BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
Dr. Christos
Cassandras
Dr. Christos
G. Cassandras is Professor of Manufacturing Engineering
and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Boston University. He received degrees from Yale University (B.S., 1977), Stanford University (M.S.E.E., 1978), and Harvard University (S.M., 1979; Ph.D., 1982). In 1982-84
he was with ITP Boston, Inc. where he worked on the design of automated manufacturing
systems. In 1984-1996 he was a faculty member at the Department of Electrical
and Computer Engineering, University of Massachusetts/Amherst.
Professor Cassandras specializes in the areas of discrete event
and hybrid systems, stochastic optimization, and computer simulation, with
applications to computer networks, manufacturing systems, and transportation
systems. He has published over 200 refereed papers and two textbooks. He
has guest-edited several technical journal issues and serves on several journal
Editorial Boards. Dr. Cassandras is currently
Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
and has served as Editor for Technical Notes and Correspondence and Associate
Editor. He is a member of the IEEE CSS Board of Governors, chaired the CSS
Technical Committee on Control Theory, and served as Chair of several conferences.
He has been a plenary speaker at various international conferences, including
the American Control Conference in 2001 and the IEEE Conference on Decision
and Control in 2002. He is the recipient of several awards, including the
1999 Harold Chestnut Prize (IFAC Best Control Engineering Textbook) for Discrete Event Systems: Modeling and Performance Analysis,
and a 1991 Lilly Fellowship. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Tau Beta Pi. He is also a Fellow of the IEEE.