• Sipahi was awarded a NSF CBET grant.

  • Sipahi was awarded the DARPA Young Faculty Award.

  • Sipahi and Gouldstone were awarded a one-year CIMIT research grant of $95,000. Sipahi and Gouldstone will work with neurologist Dr. Ludy Shih at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center to develop a framework based on vibrations, dynamics, and control theory that can be used to develop devices to accommodate hand tremors in order to help patients with essential tremor, dystonia and Parkinson perform their daily-life tasks.

  • Mr. Delice successfully defended his PhD and graduated in Spring 2011. From left to right: Qiao, Nia, Sipahi, Demirkan Delice, Delice, Prof. Jalili, Valedi, Ulusoy.




  • From left to right, Delice, Ulusyo and Valedi are in front of their posters at the past 2011 Northeastern University Research Expo.

    Delice Expo 2011 Valedi Expo 2011

  • Our team successfully presented our research results at the past 2011 Northeastern University Research Expo. From left to right: Delice, Ulusoy, Valedi, Sipahi, Qiao, Nia.



  • Prof. Sipahi was selected as one of the judges at the past 2011 Northeastern University Research Expo.

  • Prof. Sipahi was awarded the Martin Essigman Outstanding Teaching Award of the College of Engineering, Spring 2011.



  • Prof. Sipahi and Prof. Jalili were awarded a MathWorks grant.

  • Mr. Ismail I. Delice successfully defended his dissertation and will officially receive his PhD degree in May 2011 Commencement.

  • Prof. Sipahi is an Associate Editor and on the Program Committee of ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference that will be held in Virginia in fall 2011.

  • Prof. Sipahi's review article in the February 2011 issue of IEEE Control Systems Magazine makes the cover. available on-line

  • Mr. Payam M. Nia successfully passed his PhD qualifying exams.
    (January 2011).

  • Ms. Melda Sener joined our research team from Sabanci University, Turkey (September 2010)

  • Mr. Wei Qiao successfully passed his PhD qualifying exams.
    (September 2010).

  • Mr. Delice was awarded the Ferretti Award of the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering for his excellent academic standing.
    (Spring 2010)

  • Mr. Delice received the Best Session Presentation Award at the American Control Conference held in Baltimore in 2010.

  • Prof. Sipahi receives a research grant from National Science Foundation.
  • Prof. Sipahi receives a research grant from National Science Foundation.

  • Prof. Sipahi was selected a member of the international organizing committee of IFAC Time Delay Systems Workshop that will be held in Prague in 2010.

  • Mr. James Forte defended his Master's thesis and graduated in August 2009. Mr. Forte's thesis is entitled "Nonmagnetic Particle Separation Using Ferrofluids Controlled by Magnetic Fields". Thesis committee members: Prof. Andrew Gouldstone & Dr. Alper Ozturk.
  • Editor of the newsletter of Dynamic Systems and Control Division of ASME, November 2008 – present.
  • Associate Editor of the newsletter of Dynamic Systems and Control Division of ASME, November 2006 – November 2008.
  • Co-chair of two sessions: “Delay Systems I” and “Stability of Nonlinear Systems - Applications” at the American Control Conference, Seattle, June 2008.
  • Main organizer and the chair of the invited session entitled “Time-Delay Systems, from Theory to Applications” at ASME Dynamic Systems & Control Conference held at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in October 2008.
  • Jury member in Best Student Paper Competition for IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2007.
  • Author of articles with Best Presentation Award, American Control Conference, 2004, 2006, 2007.
  • Jury member in Best Student Paper Competition at ASME-IMECE Conference, 2006, Chicago.
  • Main organizer and the chair of the invited session entitled Traffic Dynamics under Presence of Time Delays at IFAC, Time Delay Systems Workshop held in L’Aquila, Italy in July, 2006.
  • Recipient of Chateaubriand Postdoctoral Scholarship awarded by the French Government, 2005.
  • Best Master’s Thesis Award of School of Engineering, University of Connecticut , 2003.
  • Best Student Paper Award from Dynamic Systems and Control Division at ASME IMECE Conference, New Orleans, 2002.