Mehran Mesbahi is an Iranian-American control theorist and aerospace engineer. He is a Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and Adjunct Professor of Electrical Engineering and Mathematics at the

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in Seattle. His research is on systems and control theory over networks, optimization, and aerospace controls. Mehran Mesbahi earned his

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from the

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in June 1996. From July 1996 until December 1999, he was with the Guidance and Control Analysis Group of the

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. During this time, he also had appointments in the Department of Electrical Engineering- Systems at USC (1997–1998) and in the Department of Control and Dynamical Systems at

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(1998–1999). From January 2000 to July 2002, he was an assistant professor of aerospace engineering and mechanics at the

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Honors and awards

* IEEE Fellow * University of Washington College of Engineering Innovator Award, 2008 * University of Washington Distinguished Teaching Award, 2005 *

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Space Act Award, 2004 *

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CAREER Award, 2001

Selected publications

* M. Mesbahi and Magnus Egerstedt, Graph-theoretic Methods in Multiagent Networks, Princeton University Press, 2010. * A. Rahmani, M. Ji, M. Mesbahi, and M. Egerstedt. Controllability of multi-agent systems from a graph theoretic perspective, SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, 48 (1): 162-186, 2009. * M. Mesbahi. On state-dependent dynamic graphs and their controllability properties, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (50) 3: 387- 392, 2005. * Y. Hatano and M. Mesbahi. Agreement over random networks, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, (50) 11: 1867-1872, 2005. * M. Mesbahi and F. Y. Hadaegh. Formation flying of multiple spacecraft via graphs, matrix inequalities, and switching, AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, (24) 2: 369-377, 2001.

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