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Alessandro Abate

University of Oxford

United Kingdom

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Alessandro Abate

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I am Professor of Verification and Control (formerly, Associate Professor) in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Oxford, Fellow and Tutor at St Hugh’s College Oxford, and Faculty Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute in London.

Born in Milan in 1978, I grew up in Padua and received a Laurea degree in Electrical Engineering (summa cum laude) in October 2002 from the University of Padua. As an undergraduate, I also studied at UC Berkeley and RWTH Aachen.

I earned an MS in May 2004 and a PhD in December 2007, both in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, at UC Berkeley, working on Systems and Control Theory with S. Sastry. Meanwhile, I was an International Fellow in the CS Lab at SRI International in Menlo Park (CA). Thereafter, I was a PostDoctoral Researcher at Stanford University, in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, working with C. Tomlin on Systems Biology in affiliation with the Stanford School of Medicine.

From June 2009 to mid-2013 I have been an Assistant Professor at the Delft Center for Systems and Control, TU Delft - Delft University of Technology, working with my research group on Verification and Control of complex systems.

My research interests lie in the analysis, formal verification, and control theory of heterogeneous and complex dynamical models – in particular of stochastic hybrid systems – and in their applications in cyber-physical systems (particularly involving safety-critical applications, energy, and biological networks).

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University of Oxford

United Kingdom

Matthew Abate

Georgia Institute of Technology

United States

Erika Abraham

RWTH Aachen University

Germany

Ali Afzalian

Shahid Beheshti University

Iran

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Amir Ali Ahmadi

Princeton University

United States

Daniel Ajeleye

University of Colorado Boulder

United States

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Omid Akbarzadeh

Newcastle University

United Kingdom

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Berk Altin

University of California, Santa Cruz

United States

Aaron Ames

Georgia Institute of Technology

Ali Aminzadeh

K. N. Toosi University of Technology

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Guerreuri Tome Antunes

Eindhoven University of Technology

Netherlands

Nikos Athanasopoulos

Queen’s University Belfast

Ireland

Vadim Azhmyakov

University of Medellin

Colombia

Haldun Balim

ETH Zurich

Switzerland

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Adrien Banse

Université Catholique de Louvain

Belgium

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John Baras

University of Maryland

United States

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Fernando Barros

Universidade de Coimbra

Portugal

Calin A. Belta

Boston University

United States

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Mario di Bernardo

University of Naples Federico II

Italy

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Mario di Bernardo

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MARIO DI BERNARDO (SMIEEE ’06, FIEEE 2012) is Professor of Automatic Control at the University of Naples Federico II, Italy and Visiting Professor of Nonlinear Systems and Control at the University of Bristol, U.K. He currently serves as Deputy pro-Vice Chancellor for Internationalization at the University of Naples and coordinates the research area and PhD program on Modeling and Engineering Risk and Complexity of the Scuola Superiore Meridionale, the new School of Advanced Studies located in Naples. On 28th February 2007 he was bestowed the title of Cavaliere of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic for scientific merits from the President of Italy. He was elevated to the grade of Fellow of the IEEE in January 2012 for his contributions to the analysis, control and applications of nonlinear systems and complex networks. In 2009, he was elected President of the Italian Society for Chaos and Complexity for the term 2010-2013. He was re-elected in 2013 for the term 2014-2017. In 2006 and again in 2009 he was elected to the Board of Governors of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society. From 2011 to 2014 he was Vice President for Financial Activities of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society. In 2015 he was appointed to the Board of Governors of the IEEE Control Systems Society where he was elected member in 2022 for the term 2023-2025. He was Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society for the two-year term 2016-2017. His research interests include the analysis, synchronization and control of complex network systems; piecewise-smooth dynamical systems; nonlinear dynamics and nonlinear control with applications to engineering and computational biology. He authored or co-authored more than 220 international scientific publications including more than 110 papers in scientific journals, a research monograph and two edited books. According to the international database SCOPUS (June 2022), his h-index is 51 and his publications received over 11000 citations by other authors. In 2017, he received the IEEE George N. Saridis Best Transactions Paper Award for Outstanding Research. He serves on the Editorial Board of several international scientific journals and conferences. From 1st January 2014 till 31st December 2015 he was Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems: Regular Papers. He is Senior Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems and Associate Editor of the IEEE Control Systems Letters, the Conference Editorial Board of the IEEE Control System Society and the European Control Association (EUCA). He was Associate Editor of Nonlinear Analysis: Hybrid Systems; the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Sytems I: Regular Papers from 1999 to 2002 and again from 2008 to 2010, and the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Brief papers from 2003 till 2008. He is regularly invited as Plenary Speakers in Italy and abroad. He was Program co-Chair of the European Control Conference 2019, Publicity Chair of the IEEE ISCAS Conference 2018 and has been organizer and co-organizer of several scientific initiatives and events and received funding from several funding agencies and industry including the European Union, the UK research councils the Italian Ministry of Research and University.

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University of Naples Federico II

Italy

Riccardo Bertollo

University of Trento

Italy

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Sergiy Bogomolov

University of Freiburg

Germany

Jean-Louis Boimond

Université Angers

France

Alessandro Borri

Italian National Research Council

Italy

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Alessandro Bosso

University of Bologna

Italy

Corentin Briat

Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering

ETH-Zurich

Switzerland

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Scott Brown

UC San Diego

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Kai Cai

Osaka Metropolitan University

Japan

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Julien Calbert

UCLouvain

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Pedro Casau

University of Aveiro, Portugal

United States

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Jun Chai

University of California, Santa Cruz

United States

Maria Charitidou

KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Sweden

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Michelle Chong

Eindhoven University of Technology

Netherlands

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Glen Chou

University of Michigan

United States

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Alessandro Colombo

Politecnico di Milano

Italy

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Samuel Coogan

Georgia Institute of Technology

United States

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Rudi Coppola

TU Delft

Netherlands

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Thao Dang

Verimag, CNRS

France

Bart De Schutter

Delft University of Technology

Netherlands

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Giannis Delimpaltadakis

Eindhoven University of Technology

Netherlands

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Soumyajit Dey

IIT Kharagpur

India

Dimos V. Dimarogonas

KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Sweden

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Mohamed Djemai

Université Polytechnique Hauts-de-France

France

Parasara Sridhar Duggirala

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

United States

Georgics Fainekos

Arizona State University

United States

Amro Farid

Dartmouth College

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Francesco Ferrante

University of California, Santa Cruz

Sergio Galeani

University of Roma, Tor Vergata

Italy

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Kunal Garg

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

United States

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Masoumeh Ghanbarpour

University of California, Santa Cruz

United States

Alessandro Giua

University of Cagliari

Italy

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Gabriel Gleizer

Delft University of Technology

Netherlands

Sergio Grammatico

Delft University of Technology

Netherlands

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Radu Grosu

Eindhoven University of Technology

Netherlands

Marcello Guarro

University of California, Santa Cruz

United States

Kaveh Akbari Hamed

San Diego State University

Hyejin Han

University of California, Santa Cruz

Akash Harapanahalli

Georgia Institute of Technology

United States

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Ehsan Hashemi

University of Alberta

Canada

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Syed. M. Hassaan

Arizona State University

Maurice Heemels

University of Technology, Eindhoven

Netherlands

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Sandra Hirche

Technische Universitaet Muenchen

Germany

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Martina Baradaran Hosseini

University of California, Santa Barbara

Dawn Hustig-Schultz

University of California, Santa Cruz

Saber Jafarpour

Georgia Institute of Technology

United States

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Jesse W. Jiang

Georgia Institute of Technology

United States

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Santiago Jimenez Leudo

University of California, Santa Cruz

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Zeyuan Jin

Arizona State University

United States

Aaron M. Johnson

Carnegie Mellon University

United States

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Agung Julius

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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Raphaël Jungers

Université Catholique de Louvain

Belgium

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Rushikesh Kamalapurkar

Oklahoma State University

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Mohammad Khajenejad

UC San Diego

United States

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Mira Khalil

Universite de Lorraine

France

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Emre Koyuncu

Stanbul Technical University

Gino Labinaz

Quantum 3C

Canada

Marcio Junior Lacerda

Federal University of São João del-Rei

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Moussa Labbadi

Aix-Marseille University

France

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Andrea L'Afflitto

Georgia Institute of Technology

Cédric Langbort

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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Abolfazl Lavaei

Newcastle University

United Kingdom

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Justin Le

University of California, Santa Barbara

Jerome Le Ny

Polytechnique Montreal

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Fredrick Leve

Air Force Research Laboratory

United States

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Wei Li

Nanjing University

Yuchun Li

University of California, Santa Cruz

Jun Liu

University of Waterloo

Canada

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Siyuan Liu

Technical University of Munich

Xiaoyu Liu

Delft University of Technology

Netherlands

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Zexiang Liu

University of Michigan

United States

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Mohamed Maghenem

University of California, Santa Cruz

Cristian Mahulea

University of Zaragoza

Spain

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Simone Mariano

LAAS-CNRS

Frederik Baymler Mathiesen

Delft University of Technology

Netherlands

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Manuel Mazo, jr.

Delft University of Technology

Netherlands

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Jared Miller

Northeastern University

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Sayan Mitra

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Pieter Mosterman

Mathworks

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Vishnu Murali

University of Colorado Boulder

United States

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Rudy Negenborn

Delft University of Technology

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Amy Nejati

Max Planck Institute for Software Systems

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Marcos Netto

New Jersey Institute of Technology

United States

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Iman Nodozi

University of California, Santa Cruz

Navid Noroozi

Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg

Daniel E. Ochoa

University of California, San Diego

United States

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Pegah Ojaghi

University of California, Santa Cruz

Sorin Olaru

Centrale Supélec

France

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Melkior Ornik

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

United States

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Necmiye Ozay

University of Michigan

United States

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Necmiye Ozay

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I received my B.S. degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Bogazici University, Istanbul in 2004, my M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA in 2006 and my Ph.D. degree again in Electrical Engineering from Northeastern University, Boston, MA in 2010. Between 2010 and 2013, I was a Control and Dynamical Systems postdoctoral scholar at the Department of Computing and Mathematical Sciences at California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA. I joined the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, in Fall 2013, where I am currently an associate professor. I am part of the Michigan Controls Group, a core member of Michigan Robotics, and also affiliated with the Michigan Institute for Data Science (MIDAS) and Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery & Engineering (MICDE).

My research interests include dynamical systems, control, optimization and formal methods with applications in cyber-physical systems, system identification, verification and validation, and autonomy. My papers received several awards including an IEEE Control Systems Society Conference on Decision and Control Best Student Paper Award in 2008 and a best paper award from the Journal of Nonlinear Analysis: Hybrid Systems for the years 2014-2016. I received a DARPA Young Faculty Award in 2014, an NSF CAREER Award, a NASA Early Career Faculty Award and a DARPA Director’s Fellowship in 2016, an ONR Young Investigator Award, and the 1938E Award from the University of Michigan College of Engineering in 2018, and a 2019 Henry Russel Award from the University of Michigan, Rackham Graduate School. I was selected as an Outstanding Reviewer of the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control in 2011. I was one of the co-chairs of the 22nd ACM Conference on Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control in 2019. I am currently an associate editor for the Journal of Discrete Event Dynamic Systems, Nonlinear Analysis: Hybrid Systems, and Automatica. I am a member of the IEEE and ACM. I am also a member of the IEEE Control Systems Society Technical Committees on Hybrid Systems and on Robust and Complex Systems (formerly known as, Computational Aspects of Control System Design).

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University of Michigan

United States

Ali Pakniyat

University of Alabama

United States

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Fabio Pasqualetti

University of California, Riverside

United States

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Tarun Pati

Northeastern University

United States

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Andrea Peruffo

University of Oxford

Elena Petri

Sean Phillips

Air Force Research Laboratory

United States

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Andre Platzer

Carnegie Mellon University

Giordano Pola

University of L’Aquila

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Romain Postoyan

CNRS, Université de Lorraine, CRAN

France

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Jorge Poveda

University of California San Diego

United States

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Pavithra Prabhakar

Kansas State University

United States

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Maria Prandini

Politecnico di Milano

Italy

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Maria Prandini

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Maria Prandini was born in Brescia, Italy, on September 8, 1969. She received the Laurea degree cum laude in Electrical Engineering from the Politecnico di Milano (1994), and the Ph.D. degree in Information Technology from the Universita degli Studi di Brescia (1998). After her Ph.D. studies, she was a visiting postdoctoral researcher at the Electronics Research Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, from 1998 to 2000. She also held visiting positions at Delft University of Technology (1998), Cambridge University (2000), University of California, Berkeley (2005), and Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich (2006).

From December 2002 to January 2011, she was Assistant Professor at the Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione of the Politecnico di Milano. From February 2011 to February 2018, she was Associate Professor at the same department, which is now named Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria, where she is currently Full Professor.

Her research interests include randomized methods for system analysis and design; modeling, verification and control of stochastic and hybrid systems; and multi-agent systems, involving distributed optimization and game theoretic solutions for cooperative and noncooperative decision making. Her research studies were motivated mainly by applications to the transportation and energy domains.

Since 1999, she has been teaching courses in control at the undergraduate and graduate levels, in Italy as well as at international institutions abroad. In particular, she was a lecturer of a Ph.D. course on Stochastic Systems: Estimation and Control at the University of California, Berkeley (spring 1999), a master course on Hybrid systems at the University of Stuttgart (first semester 2014-15), and a Ph.D course on Hybrid systems at Lund University (October 2015). She is a lecturer of a master course on Nonlinear control at her institution, where she has also been teaching advanced courses for Ph.D. students on Hybrid Systems and Cooperative and Noncooperative Optimization and Control.

She is currently Chair of the Automation and Control Engineering Program at Politecnico di Milano.

She was the principal investigator in the EC-funded H2020 project UnCoVerCPS \Unifying Control and Verification of Cyber-Physical Systems" (2015{2018), being responsible for the scientific activities of the PoliMi team, which include the development of distributed optimization techniques for networked systems. Previously, she contributed to EC-funded projects on modeling, verification and control of stochastic and hybrid systems with application to the energy and transportation domains. More specifically, she was workpackage leader in the FP5 project HYBRIDGE \Distributed control and stochastic analysis of hybrid systems, supporting safety-critical real-time systems design" (2002{2005), and principal investigator in the FP6 project iFly \Safety, Complexity and Responsibility based design and validation of highly automated Air Trac Management" (2007{2011) and in the FP7 project MoVeS \Modelling, verification and control of complex systems: From foundations to power network applications" (2010-2013).

She has been a member of the editorial boards of leading journals in control as an associate editor (IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2009-2013, IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, 2009-2015, and Nonlinear Analysis: Hybrid Systems, 2011-2015) and as a discussion editor (European Journal of Control, 2007-2013). She is a member of the IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS) Conference Editorial Board (since 2007) and of the European Control Association (EUCA) Conference Editorial Board (since 2013) as an associate editor. She is currently associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems. She has been active in the IEEE CSS and the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC). She is a member of the IFAC Technical Committee on Discrete Event and Hybrid Systems (since 2008). She has been appointed member of the IFAC Policy Committee for the term 2017-2020. She has been contributing to the activities and governance of the IEEE CSS in different roles. From 2013 to 2015, she was editor for the CSS Electronic Publications. She was elected member of the IEEE CSS Board of Governors for a three-year term (2015-2017). She was IEEE CSS Vice-President for Conference Activities in 2016 and 2017. She has been an elected member of the CSS nominating committee for the year 2018.

She is currently a member of SIGBED Board of Directors.

She has been a member of the program committees of several international conferences and either organizing or contributing to invited sessions, workshops, and tutorials. She was co-chair of the 21st ACM International Conference on Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control (HSCC 2018).

Currently, she is co-program chair of IEEE Conference on Decisione and Control 2020 and program chair of IEEE Conference on Decisione and Control 2021.

In 2018, she received the IEEE CSS Distinguished Member Award for contributions to stochastic, hybrid, and distributed control systems and outstanding service to the Control Systems Society related to electronic publications and conference activities.

In 2019 she was elevated to IEEE Fellow, effective 1 January 2020, with the following citation: “for contributions to stochastic, hybrid and distributed control systems theory.”

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Politecnico di Milano

Italy

Nacim Ramdani

Université d’Orléans

France

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Gunther Reissig (Reißig)

Bundeswehr University Munich

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Belamfedel Alaoui Sadek

Mohammed VI Polytechnic University

Morocco

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Ali Salamati

Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich

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Ricardo G. Sanfelice

University of California, Santa Cruz

United States

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Behrad Samari

Newcastle University

United Kingdom

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Adnane Saoud

CentraleSupélec, University Paris-Saclay,

France

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Oliver Schoen

Newcastle University

United Kingdom

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Carla Seatzu

University of Cagliari

Italy

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Koen Scheres

Eindhoven University of Technology

Netherlands

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Sadegh Soudjani

Max Planck Institute for Software Systems

Germany

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Elis Stefansson

KTH Royal Institute of Technology

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Olaf Stursberg

University of Kassel

Germany

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Uros Sutulovic

University of Trento

Italy

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Abdalla Swikir

Technical University of Munich

Germany

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Aneel Tanwani

CNRS, LAAS

France

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Danielle C. Taraf

Johns Hopkins University

Sophie Tarbouriech

Le Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

France

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Andrew Teel

University of California, Santa Barbara

United States

6 (Western U.S.)

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Jana Tumova

KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Sweden

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Sebastiaan van den Eijnden

Eindhoven University of Technology Netherlands

Netherlands

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Eleftherios Vlahakis

KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Sweden

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Nan Wang

University of California, Santa Cruz

United States

6 (Western U.S.)

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Yorai Wardi

Georgia Tech

United States

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Paul K Wintz

University of California, Santa Cruz

United States

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Rafael Wisniewski

Aalborg University

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Ben Wooding

Newcastle University

United Kingdom

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Shuai Yuan

Harbin Institute of Technology

Luca Zaccarian

LAAS-CNRS

France

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Mahdieh Zaker

Newcastle University

United Kingdom

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Majid Zamani

University of Colorado, Boulder

United States

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Wei Zhang

Southern University of Science and Technology

China

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Bingzhuo Zhong

Technical University of Munich

Germany

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