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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: Group Schedule CDS 131 / CS 143 Feedback Systems Biomolecular Feedback Systems

Prospective graduate students: Students in my group come through the CDS, CMS, BE, BMB, ACM, CS and ME graduate programs at Caltech. Some 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.

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:

• Developer Cell: A modular, extensible chassis for building synthetic cells (Alfred P. Sloan Foundation)
• Design and Implementation of Multi-Component Synthetic Cells (ARO/ICB)
• Control of Functional Bioenabled Materials using Synthetic Cells (ARO/ICB)
• Center for Harnessing Microbiota from Military Environments (CHARMME) (ARO)
• Layered T&E for Safety-Critical Autonomous Systems (AFOSR)
• Rules of Composition in Synthetic Biology Across Scales of Complexity: Theory and Tools (AFOSR)

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Group

Karena Cai* (CDS) Tara Chari° (BE) Richard Cheng* (ME) Samuel Clamons (BE) Sumanth Dathathri (CMS) Sam Davidson° (BE) Jin Ge (CMS) Leopold Green (BBE) Andrew Halleran (BE)

Chelsea Hu (BE) Zoila Jurado* (ME) Sanjana Kulkarni† (BE) John Marken (BE) Michaelle Mayalu (CMS) Reed McCardell (BE) John McManus (BBE) Ayush Pandey (EE)

James Parkin (BE) Tung Phan (ME) William Poole* (CNS) Mark Prator# (EAS) Xinying (Cindy) Ren (CDS) Andrey Shur (BE) Rory Williams (BE) Miki Yun# (EAS)

* co-advised students

+ visiting researchers

° rotation students

† undergraduates

# research tech

Former graduate students:

• Vipul Singhal - PhD in Computation and Neural Systems, June 2018
• Ania Baetica - PhD in Control and Dynamical Systems, May 2018
• Ioannis Filippidis - PhD in Control and Dynamical Systems, December 2017
• Anandh Swaminathan - PhD in Control and Dynamical Systems, December 2017

- PhD in Aeronautics, October 2017 Dionysios Barmpoutis (thesis) Robert Behnken (thesis) Julia Badger (Braman) (thesis) Francesco Bullo (thesis) Robert Bodenheimer* John Carson (thesis) Andrea Censi (thesis) Benson Christalin# Tim Chung* Lars Cremean (thesis) Nadine Dabby* Raff D'Andrea* Samantha (Feakins) Daly# Emzo de los Santos (thesis) Domitilla Del Vecchio (thesis) Mary Dunlop (thesis) William Dunbar (thesis) Michael Epstein (thesis) Alex Fax (thesis) Anthony Fragoso (thesis) Sawyer Fuller (thesis) Melvin Flores (thesis) Elisa Franco (thesis)

Jimmy Fung (thesis) Marcella Gomez (thesis) Martha Grover (Gallivan) (thesis) Shaobin Guo (thesis) Vijay Gupta (thesis) Sonja Glavaski* Shuo Han (thesis) Adam Hayes* Sean Humbert (thesis) Victoria Hsiao (thesis) Ali Jadbabaie* (thesis) Zhipu Jin (thesis) Vanessa Jonsson (thesis) Scott Kelly (thesis) Dmitriy Kogan# Javad Lavaei* (thesis) Andrew Lewis (thesis) Scott Livingston (thesis) Robert M'Closkey (thesis) Mark Milam (thesis) Michiel van Nieuwstadt (thesis) Ivan Papusha (thesis) Muruhan Rathinam (thesis)

Clancy Rowley* Ben Shapiro (thesis) Ling Shi (thesis) Demetri Spanos (thesis) Zachary Sun (thesis)/ Sudipto Sur (thesis) Anu Thubagere* (thesis) Amber Thweatt# Jorge Tierno* Abhishek Tiwari (thesis) Pete Trautman (thesis) Stephanie Tsuei# David van Gogh# Tony Vanelli# (thesis) Ophelia Venturelli (thesis) Yong Wang (thesis) Steve Waydo* (thesis) Eric Wolff (thesis) Nok Wongpiromsarn (thesis) Yong Wu [http://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:08302017-121452132 (thesis) Huan (Mumu) Xu (thesis) Enoch Yeung (thesis) Simon Yeung (thesis)

# Masters or Engineers degree    * Co-advised student

Former postdocs:

• Sofie Haesaert (2016-2018) - CMS Postdoctoral Fellow
• Catherine McGhan (2014-2016) - CMS Postdoctoral Fellow
• Yutaka Hori (2013-2016) - CMS Postdoctoral Fellow

Raktim Bhattacharya (2002-04) Brianno Coller (1995-97) Noel du Toit (2011) Samira Farahani (2014-15) Tamer Inanc (2002-04) Jongmin Kim (2010-14) Eric Klavins* (2001-03) Feng-Li Lian (2001-02) Jun Liu (2011-2012)

Yilin Mo (2013-15) Kristi Morgansen (1999-2001) Pascal Morin (1996-97) Yasamin Mostofi (2004-06) Reza Olfati-Saber (2001-04) Yizhar Or (2007-09) Necmiye Ozay (2010-13) Pavithra Prabhakar (2011-12) Nicolas Petit (2001-02)

Vasu Raman (2013-15) Henrik Sandberg (2005-07) Shaunak Sen (2011-12) B. N. Shashikanth* (1998-2000) Dan Siegal (2012-15) Andrew Straw* (2010) Willem Sluis (1994-96) Herbert Streumper (1997-99) Ufuk Topcu (2008-12)

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 107 - Exploring Biological Principles Through Bio-Inspired Design (Sp15, Sp16)
• BE 150/Bi 250b - Systems Biology (Wi11, Wi12, Wi13, Sp14)
• CS/EE/ME 75 - Introduction to Multi-Disciplinary Systems Engineering (04-05, 06-07, 10-11, 15-16)
• CDS 90 - Senior Thesis in Control and Dynamical Systems (2004-2014)
• CDS 101/110 - Analysis and Design of Feedback Systems (Fa97, Fa01, Fa02, Fa03, Fa04, Fa06, Fa07, Fa08, Fa12, Fa15)
• CDS 112 - Optimization-Based Control (Wi98, Wi02, Wi03, Wi04, Wi06, Wi07, Wi08)
• CDS 140 - Differential Equations and Dynamical Systems (Wi11, Wi13, Wi14, Wi15)
• CDS 240 - Nonlinear Dynamical Systems (Sp14, Sp16)
• CDS 202 - Geometry of Nonlinear Systems (Wi93, Wi94, Wi04, Wi09, Sp13)
• CS 142 - Distributed Computing (Fa17)
• Older courses (not taught in the last 5 years)
• Guest lectures - some 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 Lab, (626) 395-6460 Asst: Monica Nolasco, x4140 Labs: B112 Steele, 136 Keck
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