Maurice Filo

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Senior Research Scientist
ETH Zurich
Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering
Control Theory and Systems Biology Laboratory

Recent Papers/Preprints

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Inteins: A Swiss Army Knife for Synthetic Biology

Stanislav Anastassov, Maurice Filo and Mustafa Khammash

Biotechnology Advances, 2024

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Anti-Windup Protection Circuits for Biomolecular Integral Controllers

Maurice Filo*, Ankit Gupta* and Mustafa Khammash

BiorXiv, 2023 (under review in Science Advances)

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Biomolecular Feedback Controllers: from Theory to Applications

Maurice Filo, Ching-Hsiang Chang and Mustafa Khammash

Current Opinion in Biotechnology, 2023

News

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 titled: "Theory and Design of Advanced Genetically Engineered Control Systems"
2023 Jul Filed a patent titled "Intein-based 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"
2022 Dec Organized an invited session at the 61st IEEE Conference on Decision and Control in Mexico titled "Biological Controllers"
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