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Y. Dan Rubinstein is CEO/co-founder of Physera which is using data and technology to innovate in healthcare. Previously, Dan held product leadership roles at Facebook, Google, and Palantir and was an Entrepreneur in Residence (EIR) at Khosla Ventures. Earlier in his career, he was the founding CEO of Reflectivity, a semiconductor display startup, which raised over $58M, grew to over 60 employees, set up manufacturing lines in Taiwan & Japan and was acquired by Texas Instruments. 

He holds a Ph.D. in Statistics from Stanford and a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Princeton and is a published singer-songwriter.

Theodore (Ted) S. Rappaport is the David Lee/Ernst Weber Professor of Electrical Engineering at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering (NYU-Tandon) and is a professor of computer science at New York University's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. He is also a professor of radiology at the NYU School of Medicine.

Rappaport is the founding director of NYU WIRELESS, the world's first academic research center to combine engineering, computer science, and medicine. Earlier, he founded two of the world's largest academic wireless research centers: The Wireless Networking and Communications Group (WNCG) at the University of Texas at Austin in 2002, and the Mobile and Portable Radio Research Group (MPRG), now known as Wireless@ at Virginia Tech, in 1990.

Rappaport is a pioneer in radio wave propagation for cellular and personal communications, wireless communication system design, and broadband wireless communications circuits and systems at millimeter wave frequencies. His research has influenced many international wireless-standards bodies, and he and his students invented the technology of site-specific radio frequency (RF) channel modeling and design for wireless network deployment - a technology now used routinely throughout wireless communications.

Rappaport has served on the Technological Advisory Council of the Federal Communications Commission, assisted the governor and CIO of Virginia in formulating rural broadband initiatives for Internet access, and conducted research for NSF, Department of Defense, and dozens of global telecommunications companies. He has over 100 U.S. or international patents issued or pending and has authored, co-authored, and co-edited 18 books, including the world's best-selling books on wireless communications, millimeter wave communications, and smart antennas.

In 1989, he founded TSR Technologies, Inc., a cellular radio/PCS software radio manufacturer that he sold in 1993 to Allen Telecom which later became CommScope, Inc. (taken private in 2011 by Carlyle Group and now owned by Keysight). In 1995, he founded Wireless Valley Communications, Inc., a pioneering creator of site-specific radio propagation software for wireless network design and management that he sold in 2005 to Motorola.

Rappaport received BS, MS, and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Purdue University, and is a Distinguished Engineering Alumnus of his alma mater.

Dr. Rappaport can be reached by contacting NYU WIRELESS Administrator Pat Donohue at [email protected], NYU WIRELESS Center Administrator Michelle Austin at [email protected] or his assistant Leslie Cerve at [email protected]. Contact Michelle Austin if you are interested in inviting Dr. Rappaport to give a presentation or attend a meeting.

Dr. Maurizio Porfiri is an Institute Professor at New York University Tandon School of Engineering, with appointments at the Center for Urban Science and Progress and the Departments of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, and Civil and Urban Engineering. He received M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Engineering Mechanics from Virginia Tech, in 2000 and 2006; a 鈥淟aurea鈥� in Electrical Engineering (with honors) and a Ph.D. in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics from the University of Rome 鈥淟a Sapienza鈥� and the University of Toulon (dual degree program), in 2001 and 2005, respectively. He has been on the faculty of the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department since 2006, when he founded the Dynamical Systems Laboratory.

Dr. Porfiri is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE). He has served in the Editorial Board of ASME Journal of Dynamics systems, Measurements and Control, ASME Journal of Vibrations and Acoustics, Flow, IEEE Control Systems Letters, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I, Mathematics in Engineering, and Mechatronics. Dr. Porfiri is engaged in conducting and supervising research on complex systems, with applications from mechanics to behavior, public health, and robotics.

He is the author of more than 350 journal publications and the recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER award. He has been included in the 鈥淏rilliant 10鈥� list of Popular Science in 2010 and his research featured in all the major media outlets, including CNN, NPR, Scientific American, and Discovery Channel. Other significant recognitions include invitations to the World Laureate Forum and to Frontiers of Engineering Symposia organized by National Academy of Engineering; the Outstanding Young Alumnus award by the College of Engineering of Virginia Tech; the ASME Gary Anderson Early Achievement Award; the ASME DSCD Young Investigator Award; and the  ASME C.D. Mote, Jr. Early Career Award.

Prof. Loianno is an assistant professor at the New York University and director of the Agile Robotics and Perception Lab working on autonomous Micro Aerial Vehicles. Prior to NYU he was a lecturer, research scientist, and team leader at the General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception (GRASP) Laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania. He received his BSc and MSc degrees in automation engineering, both with honors, from the University of Naples "Federico" in December 2007 and February 2010, respectively. He received his PhD in computer and control engineering focusing in robotics in May 2014. Dr. Loianno has published more than 70 conference papers, journal papers, and book chapters. His research interests include visual odometry, sensor fusion, and visual servoing for micro aerial vehicles. His expertise is in the area of agile autonomy for small-scale aircrafts. He received the Conference Editorial Board Best Reviewer Award at ICRA 2016, National Italian American Foundation (NIAF) Young Investigator Award 2018. He was the program chair for IEEE SSRR 2019, 2020, and will be the general chair for SSRR 2021. He has organized multiple workshops on Micro Aerial Vehicles during IROS conferences and created the new International Symposium on Aerial Robotics (ISAR). His work has been featured in a large number of renowned international news and magazine.

Dr. Tirthankar Ghosh is a Professor and Associate Chair in the Department of Computer Science at UWF. Dr. Ghosh joined UWF in 2018 after spending 13 years at St. Cloud State University in Minnesota as their lead cybersecurity faculty and program director. He has over seventeen years of experience in cybersecurity education and research in network security, ICS security, anomaly detection, and adversary tactics techniques and procedures, and threat intelligence.

Dr. Ghosh has received multi-million dollars of grants from NSF, NSA, State of MN, state of FL, and private sectors. He established a funded research lab on industrial control systems using motes from Linear Technologies and Emerson Process Management on St. Cloud campus and has experience in leading several state-funded projects on scenario-based, competency-focused, learner-centric curriculum design using the NIST NICE Cybersecurity Workforce Framework.

Dr. Ghosh was the co-founder of a state-wide consortium in Minnesota and a regional cybersecurity consortium in St. Cloud. Dr. Ghosh authored a book titled 鈥淪ecurity by Practice: Exercises in Network Security and Information Assurance鈥�, and several journal papers and book chapters. He is also an ABET evaluator for Cybersecurity and Computer Science.

Dr. Caroline John received her MS and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAHuntsville). She also holds a graduate certificate in Cybersecurity from the UAHuntsville. She is currently working as a Lecturer in the Computer Science department at the University of West Florida. Dr. John teaches the courses Digital Forensics at the Graduate level, Discrete Structures, and Introduction to Computer Organization at the Undergraduate level.

Degrees & Institutions:
Ph.D., The University of Alabama in Huntsville, 2019
M.S., The University of Alabama in Huntsville, 2012
B.E., Anna University, Chennai, India, 2008

Research:
Her research interests include IoT security, Cyber-Physical System Security, and Network Security. She is a recipient of three grant awards from Cyber Florida, formerly known as The Florida Center for Cybersecurity. She is currently the PI on a SEED research grant project titled "Security-Aware In-Memory Neural Networks for Cyber-Physical Systems " funded by Cyber Florida and a Co-PI on the NSF CyberCorps: Scholarship for Service grant program "Argo Cyber Emerging Scholars (ACES): Developing a Cybersecurity Community of Practice" which is funded for $2.3 million.

Panos J. Antsaklis is the H.Clifford and Evelyn A. Brosey Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Notre Dame. He is also Concurrent Professor of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and of the Department of Applied and Computational Mathematics and Statistics. He is a graduate of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece, and holds MS and PhD (1977) degrees from Brown University. He also holds an Honorary Doctorate (Docteur Honoris Causa) from the University of Lorraine, France (2012).

He joined Notre Dame in 1980 after holding teaching and research positions at Brown University (Teaching and Research Fellow, 1976-77; Assistant Professor (Research), 1977-78), Rice University (Visiting Assistant Professor; 1977-78), and Imperial College of the University of London, England (Lecturer; 1978-80). During sabbatical leaves he has lectured and conducted research at MIT, Imperial College, NTUA and the Technical University of Crete, Greece.

He is a native of Greece, born in Kalamata, a city in southern Peloponnese, where he completed his primary and secondary education. He is married to Melinda Reese-Antsaklis a Pennsylvania native and a holder of an AB in Biology from Smith College and a PhD degree in Russian Literature from Brown University. They have one daughter.

Research: His research addresses problems of control and automation and examines ways to design engineering systems that exhibit high degree of autonomy in performing useful tasks. Application areas include transportation, manufacturing, and chemical process systems, as well as computer and communication networks. His work includes analysis of behavior based on mathematical models and design of control strategies for complex autonomous, intelligent, learning and reconfigurable systems. His current research focuses on Cyber Physical Networked Embedded Systems and addresses problems in the interdisciplinary research area of Control, Computing and Communication Networks, and on Hybrid and Discrete Event Dynamical Systems. (See Research on this website)

Publications: He has published extensively in the area of Systems and Control, in linear feedback systems, autonomous intelligent control systems, discrete event and hybrid systems, in networked control systems and in cyber-physical systems (575 publications; see Publications on this website).

He has co-authored two graduate textbooks, Linear Systems (McGraw-Hill 1997 and Birkhauser 2006, with A.N. Michel) and A Linear Systems Primer (Birkhauser 2007, with A.N. Michel), and three research monographs, Supervisory Control of Discrete Event Systems Using Petri Nets (Kluwer Academic 1998; with J. Moody), Supervisory Control of Concurrent Systems: A Petri Net Structural Approach (Birkhauser 2006, with M.V. Iordache) and Model-Based Control of Networked Systems (Springer 2014; with E. Garcia and L. Montestruque).

He has edited six books: An Introduction to Intelligent and Autonomous Control (Kluwer Academic 1993; with K. Passino), Hybrid Systems II & Hybrid Systems IV (Springer-Verlag 1995 and 1997; with W. Kohn, A. Nerode and S. Sastry), Hybrid Systems V (Springer-Verlag 1999; with W. Kohn, M. Lemmon, A. Nerode, and S. Sastry), Stability and Control of Dynamical Systems with Applications: A Tribute to A.N. Michel (Birkhauser 2003; with D. Liu), and Networked Embedded Sensing and Control: Workshop NESC'05 Proceedings (Birkhauser 2006, with P. Tabuada). He is currently working on a book on Hybrid Control Systems (with Hai Lin).

Editorships: He served as the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (TAC), a highly prestigious leading journal in Systems and Control for 8 years, 2010-17. He is the Editor-in-Chief (with A. Astolfi) of Foundations and Trends in Systems and Control, (Now Publishers, 2012 to present). He previously served as Associate Editor at Large (2000-08) and as Associate Editor (1985-86) of the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control; as Founding Associate Editor for Letters (1989-1990) and Associate Editor (1989-93) of the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, Associate Editor of Discrete Event Dynamic Systems (JDEDS; 1996-2009) and of several other journals; and as an Editor of the IEE Control Engineering Book Series (1989-95).

He was Guest Editor of the Special Issue on Networked Control Systems of the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (with John Baillieul, September 2004) and of the Special Issue on Networked Control Systems Technology of the Proceedings of the IEEE (with John Baillieul, January 2007). He was Guest Editor of special issues on Hybrid Control Systems in the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (with A. Nerode; 1998), in the Journal of Discrete Event Dynamic Systems (with M. Lemmon; 1998), and was the Guest Editor of the Special Issue on Hybrid Systems in the Proceedings of the IEEE in July 2000. He was the Guest Editor of the 1990 and 1992 Special Issues on Neural Networks in Control Systems of the IEEE Control Systems magazine (CSM) and the Guest Editor of the 1995 Special Issue on Intelligence and Learning in the IEEE CSM.

Professional Activities: He is the Founding President of the Mediterranean Control Association (MCA; President 1998 to present). MCA is the parent organization of the annual Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation (MED attracts over 250 participants; now, in 2018, in its 26th year). He was one of the founders of MED.

He served as the 1997 President of the IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS), the 1996 CSS President-Elect, Vice President-Conferences in 1994 and 1995, an elected member of the CSS Board of Governors 1991-1996. He was Chair of the Awards Committee of CSS (2002-08). He served as Chair of the IEEE CSS Task Force on Defining Intelligent Control (1993-94), Chair of the IEEE CSS Society Brochure committee (1993-94), Chair of the CSS Technical Committee on Theory (1988-90), Group Leader, of the CSS Technical Committee on Intelligent Control (1989-93), Member-at-Large, of the CSS Technical Activities Board (1987-90), Chair of the CSS Student Activities (1984), Member of the CSS Financial Activities Board (1980-83).

He served as the IEEE Director and Alternate Director of the American Automatic Control Council, the U.S. National Member Organization of the International Federation of Automatic Control from 1994 to 1997. He was the Chair of the Technical Committee on Fuzzy and Neural Systems of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) 1999-2002.

He served as the General Chair of the 1995 34th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) in New Orleans. He was the Program Chair of the 30th IEEE CDC in England in 1991, and he served as the General Chair of the 1993 8th IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Control in Chicago.

He served as General co-Chair of the 8th, 15th, 21st and 24th MED in 2000, 2007, 2013 and 2016. He was the International Program Committee Chair for the 2007 European Control Conference (of EUCA, the European Union Control Association).

At Notre Dame he has served in several Department, college and University committees including six 3-year consecutive terms, since 2000, in the Academic Council of the University. He has also served as the Director of the Center for Applied Mathematics of the University of Notre Dame from 1999 to 2005. He was organizer of the Control of Cyber-Physical Systems Workshop at the University of Notre Dame London Centre October 20-21, 2012.

Recognitions: He was the Honorary Chair of the 1996 4th IEEE Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation in Crete, Greece (MED96), of the 2008 16th MED in Corsica, France (MED08), the 2010 18th MED in Marrakesh, Morocco (MED'10) and the 26th MED in Zadar, Croatia (MED18). He was Honorary co-Chair of the 2013 International Conference on Control, Decision and Information Technologies (CoDIT'13) in Hammamet, Tunisia, and of the2013 International Conference on Systems and Control (ICSC 2013) in Algiers, Algeria.

He has been plenary and keynote speaker in many conferences and research workshops including the 2009 American Control Conference. He was Science Keynote Speaker at the 2012 NSF Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) PI Meeting in Washington D.C., October 2012.

He served as Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) of the Max-Planck-Institut fur Dynamik Komplexer Technischer Systeme, Magdeburg, Germany (2008-10, 2010-12) where he has been a SAB member since 2002. In 2006-2007 he was member of the subcommittee on Networking and Information Technology of the President's Council of Advisors for Science and Technology (PCAST), that advises the President of the United States on Science and Technology federal policy issues regarding technology, scientific research priorities, and math and science education.

At the University of Notre Dame he has been the recipient of several teaching awards. He was recognized for his accomplishments in teaching and research on the field (20-yard line) at the Notre Dame vs. Boston College game on November 19, 2011, in front of 80,000 football fans and was presented with a signed football by Provost Tom Burish. He was the recipient of the 2013 Faculty Award of the University of Notre Dame. The Faculty Award was established in the 1927-28 academic year by the Notre Dame Alumni Association. It singles out that faculty member who, in the opinion of his or her colleagues, has contributed outstanding services to the University.

He is a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Control Systems Society, a recipient of the IEEE Distinguished Member Award of the Control Systems Society, and an IEEE Third Millennium Medal recipient.

He is Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, IEEE (1991) for contributions to the theory of feedback stabilization and control of linear multivariable systems.

He is Fellow of the International Federation of Automatic Control, IFAC (2010) for fundamental contributions to hybrid control systems, supervisory control of discrete event systems, control of systems over networks and for leadership in the profession.

He is Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, AAAS (2011) for distinguished contributions to the field of Systems and Control, particularly for feedback control of multi-variable systems, intelligent, hybrid and discrete event systems.

He is the recipient of the 2006 Engineering Alumni Medal of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island.

He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate (Docteur Honoris Causa) by the University of Lorraine, France in 2012.