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 holds an appointment as Professor in 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 Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Prof. Khammash’s research interests lie in the general area of dynamics and feedback control and its applications in natural and man-made systems. He works in the areas of robust control theory, multi-objective control, systems biology. Khammash is the recipient of the National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award, the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Fellowship, the Iowa State University Foundation Early Achievement in Research and Scholarship Award, the ISU College of Engineering Young Faculty Research Award, and the Ralph Budd Best Engineering PhD Thesis Award.