Murray, Richard M.

Advisor — 96 thesises

• Tierno, Jorge E. — A computational approach to nonlinear system analysis (1996, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kelly, Alex — A Constitutive Relation for Shape-Memory Alloys (2009, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Gillula, Jeremy Hugh — A Probabilistic Framework for Real-Time Mapping on an Unmanned Ground Vehicle (2006, Senior thesis (Minor))
• Sun, Zachary Zhipeng — An in vitro Biomolecular Breadboard for Prototyping Synthetic Biological Circuits (2016, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Franco, Elisa — Analysis, Design, and in vitro Implementation of Robust Biochemical Networks (2012, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Swaminathan, Anandh — Application, Computation, and Theory for Synthetic Gene Circuits (2018, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lewis, Andrew David — Aspects of geometric mechanics and control of mechanical systems (1995, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Vanelli, Charles Anthony — Autonomous Reorientation of a Maneuver-Limited Spacecraft Under Simple Pointing Constraints (1997, Engineer's thesis)
• Humbert, James Sean — Bio-Inspired Visuomotor Convergence in Navigation and Flight Control Systems (2005, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Censi, Andrea — Bootstrapping Vehicles: A Formal Approach to Unsupervised Sensorimotor Learning Based on Invariance (2013, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Fung, Jimmy — Coarse Analysis of Multiscale Systems: Diffuser Flows, Charged Particle Motion, and Connections to Averaging Theory (2005, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Poole, William — Compilation and Inference with Chemical Reaction Networks (2022, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Phan-Minh, Tung — Contract-Based Design: Theories and Applications (2021, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wolff, Eric McKenzie — Control of Dynamical Systems with Temporal Logic Specifications (2014, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Murphey, Todd David — Control of Multiple Model Systems (2002, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Jin, Zhipu — Coordinated Control for Networked Multi-Agent Systems (2007, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Filippidis, Ioannis — Decomposing Formal Specifications Into Assume-Guarantee Contracts for Hierarchical System Design (2019, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kapasiawala, Manisha Kaushik — Design Considerations for Synthetic Cells (2026, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Baetica, Ania-Ariadna — Design, Analysis, And Computational Methods For Engineering Synthetic Biological Networks (2018, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Xu, Huan — Design, Specification, and Synthesis of Aircraft Electric Power Systems Control Logic (2013, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Williams, Rory Logan — Development and Scaling of Differentiation Circuit Architectures for Improving the Evolutionary Stability of Burdensome Functions in E. coli (2022, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Rathinam, Muruhan — Differentially flat nonlinear control systems (1997, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Moore, Ashley — Discrete Mechanics and Optimal Control for Space Trajectory Design (2011, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Gupta, Vijay — Distributed Estimation and Control in Networked Systems (2007, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Spanos, Demetri Polychronis — Distributed Gradient Systems and Dynamic Coordination (2006, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Dunbar, William Bruce — Distributed Receding Horizon Control of Multiagent Systems (2004, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Larsson, Elin Maria — Domestication of Environmental Bacteria for Biosensing Applications (2025, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Dunlop, Mary Julia — Dynamics and Correlated Noise in Gene Regulation (2008, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Cruz, Gerardo — Economic Fluctuations and Capitalistic Production: A Case Study in Robustness Constraints (2016, Master's thesis)
• Wang, Yong — Effects of actuator limits in bifurcation control with applications to active control of fluid instabilities in turbomachinery (2000, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Fragoso, Anthony Thomas — Egospace Motion Planning Representations for Micro Air Vehicles (2018, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Meyerowitz, Joseph Toshiro — Engineering and Rapid Prototyping for Biology in Extreme Conditions (2023, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wu, Yong Yi — Engineering Biosynthetic Pathways in Cell-Free Systems for Sustainability and Chemical Innovation (2018, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Merk, Liana Noor — Engineering Logical Inflammation Sensing and Secreting Circuit for Gut Modulation (2021, Senior thesis (Major))
• Cornejo de los Santos, Emmanuel Lorenzo — Expanding the Toolkit for Synthetic Biology: Frameworks for Native-like Non-natural Gene Circuits (2015, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Marken, John Paul — Experimental and Theoretical Frameworks for Enabling Environmental Synthetic Biology (2023, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Waydo, Stephen J. — Explicit Object Representation by Sparse Neural Codes (2008, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• M'Closkey, Robert Thomas — Exponential stabilization of driftless nonlinear control systems (1995, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wongpiromsarn, Tichakorn — Formal Methods for Design and Verification of Embedded Control Systems: Application to an Autonomous Vehicle (2010, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Graebener, Josefine Berta Marie — Formal Methods for Test and Evaluation: Reasoning over Tests, Automated Test Synthesis, and System Diagnostics (2024, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• McCardell, Reed Dillard — Genetic Circuits for the Control of Multi-Strain Bacterial Populations (2021, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Tiwari, Abhishek — Geometrical Analysis of Spatio-temporal Planning Problems (2007, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Zhang, Zhonglin Johnny — Identification of Lagrangian Coherent Structures Around Swimming Jellyfish from Experimental Time-Series Data (2008, Senior thesis (Minor))
• Gu, Chunhui — Improving Situational Awareness in RoboFlag (2006, Senior thesis (Minor))
• Livingston, Scott Carlton — Incremental Control Synthesis for Robotics in the Presence of Temporal Logic Specifications (2016, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chung, Timothy Hahn Deut — Intelligent Information-Gathering: Using Control for Sensing and Decision-Making (2007, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lavaei, Javad — Large-Scale Complex Systems: From Antenna Circuits to Power Grids (2011, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Mandralis, Ioannis M. — Leveraging Aerial Transformation for Enhanced Air–Ground Robotic Mobility (2026, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Epstein, Michael Steven — Managing Information in Networked and Multi-Agent Control Systems (2008, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Gallivan, Martha Anne — Modeling and Control of Epitaxial Thin Film Growth (2003, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Pandey, Ayush — Modeling Frameworks for Modular and Scalable Biological Circuit Design (2024, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Singhal, Vipul — Modeling, Computation, and Characterization to Accelerate the Development of Synthetic Gene Circuits in Cell-Free Extracts (2019, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kratz, Matthieu Francois — Naturally-Inspired Circuits for Microbial Composition Control and Biosensing (2026, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Barmpoutis, Dionysios — Network Structure Optimization with Applications to Minimizing Variance and Crosstalk (2012, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Behnken, Robert Louis — Nonlinear Control and Modeling of Rotating Stall in an Axial Flow Compressor (1997, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Bullo, Francesco — Nonlinear control of mechanical systems : a Riemannian geometry approach (1999, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Yeung, Chung-hei (Simon) — Nonlinear control of rotating stall and surge with axisymmetric bleed and air injection on axial flow compressors (1999, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hines, George Herbert — Nonlinear Three-Dimensional Trajectory Following: Simulation and Application (2008, Senior thesis (Minor))
• Gomez, Marcella Mary — On the Role of Delays in Biological Systems : Analysis and Design (2015, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Fax, Joseph Alexander — Optimal and Cooperative Control of Vehicle Formations (2002, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Han, Shuo — Optimal Uncertainty Quantification via Convex Optimization and Relaxation (2014, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Shapiro, Benjamin — Passive control of flutter and forced response in bladed disks via mistuning (1999, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Karol, Robert Frederick — Peak-Seeking Controller for Real-Time Mobile Satellite Tracking (2012, Senior thesis (Minor))
• Ren, Xinying (Cindy) — Principles for Designing Robust and Stable Synthetic Microbial Consortia (2021, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Thubagere Jagadeesh, Anupama — Programming Complex Behavior in DNA-based Molecular Circuits and Robots (2017, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Guo, Shaobin — Prototyping Diverse Synthetic Biological Circuits in a Cell-Free Transcription-Translation System (2017, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Milam, Mark Bradley — Real-Time Optimal Trajectory Generation for Constrained Dynamical Systems (2003, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Flores Contreras, Melvin Estuardo — Real-Time Trajectory Generation for Constrained Nonlinear Dynamical Systems Using Non-Uniform Rational B-Spline Basis Functions (2008, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Jadbabaie, Ali — Receding horizon control of nonlinear systems: a control Lyapunov function approach (2001, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Shi, Ling — Resource Optimization for Networked Estimator with Guaranteed Estimation Quality (2009, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Yeung, Enoch Ho-Yee — Reverse Engineering and Quantifying Context Effects in Synthetic Gene Networks (2016, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Trautman, Peter — Robot Navigation in Dense Crowds: Statistical Models and Experimental Studies of Human Robot Cooperation (2013, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Sur, Sudipto — Robotic manipulation with flexible link fingers (1997, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Jonsson, Vanessa Danielle — Robust Control of Evolutionary Dynamics (2016, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Carson, John Maurice, III — Robust Model Predictive Control with a Reactive Safety Mode (2008, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Papusha, Ivan Igorevych — Robustness, Adaptation, and Learning in Optimal Control (2016, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Venturelli, Ophelia Shalini — Role of Feedback and Dynamics of a Gene Regulatory Network (2013, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Cai, Karena Xin — Safe and Interpretable Autonomous Systems Design: Behavioral Contracts and Semantic-Based Perception (2021, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Braman, Julia Marie Badger — Safety Verification and Failure Analysis of Goal-Based Hybrid Control Systems (2009, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Dathathri, Sumanth — Scalable Synthesis and Verification: Towards Reliable Autonomy (2020, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hayes, Adam Thomas — Self-Organized Robotic System Design and Autonomous Odor Localization (2002, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Shur, Andrey Sergeyvich — Serine Integrase-Based Event Recording in E. coli (2022, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Parkin, James Michael — Signal Amplification in Synthetic Bacterial Communication (2021, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Del Vecchio, Domitilla — State Estimation in Multi-Agent Decision and Control Systems (2005, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Fuller, Sawyer Buckminster — Steady as She Goes: Visual Autocorrelators and Antenna-Mediated Airspeed Feedback in the Control of Flight Dynamics in Fruit Flies and Robotics (2011, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Olson, Blade A. — Synthetic Antigen-Presenting Vesicles for Selective Immunomodulation (2026, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hsiao, Victoria — Synthetic Circuits for Feedback and Detection in Bacteria (2016, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Dabby, Nadine L. — Synthetic Molecular Machines for Active Self-Assembly: Prototype Algorithms, Designs, and Experimental Study (2013, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Cremean, Lars Brör — System Architectures and Environment Modeling for High-Speed Autonomous Navigation (2006, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Badithela, Apurva Srinivas — Test and Evaluation of Autonomous Systems: Reactive Test Synthesis and Task-Relevant Evaluation of Perception (2024, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kelly, Scott D. — The mechanics and control of robotic locomotion with applications to aquatic vehicles (1998, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Clamons, Samuel Eric — Three Problems in the Design and Specification of Biomolecular Circuits (2022, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lekien, Francois Paul — Time-Dependent Dynamical Systems and Geophysical Flows (2003, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Jurado Quiroga, Zoila Estefani — Towards a Synthetic Nucleus: Separating Transcription and Translation in Cell-Free Protein Expression Systems (2024, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Van Nieuwstadt, Michiel Jacques — Trajectory generation for nonlinear control systems (1997, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Roychoudhury, Ankita — Understanding the Lifetime and Rate of Protein Production in Cell-Free Reactions While Maximizing Energy Use (2021, Senior thesis (Minor))