Carolyn Beck

Biography

Carolyn received her PhD from Caltech, her MS from Carnegie Mellon, and her BS from California State Polytechnic University, all in Electrical Engineering. Prior to her PhD studies, she worked as a Research and Development Engineer for Hewlett-Packard in Silicon Valley. She is currently a Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in Industrial and Systems Engineering, and has held visiting positions at KTH (Stockholm, Sweden), Stanford University and Lund University (Sweden). She serves as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, on the IEEE Board of Governors for the Control Systems Society (CSS) and is the President-Elect of CSS. Carolyn is an IEEE Fellow, and was the recipient of a NSF CAREER Award, an ONR Young Investigator Award, and local teaching honors. Her research interests lie in the development of model approximation methods, network inference and aggregation, and distributed optimization and control, with applications to epidemic processes and energy networks.