David Castañón, PhD

Professor (ECE, SE)

Office 8 St. Mary’s St Boston, MA 02215, Room 434
Email dac@bu.edu
Phone (617) 353-9880

Publications

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Research Areas

Professor Castañón’s research interests include stochastic control, estimation, game theory, optimization, and parallel and distributed computing, with applications to inverse problems, multi-target tracking, object recognition, sensor management, and cooperative operations planning and control.

Honors and Awards

Fellow, IEEE
Vice President for Finance, IEEE Control Systems Society, 2003-2004
President, IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS), 2008
CSS Distinguished Member Award, IEEE, 2006
Member, Air Force Advisory Board Member, 2007-2010
General Chair, IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2007
Chair, IEEE Conference Publications Committee, 2016 – 2017
Chair, IEEE Society Review Committee, 2014-2016
Senior Editor, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2019-present
Teacher of the Year, ECE Department, 2007/2008
Co-director, Center for Information and Systems Engineering, 207-2014
Deputy Director, NSF Engineering Research Center for Subsurface Sensing and Imaging, 2001-2013
Associate Director of the ALERT Department of Homeland Security Center of Excellence, 2011-current
Associate Director, SENTRY Department of Homeland Security Center of Excellence, 2021-current
Department Chair, BU ECE, 2010-2014

Classes Taught

EC327 Introduction to Software Engineering
EC330 Applied Algorithms for Engineers
EK381 Probability Theory in Electrical and Computer Engineering
EC401 Signals and Systems
EC402 Control Systems
EC/ME/SE501 Dynamic Systems Theory
EC/SE504 Advanced Data Structures
EC505 Stochastic Processes
EC/SE524 Optimization Theory and Methods
EC/ME701 Optimal & Robust Control
EC702 Recursive Estimation and Optimal Filtering
EC719 Statistical Learning Theory
EC/SE724 Advanced Optimization Theory and Methods
EC/SE732 Combinatorial Optimization and Graph Algorithms

Additional Affiliations

Division of Systems Engineering
Center for Information and Systems Engineering
Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering

Departments or Divisions: Electrical & Computer Engineering, Robotics & Autonomous Systems, Systems Engineering

Affiliations: Intelligent, Autonomous & Secure Systems, Primary & Affiliated Faculty

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