Peter Edwin Caines

Academic title(s): 

Distinguished James McGill Professor

Peter Edwin Caines
Biography: 

Peter E. Caines received the BA in mathematics from Oxford University in 1967 and the PhD in systems and control theory in 1970 from Imperial College, University of London. After Post Doctoral Fellowships  and visiting positions at Stanford, UC Berkeley, Toronto and Harvard, he joined McGill University, Montreal, in 1980, where he is Distinguished James McGill Professor and Macdonald Chair in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He received the IEEE Control Systems Society Bode Lecture Prize in 2009, is a Fellow of  IFAC, CIFAR, SIAM, IEEE, the IMA (UK) and the Royal Society of Canada (2003), and is a member of Professional Engineers Ontario. Peter Caines is the author of Linear Stochastic Systems (Wiley, 1988), now published as a SIAM Classic. His research interests include stochastic systems, mean field game theory and systems on complex networks, together with their applications in natural and artificial systems.

Contact Information
Alternate email address: 
peterc [at] cim.mcgill.ca
Email address: 
peter.caines [at] mcgill.ca
Phone: 
514-398-7129
Group: 
Full Members
Department: 
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Area(s): 
Systems and Control
Office: 
McConnell 512
Current research: 

Systems and Control Theory

Stochastic systems theory: filtering, identification and adaptive control

Hybrid and nonlinear systems

Mean Field Control and Game (MFCG) theory and Graphon MFCG theory and their applications in control engineering, communications, networks, economics and biology.

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