# Murat Arcak

### Research Areas

- Control, Intelligent Systems, and Robotics (CIR)
- Cyber-Physical Systems and Design Automation (CPSDA)
- Biosystems & Computational Biology (BIO)
- Power and Energy (ENE)

### Research Centers

- Center for the Theoretical Foundations of Learning, Inference, Information, Intelligence, Mathematics and Microeconomics at Berkeley (CLIMB)
- CITRIS People and Robots (CPAR)
- Institute of Transportation Studies (ITS)
- Partners for Advanced Transit and Highways (PATH)

## Biography

Murat Arcak's research is in control theory, autonomous systems, and multi-agent systems, with applications in transportation, energy, and biology. 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 Barbara
- 1997, M.S., Electrical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara
- 1996, B.S., Electrical Engineering, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey

## Selected Publications

- A. Devonport, F. Yang, L. E. Ghaoui, and M. Arcak, "Data-Driven Reachability and Support Estimation With Christoffel Functions," IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 68, no. 9, pp. 5216-5229, Sep. 2023.
- A. Gyorgy, A. Menezes, and M. Arcak, "A blueprint for a synthetic genetic feedback optimizer," Nature Communications, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 2554, May 2023.
- P. Meyer, A. Devonport, and M. Arcak, Interval Reachability Analysis: Bounding Trajectories of Uncertain Systems with Boxes for Control and Verification, SpringerBriefs in Control, Automation and Robotics, Springer, 2021.
- 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.

## Awards, Memberships and Fellowships

- Brockett-Willems Outstanding Paper Award, 2021
- International Federation for Automatic Control (IFAC) Fellow, 2020
- IFAC 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