Richard M. Murray

Professor

Year

2023
Program

Biosciences
Institution

California Institute of Technology
Location

Pasadena, USA

Richard Murray received the B.S. degree in Electrical
Engineering from California Institute of Technology in 1985
and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering and
Computer Sciences from the University of California,
Berkeley, in 1988 and 1991, respectively. He joined the
faculty at Caltech in 1991 in Mechanical Engineering and
helped found the Control and Dynamical Systems program in
1993. In 1998-99, Professor Murray took a sabbatical leave
and served as the Director of Mechatronic Systems at the
United Technologies Research Center in Hartford, CT. Upon returning to Caltech, Murray served
as the Division Chair (dean) of Engineering and Applied Science at Caltech from 2000-2005, the
Director for Information Science and Technology (IST) from 2006- 2009, and interim Division
Chair from 2008-2009. He is currently the Thomas E. and Doris Everhart Professor of Control &
Dynamical Systems and Bioengineering at Caltech and the Division Chair for Biology and
Biological Engineering (BBE). Murray holds an honorary doctorate from Lund University and is
an elected member of the National Academy of Engineering (2013). His research is in the
application of feedback and control to networked systems, with applications in biology and
autonomy. Current projects include analysis and design biomolecular feedback circuits, synthesis
of discrete decision-making protocols for reactive systems, and design of highly resilient
architectures for autonomous systems. Murray is a co-author of three textbooks, a co-developer
of the Python Control Systems Library (python-control), a co-founder of Tierra Biosciences, and
a founding member of the Defense Innovation Board (2016-2020)