2026 Eduardo D. Sontag: Mathematics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Mathematics	102	44	37	32	27	576	75050
Electronics and Electrical Engineering	100	173	167	84	78	544	75651

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Electronics and Electrical Engineering in United States Leader Award
2026 - Research.com Mathematics in United States Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Electronics and Electrical Engineering in United States Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Mathematics in United States Leader Award
2022 - Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award for pioneering contributions to stability analysis and nonlinear control, and for advancing the control theoretic foundations of systems biology
2013 - Fellow of the American Mathematical Society
2011 - Fellow of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC)
2011 - IEEE Control Systems Award “For fundamental contributions to nonlinear systems theory and nonlinear feedbackcontrol.”
2009 - SIAM Fellow For contributions to control theory and mathematical biology.
1993 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to nonlinear system theory and feedback control.

Overview

Eduardo D. Sontag is affiliated with Northeastern University in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields within biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with significant contributions to molecular biology and control and systems engineering.

Their work frequently appears in publication venues such as arXiv (Cornell University), bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Annual Reviews in Control, Systems & Control Letters, and IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control.

Key research topics in their portfolio include:

Gene Regulatory Network Analysis
COVID-19 epidemiological studies
Mathematical and Theoretical Epidemiology and Ecology Models
Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction
Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics
Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks
Model Reduction and Neural Networks

They have authored numerous publications, including prominent recent papers such as:

"A novel COVID-19 epidemiological model with explicit susceptible and asymptomatic isolation compartments reveals unexpected consequences of timing social distancing" (2020, Journal of Theoretical Biology)
"Universal features of epidemic models under social distancing guidelines" (2021, Annual Reviews in Control)
"Short-Term Circulating Tumor Cell Dynamics in Mouse Xenograft Models and Implications for Liquid Biopsy" (2020, Frontiers in Oncology)
"Integrating transcriptomics and bulk time course data into a mathematical framework to describe and predict therapeutic resistance in cancer" (2020, Physical Biology)
"Internal Models in Control, Bioengineering, and Neuroscience" (2021, Annual Review of Control Robotics and Autonomous Systems)

Collaborations include frequent co-authors such as M. Ali Al-Radhawi, Arthur Castello B. de Oliveira, Milad Siami, James M. Greene, and Christopher A. Voigt.

Sontag's career has been recognized through several honors:

Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (2013)
Fellow of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) (2011)
IEEE Control Systems Award (2011) "For fundamental contributions to nonlinear systems theory and nonlinear feedback control."
SIAM Fellow (2009) for contributions to control theory and mathematical biology
IEEE Fellow (1993) for contributions to nonlinear system theory and feedback control

Best Publications

Nonlinear Control Systems

Alberto Isidori;M. Thoma;E. D. Sontag;B. W. Dickinson

18543
Citations
Mathematical Control Theory: Deterministic Finite Dimensional Systems

Eduardo D. Sontag

5012
Citations
Smooth stabilization implies coprime factorization

E.D. Sontag

3115
Citations
Adaptive Control

Ioan D. Landau;R. Lozano;M. M'Saad;J. W. Modestino

2935
Citations
A general result on the stabilization of linear systems using bounded controls

H.J. Sussmann;E.D. Sontag;Y. Yang

2221
Citations
On characterizations of the input-to-state stability property

Eduardo D. Sontag;Yuan Wang

2016
Citations
A universal construction of Artstein's theorem on nonlinear stabilization

Eduardo D. Sontag

1758
Citations
Input to State Stability: Basic Concepts and Results

Eduardo D. Sontag

1340
Citations
Detection of multistability, bifurcations, and hysteresis in a large class of biological positive-feedback systems

David Angeli;James E. Ferrell;Eduardo D. Sontag

1264
Citations
Nonlinear regulation: The piecewise linear approach

E. Sontag

1096
Citations
A Smooth Converse Lyapunov Theorem for Robust Stability

Yuandan Lin;Eduardo D. Sontag;Yuan Wang

1074
Citations
New characterizations of input-to-state stability

E.D. Sontag;Yuan Wang

1048
Citations
Comments on integral variants of ISS

Eduardo D. Sontag

1044
Citations
Stabilization of Nonlinear Uncertain Systems

Miroslav Krstic;J. W. Modestino;H. Deng;A. Fettweis

883
Citations
Stability and Stabilization of Infinite Dimensional Systems with Applications

Zheng-hua Luo;Bao-Zhu Guo;Omer Morgul;E. D. Sontag

807
Citations
Direct Adaptive Control Algorithms: Theory and Applications

Howard Kaufman;I. Bar-Kana;J. L. Massey;J. W. Modestino

784
Citations
Monotone control systems

D. Angeli;E.D. Sontag

777
Citations
A Lyapunov-Like Characterization of Asymptotic Controllability

Eduardo D. Sontag

751
Citations
A characterization of integral input-to-state stability

D. Angeli;E.D. Sontag;Y. Wang

738
Citations
Asymptotic controllability implies feedback stabilization

F.H. Clarke;Y.S. Ledyaev;E.D. Sontag;A.I. Subbotin

705
Citations
Input-to-state stability for discrete-time nonlinear systems

Zhong-Ping Jiang;Eduardo Sontag;Yuan Wang

74
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

David Angeli Imperial College London

Yuan Wang Florida Atlantic University

Bhaskar DasGupta University of Illinois at Chicago

Murat Arcak University of California, Berkeley

Héctor J. Sussmann Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Michael Margaliot Tel Aviv University

Domitilla Del Vecchio MIT

Hava T. Siegelmann University of Massachusetts Amherst

Réka Albert Pennsylvania State University

Tamir Tuller Tel Aviv University

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