Murat Arcak

Murat Arcak is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences and Mechanical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, holding the Robert M. Saunders Endowed Chair in the College of Engineering. His research spans control theory, autonomous systems, and multi-agent systems with applications in transportation, energy, and biology.

Dr. Arcak received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2000, following an M.S. from the same institution in 1997 and a B.S. from Bogazici University in Istanbul, Turkey in 1996.

His research interests focus on developing scalable control design and verification methods for complex systems with many interconnected components, nonlinear dynamics, and learning capabilities. He has made significant contributions to control theory, particularly in areas like reachability analysis, dissipative systems, and compositional verification methods. His work bridges theoretical advances with practical applications in transportation systems, energy networks, and biological systems.

A leading researcher in control systems, Dr. Arcak's recent publications demonstrate a strong focus on data-driven approaches for system verification, synthetic biology applications, and formal methods for traffic control. His research combines mathematical rigor with practical implementation, often developing novel theoretical frameworks that address real-world engineering challenges.

• CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation (2003)
• Donald P. Eckman Award from the American Automatic Control Council (2006)
• Control and Systems Theory Prize from SIAM (2007)
• Antonio Ruberti Young Researcher Prize from IEEE Control Systems Society (2014)
• Brockett-Willems Outstanding Paper Award (2021)
• IFAC Fellow (2020)
• IFAC Automatica Paper Prize (2020)
• CSS Transactions on Control of Network Systems Outstanding Paper Award (2017)
• Electrical Engineering Award for Outstanding Teaching (2014)
• CSS Antonio Ruberti Young Researcher Prize (2014)
• IEEE Fellow (2012)
• SIAM Activity Group Control and Systems Theory Prize (2007)

Dr. Arcak has advised numerous graduate students and postdoctoral researchers, though specific names are not listed in the available information. His research has been supported by various grants from the National Science Foundation and other funding agencies, enabling his work on control theory and applications across multiple domains.

He is affiliated with several research centers at UC Berkeley including the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research Lab (BAIR), Berkeley Deep Drive (BDD), the Center for the Theoretical Foundations of Learning, Inference, Information, Intelligence, Mathematics and Microeconomics at Berkeley (CLIMB), the Institute of Transportation Studies (ITS), and Partners for Advanced Transit and Highways (PATH).