Francesco Bullo, Sandro Zampieri, Fabio Pasqualetti - 2016 recipient of IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems Best Paper Award

Award Received:

IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems Best Paper Award

Date Awarded:

2016

Francesco Bullo

University of California, Santa Barbara

United States

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Francesco Bullo

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Francesco Bullo is a Professor with the Mechanical Engineering Department and the Center for Control, Dynamical Systems and Computation at UC Santa Barbara. He was previously associated with the University of Padova, the California Institute of Technology, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His main research interests are network systems and distributed control with application to robotic coordination, power grids, and social networks. He is the co-author of "Geometric Control of Mechanical Systems" (Springer, 2004) and "Distributed Control of Robotic Networks" (Princeton, 2009). His articles received the 2008 IEEE CSM Outstanding Paper Award, the 2010 Hugo Schuck Best Paper Award, the 2013 SIAG/CST Best Paper Prize, and the 2014 Automatica Best Paper Award. He is currently serving as Chair of the Mechanical Engineering Department at UCSB and has served as Vice-President for Technical Activities and for Publications for the IEEE Control Systems Society.

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University of California, Santa Barbara

United States

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Sandro Zampieri

University of Padova

Italy

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Sandro Zampieri

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Sandro Zampieri received the Laurea degree in electrical engineering and the Ph.D. degree in system engineering from the University of Padova, Italy, in 1988 and 1993, respectively.

He has been a Full Professor in automatic control with the Department of Information Engineering, the University of Padova, since 2002. His research interests include automatic control and dynamical systems theory, and, in particular, distributed control and estimation, and networked control and control under communication constraints.

Prof. Zampieri has delivered several invited seminars and he was a member of the Technical Program Committee for several international conferences. He was General Chair of the 1st IFAC Workshop on Estimation and Control of Networked Systems 2009, Program Chair of the 3rd IFAC Workshop on Estimation and Control of Networked Systems 2012, and Publication Chair of the IFAC World Congress 2011. He was an Associate Editor for the Siam Journal on Control and Optimization between 2002–2004 and chaired the IFAC Technical Committee “Networked systems” between 2005–2008. Since 2012, he has been an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control.

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University of Padova

Italy

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Fabio Pasqualetti

University of California, Riverside

United States

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Fabio Pasqualetti

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Fabio Pasqualetti (S’07–M’13) received the Laurea degree (B.Sc.) in computer engineering with the University of Pisa, Italy, in 2004, the Laurea Magistrale degree (M.Sc.) in automation engineering with the University of Pisa, Italy, in 2007, and the Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering with the University of California, Santa Barbara, in 2012. He is an Assistant Professor with the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Riverside. His main research interest is in secure control systems, with application to multiagent networks, distributed computing, and power networks. Other interests include vehicle routing and combinatorial optimization, with application to distributed area patrolling and persistent surveillance and computational neuroscience.

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University of California, Riverside

United States

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Paper:

"Controllability Metrics, Limitations and Algorithms for Complex Networks"

IEEE Transaction on Control of Network Systems, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 40-52, 2014