Welcome to my website. I am a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB). I also have a courtesy appointment in the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and I am the Associate Director of the Center for Control, Dynamical Systems and Computation (CCDC). This interdisciplinary center brings together faculty and graduate students from across the College of Engineering departments and Mathematics.

My research interests are in Controls and Dynamical Systems, as well as their connections with other fields such as Network Science, Fluid Mechanics, Statistical Physics and Mathematics. The “Research” links to the left contain a lot of information about the research work of my group.

• I was “interviewed” in the April 2015 issue of the Control Systems Magazine, which happened to be the same issue that our ThermoAcoustics paper (see reprints below) appeared in.

• August 2014: Attended the celebration of the 20th Anniversary of Caltech's Control & Dynamical Systems program (CDS 20). A great and eclectic workshop. Slides from my talk on the transition to turbulence problem are linked.

• June 2014: Gave a semi-plenary lecture at the 13th European Control Conference in Strasbourg, France. The lecture was titled Complexity and Performance in Large-Scale and Distributed Systems. Slides available at link.

• June 2014: Gave a semi-plenary lecture at the 2014 American Control Conference in Portland, OR. The lecture was titled New Directions in Networked and Distributed Parameter Systems. I am told the IEEE Control Systems Society will eventually post the lecture's video on their Online Lecture Library.

• December 2013: Our paper Coherence in Large-Scale Networks: Dimension-Dependent Limitations of Local Feedback won the 2013 IEEE CSS G.S. Axelby Outstanding Paper Award.

• Phase transitions in distributed control systems with multiplicative noise, Nicolas Allegra, Bassam Bamieh, Partha P. Mitra, Clement Sire, arXiv:1610.00653.

• Control-oriented Modeling of the Dynamics of Stirling Engine Regenerators, Mitchell Craun and B. Bamieh, submitted to ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement and Control, 2015.

• ThermoAcoustics and the Rijke Tube: Experiments, Identification, and Modeling, J. Epperlein, B. Bamieh and K.J. Astrom, in Control Systems Magazine, April 2015.