The Panelists

Prashant Mehta is with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he is a Professor of Mechanical Science and Engineering. His research is on theory and applications of nonlinear filtering and data assimilation methods.

Masaki Ogura

Masaki Ogura is an Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Information Science and Technology at Osaka University, Japan. His research interests include network science, complex dynamical systems, and stochastic processes with applications in networked epidemiology, swarming behavior, design engineering, and multi-agent systems.

Rebecca Smith

Rebecca Smith is an infectious disease epidemiologist at the University of Illinois College of Veterinary Medicine, Carle-Illinois College of Medicine, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, and National Center for Supercomputing Applications. Her research focuses using data for control of diseases at the population level. She is serving on the University of Illinois SHIELD team, using fast, frequent testing to control COVID-19.

Data & Forecasting Session Panelists

Tamer Başar

Tamer Başar is the Swanlund Endowed Chair and Center for Advanced Study, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is also the Director of the Center for Advanced Study.

Victor M. Preciado

Victor M. Preciado is an Associate Professor and Graduate Chair in the Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania. He received the Ph.D. degree in EECS from MIT. He was a recipient of the 2017 CAREER Award, the 2018 Best Paper Award by the IEEE Control Systems Magazine, and a runner-up of the 2019 Best Paper Award by the IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering.

Sandip Roy

Sandip Roy is a Professor at Washington State University. He is currently serving as a Program Director at the NSF Computer and Network Systems Program. His research is focused on the control and design of complex dynamical networks, with application to air traffic control, sensor networking, and systems biology problems.

Estimation & Mitigation Session Panelists

Patrizio Colaneri

Patrizio Colaneri is a professor in the Department of Electrical, Information, and Bio-Engineering at the Polytechnic University of Milan. He is a Fellow of IFAC and IEEE. His main interests are in the area of periodic systems, robust control, switching control, opinion dynamics, and railway power systems automation. On these topics he co-authored about 300 papers and seven books.

Ceyhun Eksin

Ceyhun Eksin is an assistant professor at the Industrial and Systems Engineering Department in Texas A&M University. His current research focuses on understanding and designing networked interactions of agents in social and technological settings including energy systems and epidemics using tools from game theory, control and distributed optimization.

Christophe Prieur

Christophe Prieur is a senior researcher of the CNRS at Univ. Grenoble Alpes (France). He is an IMA Fellow, and an IEEE Senior Member. His current research interests include nonlinear control theory, hybrid systems, and control of partial differential equations, with applications (not limited) to fluid/thermal dynamics, fusion/plasmas, and object tracking.

Vaccines Session Panelists

Joseph Kim

Joseph Kim (M.D.) is an Infectious Diseases specialist and Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine at the University of Illinois College of Medicine. He has a background in Cellular Immunology and Transplantation Medicine. He has helped administer community screening for COVID-19 in Peoria and served as site PI for several COVID-19 clinical trials.

Sarah Spurgeon

Sarah Spurgeon is Professor of Control Engineering at UCL, UK. She is best known for fundamental theoretical work in the area of variable structure control and estimation. She has worked across a wide range of application domains including using switched control theory to analyse the behaviour of the immune system.

Shreyas Sundaram

Shreyas Sundaram is an Associate Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University. He received his PhD from the University of Illinois in 2009. His research interests include control and estimation for distributed and multi-agent systems, resilience and security, game theory, and network science.