Speakers

Alessandro Fabris is a research fellow at Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy working with Asia Biega, supported by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and the FINDHR project on fairness and non-discrimination in algorithmic hiring. He studies algorithmic fairness and auditing in information access systems. His research centers on defining, operationalizing, and measuring fairness, with a focus on domain-specific requirements, and a critical perspective on data management and ethics. Previously, he spent four years in industry working with IBM and Electrolux. To develop relevant solutions for pressing socio-technical issues, he aims to guide and translate policy into responsible computing practices that can be understood and adopted by practitioners.

Andreas A. Malikopoulos is a Professor in the School of Civil \& Environmental Engineering and the Director of the Information and Decision Science Lab at Cornell University. Prior to these appointments, he was the Terri Connor Kelly and John Kelly Career Development Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering (2017-2023) and the founding Director of the Sociotechnical Systems Center (2019-2023) at the University of Delaware (UD). Before he joined UD, he was the Alvin M. Weinberg Fellow (2010-2017) in the Energy \& Transportation Science Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), the Deputy Director of the Urban Dynamics Institute (2014-2017) at ORNL, and a Senior Researcher in General Motors Global Research \& Development (2008-2010). He received a Diploma from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 2004 and 2008, respectively, all in Mechanical Engineering. His research interests span several fields, including analysis, optimization, and control of cyber-physical systems; decentralized stochastic systems; stochastic scheduling and resource allocation; and learning in complex systems. Dr. Malikopoulos is the recipient of several prizes and awards, including the 2007 Dare to Dream Opportunity Grant from the University of Michigan Ross School of Business, the 2007 University of Michigan Teaching Fellow, the 2010 Alvin M. Weinberg Fellowship, the 2019 IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Young Researcher Award, and the 2020 UD’s College of Engineering Outstanding Junior Faculty Award. He has been selected by the National Academy of Engineering to participate in the 2010 German-American Frontiers of Engineering (FOE) Symposium and organize a session on transportation at the 2016 European-American FOE Symposium. He has also been selected as a 2012 Kavli Frontiers of Science Scholar by the National Academy of Sciences. Dr. Malikopoulos has been an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles and IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems from 2017 through 2020. He is an Associate Editor of Automatica and IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, and a Senior Editor of IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE, a Fellow of the ASME, and a member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society.

Karl H. Johansson is Swedish Research Council Distinguished Professor in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden and Director of Digital Futures. He received MSc degree in Electrical Engineering and PhD in Automatic Control from Lund University. He has held visiting positions at UC Berkeley, Caltech, NTU among other institutions. His research interests are in networked control systems and cyber-physical systems with applications in transportation, energy, and automation networks. He is Vice President IEEE Control Systems Society, member of IFAC Council, and Past President of the European Control Association, and he has served on the IEEE Control Systems Society Board of Governors and the Swedish Scientific Council for Natural Sciences and Engineering Sciences. He has received several best paper awards and other distinctions from IEEE, IFAC, and ACM. He has been awarded Distinguished Professor by Swedish Research Council, Wallenberg Scholar with the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, Future Research Leader from the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research, the triennial IFAC Young Author Prize, IEEE Control Systems Society Distinguished Lecturer, and 2024 IEEE Control Systems Society Hendrik W. Bode Lecture Prize. He is Fellow of the IEEE and the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences.

Giulia De Pasquale is currently a PostDoc at ETH Zürich, Switzerland. She took the PhD in Control and Systems Engineering at the University of Padova, Italy,  in 2023. In 2021/2022 She was a Visiting Research Scholar at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She took both the Master Degree in Control Engineering and the Bachelor Degree in Information Engineering from the University of Padova in 2019 and 2017 respectively. During the Master Degree she took part in the Erasmus program with a research experience at the Luleå Tekniska Universitet, Sweden, in collaboration with RI.SE SICS Luleå and ABB Västerås. In 2018 she spent six months as a Visiting Student at ETH Zürich, Switzerland. Her current research interests include modeling, analysis and control of networked sociotechnical systems.

Ali Jadbabaie (Fellow, IEEE) received the B.S. degree from the Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 1995, the M.S. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA, in 1997, and the Ph.D. degree in control and dynamical systems from the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA, in 2000. He is currently the JR East Professor and the Head of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, a Core Faculty Member with the Institute for Data, Systems and Society (IDSS), and a PI with the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, USA. Previously, he was the Director of the Sociotechnical Systems Research Center, MIT, and the Associate Director of IDSS, MIT, which he helped found in 2015. He was a Post-Doctoral Scholar with Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA, before joining the Faculty of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA, where he was subsequently promoted through the ranks and was the Alfred Fitler Moore Professor in network science with the Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering with secondary appointments in computer and information science and operations, information and decisions with The Wharton School. His current research interests include the interplay of dynamic systems and networks with a specific emphasis on multi-agent coordination and control, distributed optimization, network science, and network economics. As a member of the General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception Laboratory, University of Pennsylvania, he was also the Co-Founder and the Director of the Raj and Neera Singh Program in Networked and Social Systems Engineering (NETS), a new undergraduate interdisciplinary degree program. He was the Inaugural Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, a new interdisciplinary journal sponsored by several IEEE societies. He was a recipient of the National Science Foundation Career Award, Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award, O. Hugo Schuck Best Paper Award from the American Automatic Control Council, George S. Axelby Best Paper Award from the IEEE Control Systems Society, and a Vannevar Bush Fellowship from the Office of Secretary of Defense. He is a senior author of several student best paper awards.