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Chair(s):

Giacomo Como

Politecnico di Torino

Italy

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Giacomo Como

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Biography

Giacomo Como is an Associate Professor at the Department of Mathematical Sciences, Politecnico di Torino, Italy, and at the Automatic Control Department of Lund University, Sweden. He received the B.Sc., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Applied Mathematics from Politecnico di Torino, in 2002, 2004, and 2008, respectively. He was a Visiting Assistant in Research at Yale University in 2006-2007 and a Postdoctoral Associate at the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, from 2008 to 2011.

He currently serves as Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering and of the IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, and as chair of the IEEE-CSS Technical Committee on Networks and Communication Systems. He is also a Guest Editor for a Special Issue on "Dynamics and Behaviors in Social Networks" of the IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems and a Guest Associate Editor of a Special Section on "Mathematical Modeling, Analysis, and Control of Epidemics" in the SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization. He was the IPC chair of the IFAC Workshop NecSys 2015 and a semi-plenary speaker at the International Symposium MTNS 2016 and the SICE ISCS 2017. He is a recipient of the 2015 George S. Axelby Outstanding Paper Award. His research interests are in dynamics, information, and control in network systems with applications to cyber-physical systems, infrastructure networks, and social and economic networks.

Affiliation(s)

Politecnico di Torino

Italy

Mission Statement:

There has been an increasing research activity on networks within the CSS community. The rapid pace of innovation in the areas of systems control, computation, and communication is leading the way for a new class of networked systems, characterized by their complex interconnections, diversity of components, and interactions with the physical world. Research at the interplay between networks, communication and systems control is not confined to study communication networks only, but extends to a broad area, including other technological networks such as transportation and energy networks; social, economic, and financial networks; and biological networks.

The IEEE Technical Committee on Networks and Communication Systems aims to promote communication among researchers active in the area of networks. It provides a forum to discuss new research directions on modeling, analysis, optimization and control of emerging networks, both with social and technological aspects. It allows members to coordinate activities, including the organization of new workshops and several invited sessions on networks in ACC and CDC. Another important objective is to increase CSS publications that could provide a visible outlet for high-quality research in this area.

This Technical Committee currently has about 80 members (including around 20 members of the students and postdocs group). It is organized into eight working groups.

Articles describing some activities of our technical committee appeared in the May 2016 and August 2018 issues of IEEE Control Systems Magazine.