The Speakers
Speakers in order of presentation:
Francesco Bullo
Francesco Bullo is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at UC Santa Barbara. He focuses on network systems and distributed control with application to robotic coordination, power grids and social networks. He coauthored of “Geometric Control of Mechanical Systems,” “Distributed Control of Robotic Networks,” and “Lectures on Network Systems” (KDP, 2020, v1.4).
Giulia Giordano
Giulia Giordano is an Assistant Professor at the University of Trento, Italy. Her main research interests include the study of dynamical networks, the analysis of biological systems and the control of networked systems. She has recently worked on predictive epidemiological models tailored to COVID-19 and interventions for curbing the contagion.
Cameron Nowzari
Cameron Nowzari is an Assistant Professor at George Mason University, in Fairfax, Virginia. He received the Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, San Diego in Sept. 2013. He then held a postdoctoral position with the Electrical and Systems Engineering Department at the University of Pennsylvania until 2016.
Naomi E. Leonard
Naomi Ehrich Leonard is Edwin S. Wilsey Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Princeton University. She received her BSE in Mechanical Engineering from Princeton and PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland. Her current research interests include control of multi-agent systems, collective decision making, and spreading processes.
Emma Tegling
Emma Tegling is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Institute of Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She received her Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, in 2019. Emma's research interests are within analysis and control of large-scale network systems, with a recent focus on the Covid-19 pandemic.
Emanuele Crisostomi
Emanuele Crisostomi is an Assoc. Professor of Electrotechnics with the Department of Energy, Systems, Territory, and Constructions Engineering, University of Pisa. His research interests include control and optimization of large scale systems, including smart grids and green mobility networks.
Kimon Drakopoulos
Kimon Drakopoulos is an Assistant Professor in the Data Sciences and Operations department at USC Marshall School of Business. His research focuses on the operations of complex networked systems, social networks, stochastic modeling, game theory and information economics.
Fredrik Gustafsson
Fredrik Gustafsson is professor in Sensor Informatics at Department of Electrical Engineering, Linköping University, since 2005. He received the M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering 1988 and the Ph.D. degree in Automatic Control, 1992, both from Linköping University. During 1992-1999 he held various positions in automatic control, and 1999-2005 he was professor in Communication Systems.
Ye Yuan
Ye Yuan received Ph.D. degree from University of Cambridge in 2012 and has been a Full Professor at the Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan since 2016. Prior to this, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher at UC Berkeley, a Junior Research Fellow at Darwin College, University of Cambridge.
Mario Di Bernardo
Mario di Bernardo (SMIEEE ’06, FIEEE 2012) is Professor of Automatic Control at the University of Naples Federico II (Italy) and Visiting Professor of Nonlinear Systems and Control at the University of Bristol (UK). His research interests include the analysis and control of collective behavior in complex network systems; piecewise-smooth and hybrid dynamical systems; nonlinear dynamics and nonlinear control with applications to engineering and computational biology.
Philip E. Paré
Mengbin Ye
Mengbin Ye is with the Optus-Curtin Centre of Excellence in Artificial Intelligence, Curtin University, Australia. He has been awarded the 2018 J.G. Crawford Prize from the Australian National University, and the 2019 Springer PhD Thesis Prize. His research interests include complex social networks, mathematical epidemic models, and multi-agent systems.
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.
Ashish R. Hota
Ashish R. Hota is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. He was a postdoctoral researcher at ETH Zurich in 2018 and received his Ph.D. from Purdue University in 2017. His research interests are game theory, optimization, and control of network systems.
Airlie Chapman
Airlie Chapman is a senior lecturer in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Melbourne. Her research interests are multi-agent dynamics, networked dynamic systems, data-driven control and graph theory with applications to robotics and aerospace systems.
Richard D. Braatz
Richard D. Braatz is the Edwin R. Gilliland Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) where he does research in control theory and its application to advanced manufacturing systems. Richard is a Fellow of IEEE and IFAC, and a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering.