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Conference Plenary Lecture

A Quest to Tame Complex Control Systems: From Theory towards Applications

Jacquelien Scherpen

Conference Tutorial Session

IEEE CSS TC on Smart Cities Tutorial Session: Challenges and Opportunities for Control in Smart Cities

Mauro Salazar , Andreas A. Malikopoulos

Andreas A. Malikopoulos

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Biography

Andreas Malikopoulos is a Professor in the School of Civil & Environmental Engineering and the Director of the Information and Decision Science Lab at Cornell University. Prior to these appointments, he was the Terri Connor Kelly and John Kelly Career Development Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering (2017-2023) and the founding Director of the Sociotechnical Systems Center (2019-2023) at the University of Delaware (UD). Before he joined UD, he was the Alvin M. Weinberg Fellow (2010-2017) in the Energy & Transportation Science Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), the Deputy Director of the Urban Dynamics Institute (2014-2017) at ORNL, and a Senior Researcher in General Motors Global Research & Development (2008-2010).

Dr. Malikopoulos is the recipient of several prizes and awards, including the 2007 Dare to Dream Opportunity Grant from the University of Michigan Ross School of Business, the 2007 University of Michigan Teaching Fellow, the 2010 Alvin M. Weinberg Fellowship, the 2019 IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Young Researcher Award, and the 2020 UD’s College of Engineering Outstanding Junior Faculty Award. He has been selected by the National Academy of Engineering to participate in the 2010 German-American Frontiers of Engineering (FOE) Symposium and organize a session on transportation at the 2016 European-American FOE Symposium. He has also been selected as a 2012 Kavli Frontiers of Science Scholar by the National Academy of Sciences. Dr. Malikopoulos has been an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles and IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems from 2017 through 2020. He is currently an Associate Editor of Automatica and IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE, a Fellow of the ASME, and a member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society.

Affiliation(s)

Cornell University

United States

, Florian Dörfler

, Marios Polycarpou

Conference Tutorial Session

Graphons in Systems and Control

Mohamed-Ali Belabbas

, Xudong Chen

Conference Tutorial Session

Distributed Multi-Armed Bandits

Ji Liu

Conference Plenary Lecture

Generalization in Reinforcement Learning: From Foundational Results to New Frontiers

Csaba Szepesvari

Award Ceremony

CDC 2025 Award Ceremony

Conference Tutorial Session

Contraction Theory in Control, Optimization, and Learning

Francesco Bullo

, Samuel Coogan

, Emiliano Dall'Anese

, Ian Manchester , Giovanni Russo

Conference Tutorial Session

Autonomous Multi-Agent Systems in Transportation: Control, Learning, and Optimization Methods

Christos G. Cassandras

Biography

Christos G. Cassandras is Distinguished Professor of Engineering at Boston University, Head of the Division of Systems Engineering, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and co-founder of the Center for Information and Systems Engineering. He received degrees from Yale University, Stanford University, and Harvard University. In 1982-84 he was with ITP Boston, Inc. and in 1984-1996 he was with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Massachusetts/Amherst. He specializes in the areas of discrete event and hybrid systems, cooperative control, stochastic optimization, and computer simulation, with applications to computer and sensor networks, manufacturing systems, and transportation systems. He has published over 350 refereed papers in these areas, and five books. He has collaborated with The MathWorks, Inc. in the development of the discrete event and hybrid system simulator SimEvents. Dr. Cassandras was Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (1998-2009) and the 2012 President of the IEEE Control Systems Society. He is the recipient of several awards, including the 2011 IEEE Control Systems Technology Award, the Distinguished Member Award of the IEEE Control Systems Society (2006), IFAC’s 1999 Harold Chestnut Prize, 2011 and 2014 prizes for the IBM/IEEE Smarter Planet Challenge competition, the 2014 Engineering Distinguished Scholar Award at Boston University, several honorary professorships, a 1991 Lilly Fellowship and a 2012 Kern Fellowship. He is also a Fellow of the IEEE and a Fellow of the IFAC.

Affiliation(s)

Boston University

United States

, Karl H. Johansson

, Andreas A. Malikopoulos

Andreas A. Malikopoulos

Website

Biography

Andreas Malikopoulos is a Professor in the School of Civil & Environmental Engineering and the Director of the Information and Decision Science Lab at Cornell University. Prior to these appointments, he was the Terri Connor Kelly and John Kelly Career Development Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering (2017-2023) and the founding Director of the Sociotechnical Systems Center (2019-2023) at the University of Delaware (UD). Before he joined UD, he was the Alvin M. Weinberg Fellow (2010-2017) in the Energy & Transportation Science Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), the Deputy Director of the Urban Dynamics Institute (2014-2017) at ORNL, and a Senior Researcher in General Motors Global Research & Development (2008-2010).

Dr. Malikopoulos is the recipient of several prizes and awards, including the 2007 Dare to Dream Opportunity Grant from the University of Michigan Ross School of Business, the 2007 University of Michigan Teaching Fellow, the 2010 Alvin M. Weinberg Fellowship, the 2019 IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Young Researcher Award, and the 2020 UD’s College of Engineering Outstanding Junior Faculty Award. He has been selected by the National Academy of Engineering to participate in the 2010 German-American Frontiers of Engineering (FOE) Symposium and organize a session on transportation at the 2016 European-American FOE Symposium. He has also been selected as a 2012 Kavli Frontiers of Science Scholar by the National Academy of Sciences. Dr. Malikopoulos has been an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles and IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems from 2017 through 2020. He is currently an Associate Editor of Automatica and IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE, a Fellow of the ASME, and a member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society.

Affiliation(s)

Cornell University

United States

Conference Tutorial Session

Sampling-Based Methods for Optimal Control: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications

Chaoyi Pan , Zeji Yi , Guanya Shi , Guannan Qu

Conference Plenary Lecture

AI-Human Games

Asu Ozdaglar

Conference Tutorial Session

Data Driven and Learning Enabled Control

Mario Sznaier

, Frank Allgöwer

Frank Allgöwer

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Biography

Frank Allgöwer is director of the Institute for Systems Theory and Automatic Control and professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Stuttgart in Germany.

He studied Engineering Cybernetics and Applied Mathematics at the University of Stuttgart and the University of California at Los Angeles respectively. He received his Ph.D. degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Stuttgart. Prior to his present appointment, he held a professorship in the electrical engineering department at ETH Zurich. He also held visiting positions at the California Institute of Technology, the NASA Ames Research Center, the DuPont Company and the University of California at Santa Barbara.

His main interests in research and teaching are in the area of systems and control with emphasis on the development of new methods for the analysis and control of nonlinear systems. Of equal importance to the theoretical developments are practical applications and the experimental evaluation of benefits and limitations of the developed methods. Applications range from control of atomic force microscopes and biomedical applications to the control of roller coasters and systems biology.

At present Frank Allgöwer is Editor for the journal Automatica, Associate Editor of the Journal of Process Control and is on the editorial board of several further journals including the Journals of Robust and Nonlinear Control, IET Control Theory and Applications, Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering, the journal Chemical Engineering Science and the Springer Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences Series. Among others he serves on the scientific council of the German Society for Measurement and Control (GMA), is on the Board of Governors of the IEEE Control System Society, is chairman of the IFAC Technical Committee on Nonlinear Systems, is member of the IFAC Policy Committee and chairman of the International Affairs Committee of IEEE CSS and has been a member of the council of the European Union Control Association.

Frank Allgöwer has been organizer or co-organizer of several international conferences and has published over 150 scientific articles. Frank Allgöwer received several recognitions for his work including the IEEE distinguished lectureship, the appointment as IFAC Fellow and the Leibniz prize, which is the most prestigious prize in science and engineering awarded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG).

Affiliation(s)

University of Stuttgart

Germany

, Arthur Castello Branco de Oliveira

, Eduardo Sontag

Conference Tutorial Session

Introduction to Nonstochastic Online Control

Elad Hazan , Max Simchowitz , Karan Singh

Conference Tutorial Session

Non-Rational Control

Taylin Kargin

, Babak Hassibi

Conference Plenary Lecture

Using Transient Controllers to Satisfy High Level Multi-Robot Tasks

Dimos V. Dimarogonas

Conference Plenary Lecture

Digital Twins for a Greener and More Resilient Future in the Metal Industry

Thomas Parisini

Biography

Thomas Parisini received the Ph.D. degree in Electronic Engineering and Computer Science in 1993 from the University of Genoa. He was with Politecnico di Milano and he currently holds the Chair of Industrial Control and serves as the Head of the Control and Power Research Group at Imperial College London. He is a Deputy Director of the KIOS Research and Innovation Centre of Excellence, University of Cyprus. Since 2001 he is also Danieli Endowed Chair of Automation Engineering with University of Trieste. In 2009-2012 he was Deputy Rector of University of Trieste. In 2018 he received an Honorary Doctorate from University of Aalborg, Denmark. He held a "Scholar-in-Residence" visiting position at Digital Futures-KTH, Stockholm, Sweden. He authored or co-authored a research monograph in the Communication and Control Series, Springer Nature, and over 400 research papers in archival journals, book chapters, and international conference proceedings. He is a co-recipient of the IFAC Best Application Paper Prize of the Journal of Process Control, Elsevier, for the three-year period 2011-2013 and of the 2004 Outstanding Paper Award of the IEEE Trans. on Neural Networks. He is also a recipient of the 2007 IEEE Distinguished Member Award. In 2016, he was awarded as Principal Investigator at Imperial of the H2020 European Union flagship Teaming Project KIOS Research and Innovation Centre of Excellence led by University of Cyprus.

Thomas Parisini has served as the 2021-2022 President of the IEEE Control Systems Society and during 2009-2016 he was the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Trans. on Control Systems Technology. Since 2017, he is Editor for Control Applications of Automatica and since 2018 he is the Editor in Chief of the European Journal of Control. Among other activities, he was the Program Chair of the 2008 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control and General Co-Chair of the 2013 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control. Prof. Parisini is a Fellow of the IEEE and of the IFAC.

Affiliation(s)

Imperial College London (UK) and University of Trieste (Italy)

Conference Plenary Lecture

CDC 2025

A Quest to Tame Complex Control Systems: From Theory towards Applications

IEEE CSS TC on Smart Cities Tutorial Session: Challenges and Opportunities for Control in Smart Cities

Graphons in Systems and Control

Distributed Multi-Armed Bandits

Generalization in Reinforcement Learning: From Foundational Results to New Frontiers

CDC 2025 Award Ceremony

Contraction Theory in Control, Optimization, and Learning

Autonomous Multi-Agent Systems in Transportation: Control, Learning, and Optimization Methods

Sampling-Based Methods for Optimal Control: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications

AI-Human Games

Data Driven and Learning Enabled Control

Introduction to Nonstochastic Online Control

Non-Rational Control

Using Transient Controllers to Satisfy High Level Multi-Robot Tasks

CCTA 2025

Digital Twins for a Greener and More Resilient Future in the Metal Industry

Haptics Anywhere: Enabling Mobile Telepresence

Industrial control systems: A retrospective and the road ahead

A Glimpse into the Automation & Controls powering ASML's EUV Light Sources

Control Challenges Toward the Adoption of Closed-Loop Anesthesia and Therapeutic Interventions as Standard of Care

ACC 2025

Thank You and See You at ACC 2026