Khammash, Mustafa, Prof. Dr.

ETH-Zürich
Prof. Dr. Mustafa Khammash
Control Theory and Systems Biology D-BSSE
1058 7.00
Mattenstrasse 26
4058 Basel
SWITZERLAND

Phone: +41 61 387 33 56
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Biography

Dr. Khammash is Professor of Control Theory and Systems Biology in the Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering (D-BSSE) at ETH-Zurich. He received his B.S. degree from Texas A&M University in 1986 and his Ph.D. from Rice University in 1990, both in Electrical Engineering. In 1990, he joined the Electrical Engineering Department at Iowa State University. While at Iowa State University, he created the Dynamics and Control Program and led that control group until 2002, when he became a member of the Mechanical Engineering faculty at the University of California, Santa Barbara. In Santa Barbara, he served as Vice Chair of the Mechanical Engineering Department from 2003 to 2006 and as the Director of the Center for Control, Dynamical Systems and Computation from 2005 to 2011. In 2011 Prof. Khammash moved with his group to Switzerland, joining the Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering at ETH Zurich.

Dr. Khammash works in the areas of control theory, systems biology, and synthetic biology. His research aims to understand the role of dynamics, feedback, and randomness in biology, and to develop the tools needed to aid in this understanding. Work in his lab focuses on the creation of novel computational methods for the modeling, simulation, analysis, and control of biological networks, with particular attention to stochastic systems. Application of these methods to the understanding of specific biological systems include calcium homeostasis, bacterial heat-shock response, pheromone response in yeast, NFk-B signaling pathway, Pap and Ag43 epigenetic switches. Working at the interface of control theory and biology, Prof. Khammash's group is currently developing the theory, computational methods, and experimental tools for the computer control of living cell populations.

Significant Lectures

• Keynote lecture, NSF/Northeast Control Conference, Baltimore, Maryland, 2010
• Semi-Plenary lecture, IFAC Symposium on Systems Identification, Saint Malo, France, 2009
• Keynote lecture, ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference, November 2008
• Semi-Plenary lecture, IEEE Colloquium on Systems Biology, Sheffield, UK, 2007
• Semi-Plenary lecture, Mathematical Theory for Networks and Systems (MTNS) Conference, 2006
• Plenary lecture, International Symposium on Control, Communication, and Signal Processing, March 2004

Awards

• Fellow, International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC), 2010
• Leon Heller Postdoctoral Publication Prize in Theoretical Physics, (co-authored with Munsky, Trinh)
• PhD student Munsky won UCSB Best ME Ph.D Thesis Award, 2008
• Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2007
• Distinguished Lecturer, Michigan State University, 2007
• PhD student El-Samad won Best ME Ph.D Thesis Award, 2005
• PhD student Wenzheng Qiu won Best Ph.D Thesis Award, 2004
• JSPS Fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), September 2003
• Young Engineering Faculty Research Award, Iowa State University, 1999
• Early Achievement in Research and Scholarship Award, Iowa State University Foundation, 1995
• National Young Investigator Award (NYI), National Science Foundation, 1994
• NSF Research Initiation Award, National Science Foundation, 1991
• Ralph Budd Best Engineering Ph.D Thesis Award, Rice University, Houston, Texas, 1990