Ali Mesbah Email Website Biography Ali Mesbah is Associate Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of California at Berkeley. Before joining UC Berkeley, Dr. Mesbah was a senior postdoctoral associate at MIT. He holds a Ph.D. degree in Systems and Control from Delft University of Technology. Dr. Mesbah is a senior member of the IEEE and AIChE. He serves on the IEEE Control Systems Society Conference Editorial Board and IEEE Control Systems Society Technology Conference Editorial Board, and is a subject editor of Optimal Control Applications and Methods and IEEE Transactions on Radiation and Plasma Medical Sciences. Dr. Mesbah is recipient of the Best Application Paper Award of the IFAC World Congress in 2020, the AIChE's 35 Under 35 Award in 2017, the IEEE Control Systems Outstanding Paper Award in 2017, and the AIChE CAST W. David Smith, Jr. Publication Award in 2015. His research interests lie at the intersection of optimal control, machine learning, and applied mathematics, with applications to learning-based analysis, diagnosis, and predictive control of materials processing and manufacturing systems. Position(s) & Affiliation(s) University of California, Berkeley United States
