Conference Tutorial Session

Contraction Theory in Control, Optimization, and Learning

Francesco Bullo, Samuel Coogan, Emiliano Dall'Anese, Ian Manchester, Giovanni Russo

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Thu, December 11, 2025

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Francesco Bullo

University of California, Santa Barbara

United States

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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

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Samuel Coogan

Georgia Institute of Technology

United States

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Georgia Institute of Technology

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Emiliano Dall'Anese

Boston University

United States

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Emiliano Dall'Anese

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Emiliano Dall'Anese is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Boston University, where he is also an appointed faculty with the Division of Systems Engineering. He received the Ph.D. in Information Engineering from the Department of Information Engineering, University of Padova, Italy, in 2011. He was with the University of Minnesota as a postdoc (2011-2014), the National Renewable Energy Laboratory as a senior researcher (2014-2018), and the Department of Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder as a faculty (2018-2024).

His research interests span the areas of optimization, control, and learning; current applications include power systems and autonomous systems.

He received the National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2020, the IEEE PES Prize Paper Award in 2021, and the IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems Best Paper Award in 2023.

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Boston University

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Ian Manchester

University of Sydney

Australia

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University of Sydney

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Giovanni Russo

University of Salerno

Italy

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University of Salerno

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Date & Time

Thu, December 11, 2025

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