He is a fellow of both the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) societies.

[citation needed] Dahleh He was born in the city of Tulkarem, Palestine (then as part of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan) then raised in Amman, and moved to the United States when he was 17 years old to attend Texas A&M.

Following graduation, in 1987 Dahleh joined MIT as an assistant professor, and achieved multiple teaching, research and leadership roles in academia, industry, and business sectors.

[citation needed] Dahleh has been the founding director of the MIT Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS) since July 1, 2015.

[3]([8] The mission of IDSS is to provide an interdisciplinary home for decision theory, machine learning, statistics, and data science in the context of broad societal challenges.

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.