Maurice Filo
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Senior Research Scientist |
Recent Papers/Preprints
Engineering Sensor-Based Antithetic Integral Controllers for Enhanced Dynamic Performance and Noise Attenuation
Maurice Filo*, Stephanie Aoki*, Mucun Hou*, Stanislav Anastassov, and Mustafa Khammash
Cell Systems, 2026, Link to Poster
GenAI-Net: A Generative AI Framework for Automated Biomolecular Network Design
Maurice Filo*, Nicolo Rossi*, Zhou Fang*, and Mustafa Khammash
Arxiv, 2026
Realizing Reduced and Sparse Biochemical Reaction Networks from Dynamics
Maurice Filo and Mustafa Khammash
IEEE CDC 2025
An Input–Output Approach to Structured Stochastic Uncertainty in Continuous Time
Maurice Filo and Bassam Bamieh
International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, 2025
Anti-windup strategies for biomolecular control systems facilitated by model reduction theory for sequestration networks
Maurice Filo*, Ankit Gupta* and Mustafa Khammash
Science Advances, 2024
Inteins: A Swiss Army Knife for Synthetic Biology
Stanislav Anastassov, Maurice Filo and Mustafa Khammash
Biotechnology Advances, 2024
Biomolecular Feedback Controllers: from Theory to Applications
Maurice Filo, Ching-Hsiang Chang and Mustafa Khammash
Current Opinion in Biotechnology, 2023
A Cybergenetic Framework for Engineering Intein-Mediated Integral Feedback Control Systems
Stanislav Anastassov*, Maurice Filo*, Ching-Hsiang Chang and Mustafa Khammash
Nature Communications, 2023
* These authors contributed equally to this work.
News
| 2026 Feb | Teaching Introduction to Dynamical Systems at ETH Zurichwith Prof. Khammash |
| 2025 Dec | Gave a talk at CDC, Rio de Janeiro |
| 2025 May | Invited talk at University of Cambridge on Engineering Genetic Controllers to Accelerate Adaptation and Attenuate Cellular Noise |
| 2024 Nov | Another round of teaching Control Systems at Ashesi University in Ghana as part of the ETH for Development Masters Program |
| 2024 Jan | Promoted to Senior Research Scientist in BioSystems Science and Engineering, ETH Zurich |
| 2023 Nov | Taught Control Systems at Ashesi University in Ghana as part of the ETH for Development Masters Program |
| 2023 Oct | Our group received the SNSF Advanced Grant, which I contributed to, titled: "Theory and Design of Advanced Genetically Engineered Control Systems" |
| 2023 Jul | Filed a patent titled "Intein-based controllers" |
| 2022 Dec | Organized an invited session at the 61st IEEE Conference on Decision and Control in Mexico titled "Biological Controllers" |
| 2021 | Our PID patent ranked among the Top 20 Inventions Spark Award |
| 2020 Nov | Filed a patent titled "Expression system and method for controlling a network in a cell and cell comprising the expression system" |
| 2019 Jan | Received the Best PhD Thesis Award, Center for Control, Dynamical-Systems & Computations (CCDC) |
| 2018 Sep | Started Postdoc in BioSystems Science and Engineering, ETH Zurich |
| 2018 Jun | Completed PhD in Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara |
| 2017 | Completed MS in Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara |
| 2015 | Received the Best Teacher Assistant Award at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, UCSB |
| 2013 Oct | Received the CCDC Outstanding Scholar Fellowship |
| 2013 | Completed MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering, American University of Beirut |