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Professor William Levine has announced his full retirement from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He retired from his position as a Full Faculty Member in 2007 and continued as a Research Professor through the 2025 spring semester. He was an affiliate of the Maryland Robotics Center and the Brain and Behavior Institute, and a former affiliate of the Institute for Systems Research.
Levine joined the ECE Department in 1969, after receiving his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research focused on systems, control and estimation, including the study of the nervous system’s control of movement, computer aided system design, the application of computers and computation to network control, and applications of modern control and estimation theory to biomedical and aerospace problems.
He is a member of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), a Fellow of IEEE, and a Distinguished Member of the IEEE Control Systems Society. He served as President of both the IEEE Control Systems Society and the American Automatic Control Council.
Regarding his time in ECE, Levine says “I have loved being a part of a great department in an excellent university. My teachers have included many of my colleagues, my friends, the department staff, and my students. I already miss them and I wish the very best for all of them.”
After 56 years, Levine is leaving Maryland and moving to New York City to be closer to his family. He is planning to explore Manhattan and take advantage of all that the city has to offer. He is also looking forward to pursuing his personal interests of learning to read, write and speak Mandarin and delving into some areas of math and statistics that he is interested in better understanding.
“Professor Levine has taught generations of students in ECE on control theory, and most recently, on robotics,” says ECE Chair Sennur Ulukus, “I am personally amazed with his ability to teach both theoretical courses like controls and hands-on labs like robotics. We are grateful to Professor Levine for all his contributions to ECE in terms of teaching, research and service to the department, and wish him best in his very well-deserved retirement in New York City!”
September 15, 2025
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