Short Bio: Calin Belta received B.S. and M.Sc. degrees in Control and Computer Science from the Technical University of Iasi, an M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Louisiana State University, and M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania. He is currently an Assistant Professor at Boston University. His research interests include dynamics and control, motion planning, robotics, and systems biology.

Calin Belta is a member of the IEEE and an Associate Editor for the SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization (SICON) and for the RAS and CSS Conference Editorial Boards. He received the AFOSR Young Investigator Award in 2008 and the NSF CAREER Award in 2005.

News

10/09/2009 NIH grant to study the connection between obesity and the immune response

08/01/2009 NSF grant on formal approaches for analysis and control of stochastic systems

5/12/2009 Our work on RULE was featured in the latest issue of MIT technology review.

5/08/2009 HyNeSs Lab is part of a MURI project on agent and multi-agent autonomy. This is a collaboration with labs from MIT, UC Berkeley, and the University of Pennsylvania. Here's the press release from ONR

01/12/2009 Workshop on Hybrid Systems Approaches to Computational Biology, April 14, San Francisco, CA

12/15/2008 ARO grant on "Specification languages and distributed control schemes for teams of unmanned vehicles"

11/25/2008 AFOSR Young Investigator Award “Formal synthesis of control and communication strategies for teams of unmanned vehicles" (AFOSR news)

08/15/2008 NSF grant in the area of formal analysis and control of hybrid systems