WorldQuant, Thomson Reuters, Ford. NASA (JSC) and Draper Labs (1987-1990): Attitude control of the space station, underwater autonomous vehicles. Brigham and Women's (1998-2002): Hyperthermia treatment of prostate cancer. Crescent Technologies (1996-2000): Founder, Supply chain systems for large-scale production. BAE (2009–present): Fast simulations and multi-agent systems. Member: Board of Directors, Pointright, MA (2014–present); Advisory Board, EnterWorks, VA (2018–present); Scientific Advisory Board, C6 Bank, Brazil. In the media "For his Ph.D in electrical engineering at Rice University" wrote Leda Zimmerman, of RiverRunMedia, for the Connector (MIT News) in 2014, "Dahleh was motivated by the potential for new approaches to control systems for such complex engineering feats as the Boeing 777 and the International Space Station. He created a computational framework for designing feedback control systems in the presence of uncertainty, a mathematical approach that allowed for a much simpler and systematic way to address complex performance requirements without sacrificing robustness or increasing risk. Because his computational formulas streamlined design processes, it became integral in many areas of manufacturing." In an interview with MIT News in 2015, Dahleh explains that "in order to understand things like power outages and bank failures, you still need electrical engineers and economists — but today you also need anthropologists and data scientists, too. Our ability to collect and aggregate data is already well beyond our ability to understand what it could tell us — and no single discipline, on its own, holds the keys to solving this problem." Introducing Dahleh as the keynote speaker of WEP2018, Jeff S. Shamma, Prof. Electrical Engineering at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Saudi Arabia, described Dahleh's work with IDSS as "working on how humans and machines make decisions together." Dahleh continued by speaking about the "networks that we are experiencing these days, how these networks have fragilities, and how these fragilities can be either mitigated or exemplified because of the human interaction." Awards The IFAC Fellow Award, in 2016, "for innovative applications of advanced control and signal processing methods that have been commercialized worldwide", awarded by the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC). The George S. Axelby Outstanding Paper Award, awarded by the IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS), awarded on four papers: in 2015 for Robust Distributed Routing in Dynamical Networks-Part II: Strong Resilience, Equilibrium Selection and Cascaded Failures (with Como, Savla, Acemoglu, Frazzoli); 2010 for Feedback Control in the Presence of Noisy Channels: 'Bode-Like' Fundamental Limitations