Mustafa Khammash

Mustafa H. Khammash received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Rice University, Houston, TX, in 1990. He then joined Iowa State University, where he created the Dynamics and Control Program and led the control group until 2002 when he joined the Faculty of the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB). At UCSB he served as the Director of the Center for Control, Dynamical Systems and Computation, from 2005 to 2011. In 2011, he moved with his group to Switzerland, joining the Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering at ETH Zürich as the Professor of Control Theory and Systems Biology. At ETH, he served as the Department Chair from 2015 to 2017.

Dr. Khammash works at the interface of control theory, systems biology, and synthetic biology. He develops computational and experimental methodologies for the analysis and design of biological networks. He has been creating control theoretic methods to reverse-engineer endogenous regulation and to engineer synthetic gene circuits for the robust and precise control of living cells, with applications to industrial and medical biotechnology. Dr. Khammash is a Fellow of IEEE, a Fellow of the International Federation of Automatic Control, and a Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.