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Munther Dahleh is the William Coolidge Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, affiliated with the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department and the Laboratory for Information Decision Systems. He has served as the founding director of the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society from July 1, 2015 to June 30, 2023, and was previously the associate department head of EECS. Joining LIDS as an assistant professor in 1987 and becoming a full professor by 1998, Dahleh has significant visiting experience, including a stint as a visiting professor in Spring 1993 at the California Institute of Technology. His work has included consulting roles in various companies in the U.S. and abroad. Dahleh is recognized for his fundamental contributions to robust control theory, computational methods for controller design, and the interaction of information and control in networked systems. His research interests cover foundational theories of interaction in physical information networks, information propagation in social networks, the dynamics of opinion evolution, and the modeling of systemic risk within interconnected networks. He also explores dynamic models of transportation systems, focusing on congestion, network topology, and the modeling of performance under systemic risks.