Eduardo D. Sontag

Eduardo Daniel Sontag
Sontag at a 2009 control theory workshop in Oberwolfach
Born	1951 Buenos Aires, Argentina
Residence	U.S.
Nationality	U.S.
Fields	Control theory
Institutions	State University of New Jersey
Alma mater	University of Florida University of Buenos Aires
Thesis	On the Internal Realization of Polynomial Response Maps (1976)
Doctoral advisor	Rudolf Kalman
Doctoral students	Francesca Albertini, Madalena Chaves, German Enciso, Brian Ingalls, Renee Koplon, Mikhail Krichman, Yuandan Lin, Todd Riley, Hava Siegelmann, Liming Wang, Yuan Wang, Amelia White

Eduardo Daniel Sontag (born 1951 in Buenos Aires, Argentina) is an American mathematician, and Professor at the Rutgers University, who works in the field of systems biology and control theory and engineering.

Sontag received his Licenciado degree from the Mathematics Department at the University of Buenos Aires in 1972, and his Ph.D. in Mathematics under Rudolf Kalman at the Center for Mathematical Systems Theory at the University of Florida in 1976.

Since 1977, Sontag has been with the Department of Mathematics at Rutgers University, The State University of New Jersey, where he is currently Professor of Mathematics as well as a Member of the Graduate Faculties of the Department of Computer Science and of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He is also the director of SYCON, the Rutgers Center for Systems and Control, and is a co-founder and Member of the Steering Committee of the BioMaPS Institute for Quantitative Biology.

He is in the Editorial Board of IEE Proceedings Systems Biology, SIAM Review Synthetic and Systems Biology International Journal of Biological Sciences, Journal of Computer and Systems Sciences, and Neural Computing Surveys (Board of Advisors), and a former Board member of IEEE Transactions in Automatic Control, Systems and Control Letters, Dynamics and Control, Neurocomputing, Neural Networks, Control-Theory and Advanced Technology, and Control, Optimization and the Calculus of Variations. In addition, he is a co-founder and co-managing editor of Mathematics of Control, Signals, and Systems.

He has been Program Director and Vice-Chair of the Activity Group in Control and Systems Theory of Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). He has been a member of several committees at SIAM and the American Mathematical Society, and is a former Chair of the Committee on Human Rights of Mathematicians of the latter.