Mustafa Khammash

Biography

Mustafa Khammash is the Professor of Control Theory and Systems Biology at the Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering (D-BSSE) at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETHZ). From 2006 till 2011 he served as the Director of the Center for Control, Dynamical systems, and Computations (CCDC) at the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB) where he held a Professor appointment in the Mechanical Engineering department since 2001. Before joining UCSB he was on the faculty of the Electrical Engineering department at Iowa State University, a position he held since completing his Ph.D. at Rice University in 1990. Dr. Khammash currently works in the areas of control theory, systems biology, and synthetic biology. His research strives to understand the role of dynamics, feedback, and randomness in biology, and to develop the tools needed to aid in this understanding. Khammash is a Fellow of the IEEE, IFAC, and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. He is the recipient of the National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award, the Iowa State University Foundation Early Achievement in Research and Scholarship Award, the ISU College of Engineering Young Faculty Research Award, and the Ralph Budd Best Engineering PhD Thesis Award.