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Richard M. Murray Thomas E. and Doris Everhart Professor of Control & Dynamical Systems and Bioengineering California Institute of Technology Papers Research Group Teaching Contact

Quick Links: CDS 140 Group Schedule Feedback Systems Biomolecular Feedback Systems

Prospective postdocs: I typically make decisions about postdocs in the April-May timeframe, when I know what my grants look like for fall. Please take a look at my current research interests to see what projects we are currently working on.

Research

My group's research is in the application of feedback and control to networked systems, with applications in biology and autonomy. Current projects include work on biomolecular feedback systems, novel architectures for control systems, and networked control systems (see my research overview for more details).

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Active projects:

• Resilient Risk-Aware Autonomy for the Exploration of Uncertain and Extreme Environments (KISS/JPL)
• Theory-Based Engineering of Biomolecular Circuits in Living Cells (AFOSR)
• Biomolecular Circuits for Rapid Detection and Response to Environmental Events (ARO ICB)
• Molecular Programming Architectures, Abstractions, Algorithms, and Applications (NSF)
• The TerraSwarm Research Center (FCRP)
• iCyPhy: Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems (IBM/UTC)
• Model-guided Discovery and Optimization of Cell-based Sensors (ONR MURI)
• Biomolecular Breadboards for Prototyping and Debugging Synthetic Biocircuits (DARPA)
• Programmable Molecular Technology Initiative (GBMF)
• Correct-by-Construction Synthesis of Control Protocols for Aerospace Systems (Boeing)

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Group

Ania Baetica (CDS) Benson Christalin (CDS) Emzo de los Santos* (BE) Samira Farahani (CMS) Ioannis Filippidis (CDS) Anthony Fragoso* (Ae) Shaobin Guo (BMB) Clarmyra Hayes# (BE) Yutaka Hori+ (Japan)

Victoria Hsiao (BE) Vanessa Jonsson (CDS) Scott Livingston (CDS) Catharine McGhan (CMS) Yilin Mo (CMS) Daniel Naftalovich (CDS) Ivan Papusha (CDS) Vasu Raman (CMS)

Sean Sanchez# (BE) Vipul Singhal (CNS) Dan Siegal-Gaskins (BE) Anandh Swaminathan (CDS) Zach Sun (MD/PhD) Anu Thubagere* (BE) Yong Wu (ChE) Enoch Yeung (CDS)

* co-advised students

+ visiting researchers

° rotation students

† undergraduates

# research tech

Former graduate students:

• Marcella Gomez - Ph. D. in Mechanical Engineering, September 2014
• Stephanie Tsuei - M.S. in Control and Dynamical Systems, June 2014
• Eric Wolff - Ph. D. in Control and Dynamical Systems, June 2014
• Shuo Han - Ph. D. in Electrical Engineering, September 2013
• Huan (Mumu) Xu - Ph. D. in Mechanical Engineering, June 2013
• Ophelia Venturelli - Ph. D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, June 2013

Dionysios Barmpoutis (thesis) Robert Behnken (thesis) Julia Badger (Braman) (thesis) Francesco Bullo (thesis) Robert Bodenheimer* John Carson (thesis) Andrea Censi (thesis) Tim Chung* Lars Cremean (thesis) Nadine Dabby* Raff D'Andrea* Samantha (Feakins) Daly# Domitilla Del Vecchio (thesis) Mary Dunlop (thesis) William Dunbar (thesis) Michael Epstein (thesis) Alex Fax (thesis)

Sawyer Fuller (thesis) Melvin Flores (thesis) Elisa Franco (thesis) Jimmy Fung (thesis) Martha Grover (Gallivan) (thesis) Vijay Gupta (thesis) Sonja Glavaski* Adam Hayes* Sean Humbert (thesis) Ali Jadbabaie* (thesis) Zhipu Jin (thesis) Scott Kelly (thesis) Dmitriy Kogan# Javad Lavaei* (thesis) Andrew Lewis (thesis) Robert M'Closkey (thesis) Mark Milam (thesis)

Michiel van Nieuwstadt (thesis) Muruhan Rathinam (thesis) Clancy Rowley* Ben Shapiro (thesis) Ling Shi (thesis) Demetri Spanos (thesis) Sudipto Sur (thesis) Amber Thweatt# Jorge Tierno* Abhishek Tiwari (thesis) Pete Trautman (thesis) David van Gogh# Tony Vanelli# (thesis) Yong Wang (thesis) Steve Waydo* (thesis) Nok Wongpiromsarn (thesis) Simon Yeung (thesis)

# Masters or Engineers degree    * Co-advised student

Former postdocs:

• Jongmin Kim (2010-14) - BE Postdoctoral Fellow
• Necmiye Ozay (2010-13) - CDS Postdoctoral Fellow
• Shaunak Sen (2011-12) - CDS Postdoctoral Fellow
• Pavithra Prabhakar (2011-12) - CMS Postdoctoral Fellow

Raktim Bhattacharya (2002-04) Brianno Coller (1995-97) Noel du Toit (2011) Tamer Inanc (2002-04) Eric Klavins* (2001-03) Feng-Li Lian (2001-02)

Jun Liu (2011-2012) Kristi Morgansen (1999-2001) Pascal Morin (1996-97) Yasamin Mostofi (2004-06) Reza Olfati-Saber (2001-04) Yizhar Or (2007-09)

Nicolas Petit (2001-02) Henrik Sandberg (2005-07) B. N. Shashikanth* (1998-2000) Andrew Straw* (2010) Willem Sluis (1994-96) Herbert Streumper (1997-99)

Additional group alumni:   SURF    Senior thesis    Visitors

Teaching

The list below is the courses that I have taught at Caltech (or at least most of them). The course links will take you to the (current) course homepage, where you can find the syllabus, handouts, and homework sets. The links for specific terms take you to the course homepage for that term. Links to older courses are available on a separate page.

• ACM/EE_116 - Probability and Random Processes (Fa11)
• BE 150/Bi 250b - Systems Biology (Wi11, Wi12, Wi13)
• CS/EE/ME 75 - Introduction to Multi-Disciplinary Systems Engineering (04-05, 06-07, 10-11)
• CDS 90 - Senior Thesis in Control and Dynamical Systems (2004-present)
• CDS 101/110a - Analysis and Design of Feedback Systems (Fa97, Fa01, Fa02, Fa03, Fa04, Fa06, Fa07, Fa08, Fa12)
• CDS 110b - Optimization-Based Control (Wi98, Wi02, Wi03, Wi04, Wi06, Wi07, Wi08)
• CDS 140a - Differential Equations and Dynamical Systems (Wi11, Wi13, Wi14)
• CDS 202 - Geometry of Nonlinear Systems (Wi93, Wi94, Wi04, Wi09, Sp13)
• CDS 270 - Networked Control Systems (Sp06)
• CDS 273 - Frontiers in Control and Dynamical Systems (Sp01, Sp02, Sp03, Sp04, Sp05, Sp06)
• Older courses (not taught in the last 5 years)
• Guest lectures - individual lectures I have given in various courses

Contact

Mailing Address Richard M. Murray Control and Dynamical Systems 107-81 California Institute of Technology 1200 E. California Blvd Pasadena, CA 91125 USA	Contact information E-mail: murray@cds.caltech.edu Office: 109 Steele, (626) 395-6460 Asst: Nikki Fauntleroy, x4140 Labs: 12 Steele, 136 Keck
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