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Christos Cassandras is a Distinguished Professor of Engineering and Head of the Division of Systems Engineering at Boston University, with a joint appointment in Electrical & Computer Engineering. He holds honorary professorships at Tsinghua University and multiple Chinese institutions. His expertise spans control systems, discrete event systems, and smart cities.
Education: PhD from Harvard University (1982), with prior degrees from Yale and Stanford. He has authored seven books and over 500 publications, focusing on control theory, autonomous systems, and transportation networks.
Research Interests: Analysis and control of discrete event systems, hybrid systems, stochastic control, distributed systems, and applications to smart cities and autonomous vehicles.
Awards include IEEE Fellow (1996), IFAC Fellow (2008), and the IEEE Control Systems Technology Award (2011). He served as Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control and President of the IEEE Control Systems Society.
Grants and Labs: Leads the Center for Information and Systems Engineering, involved in Clean Energy initiatives, and teaches courses like SE/EC/ME 733 (Discrete Event Systems) and EK 500 (Probability Methods).
