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Sribalaji C. Anand

KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Sweden

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Nicola Bastianello

KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Sweden

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Giuseppe Belgioioso

KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Sweden

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Gianni Bianchini

Universita' degli Studi Di Siena

Italy

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Almuatazbella Boker

Virginia Tech

United States

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Corentin Briat

University of Applied Sciences

Switzerland

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Francesco Bullo

University of California, Santa Barbara

United States

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Jiming Chen

Hangzhou Dianzi University and Zhejiang University

China

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Michelle Chong

Eindhoven University of Technology

Netherlands

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Giacomo Como

Politecnico di Torino

Italy

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Giacomo Como

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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.

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Politecnico di Torino

Italy

Marco Coraggio

Scuola Superiore Meridionale

Italy

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Jorge Cortés

University of California, San Diego

United States

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Emiliano Dall'Anese

Boston University

United States

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Emiliano Dall'Anese

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I received the Laurea Triennale (B.Sc Degree) and the Laurea Specialistica (M.Sc Degree) in Telecommunications Engineering from the University of Padova, Italy, in 2005 and 2007, respectively. I received a Ph.D. in Information Engineering from the Department of Information Engineering, University of Padova, Italy, in 2011. My advisors were Prof. Silvano Pupolin (University of Padova) and Prof. Georgios B. Giannakis (University of Minnesota). From January 2009 to September 2010, I was a visiting scholar at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota, USA, within the group of Prof. Georgios B. Giannakis. From January 2011 to November 2014 I was a Postdoctoral Associate at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Digital Technology Center of the University of Minnesota, USA.

I am an Assistant Professor within the Department of Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engineering (ECEE) at the University of Colorado Boulder. I am also a member of the Affiliate Faculty Program of the Department of Applied Mathematics (APPM) at the University of Colorado Boulder.

I hold a courtesy position as a Visiting Professor at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). Prior to joining the University of Colorado Boulder, from December 2014 to August 2018, I was a Senior Scientist at NREL. My research efforts were on developing optimization and control algorithms, with particular emphasis on distributed architectures for power and energy systems. I was the Principal Investigator of a project funded by the DOE Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-e) under the program Network Optimized Distributed Energy Systems (NODES).

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Boston University

United States

Amritam Das

Eindhoven University of Technology

Netherlands

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Soham Das

Texas A&M University

United States

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Alexander Davydov

Rice University

United States

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Diego Deplano

University of Cagliari

Italy

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Subhrakanti Dey

Uppsal University

Sweden

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Florian Dörfler

ETH Zürich

Switzerland

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Ceyhun Eksin

Texas A&M University

United States

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Alessandro Falsone

Politecnico di Milano

Italy

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Ilyas Farhat

University of Toronto

Canada

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Rolf Findeisen

TU Darmstadt

Germany

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Angela Fontan

KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Sweden

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Sophie M. Fosson

DAUIN - Politecnico di Torino

Italy

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Mauro Franceschelli

Università degli Studi di Cagliari

Italy

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Paolo Frasca

CNRS, GIPSA-lab Grenoble

France

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Shuang Gao

Polytechnique Montreal

Canada

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Federica Garin

INRIA Grenoble Rhône-Alpes

France

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Andrea Gasparri

Università Roma Tre

Italy

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Vijay Gupta

Purdue University

United States

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Matthew Hale

Georgia Tech University

United States

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Abolfazl Hashemi

Purdue University

United States

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Maurice Heemels

University of Technology, Eindhoven

Netherlands

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Maurice Heemels

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Maurice Heemels received the M.Sc. degree in mathematics and the Ph.D. degree in control theory (both summa cum laude) from the University of Technology, Eindhoven (TU/e), the Netherlands, in 1995 and 1999, respectively. From 2000 to 2004, he was with the Electrical Engineering Department, TU/e, and from 2004 to 2006 with the Embedded Systems Institute (ESI). Since 2006, he has been with the Department of Mechanical Engineering, TU/e, where he is currently a Full Professor. He held visiting professor positions at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Switzerland (2001), and at the University of California at Santa Barbara (2008). In 2004, he worked also at the company Oce, the Netherlands. His current research interests include hybrid and cyber-physical systems, networked and event-triggered control systems and constrained systems including model predictive control. Maurice served/s on the editorial boards of Automatica, Nonlinear Analysis: Hybrid Systems, Annual Reviews in Control, and IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. He was a recipient of a personal VICI grant awarded by STW (Dutch Technology Foundation, NWO/TTW) and is the current chair of the IFAC Technical Committee on Networked Systems. He is the founding father of a bi-annual PhD school on multi-disciplinary research topics such as hybrid, networked and cyber-physical systems educating over 600 PhD students worldwide since 2003. He was IPC (co-)chair of IFAC ADHS'12, ECC'13, IFAC NECSYS'13, and IFAC ADHS'18. He is a Fellow of the IEEE.

See www.heemels.tue.nl for more information.

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University of Technology, Eindhoven

Netherlands

Julien Hendrickx

Univ. Catholique de Louvain

Belgium

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Sandra Hirche

Technische Universitaet Muenchen

Germany

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Sandra Hirche

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Sandra Hirche holds the TUM Liesel Beckmann Distinguished Professorship and heads the Chair of Information-oriented Control in the Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany (since 2013). She received the diploma engineer degree in Aeronautical and Aerospace Engineering in 2002 from the Technical University Berlin, Germany, and the Doctor of Engineering degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2005 from the Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany.

From 2005 - 2007 she has been a PostDoc Fellow of the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science at the Fujita Laboratory at Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan. Prior to her present appointment she has been an Associate Professor at TUM. Her main research interests include learning, cooperative, and networked control with applications in human-robot interaction, multi-robot systems, and general robotics.

She has published more than 200 papers in international journals, books and refereed conferences. She has received multiple awards such as the Rohde & Schwarz Award for her PhD thesis, the IFAC World Congress Best Poster Award in 2005 and – together with students – Best Paper Awards of IEEE Worldhaptics and IFAC Conference of Manoeuvring and Control of Marine Craft in 2009 and the Outstanding Student Paper Award of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control 2018. In 2013 she has been awarded with an ERC Starting Grant on the “Control based on Human Models” and in 2019 with the ERC Consolidator Grant on “Safe data-driven control for human-centric systems”.

Sandra Hirche is Fellow of the IEEE and received the IEEE Control System Society Distinguished Member Award. She has served as IEEE Control System Society (CSS) Vice-President for Member Activities (2014/15), as Chair for Student Activities in the IEEE CSS (2009-2014), as Chair of the CSS Awards Subcommittee on “CDC Best Student-Paper Award” (2010-2014), and has been elected member of the Board of Governors of IEEE CSS (2010-2013). She has been Co-Chair of the IFAC TC 1.5 “Networked Control Systems” (2010-2017).

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Technische Universitaet Muenchen

Germany

Hideaki Ishii

University of Tokyo

Japan

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Ali Jadbabaie

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

United States

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Karl H. Johansson

KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Sweden

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Caio Kalil Lauand

University of Florida

United States

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Hamed Kebriaei

University of Tehran

Iran

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Ryota Kokubo

Institute of Science Tokyo

Japan

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Mattia Laurini

University of Parma

Italy

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Jerome Le Ny

Polytechnique Montreal

Canada

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Anuththara Lekamalage

Brock University

Canada

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Chen Liangming

Southern University of Science and Technology

China

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Steven Low

California Institute of Technology

United States

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Sonia Martínez

University of California, San Diego

United States

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Sonia Martínez

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Sonia Martínez is a Full Professor at the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of California, San Diego and a Jacobs Faculty Scholar. 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' 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 a 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 Automatica and an IEEE Fellow. Recently, she was named the inaugural Editor in Chief of a new Control System Society publication, the IEEE Open Access Control Systems (IEEE OACS) journal.

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University of California, San Diego

United States

Ziyang Meng

Tsinghua University

China

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Pol Mestres

UC San Diego

United States

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Victor Molnö

KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Sweden

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Sayak Mukherjee

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

United States

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Giuseppe Notarstefano

Università di Bologna

Italy

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Asu Ozdaglar

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

United States

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Ioannis (Yannis) Paschalidis

Boston University

United States

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Ioannis (Yannis) Paschalidis

1 (Northeastern U.S.)

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Yannis Paschalidis is a Distinguished Professor of Engineering at Boston University (BU) with appointments in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Systems Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, and Computing & Data Sciences at Boston University. He is the Director of the Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering -- BU's federation and convergence accelerator of all University centers and initiatives in this area of research. He obtained a Diploma (1991) from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, and an M.S. (1993) and a Ph.D. (1996) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), all in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He has been at Boston University since 1996. His current research interests lie in the fields of optimization, control, stochastic systems, robust learning, computational medicine, and computational biology. He has published a monograph and more than 250 refereed papers in these topics, and he has been the primary advisor to 29 Ph.D. theses.

Prof. Paschalidis' work has been recognized with a CAREER award (2000) from the U.S. National Science Foundation, the second prize in the 1997 George E. Nicholson

paper competition by INFORMS, the best student paper award at the 9th Intl. Symposium of Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks (WiOpt 2011) won by one of his Ph.D. students for a joint paper, an IBM/IEEE Smarter Planet Challenge Award, and a finalist best paper award at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). His work on protein docking has been recognized for best performance in modeling selected protein-protein complexes against 64 other predictor groups (2009 Protein Interaction Evaluation Meeting). His recent work on health informatics won an IEEE Computer Society Crowd Sourcing Prize and a best paper award by the International Medical Informatics Associations (IMIA). He was an invited participant at the 2002 Frontiers of Engineering Symposium organized by the National Academy of Engineering, and at the 2014 National Academies Keck Futures Initiative (NAFKI) Conference. Prof. Paschalidis is a Fellow of both IEEE and IFAC and was the founding Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems from 2013 until 2019. He is currently the Vice President of Publication Activities of the IEEE Control Systems Society.

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Boston University

United States

Fabio Pasqualetti

University of California, Riverside

United States

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Stacy Patterson

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

United States

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Jorge Poveda

University of California San Diego

United States

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Victor Preciado

University of Pennsylvania

United States

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Anton Proskurnikov

Politecnico di Torino

Italy

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Daniel Quevedo

The University of Sydney

Australia

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Pouria Ramazi

Brock University

Canada

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Chiara Ravazzi

Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (IEIIT-CNR)

Italy

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Alejandro Rojas

Universidad de Concepción

Chile

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Giovanni Russo

University of Salerno

Italy

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Brian Sadler

University of Texas at Austin

United States

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Venkatesh Saligrama

Boston University

United States

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Henrik Sandberg

KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Sweden

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Ketan Savla

University of Southern California

United States

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Ketan Savla

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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.

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University of Southern California

United States

Takashi Tanaka

Purdue University

United States

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Sekhar Tatikonda

Yale University

United States

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Emma Tegling

Lund University

Sweden

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André Teixeira

Uppsala University

Sweden

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Kyriakos Vamvoudakis

Georgia Institute of Technology

United States

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Renato Vizuete

UCLouvain

Belgium

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Jimin Wang

University of Science and Technology Beijing

China

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Xinlei Yi

Tongji University

China

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Niloufar Yousefi

University of Toronto

Canada

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Serdar Yüksel

Queen's University

Canada

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Daniel Zelazo

Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

Israel

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Lorenzo Zino

Politecnico di Torino

Italy

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