His research focuses on dynamics and control theory, with particular emphasis on hybrid and cyber-physical systems, formal synthesis and verification, and applications in robotics and systems biology. Calin Belta is a Senior Member of the IEEE and an Associate Editor for the SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization (SICON) and the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. He received the Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Award and the National Science Foundation CAREER Award. ​