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Philip E. Paré

Biography

Philip E. Paré is an assistant professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University. He was a postdoctoral scholar at KTH from 2019-2020 and received his Ph.D. from UIUC in 2018. His research is focused on modeling and control of virus spread over networks.

Giulia Giordano

Biography

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.

Ji Liu

Biography

Ji Liu is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Stony Brook University. He was a postdoc at UIUC and ASU, and received his Ph.D. from Yale. His current research interests include distributed control and optimization, distributed machine learning, epidemic networks, and social networks.

Emma Tegling

Biography

Emma Tegling is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in the Department of Automatic Control at Lund University. She received her Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering in 2019, and my M.Sc. and B.Sc. degrees, both in Engineering Physics, in 2013 and 2011, all from KTH Royal Institute of Technology. Between 2019-2020, she was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society at MIT. Emma's research interests are within analysis and control of large-scale network systems, with a recent focus on the Covid-19 pandemic.

Henrik Sandberg

Biography

Henrik Sandberg is Professor at the Division of Decision and Control Systems, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. His research interests include security of cyber-physical systems, power systems, model reduction, and fundamental limitations in control.

Carolyn Beck

Biography

Carolyn Beck is professor and associate head in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at UIUC. She has been a visiting faculty at KTH and Stanford universities, and currently serves as an AE for TCNS. Her primary research interests include modeling, analysis and control of networked dynamical systems.

Karl H. Johansson

Biography

Karl H. Johansson is Professor with the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden and Director of Digital Futures. His research interests are in networked control systems and cyber-physical systems with applications in transportation, energy, and automation networks.