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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

Montasir Abbas

Virginia Tech

United States

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H M Sabbir Ahmad

Boston University

United States

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Ahmad W. Al-Dabbagh

University of British Columbia

Canada

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Bassam Alrifaee

RWTH Aachen University

Germany

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Konstantinos Ampountolas

University of Thessaly

Greece

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Anuradha Annaswamy

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

United States

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Theocharis Apostolakis

University of Thessaly

Greece

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Huthaifa Ashqar

Booz Allen Hamilton

United States

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Chris Atkinson

Ohio State University

United States

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Ramakalyan Ayyagari

National Institute of Technology

India

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Husain Aziz

Kansas State University

United States

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Heeseung Bang

University of Delaware

United States

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Abhishek Baral

Cavnue

United States

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Matt Barth

University of California, Riverside

United States

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Matt Barth

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Professor Barth received his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering/Computer Science from the University of Colorado in 1984, and M.S. (1985) and Ph.D. (1990) degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Professor Barth was also a member of the technical staff in the Advanced Technologies Division of General Research Corporation, Santa Barbara from 1985 to 1986. From 1986 to 1987 he conducted research at the University of Tokyo as a visiting research student. Upon completion of his Ph.D., Professor Barth was a visiting researcher at Osaka University, Japan, conducting research in systems engineering from 1989 to 1991. Dr. Barth joined the University of California-Riverside in 1991, conducting research in Electrical Engineering and at the Center for Environmental Research and Technology (CE-CERT), where he is currently Director and the Yeager Families Chair. Professor Barth’s research focuses on applying engineering system concepts and automation technology to Transportation Systems, and in particular how it relates to energy and air quality issues. His current research interests include Intelligent Transportation Systems, Vehicle Activity Analysis, Transportation/ Emissions Modeling, Electric Vehicle Technology, and Advanced Sensing and Control. Professor Barth is active in the U.S. Transportation Research Board currently serving on the Transportation and Air Quality Committee and the Intelligent Transportation Systems Committee. He was awarded the TRB Pyke Johnson Award for TRB outstanding paper in 2007. In 2011, he was one of the winners of the Connected Vehicle Technology Challenge sponsored by U.S. Department of Transportation’s Research and Innovative Technology Administration (RITA). He has also served on a number of National Research Council (NRC) committees. Professor Barth has also been very active within IEEE Intelligent Transportation System Society for many years, participating in their conferences as a presenter, invited session organizer, session moderator, program chair, associate editor of the Transactions of ITS, and member of the IEEE ITSS Board of Governors. He was the IEEE ITSS Vice President for Conferences from 2011-2012, President-Elect for 2013, President for 2014-2015, and Past-President for 2016. He recently received the IEEE ITSS Outstanding Research Award.

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University of California, Riverside

United States

René Boel

University of Ghent

Belgium

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Seta Bogosyan

Virginia Tech

United States

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Kai Cai

Osaka Metropolitan University

Japan

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Marcello Canova

Ohio State University

United States

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Alejandra Valencia Carmona

University of Delaware

United States

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Christos G. Cassandras

Boston University

United States

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Behdad Chalaki

University of Delaware

United States

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Yan Chang

Lyft

United States

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Chaoji Chen

Beijing Institute of Spacecraft System Engineering

China

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Juntao Chen

Fordham University

United States

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Ioannis Vasileios Chremos

University of Delaware

United States

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Mladen Cicic

University of California, Berkeley

United States

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Alessandro Colombo

Politecnico di Milano

Italy

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Luca Consolini

Università di Parma, Italy

Italy

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Michele Cucuzzella

University of Pavia

Italy

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Leilei Cui

New York University

United States

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Nina David

University of Delaware

United States

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Maria Laura Delle Monache

University of California, Berkeley

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Carlos Canudas de Wit

CNRS, GIPSA-Lab, Grenoble

France

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Satadru Dey

Pennsylvania State University

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Jin Dong

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

United States

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Mariagrazia Dotoli

Politecnico di Bari

Italy

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Mariagrazia Dotoli

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Mariagrazia Dotoli is a Full Professor in Systems and Control Engineering at Politecnico di Bari, Department of Electrical and Information Engineering, which she joined in 1999 as a tenured Assistant Professor. She was the 2011-2013 Vice-Rector for Research of Politecnico di Bari (Italy) and a 2012-2015 member-elect of the Academic Senate of the same University. She is currently Vice Director for Research of the Department of Electrical and Information Engineering at Politecnico di Bari. She received the Laurea degree in Electronic Engineering with honors in 1995 and the Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering in 1999, both from Politecnico di Bari.

She has been a visiting scholar at the Paris 6 University (France) and at the Technical University of Denmark. Since 2003 she is an expert evaluator of the European Commission, previously for the Sixth and Seventh RTD Framework Programmes, and subsequently for Horizon 2020. Her research interests include the modeling, identification, management, control, automation, optimization, and diagnosis of: discrete event industrial systems, Petri nets, manufacturing systems, supply chains, logistics and transportation systems, traffic networks, energy systems.

She is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, the IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, and the IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems. She was an Associate Editor of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters until 2018.

She is currently General Chair of the MED2021 29th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, Program Chair of the CODIT2020 International Conference on Control, Decision and Information Technologies, Program Chair of the CASE2020 annual IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering and Publicity Co-Chair of the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics.

She was the Workshop and Tutorial chair of the 2015 IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, the Special Session co-chair of the 2013 IEEE Conference on Emerging Technology and Factory Automation, and chair of the National Committee of the 2009 IFAC Workshop on Dependable Control of Discrete Systems. She has been member of the International Program Committee of 70+ international Conferences and Symposia. She is a member of the following committees: IFAC Technical Committee on Discrete Event and Hybrid Systems (since 2011); IEEE Systems Man and Cybernetics Society Technical Committee on Discrete Event Systems (since 2007); IEEE Control Systems Society Technical Committee on Discrete Event Systems (since 2005).

She is author or co-author of 200+ printed publications, including 1 book (in Italian) and 70+ papers on international peer-reviewed journals. Her Scopus Researcher page is available at http://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.url?authorId=6603204493.

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Politecnico di Bari

Italy

Tulga Ersal

University of Michigan

United States

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Azim Eskandarian

Virginia Tech

United States

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Maria Pia Fanti

Politecnico di Bari

Italy

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Yiheng Feng

Purdue University

United States

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Antonella Ferrara

The University of Pavia

Italy

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Antonella Ferrara

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Antonella Ferrara received the M.Sc. degree (Cum Laude and printing honors) in electronic engineering and the Ph.D. degree in computer science and electronics from the University of Genova, Italy, in 1987 and 1992, respectively. Since 2005, she has been Full Professor of automatic control at the University of Pavia, Italy, where she is the Head of the Intelligent Robotics Laboratory, as well as the President of the Research Standing Committee of the Department of Electrical, Computer and Biomedical Engineering. Her research activities are mainly in the area of nonlinear control, with a special emphasis on sliding mode control, with application to road traffic, automotive systems, robotics and power systems. She is author and co-author of more than 450 publications including more than 150 journal papers, 2 monographs and one edited book.

She was Visiting Professor at Graz University of Technology, visiting scholar at the University of Minnesota, as well as Invited Lecturer at Harvard University, University of California at Los Angeles, University of Stuttgart, Technical University of Delft, INRIA Grenoble, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Hanyang University in Seoul, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Dalian Maritime University, National Institute of Technology Silchar, IIIT Kharagpur, Murdoch University, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Imperial College, University of Cambridge, and University of Exeter, among others. She was/is Principal Investigator in several European, international and national projects and was one of the eleven experts appointed by the Italian Ministry of Research to write the National Research Plan for the period 2021-2027 for the research area “Sustainable Mobility”.

She was Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Control Systems, of the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, and of the IEEE Control Systems Magazine. She was Subject Editor of the International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control. She was Associate Editor and Senior Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles. Since 2018 she has been Associated Editor of Automatica, and, since January 2022, Senior Editor of IEEE Open Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems.

She served as a member of the EUCA Council and, since ECC 2019, she has been the EUCA Conference Editorial Board Chair. She will serve as one of the IPC Chairs (together with Maurice Heemels) for the 24th IFAC Word Congress to be held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in 2029.

She was “appointed member” of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Control Systems Society in 2012. She was Chair of the Women in Control Committee of the IEEE Control Systems Society (July 2013-December 2016) and, at present, she is a member of the Advisory Board of that committee. She was “elected member” of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Control Systems Society for the triennium 2016-2018. She was member of the IEEE Control System Society Outreach Task Force (2017-2019) and was the Chair of the Task Force in 2020. She is incoming member of the ExCom of the IEEE Control System Society with the role of Director of Operations (2023-2026 term). In 2015-2019, she was a Member of the European Control Association (EUCA) Council.

She is a member of the IFAC Technical Committee (TC) on Nonlinear Control Systems, IFAC TC on Transportation Systems, IFAC TC on Intelligent Autonomous Vehicles, IEEE TC on Automotive Control, IEEE TC on Smart Cities, and IEEE TC on Variable Structure Systems. Among several awards, she was a co-recipient of the 2020 IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology Outstanding Paper Award. She is IEEE Fellow and IFAC Fellow.

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The University of Pavia

Italy

Giulio Ferro

University of Genova

Italy

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Angela Fontan

KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Sweden

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Paolo Frasca

CNRS, GIPSA-lab Grenoble

France

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Weinan Gao

Northeastern University

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Venu Garikapati

National Renewal Energy Laboratory

United States

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Guillaume Gasnier

CNRS

France

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Sanchita Ghosh

Texas Tech University

United States

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Alessandro Giua

University of Cagliari

Italy

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Christoforos Hadjicostis

University of Cyprus

Cyprus

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Christoforos Hadjicostis

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Christoforos Hadjicostis received S.B. degrees in Electrical Engineering, in Computer Science and Engineering, and in Mathematics, the M.Eng. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in 1995, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in 1999, all from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA. In August 1999 he joined the Faculty at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) where he reached the rank of Associate Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Research Associate Professor with the Coordinated Science Laboratory, and Research Associate Professor with the Information Trust Institute. In 2007, Dr. Hadjicostis joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Cyprus, where he served as Chair of the ECE Department from 2008 to 2010, and as Dean of Engineering from 2014 to 2017. He currently serves as Interim Director of the FOSS Research Center for Sustainable Energy at the University of Cyprus.

Dr. Hadjicostis teaches and conducts research in the areas of systems and control, communication, and digital signal processing. His current research focuses on fault diagnosis and tolerance in distributed dynamic systems; error control coding; distributed algorithms for monitoring, diagnosis and control; discrete event systems; and applications to power distribution networks, network security, anomaly detection, medical diagnosis, and biosequencing. Dr. Hadjicostis serves as Editor in Chief for the Journal of Discrete Event Dynamic Systems and as Associate Editor for Automatica. He has also served as Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I (Regular Papers), IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, the Journal of Nonlinear Analysis: Hybrid Systems, and the Journal of Discrete Event Dynamic Systems, and as Editor on the Conference Editorial Board of the IEEE Control Systems Society. At the University of Illinois, Dr. Hadjicostis received the Faculty Early Development (CAREER) award from the National Science Foundation in February 2001, the ECE Faculty Outstanding Teaching Award in 2003, and the Willett Faculty Scholar recognition from the College of Engineering in 2005; at the University of Cyprus, he received a 2008 Marie Curie International Reintegration Fellowship from the European Commission. As a graduate student at MIT, he served as president of the MIT Chapter of HKN, received the Harold L. Hazen Teaching Award and the Ernst A. Guillemin Thesis Prize, and received fellowships from the National Semiconductor Corporation and the Grass Instrument Company. Dr. Hadjicostis is a member of Eta Kappa Nu and Sigma Xi, and a Fellow of the IEEE.

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University of Cyprus

Cyprus

Shinji Hara

The University of Tokyo

Japan

10 (Asia and Pacific)

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Ehsan Hashemi

University of Alberta

Canada

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Arian Houshamand

Zoox

United States

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Guoqiang Hu

Nanyang Technological University

Singapore

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Andreas Iliopoulos

3DN

Belgium

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Petros Ioannou

University of Southern California

United States

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Qing-Shan (Samuel) Jia

Tsinghua University

China

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Chaoyang Jiang

Beijing Institute of Technology

China

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Manuel Campero Jurado

INRIA

France

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Xiaowen (Sean) Jiang

Waymo

United States

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Uroš Kalabić

Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories

United States

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Karanjit Kalsi

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

United States

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Alain Kibangou

Grenoble Alpes University

France

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Anastasios Kouvelas

ETH Zürich

Switzerland

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Iosif Papadakis Ktistakis

ASML

United States

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Cédric Langbort

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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Viet-Anh Le

University of Delaware

United States

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Bengt Lennartson

Chalmers University of Technology

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Yike Li

University of Cagliari

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Jianming (Jamie) Lian

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

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Hai Lin

University of Notre Dame

United States

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Yunjiang Lou

Harbin Institute of Technology

China

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Jiaqi Ma

University of California, Los Angeles

United States

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A M Ishtiaque Mahbub

University of Delaware

United States

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Rahul Mangharam

University of Pennsylvania

United States

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Jonas Mårtensson

KTH

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Marcel Menner

Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories

United States

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Nader Meskin

Qatar University

Qatar

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Fei Miao

University of Connecticut

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Yilin Mo

Tsinghua University

China

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Ahmed Mohamed

City University of New York

United States

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Scott Moura

University of California, Berkeley

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Rémi Mourgues

CNRS

France

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Shima Sadat Mousavi

ETH Zürich

Switzerland

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Karan Mukhi

University of Oxford

United Kingdom

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Neelu (Grover) Nagpal

Maharaja Agrasen Institute Of Technology

India

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Toru Namerikawa

Keio University

Japan

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Melkior Ornik

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

United States

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Ümit Özgüner

Ohio State University

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Shanthan Kumar Padisala

Pennsylvania State University

United States

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Christos Panayiotou

KIOS Research and Innovation Center of Excellence and University of Cyprus

Cyprus

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Fabio Paparella

Eindhoven University of Technology

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George J. Pappas

University of Pennsylvania

United States

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Alessandra Parisio

University of Manchester

United Kingdom

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B. Brian Park

University of Virginia

United States

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Cecilia Pasquale

University of Genova

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Leonardo Pedroso

Eindhoven University of Technology

Netherlands

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Huei Peng

University of Michigan

United States

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Tan Chee (Edwin) Pin

Monash University

Malaysia

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Mohammad Pirani

University of Ottawa

Canada

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Giorgio Rizzoni

Ohio State University

United States

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Michela Robba

University of Genova

Italy

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Tanushree Roy

Texas Tech University

United States

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Ehsan Sabouni

Boston University

United States

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Simona Sacone

Università di Genova

Italy

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Mauro Salazar

Eindhoven University of Technology

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Tariq Samad

Honeywell Labs

United States

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Stefania Santini

University of Naples Federico II

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Raja Sengupta

University of California, Berkeley

United States

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Yang Shi

University of Victoria

Canada

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Robert Shorten

Imperial College London

United Kingdom

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Yasser Shoukry

University of California, Irvine

United States

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Tong Duy Son

Siemens Digital Industries Software

Belgium

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Silvia Strada

Politecnico di Milano

Italy

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Rong Su

Nanyang Technological University

Singapore

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Seyed Soroush Tabadkani Avval

Texas Tech University

United States

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Ahmad F. Taha

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Vanderbilt University

United States

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Mehrdad Tajalli

UPS

United States

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Tommaso Toso

Gipsa-Lab, Grenoble

France

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Ardalan Vahidi

Clemson University

United States

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Kyriakos Vamvoudakis

Georgia Institute of Technology

United States

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Shashank Dhananjay Vyas

Pennsylvania State University

United States

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Daniel Work

Vanderbilt University

United States

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Guoyuan Wu

University of California, Riverside

United States

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Wenwen Wu

Shanghai Jiao Tong University

China

Wei Xiao

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Lihua Xie

Nanyang Technological University

Singapore

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Stanley Young

National Renewal Energy Laboratory

United States

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Huan Yu

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)

Hong Kong SAR China

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Mohamed Zellagui

University of Batna 2

Algeria

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Fumin Zhang

Georgia Institute of Technology

United States

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Xilei Zhao

University of Florida

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Lei Zhu

University of North Carolina, Charlotte

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Argyrios Zolotas

Cranfield University

United Kingdom

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