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Duarte Antunes received the Licenciatura in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Lisbon, in 2005. He did his PhD (cum laude) from 2006 to 2011 in the research field of Automatic Control at the Institute for Systems and Robotics, IST, Lisbon, in close collaboration with the University of California, Santa Barbara. From 2011 to 2013 he held a postdoctoral position at the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). He is currently an Assistant Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of TU/e. He is a co-author of the best paper award at the IEEE International conference on event-based control, communication and signal processing 2017 and of the best student paper award in the 17th IFAC Symposium on Automatic Control in Aerospace, Toulouse, June, 2007. His research interests include Networked Control Systems, Stochastic Control, Dynamic Programming, Distributed Optimization, Robotics, Autonomous Systems and Systems Biology.
James Gross received his Ph.D. degree from TU Berlin in 2006. From 2008-2012, he was assistant professor at RWTH Aachen University and associated with the DFG-funded UMIC Research Centre. Since November 2012, he has been with the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science School, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, as an associate professor. He also serves as director for the KTH ACCESS Linnaeus Centre and is a member of the board of KTHs Innovative Centre for Embedded Systems. His research interests are broadly in the area of mobile systems and networks, with a focus on critical machine- to-machine communications, edge computing, as well as performance evaluation methods. He has (co-)authored over 130 peer-reviewed papers in international journals and conferences. His work has been awarded multiple times, including best paper awards at ACM MSWiM 2015, IEEE WoWMoM 2009, and European Wireless 2009. In 2007, he was the recipient of the ITG/KuVS dissertation award for his Ph.D. thesis. Apart from his academic work, he is co-founder of the spin-off R3 Communications GmbH, a Berlin-based start-up in the area of mission-critical industrial wireless networking.
Karl Henrik Johansson is Director of the Stockholm Strategic Research Area ICT The Next Generation and Professor at the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, KTH Royal Institute of Technology. He received MSc and PhD degrees from Lund University. He has held visiting positions at UC Berkeley, Caltech, NTU, HKUST Institute of Advanced Studies, and NTNU. His research interests are in networked control systems, cyber-physical systems, and applications in transportation, energy, and automation. He is a member of the IEEE Control Systems Society Board of Governors, the IFAC Executive Board, and the European Control Association Council. He has received several best paper awards and other distinctions. He has been awarded Distinguished Professor with the Swedish Research Council and Wallenberg Scholar. He has received the Future Research Leader Award from the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research and the triennial Young Author Prize from IFAC. He is Fellow of the IEEE and the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, and he is IEEE Distinguished Lecturer.
Wolfgang Kellerer is a full professor with the Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany, heading the Chair of Communication Networks at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Before, he was for over ten years with NTT DOCOMO’s European Research Laboratories. His last position was head of the research department for wireless communication and mobile networking. His current research focuses on flexible networking based on SDN/NFV and wireless machine-to-machine communication towards 5G. He received his Dr.-Ing. degree (Ph.D.) and his Dipl.-Ing. degree (Master) from TUM, in 1995 and 2002, respectively. His research resulted in over 200 publications and 35 granted patents. In 2015, he has been awarded with an ERC Consolidator Grant from the European Commission for his project FlexNets: ”Quantifying Flexibility in Communication Networks”. He is a member of ACM, VDE ITG, and a Senior Member of IEEE.
Chrysa Papagianni is a network research engineer for the Access Network Control department of the End-to-end Network Service Automation (ENSA) lab, in Nokia Bell Labs. ENSA Lab performs research on mobile and fixed networks, through creation of future-proof, adaptive and massively scalable end-to-end solutions, and new architectures exploiting 5G and beyond with scalable automation and diverse element integration. The ANC department focuses on software-oriented research for the convergence of access networks, network service automation as well as end-to-end network control and traffic management, employing Software-Defined Networking and Network Functions Virtualization. She received her Diploma and Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, both from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece, in 2003 and 2009 respectively. From 2008 to 2013 she was a teaching fellow at the MSc in Networking and Data Communications delivered by the departments of Electronics Engineering and Automation Engineering at the Piraeus University of Applied Sciences Piraeus, Greece, in collaboration with Kingston University, London, U.K. From 2010 to 2016, she was a Research and Teaching Associate with the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at NTUA. From 2016 to 2018, she was a Research Scientist for the Institute for Systems Research with a joint appointment in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Maryland in the Unites States.
Daniel E. Quevedo (S’97–M’05–SM’14) is Head of the Chair of Automatic Control (Regelungs- und Automatisierungstechnik) at Paderborn University, Germany. He received Ingeniero Civil Electrónico and M.Sc. degrees from the Universidad Técnica Federico Santa Marı́a, Chile, in 2000. In 2005, he was awarded the Ph.D. degree from the University of Newcastle in Australia. Dr. Quevedo was supported by a full scholarship from the alumni association during his time at the Universidad Técnica Federico Santa Marı́a and received several university-wide prizes upon graduating. He received the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control Best Student Paper Award in 2003 and was also a finalist in 2002. In 2009 he was awarded a five-year Research Fellowship from the Australian Research Council. Prof. Quevedo is Associate Editor of the IEEE Control Systems Magazine, Editor of the International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, and serves as Chair of the IEEE Control Systems Society Technical Committee on Networks & Communication Systems. His research interests are in control of networked systems and of power converters.
Joerg Raisch is a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at TU Berlin, where he heads the Control Systems Group. He is also affiliated, as an ”external scientific member”, with the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems in Magdeburg, Germany. His main research interests are in the areas of Hybrid Systems, Hierarchical Control, the Modelling and Control of Discrete Event Systems in Dioid Algebras, the Control of Microgrids, and the use of Controlled Functional Electrical Stimulation for Rehabilitation Purposes. He served or serves on the editorial boards of a number of technical journals including the European Journal of Control, the IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, Automatica, Discrete Event Dynamic Systems, and Foundations of Systems and Control.
Sebastian Trimpe is a Max Planck and Cyber Valley Research Group Leader (W2) at the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart, Germany. Sebastian leads the independent Max Planck Research Group on Intelligent Control Systems, which focuses on fundamental research at the intersection of control, machine learning, networks, and robotics. Sebastian obtained his Ph.D. degree in 2013 from ETH Zurich with Raffaello D’Andrea at the Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control. Before, he received a B.Sc. degree in General Engineering Science in 2005, a M.Sc. degree (Dipl.-Ing.) in Elec- trical Engineering in 2007, and an MBA degree in Technology Management in 2007, all from Hamburg University of Technology. In 2007, he was a research scholar at the University of California at Berkeley. Sebastian is recipient of the General Engineering Award for the best undergraduate degree (2005), a scholarship from the German Academic National Foundation (2002-2007), the triennial IFAC World Congress Interactive Paper Prize (2011), and the Klaus Tschira Award for achievements in public understanding of science (2014).
The workshop is supported by the Priority Program SPP 1914 ''Cyber-Physical Networking'', funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG)
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