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.

Solmaz S. Kia is Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of California at Irvine. Her research interests include networked control systems, decentralized/distributed algorithm design for multi-agent systems, nonlinear control theory and robotics.

Carlos Ocampo-Martinez is an Associate Professor at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya in Spain. His research interests include constrained model predictive control, large-scale systems management, process control and industrial applications.

Tiago Roux Oliveira is a control theorist and Associate Professor at State University of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. He has published more than 65-refereed journal articles and more than 140-refereed conference papers.

Pavithra Prabhakar is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Kansas State University. Her research interests include formal verification and synthesis of autonomous and cyber-physical systems; formal analysis of AI-based controllers; applications in robotics, aerospace systems, autonomous vehicles and agricultural automation.

Michel Reniers is an Associate Professor at the Mechanical Engineering Department at Eindhoven University of Technology. His research interests include model-based engineering of supervisory controllers, synthesis of supervisory controllers for modal logics, engineering of cyber-physical systems (of systems) and development of modeling languages and model transformations.

Peter Seiler is an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan. His research is grounded in robust control theory, which focuses on the impact of model uncertainty on systems design.

Stephen L. Smith is a Canada Research Chair in Autonomous Systems and a Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo, where he directs the Autonomous Systems Lab. His research focuses on control and optimization for autonomous systems and robotics.