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Francesca Parise joined the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell University as an assistant professor in July 2020. She was a postdoctoral researcher at the Laboratory for Information Decision Systems at MIT. She defended her PhD at the Automatic Control Laboratory, ETH Zurich, Switzerland in 2016, after receiving her B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Information Automation Engineering in 2010 and 2012 from the University of Padova, Italy, where she simultaneously attended the Galilean School of Excellence. Francesca has been recognized as an EECS rising star in 2017 and is a recipient of the Guglielmo Marin Award from the Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, as well as the SNSF Early Postdoc Fellowship and the SNSF Advanced Postdoc Fellowship. She also received the ETH Medal for her outstanding doctoral work. Her research interests include analysis and control of multi-agent systems, and she applies tools from control, network, and game theory to problems arising in systems where users make autonomous selfish decisions, particularly in transportation and social-economic networks. She has worked on distributed control, aggregative network games, opinion dynamics, systems biology, and reachability analysis in complex systems.
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