Mustafa Khammash is the Director of the Center for Control, Dynamical

systems, and Computations (CCDC) at the University of California at

Santa Barbara (UCSB). He also holds an appointment as Professor and Vice

Chair of the Mechanical Engineering at UCSB. He received his B.S. degree

from Texas A&M University in 1986 and his Ph.D. from Rice University in

1990, both in electrical engineering. In 1990, he joined the Electrical

Engineering Department at Iowa State University. While at Iowa State

University, he created the dynamics and control program and led that

control group until 2002. In 2001, he was a visiting Professor at the

California Institute of Technology. In May 2002, he joined the dynamics

and control group in the department of Mechanical and Engineering at the

University of California, Santa Barbara. Professor Khammash^Òs current

research interests are in the areas of control theory and systems biology.