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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

Other Activities: Group Schedule Feedback Systems Molecular Programming Project

Prospective graduate students: I admit students through the CDS, BE, BMB, ACM, CS and ME graduate programs at Caltech. Many of my students also come from the CNS and EE departments, but I do not actively participate in admissions decisions in those programs. Please take a look at my current research interests to get a sense of what my group is currently working on.

Recent Publications

Timing molecular motion and production with a synthetic transcriptional clock (PNAS, 2011) Receding horizon control for temporal logic specifications (HSCC, 2010) Controlling biological networks by time-delayed signals (Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 2010) Feedback Systems: An Introduction for Scientists and Engineers (textbook, 2008) Regulatory activity revealed by dynamic correlations in gene expression noise (Nature Genetics, 2008)

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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 novel control system architectures, biomolecular feedback systems and networked control systems (research overview). Template:Active projects [Archive]

Group

Andrea Censi (CDS) Emzo de los Santos* (BE) Marcella Gomez (ME) Shuo Han (EE) Victoria Hsiao° (BE) Vanessa Jonsson (CDS) Chris Kempes+ (MIT) Jongmin Kim (BE) Jun Liu (CDS) Scott Livingston (CDS)

Joe Meyerowitz* (BMB) Paul Nguyen† (BE) Necmiye Özay (CDS) Dominic Rizzo* (ME) Shaunak Sen (CDS) Dan Siegal-Gaskins (BE) Qi Song (BJU) Zachary Sun° (MD/PhD) Nicole Thadani† (BE)

Anu Thubagere (BE) Ufuk Topcu (CDS) Pete Trautman (CDS) Stephanie Tsuei† (ME) Floris van Breugel* (CDS) Ophelia Venturelli (BMB) Eric Wolff (CDS) Mumu Xu (ME) Enoch Yeung (CDS)

* co-advised students

+ visiting researchers

° rotation students

† undergraduates

Former graduate students:

• Dionysios Barmpoutis - Ph.D. in Computation and Neural Systems, December 2011 (thesis)
• Elisa Franco - Ph.D in Control and Dynamical Systems, June 2011 (thesis)
• Sawyer Fuller - Ph.D. in Bioengineering, June 2011 (thesis)
• Javad Lavaei* - Ph.D. in Control and Dynamical Systems, May 2011 (thesis)
• Nok Wongpiromsarn - Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, May 2010 (thesis)

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

Melvin Flores (thesis) Jimmy Fung (thesis) Martha Grover (Gallivan) (thesis) Vijay Gupta (thesis) Sonja Glavaski* Adam Hayes* Sean Humbert (thesis) Zhipu Jin (thesis) Scott Kelly (thesis) Dmitriy Kogan# 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) David van Gogh# Tony Vanelli# (thesis) Yong Wang (thesis) Steve Waydo* (thesis) Simon Yeung (thesis)

# Masters or Engineers degree    * Co-advised student

Former postdocs:

• Andrew Straw* (2010) - Senior Research Fellow in CNS

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

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) 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)
• Bi/BE 250c - Systems Biology (Wi11, Wi12)
• 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)
• CDS 110b - Optimization-Based Control (Wi98, Wi02, Wi03, Wi04, Wi06, Wi07, Wi08)
• CDS 140a - Differential Equations and Dynamical Systems (Wi11)
• CDS 202 - Geometry of Nonlinear Systems (Wi93, Wi94, Wi04, Wi09)
• 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: Anissa Scott, x4140 Labs: 12 Steele, 040 Keck, 4 Keck
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