Eduardo D. Sontag

Eduardo Sontag's major current research interests lie in several areas of control and dynamical systems theory, systems molecular biology, synthetic biology, computational biology, and cancer and immunology.

He received his Licenciado degree from the Mathematics Department at the University of Buenos Aires in 1972, and his Ph.D. in Mathematics under Rudolf E. Kalman at the University of Florida in 1977. From 1977 to 2017 he was with the Department of Mathematics at Rutgers, where he was a Distinguished Professor of Mathematics as well as a member of the graduate faculties of Computer Science and of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and a member of the Rutgers Cancer Institute of NJ. He also served as head of the undergraduate Biomathematics Interdisciplinary Major, Director of the Center for Quantitative Biology, and Director of Graduate Studies of the Institute for Quantitative Biomedicine.

In January 2018 he was appointed University Distinguished Professor in the Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Bioengineering at Northeastern University. In 2019 he became an affiliate in the NU departments of Mathematics and Chemical Engineering, and since 2021 he has been on the Faculty and Leadership Council of the Institute for Experiential AI at NU. Since 2006 he has been a Research Affiliate at the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems at MIT, and since 2018 a member of the Faculty in the Program in Therapeutic Science at Harvard Medical School.

Sontag has authored over five hundred research papers, monographs, and book chapters in these areas, with over 61,000 citations and an h-index of 106. He serves on the editorial boards of several journals, including Cell Systems, and is co-founder and co-Managing Editor of the Springer journal MCSS (Mathematics of Control, Signals, and Systems). He has also served on the boards of SIAM Review, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Systems and Control Letters, and many others.

Sontag is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a Fellow of IEEE, AMS, SIAM, and IFAC. Among his honors are the Reid Prize in Mathematics (2001), the Hendrik W. Bode Lecture Prize (2002), the IEEE Control Systems Field Award (2011), and the Bellman Control Heritage Award (2022).