Mahnoosh Alizadeh is an Associate Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research interests include learning, optimization, and control with applications to cyber-physical systems and smart grid.

Corentin Briat is a Senior Scientist at ETH-Zürich, working at the intersection of mathematics, control theory and engineering, optimization, data science, and biology. He is also an Optimization and Control engineer at Swisspods Technologies and an independent researcher.

Massimo Canale is an Associate Professor of Automatic Control at the Politecnico di Torino in Italy. He is coauthor of over 80 papers published on international journals and international conferences.

Ruggero Carli is an Associate Professor at the Department of Information Engineering at the University of Padova in Italy. His research interests include distributed algorithms for optimization, estimation and control over networks, nonparametric estimation, and learning algorithms for robotics. He has co-authored more than 160 publications in peer-reviewed international journals and conferences.

Madalena Chaves is a Senior Researcher at Inria Sophia Antipolis - Mediterranean in France. Her research is in the area of dynamical systems.

Lucia Valentina Gambuzza is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering at the University of Catania in Italy. Her research interests include analysis and control of complex systems, control of nonlinear dynamics and chaos, nonlinear systems and their applications, consensus and synchronization.

Luigi Iannelli is an Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering at the University of Sannio in Italy. He held visiting researcher positions at the Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, and the Johann Bernoulli Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Groningen, The Netherlands.

Giacomo Innocenti is an Associate Professor in Automation at the University of Florence in Italy. He is also a fellow of the Department of Information Engineering, a member of the Scientific Committee of the Technological Sciences Library and the scientific supervisor of the Cyber-Physical Systems Laboratory at the university.

Neera Jain is an Assistant Professor in the School of Mechanical Engineering and a faculty member in the Ray W. Herrick Laboratories at Purdue University. She directs the Jain Research Laboratory, which aims to advance technologies that will have a lasting impact on society through a systems-based approach grounded in dynamic modeling and control theory.