Conference Editorial Board (CEB)

Tarek Ahmed Ali

Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Ingénieurs de Caen

France

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Amir Ajorlou

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

United States

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Amir Ajorlou

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I am a research scientist at the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS). Prior to that, I was a postdoctoral research fellow at MIT from 2014 to 2017. I received my BS from Sharif University of Technology in Tehran, Iran, and my PhD in electrical and computer engineering from Concordia University in Montreal, Canada, in 2013. I have been the recipient of several awards, including two gold medals in the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO), Concordia University Doctoral Prize in Engineering and Computer Science, Governor-General of Canada Academic Gold Medal, and NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship.

I have over ten years of experience in teaching the art of problem-solving to students preparing to participate in the National and International Mathematical Olympiad. At MIT, I have offered Nonlinear Optimization (6.252) in Spring 2017 and Introduction to Network Models (1.022) in Fall 2018 and Fall 2020. See my Teaching page for more details.

My research is aimed at making a profound understanding of decision making under uncertainty at both microscopic and systemic levels in large population of strategic agents where individual agents have information of varying quality and precision, information exchange is limited and localized, and the sources, reliability, and trustworthiness of information is unclear. This is the common gist in many applications ranging from social and crowd-based platforms, sharing economy, to cyber-physical systems, and more broadly, complex social and economic networks.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

United States

Kaveh Akbari Hamed

Virginia Tech

United States

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Mohammad Al Janaideh

Fahad Albalawi

Angelo Alessandri

Conference Editorial Board

University of Genoa

Italy

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Marouane Alma

James Anderson

Sumeet Aphale

Marco Ariola

Universita degli Studi di Napoli Parthenope

Italy

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Marco Ariola

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Marco Ariola was born in Naples, Italy in 1971. He graduated in Electronic Engineering with honors in 1995 at the University of Naples Federico II. He worked for the Italian Aerospace Research Centre from 1995 to 1996, as a researcher in the group of Flight Mechanics and Control. He received a PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in 2000 from the University of Naples Federico II. In 1997 and 1998 he was a visiting researcher at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland, and for several periods between 1998 and 2000 Visiting Researcher at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of New Mexico, USA. He has also spent long periods at research laboratories for controlled thermonuclear fusion, and particularly in Japan, Naka at the Japan Atomic Energy Agency, and in England at the JET (Joint European Torus), where he was responsible for numerous experiments. Presently he is EUROfusion deputy project leader for DEMO diagnostic and control (WPDC).

From July 2000 to March 2005 he has been Assistant Professor of Automatic Control at the University of Naples Federico II. From March 2005 to December 2012 he was an Associate Professor of Automatic Control at the University of Naples Parthenope, where, since December 2012 he is a Full Professor of Automatic Control.
His research is directed both to methodology issues, such as the study of stability and stabilization of uncertain systems, and to relevant applications, such as control of the plasma in machines for nuclear fusion and planning and tracking of trajectories for UAVs.

Since 2006 he is Associate Editor of the Editorial Board Conference of the IEEE Control Systems Society and, since 2006, IEEE Senior Member. Since 2017 he is Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology.

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Universita degli Studi di Napoli Parthenope

Italy

Takenori Atsumi

Chiba Institute of Technology

Japan

Ahmad Taher Azar

Shun-ichi Azuma

Kyoto University

Japan

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Juhoon Back

Kwangwoon University

South Korea

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Marco Baglietto

University of Genova

Italy

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He Bai

Oklahoma State University

United States

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Laurent Bako

Ecole Centrale de Lyon

France

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Andras Balogh

University of Texas-Pan American

United States

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Prabir Barooah

University of Florida

United States

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João Carlos Basilio

Federal University of Rio de Janeiro

Brazil

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Pedro Batista

University of Lisbon

Portugal

Mohamed-Ali Belabbas

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

United States

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Mouhacine Benosman

Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories

United States

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Miguel Bernal Reza

Technological Institute of Sonora

Mexico

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Gianni Bianchini

Universita' degli Studi Di Siena

Italy

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Francesca Boem

University College London

United Kingdom

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Francesca Boem

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Francesca Boem is a Lecturer in the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at University College London (UCL). From July 2018 she has been offered an association with Imperial College London as Honorary Lecturer in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

Francesca Boem received the M.Sc. degree (cum laude) in Management Engineering in 2009 and the Ph.D. degree in Information Engineering in 2013, both from the University of Trieste, Italy. She was Post-Doc at the University of Trieste with the Machine Learning Group from 2013 to 2014.

From 2014 to 2018, she was Research Associate at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London, with the Control and Power Research Group. Since 2015 she has been part of the team at Imperial College working on the flagship EU H2020-WIDESPREAD-TEAMING project for the development of the EU KIOS Research and Innovation Centre of Excellence, a strategic partnership between University of Cyprus and Imperial College London.

In 2018 Dr. Boem has been awarded the Imperial College Research Fellowship. From April 2018 she has been appointed as a Lecturer in the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at University College London.

Dr. Boem is member of the IFAC Technical Committee 6.4 (‘‘Fault Detection, Supervision & Safety of Technical Processes - SAFEPROCESS’’) and Associate Editor for the IEEE Control System Society Conference Editorial Board and for the EUCA Conference Editorial Board.

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University College London

United Kingdom

Almuatazbella Boker

Virginia Tech

United States

3 (Southeastern U.S.)

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Xavier Bombois

CNRS

France

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Alessandro Borri

Italian National Research Council

Italy

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Philipp Braun

Australian National University

Australia

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Delphine Bresch-Pietri

MINES ParisTech

France

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Leila Jasmine Bridgeman

Kai Cai

Osaka Metropolitan University

Japan

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Claudia Califano

University of Rome La Sapienza

Italy

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Massimo Canale

Politecnico di Torino

Italy

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Yongcan Cao

Andrea Carron

Ankush Chakrabarty

Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories

United States

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Aranya Chakrabortty

North Carolina State University

United States

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Aranya Chakrabortty

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Dr. Chakrabortty joined NSF as a program director in August 2020. He is a Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, where he is also affiliated with the NSF Future Renewable Electric Energy Delivery and Management (FREEDM) Systems Engineering Research Center. His research interests are in areas of Power Systems, Control Systems, Optimization, and Machine Learning, with applications to both transmission-scale and distribution-scale power grids. Over the past twelve years, he has worked extensively in the areas of control and optimization of smart grids, renewable energy integration, cyber-physical systems, and cyber-security. Dr. Chakraborty has built a nationally visible cyber-physical testbed for power system control using real-time digital simulators that has been invited for live demonstrations in national events such as the US-Ignite and the Smart-America Challenge, sponsored by the U.S. White House. He has authored or co-authored more than 160 technical publications in refereed journals and conference proceedings and has published three books. Since joining NC State, he has graduated ten PhD students and has supervised four postdoctoral researchers. Over the past twelve years, his research has been sponsored by NSF, US Department of Energy, ARPA-E, the US Army Research Lab, Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), and by a variety of power system companies such as Southern California Edison, New York Power Authority, and Duke Energy.

Dr. Chakrabortty is a senior member of IEEE. From 2016 to 2020 he served as an associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology and currently serves as an editor for IEEE Transactions on Power Systems. He has served in numerous technical program committees for conferences such as American Control Conference (ACC), ICCPS, IEEE SmartgridComm, and IEEE GlobalSIP. He served as the vice-chair for industry and applications for ACC 2016 in Boston, and the vice-chair for invited sessions for ACC 2020 in Philadelphia. He has organized or co-organized several research workshops including the NSF Workshop on Real-time Learning and Decision Making in Dynamical Systems in 2018.

Dr. Chakrabortty received the NSF CAREER award in 2011. At Rensselaer, he was awarded the Allen B. Dumont Prize of 2009 in recognition of the best doctoral thesis by an Electrical Engineering PhD graduate. His research group at NC State has received the best Internet Application in Energy Award from US Ignite in 2013 and 2014. In 2019 he was named a University Faculty Scholar by the NC State Provost's office.

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North Carolina State University

United States

Kuo-Hao Chang

Madalena Chaves

Inria Sophia Antipolis - Mediterranean

France

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Jian Chen

Lijun Chen

University of Colorado at Boulder

United States

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Bing Chu

Luca Consolini

Università di Parma

Italy

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Samuel Coogan

Georgia Institute of Technology

United States

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Carlo Cosentino

University of Magna Graecia

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Ran Dai

Ashwin Dani

University of Connecticut

United States

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Jorge Dávila

Instituto Politecnico Nacional

Mexico

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Gianmaria de Tommasi

University of Naples

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Carmen Del Vecchio

Università del Sannio

Italy

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Michael Demetriou

Worcester Polytechnic Institute

United States

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Zhengtao Ding

University of Manchester

United Kingdom

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Daoyi Dong

Australian National University

Australia

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Yoshio Ebihara

Kyushu University

Japan

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Nael El-Farra

University of California, Davis

United States

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Simos Andreas Evangelou

Imperial College London

United Kingdom

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Huazhen Fang

University of Kansas

United States

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Makan Fardad

Timm Faulwasser

TU Dortmund

Germany

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Riccardo Ferrari

Delft University of Technology

Netherlands

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Mirko Fiacchini

Université Grenoble-Alpes

France

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James Richard Forbes

McGill University

Canada

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Simone Formentin

Politecnico di Milano

Italy

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Hassen Fourati

University Grenoble Alpes

France

Mauro Franceschelli

Università degli Studi di Cagliari

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Mario Luca Fravolini

Leonid Fridman

Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico

Mexico

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Huijun Gao

Harbin Institute of Technology

China

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Simone Garatti

Politecnico di Milano

Italy

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Eloy Garcia

Air Force Research Laboratory

United States

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Germain Garcia

Federica Garin

INRIA Grenoble Rhône-Alpes

France

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Andrea Gasparri

Università Roma Tre

Italy

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Konstantinos Gatsis

Bahman Gharesifard

Queen’s University

Canada

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Marion Gilson

University of Lorraine

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Fouad Giri

Université de Caen

France

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Sergio Grammatico

Delft University of Technology

Netherlands

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Oleg Granichin

Suat Gumussoy

The Mathworks, Inc.

United States

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Abhishek Halder

University of California, Santa Cruz

United States

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Takeshi Hatanaka

Tokyo Institute of Technology

Japan

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Wei He

University of Science and Technology Beijing

China

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Marcel Heertjes

Eindhoven University of Technology

Netherlands

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Daniel W. C. Ho

Yutaka Hori

Keio University

Japan

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Luigi Ianelli

University of Sannio

Italy

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Hiroyuki Ichihara

Meiji University

Japan

Gian Paolo Incremona

Politecnico di Milano

Italy

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Giacomo Innocenti

University of Florence

Italy

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Gianluca Ippoliti

Marche Polytechnic University

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Hiroshi Ito

Kyushu Institute of Technology

Japan

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Prathyush P. Menon

Ziyang Meng

Tsinghua University

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Guillaume Mercère

Université de Poitiers

France

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Ali Mesbah

University of California, Berkeley

United States

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Fei Miao

University of Connecticut

United States

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Nader Motee

Lehigh University

United States

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Shaoshuai Mou

Institute for Control, Optimization and Networks (ICON), Purdue University

United States

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Matthias Mueller

Thulasi Mylvaganam

Imperial College

United Kingdom

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CEB Associate Editors