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Mathematics

D-Index
102
Citations
75050
World Ranking
44
National Ranking
32

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D-Index
100
Citations
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World Ranking
173
National Ranking
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Eduardo D. Sontag publication distribution in Mathematics in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Mathematics in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Eduardo D. Sontag sits on this spectrum.

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42 publications 537+

This scientist: 576 publications — 98th percentile

98% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 537 publications or more.

Eduardo D. Sontag D-index placement in Mathematics in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Mathematics scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Eduardo D. Sontag sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 86+

This scientist: 102 D-Index — 99th percentile

99% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 86 D-Index or more.

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

  • Mathematical Control Theory: Deterministic Finite Dimensional Systems

    Eduardo D. Sontag

  • Smooth stabilization implies coprime factorization

    E.D. Sontag

  • Adaptive Control

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

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

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

  • On characterizations of the input-to-state stability property

    Eduardo D. Sontag;Yuan Wang

  • A universal construction of Artstein's theorem on nonlinear stabilization

    Eduardo D. Sontag

  • Input to State Stability: Basic Concepts and Results

    Eduardo D. Sontag

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

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

  • Nonlinear regulation: The piecewise linear approach

    E. Sontag

  • A Smooth Converse Lyapunov Theorem for Robust Stability

    Yuandan Lin;Eduardo D. Sontag;Yuan Wang

  • New characterizations of input-to-state stability

    E.D. Sontag;Yuan Wang

  • Comments on integral variants of ISS

    Eduardo D. Sontag

  • Stabilization of Nonlinear Uncertain Systems

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

  • Stability and Stabilization of Infinite Dimensional Systems with Applications

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

  • Direct Adaptive Control Algorithms: Theory and Applications

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

  • Monotone control systems

    D. Angeli;E.D. Sontag

  • A Lyapunov-Like Characterization of Asymptotic Controllability

    Eduardo D. Sontag

  • A characterization of integral input-to-state stability

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

  • Asymptotic controllability implies feedback stabilization

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

  • Input-to-state stability for discrete-time nonlinear systems

    Zhong-Ping Jiang;Eduardo Sontag;Yuan Wang

Frequent Co-Authors

David Angeli
David Angeli Imperial College London
Yuan Wang
Yuan Wang Florida Atlantic University
Bhaskar DasGupta
Bhaskar DasGupta University of Illinois at Chicago
Murat Arcak
Murat Arcak University of California, Berkeley
Héctor J. Sussmann
Héctor J. Sussmann Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Michael Margaliot
Michael Margaliot Tel Aviv University
Hava T. Siegelmann
Hava T. Siegelmann University of Massachusetts Amherst
Réka Albert
Réka Albert Pennsylvania State University
Tamir Tuller
Tamir Tuller Tel Aviv University

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