Murat Arcak

Associate Professor

Research Areas

• Biosystems & Computational Biology (BIO)
• Control, Intelligent Systems, and Robotics (CIR)
• Energy (ENE)

Teaching Schedule (Spring 2012)

• EE 222. Nonlinear Systems - Analysis, Stability and Control, TuTh 930-11A, 320 Soda

Biography

Murat Arcak received his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey (1996) and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California, Santa Barbara (1997 and 2000). Prior to joining Berkeley, he was an Assistant Professor (2001-06) and an Associate Professor (2006-08) at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York. His research is in nonlinear systems and control theory with applications to biological networks, power systems, communication networks, and cooperative robotics. 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, and the SIAG/CST Prize from the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) in 2007. He is a member of SIAM and a fellow of IEEE.

Selected Publications

• J. Hsia, W. J. Holtz, D. C. Huang, M. Arcak, and M. Maharbiz, "A Feedback Quenched Oscillator Produces Turing Patterning with One Diffuser," PLoS Computational Biology, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. e1002331, Jan. 2012.
• M. Arcak, "Diagonal stability on cactus graphs and application to network stability analysis," IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 56, no. 12, pp. 2766-2777, Dec. 2011.
• M. Arcak, "Certifying spatially uniform behavior in reaction-diffusion PDE and compartmental ODE systems," Automatica, vol. 47, no. 6, pp. 1219-1229, June 2011.
• J. O'Rourke, M. Arcak, and R. Ramani, "Real-time optimization of net power in a fuel cell system," Journal of Power Sources, vol. 187, pp. 422-430, 2009.
• M. Arcak, "Passivity as a design tool for group coordination," IEEE Trans. Automatic Control, vol. 52, no. 8, pp. 1380-1390, Aug. 2007.
• M. Arcak and E. D. Sontag, "Diagonal stability of a class of cyclic systems and its connection with the secant criterion," Automatica, vol. 42, no. 9, pp. 1531-1537, Sep. 2006.
• J. T. Wen and M. Arcak, "A unifying passivity framework for network flow control," IEEE Trans. Automatic Control, vol. 49, no. 2, pp. 162-174, Feb. 2004.
• M. Arcak, H. Gorgun, L. M. Pedersen, and S. Varigonda, "A nonlinear observer design for fuel cell hydrogen estimation," IEEE Trans. Control Systems Technology, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 101-110, Jan. 2004.
• M. Arcak, D. Angeli, and E. Sontag, "A unifying integral ISS framework for stability of nonlinear cascades," SIAM J. Control and Optimization, vol. 40, no. 6, pp. 1888-1904, 2002.
• M. Arcak and P. Kokotovic, "Nonlinear observers: A circle criterion design and robustness analysis," Automatica, vol. 37, no. 12, pp. 1923-1930, Dec. 2001.
• P. Kokotovic and M. Arcak, "Constructive nonlinear control: A historical perspective," Automatica, vol. 37, no. 5, pp. 637-662, May 2001.
• M. Arcak, A. Teel, and P. Kokotovic, "Robust nonlinear control of feedforward systems with unmodeled dynamics," Automatica, vol. 37, no. 2, pp. 265-272, Feb. 2001.