IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems Editorial Board

IEEE TCNS Editor-in-Chief

Jeff S. Shamma

King Abdullah University of Science & Technology

Saudi Arabia

IEEE TCNS Deputy Editor-in-Chief

Anna Scaglione

Biography

Anna Scaglione received her “Laurea” and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Rome, Italy in 1995 and 1999 respectively. She was a Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of Minnesota in 2000.

Dr. Scaglione is a Professor in electrical and computer engineering at Arizona State University. Prior to ASU, she was a Professor of electrical engineering from 2010 to 2014 and Associate Professor from 2008-2010 at the University of California at Davis. Before joining UC Davis Anna Scaglione was Assistant Professor (2001-2006) and then tenured Associate Professor at Cornell from 2006 to 2008. Prior to joining Cornell, she was an Assistant Professor at the University of New Mexico from 2000-2001. In 2006, she was visiting professor at EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, and in 2013 at Stanford University.

Scaglione was elevated to IEEE fellow in 2011 and was so honored by both the Signal Processing and the Communication Societies. She is the first author of the paper that received the 2000 IEEE Signal Processing Transactions Best Paper Award is co-recipient of the 2013 IEEE Donald G. Fink Prize Paper Award for the best review paper in that year across all IEEE publications. Her research with her students was also honored with the 2013 IEEE Signal Processing Society Young Author Best Paper Award (Lin Li), and several conferences best papers awards. She was also a recipient of the NSF CAREER grant in 2002 and of the Outstanding mid-career faculty in the College of Engineering at UC Davis.

A co-holder of eight granted U.S. patents, Scaglione is the author of hundreds publications with collaborators and many of her pupils. Since 2001, Scaglione has been a frequent keynote or plenary speaker. She is currently one of the IEEE Signal Processing Society Distinguished Lecturers for 2019-2020.

She is currently serving as Deputy EiC for the IEEE Transactions on Control of Networked Systems where she was Associate Editor 2016-2017 and then Senior Editor 2018-2019.

Positions & Affiliations

Arizona State University

United States

IEEE TCNS Senior Editor

Mario di Bernardo

University of Naples Federico II

Italy

Mario di Bernardo

Biography

Mario di Bernardo (SM’06–F’12) received the M.Sc. degree in electronic engineering from the University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy, in 1994, and the Ph.D. degrees in engineering mathematics from the University of Bristol, U.K., in 1998.

He is currently a Professor of Automatic Control with the University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy. He is also Professor (part-time) of Nonlinear Systems and Control with the University of Bristol, U.K. His research interests include the analysis, synchronization, and control of complex network systems, piecewise-smooth dynamical systems, nonlinear dynamics and nonlinear control with applications to engineering and computational biology. He has authored or coauthored more than 250 international scientific publications, a research monograph, and two edited books.

Dr. di Bernardo was elevated to the grade of Fellow of the IEEE for his contributions to the analysis, control, and applications of nonlinear systems, and complex networks, in January 2012. He was bestowed the title of “Cavaliere” of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic for scientific merits from the President of Italy on February 28, 2007. From 2009 to 2017, he was President of the Italian Society for Chaos and Complexity. From 2011 to 2014, he was the Vice President for financial activities of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society. In 2014, he was appointed as a member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Control Systems Society. He was Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society for the two-year term 2016–2017. He is Senior Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, and Associate Editor and member for the Steering Committee of the IEEE Control Systems Letters, the Conference Editorial Board of the IEEE Control System Society and the European Control Association (EUCA). He is regularly invited as Plenary Speaker in Italy and abroad.

Positions & Affiliations

University of Naples Federico II

Italy

University of Bristol

United Kingdom

Sonia Martinez

University of California, San Diego

United States

Sonia Martinez

Biography

Sonia Martínez is a Professor at the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of California, San Diego. Prof. Martínez received her Ph.D. degree in Engineering Mathematics from the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain, in May 2002. Following a year as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Applied Mathematics at the Technical University of Catalonia, Spain, she obtained a Postdoctoral Fulbright Fellowship and held appointments at the Coordinated Science Laboratory of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign during 2004, and at the Center for Control, Dynamical systems and Computation (CCDC) of the University of California, Santa Barbara during 2005. From January 2006 to June 2010, she was an Assistant Professor with the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of California, San Diego. From July 2010 to June 2014, she was an Associate Professor with the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of California, San Diego.

Dr Martínez's research interests include networked control systems, multi-agent systems, and nonlinear control theory with applications to robotics and cyber-physical systems. In particular, she has focused on the modeling and control of robotic sensor networks, the development of distributed coordination algorithms for groups of autonomous vehicles, and the geometric control of mechanical systems. For her work on the control of underactuated mechanical systems she received the Best Student Paper award at the 2002 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control. She was the recipient of an NSF CAREER Award in 2007. For the paper "Motion coordination with Distributed Information," co-authored with Jorge Cortés and Francesco Bullo, she received the 2008 Control Systems Magazine Outstanding Paper Award. She is a Senior Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems and an IEEE Fellow.

Positions & Affiliations

University of California, San Diego

United States

Yasamin Mostofi

University of California, Santa Barbara

United States

Luca Schenato

Università di Padova

Italy

IEEE TCNS Associate Editor

Tansu Alpcan

University of Melbourne

Australia

Claudio Altafini

Linköping University

Sweden

Professor Barooah

University of Florida

United States

Carolyn Beck

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

United States

Linda Bushnell

University of Washington

United States

Linda Bushnell

Biography

Linda Bushnell is a Research Associate Professor and Director of the Networked Control Systems Lab at the Electrical Engineering Department of the University of Washington. She received her Ph.D. in EE from UC Berkeley in 1994, her M.A. in Mathematics from UC Berkeley in 1989, her M.S. in EE from UConn in 1987, and her B.S. in EE from UConn in 1985. She also received her MBA from the University of Washington Foster School of Business in 2010. Her research interests include networked control systems, control of complex networks, and secure-control.She is a recipient of the US Government Superior Civilian Service Award, NSF ADVANCE Fellowship, and IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS) Recognition Award. She was the Co-Editor of a special issue of the Asian Journal of Control and Guest Editor for three issues of the Control Systems Magazine. She has been the Organizer/Co-Organizer of four invited/special sessions. She is a Senior Member of the IEEE (1999), and has been a member of the IEEE since 1985, a member of the IEEE CSS since 1990, and a member of the IEEE Women in Engineering since 2013. For IEEE CSS, she is a Distinguished Lecturer, a member of the Women in Control Committee, a member of the TC Control Education, a member of the History Committee, Liaison to IEEE Women in Engineering, a 2014 Appointed Member to the Board of Governors, and a Member of the Board of Governors for 2015 - 2017. She was the Secretary-Administrator and Member of the Executive Committee from 2001 – 2007, Member of the Board of Governors 1999 – 2007, Associate Editor of the IEEE CSM 1999 – 2002, Vice-Chair for Invited Sessions for 2001 CCA, Chairperson of the History Standing Committee 1997 – 2000, and Vice-Chair for Invited Sessions for 2000 CDC. For the American Automatic Control Council (AACC), she is currently the Treasurer of the AACC and a Member of the Technical Committee on Control Education. She was the Workshop Chair for 2013 ACC, Technical Program Chair for 2007 ACC, Publicity Chair for 2005 ACC, Vice-Chair for Publications for 1999 ACC, and Vice-Chair for Invited Sessions for 1998 ACC. For the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), she is the General Co-Chair for the Conference on High Confidence Networked Systems (HiCoNS) at CPSWeek 2014, and was the Technical Program Co-Chair for the HiCoNS at CPSWeek 2013. She has been a member of multipleTechnical Program Committees for the CDC, ACC, HiCoNS, and ISIC conferences.

www.ee.washington.edu/people/faculty/bushnell/

Positions & Affiliations

University of Washington

United States

Peng Chen

Zhejiang University

China

Giacomo Como

Lund University

Sweden

Subhrakanti Dey

TCNS Associate Editor; L-CSS Associate Editor

Uppsala University

Sweden

Dimos V. Dimarogonas

KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Sweden

Alejandro Dominguez-Garcia

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

United States

Rahul Jain

University of Southern California

United States

Mihailo Jovanovic

University of Southern California

United States

Mihailo Jovanovic

Biography

Mihailo R. Jovanovic is a professor in the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the founding director of the Center for Systems and Control at the University of Southern California. He received the Dipl. Ing. and M.S. degrees from the University of Belgrade, Serbia, in 1995 and 1998, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of California, Santa Barbara, in 2004, under the direction of Bassam Bamieh. He was a visiting researcher with the Department of Mechanics, the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, from September to December 2004, and a faculty member in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, from December 2004 until January 2017. He has held visiting positions with Stanford University and the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.

Professor Jovanovic's expertise is in modeling, dynamics, and control of large-scale and distributed systems and his current research focuses on large-scale and distributed optimization, design of controller architectures, sparsity-promoting optimal control, fundamental limitations in the design of large dynamic networks, and dynamics/control of fluid flows. He currently serves as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems and had served as a Guest Editor (of the Special Issue on Analysis, Control and Optimization of Energy System Networks in the IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems), the Chair of the American Physical Society External Affairs Committee, a Program Vice-Chair of the 55th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, an Associate Editor of the SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, and an Associate Editor of the IEEE Control Systems Society Conference Editorial Board.

Professor Jovanovic is a fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). He received a CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation in 2007, an Early Career Award from the University of Minnesota Initiative for Renewable Energy and the Environment in 2010, a Resident Fellowship within the Institute on the Environment at the University of Minnesota in 2012, the George S. Axelby Outstanding Paper Award from the IEEE Control Systems Society in 2013, the University of Minnesota Informatics Institute Transdisciplinary Research Fellowship in 2014, and the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at UC Santa Barbara in 2014. Papers of his students were finalists for the Best Student Paper Award at the American Control Conference in 2007 and 2014.

Positions & Affiliations

University of Southern California

United States

Ioannis Lestas

University of Cambridge

United Kingdom

Jason Marden

University of California, Santa Barbara

United States

Adilson Motter

Northwestern University

United States

Dragan Nesic

The University of Melbourne

Australia

Alex Olshevsky

Boston University

United States

Lacra Pavel

University of Toronto

Canada

Maria Prandini

Politecnico di Milano

Italy

Maria Prandini

Biography

Maria Prandini was born in Brescia, Italy, on September 8, 1969. She received the Laurea degree cum laude in Electrical Engineering from the Politecnico di Milano (1994), and the Ph.D. degree in Information Technology from the Universita degli Studi di Brescia (1998). After her Ph.D. studies, she was a visiting postdoctoral researcher at the Electronics Research Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, from 1998 to 2000. She also held visiting positions at Delft University of Technology (1998), Cambridge University (2000), University of California, Berkeley (2005), and Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich (2006).

From December 2002 to January 2011, she was Assistant Professor at the Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione of the Politecnico di Milano. From February 2011 to February 2018, she was Associate Professor at the same department, which is now named Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria, where she is currently Full Professor.

Her research interests include randomized methods for system analysis and design; modeling, verification and control of stochastic and hybrid systems; and multi-agent systems, involving distributed optimization and game theoretic solutions for cooperative and noncooperative decision making. Her research studies were motivated mainly by applications to the transportation and energy domains.

Since 1999, she has been teaching courses in control at the undergraduate and graduate levels, in Italy as well as at international institutions abroad. In particular, she was a lecturer of a Ph.D. course on Stochastic Systems: Estimation and Control at the University of California, Berkeley (spring 1999), a master course on Hybrid systems at the University of Stuttgart (first semester 2014-15), and a Ph.D course on Hybrid systems at Lund University (October 2015). She is a lecturer of a master course on Nonlinear control at her institution, where she has also been teaching advanced courses for Ph.D. students on Hybrid Systems and Cooperative and Noncooperative Optimization and Control.

She is currently Chair of the Automation and Control Engineering Program at Politecnico di Milano.

She was the principal investigator in the EC-funded H2020 project UnCoVerCPS \Unifying Control and Verification of Cyber-Physical Systems" (2015{2018), being responsible for the scientific activities of the PoliMi team, which include the development of distributed optimization techniques for networked systems. Previously, she contributed to EC-funded projects on modeling, verification and control of stochastic and hybrid systems with application to the energy and transportation domains. More specifically, she was workpackage leader in the FP5 project HYBRIDGE \Distributed control and stochastic analysis of hybrid systems, supporting safety-critical real-time systems design" (2002{2005), and principal investigator in the FP6 project iFly \Safety, Complexity and Responsibility based design and validation of highly automated Air Trac Management" (2007{2011) and in the FP7 project MoVeS \Modelling, verification and control of complex systems: From foundations to power network applications" (2010-2013).

She has been a member of the editorial boards of leading journals in control as an associate editor (IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2009-2013, IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, 2009-2015, and Nonlinear Analysis: Hybrid Systems, 2011-2015) and as a discussion editor (European Journal of Control, 2007-2013). She is a member of the IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS) Conference Editorial Board (since 2007) and of the European Control Association (EUCA) Conference Editorial Board (since 2013) as an associate editor. She is currently associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems. She has been active in the IEEE CSS and the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC). She is a member of the IFAC Technical Committee on Discrete Event and Hybrid Systems (since 2008). She has been appointed member of the IFAC Policy Committee for the term 2017-2020. She has been contributing to the activities and governance of the IEEE CSS in different roles. From 2013 to 2015, she was editor for the CSS Electronic Publications. She was elected member of the IEEE CSS Board of Governors for a three-year term (2015-2017). She was IEEE CSS Vice-President for Conference Activities in 2016 and 2017. She has been an elected member of the CSS nominating committee for the year 2018.

She is currently a member of SIGBED Board of Directors.

She has been a member of the program committees of several international conferences and either organizing or contributing to invited sessions, workshops, and tutorials. She was co-chair of the 21st ACM International Conference on Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control (HSCC 2018).

Currently, she is co-program chair of IEEE Conference on Decisione and Control 2020 and program chair of IEEE Conference on Decisione and Control 2021.

In 2018, she received the IEEE CSS Distinguished Member Award for contributions to stochastic, hybrid, and distributed control systems and outstanding service to the Control Systems Society related to electronic publications and conference activities.

In 2019 she was elevated to IEEE Fellow, effective 1 January 2020, with the following citation: “for contributions to stochastic, hybrid and distributed control systems theory.”

Positions & Affiliations

Politecnico di Milano

Italy

Giovanni Russo

IBM Research

United States

Murti Salapaka

University of Minnesota

United States

Ketan Savla

University of Southern California

United States

Ketan Savla

Biography

Ketan Savla is an assistant professor and John and Dorothy Shea Early Career Chair in Civil Engineering at the University of Southern California, with joint appointments in the Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, the Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering (courtesy), and the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering-Systems (courtesy). Prior to that, he was a research scientist in the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems at MIT. Ketan is 2017 recipient of American Automatic Control Council’s prestigious the Donald P. Eckman Award. The Eckman Award recognizes an outstanding young engineer in the field of automatic control. The recipient must be younger than 35 years on January 1 of the year of award. In addition, he has been recognized with NSF CAREER and an IEEE CSS George S. Axelby Outstanding Paper Award. He obtained his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and M.A. in Applied Mathematics from the University of California at Santa Barbara, M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and B. Tech. in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. His current research interest is in distributed robust and optimal control, dynamical networks, state-dependent queuing systems, and incentive design, with applications in civil infrastructure and autonomous systems. He currently serves as an Associate Editor for the Conference Editorial Board of the IEEE Control Systems Society, the IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, and the IEEE Control Systems Letters.

Positions & Affiliations

University of Southern California

United States

Iman Shames

University of Melbourne

Australia

Ling Shi

Hong Kong University of Science & Technology

China

Stephen Smith

University of Waterloo

Canada

Andy Sun

Georgia Institute of Technology

United States

Yan Wan

University of Texas, Arlington

United States

Yan Wan

Biography

Dr. Yan Wan is currently an Associate Professor in the Electrical Engineering Department at the University of Texas at Arlington. She received her Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Washington State University in 2009 and then postdoctoral training at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research interests lie in the modeling, evaluation and control of large-scale dynamical networks, cyber-physical system, stochastic networks, decentralized control, learning control, networking, uncertainty analysis, algebraic graph theory, and their applications to UAV networking, UAV traffic management, epidemic spread, complex information networks, and air traffic management. She received research grants from the NSF, ONR, NIST, IEEE, and MITRE Corporation as subcontracts from FAA. Her research has led to over 140 publications and successful technology transfer outcomes. She has been recognized by several prestigious awards, including the NSF CAREER Award, RTCA William E. Jackson Award, U.S. Ignite and GENI demonstration awards, IEEE WCNC and ICCA Best Paper Awards, UNT Early Career Award for Research and Creativity, and Tech Titan of the Future – University Level Award. Her research on UAV-carried Wi-Fi system for emergency communication has been reported by many government-agency websites and media outlets, including NSF, NBC, NPR, Huffington Post, and the Washington Times. She is the Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems and Transactions of the Institute of Measurement and Control, Conference Editorial Board Member of the IEEE Control Systems Society, Vice President for IEEE ComSoc Fort Worth Chapter, and Technical Committee Member of AIAA Intelligent Systems.

Positions & Affiliations

University of Texas, Arlington

United States

Australia