Control Letters, Dynamics and Control, Neurocomputing, Neural Networks, Control-Theory and Advanced Technology, 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 has been Program Director and Vice-Chair of the Activity Group in Control and Systems Theory of SIAM. He has been a member of several committees at SIAM and the AMS, and is a former 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.

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