Murat Arcak
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Research Areas
Control, Intelligent Systems, and Robotics (CIR)Cyber-Physical Systems and Design Automation (CPSDA)
Biosystems & Computational Biology (BIO)
Research Centers
Partners for Advanced Transit and Highways (PATH)Synthetic Biology Institute (SBI)
Teaching Schedule
Fall 2020
EE 290-4. Population Games, Mo 2:00PM - 3:59PM, Internet/OnlineSpring 2021
EE C222. Nonlinear Systems, TuTh 12:30PM - 1:59PM, Requested General AssignmentBiography
Murat Arcak's research is in dynamical systems and control theory with applications to synthetic biology, multi-agent systems, and transportation. Prior to joining Berkeley in 2008, he was a faculty member at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He received a CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation in 2003, the Donald P. Eckman Award from the American Automatic Control Council in 2006, the Control and Systems Theory Prize from the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) in 2007, and the Antonio Ruberti Young Researcher Prize from the IEEE Control Systems Society in 2014. He is a member of SIAM and a fellow of IEEE and International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC).Education
2000, Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara1997, M.S., Electrical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara
1996, B.S., Electrical Engineering, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey
Selected Publications
M. Perkins, D. Benzinger, M. Arcak, and M. Khammash, "Cell-in-the-loop pattern formation with optogenetically emulated cell-to-cell signaling," Nature Communications, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 1355, March 2020.J. Maidens, A. Barrau, S. Bonnabel, and M. Arcak, "Symmetry reduction for dynamic programming," Automatica, vol. 97, pp. 367 - 375, Nov. 2018.
S. Coogan, M. Arcak, and C. Belta, "Formal Methods for Control of Traffic Flow: Automated Control Synthesis from Finite-State Transition Models," IEEE Control Systems, vol. 37, no. 2, pp. 109-128, April 2017.
M. Arcak, C. Meissen, and A. Packard, Networks of Dissipative Systems: Compositional Certification of Stability, Performance, and Safety, SpringerBriefs in Control, Automation and Robotics, Springer, 2016.
J. Hsia, W. J. Holtz, D. C. Huang, M. Arcak, and M. Maharbiz, "A feedback quenched oscillator produces Turing patterning with one diffuser," PLoS Computational Biology, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. e**, Jan. 2012.
M. Arcak, "Certifying spatially uniform behavior in reaction-diffusion PDE and compartmental ODE systems," Automatica, vol. 47, no. 6, pp. 1219-1229, June 2011.
M. Arcak, "Passivity as a design tool for group coordination," IEEE Trans. Automatic Control, vol. 52, no. 8, pp. 1380-1390, Aug. 2007.
M. Arcak and E. D. Sontag, "Diagonal stability of a class of cyclic systems and its connection with the secant criterion," Automatica, vol. 42, no. 9, pp. 1531-1537, Sep. 2006.
M. Arcak, H. Gorgun, L. M. Pedersen, and S. Varigonda, "A nonlinear observer design for fuel cell hydrogen estimation," IEEE Trans. Control Systems Technology, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 101-110, Jan. 2004.
M. Arcak and P. Kokotovic, "Nonlinear observers: A circle criterion design and robustness analysis," Automatica, vol. 37, no. 12, pp. 1923-1930, Dec. 2001.
P. Kokotovic and M. Arcak, "Constructive nonlinear control: A historical perspective," Automatica, vol. 37, no. 5, pp. 637-662, May 2001.
Awards, Memberships and Fellowships
International Federation for Automatic Control (IFAC) Fellow, 2020IFAC Automatica Paper Prize, 2020
CSS Transactions on Control of Network Systems Outstanding Paper Award, 2017
Electrical Engineering Award for Outstanding Teaching, 2014
CSS Antonio Ruberti Young Researcher Prize, 2014
Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Fellow, 2012
SIAM Activity Group Control and Systems Theory Prize, 2007
Donald P. Eckman Award, 2006
NSF Faculty Early Career Development Award (CAREER), 2003