ME 100/200 Seminar with CCDC on "Design of Uncertain Complex Systems: A Randomization Viewpoint"
Title: "Design of Uncertain Complex Systems: A Randomization Viewpoint"
Speaker: Roberto Tempo, IEIIT, Torino, Italy
Abstract: In recent years, we have seen a growing interest in probabilistic and randomized methods for design of uncertain complex systems. In this lecture, we provide a broad perspective of this research area and discuss several randomized algorithms. In particular, we present sequential algorithms for convex problems and we discuss non-sequential algorithms for non-convex problems. Furthermore, we demonstrate the utility of this approach for analyzing specific applications, such as the computation of PageRank in search engine Google and the design of autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles.
Bio: Roberto Tempo was born in Cuorgne, Italy, in 1956. In 1980 he graduated
in Electrical Engineering at Politecnico di Torino, Italy. After a
period spent at the Dipartimento di Automatica e Informatica,
Politecnico di Torino, he joined the National Research Council of Italy
(CNR) at the research institute IEIIT, Torino, where he is a Director
of Research of Systems and Computer Engineering since 1991. He has held
visiting and research positions at Kyoto University, University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, German Aerospace Research Organization in
Oberpfaffenhofen and Columbia University in New York.
Dr. Tempo's research activities are mainly focused on complex
systems with uncertainty, and related applications. On these topics he
has given several invited lectures at various conferences and
workshops, including the recent plenary lectures at SICE (The Society
of Instrument and Control Engineers of Japan) Annual Conference,
Taipei, Taiwan, and the 29th Chinese Control Conference, Beijing,
China, both held during summer 2010. In 2008 he has been an invited
speaker at the NATO Lecture Series on "Advanced Autonomous Formation
Control and UAV Applications," University of Strathclyde, UK,
University of Pamplona, Spain and Case Western Reserve University,
Cleveland.
Dr. Tempo is author or co-author of more than 150 research papers
published in international journals, books and conferences. He is also
a co-author of the book "Randomized Algorithms for Analysis and Control
of Uncertain Systems," Springer-Verlag, London, 2005. He is a recipient
of the "Outstanding Paper Prize Award" from the International
Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) for a paper published in
Automatica, and of the "Distinguished Member Award" from the IEEE
Control Systems Society. He is a Fellow of the IEEE for "Contributions
to Robust Identification and Control of Uncertain Systems" and a Fellow
of the IFAC for "Contributions to the Analysis and Control of Uncertain
Systems, for Pioneering the Probabilistic Approach to Robustness."
Dr. Tempo is an Editor and Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Automatica. He
has been Editor for Technical Notes and Correspondence of the IEEE
Transactions on Automatic Control in 2005-2009. He has served as member
of the program committee of several IEEE, IEE, IFAC and EUCA (European
Union Control Association) conferences, and as Program Chair of the
first joint IEEE Conference on Decision and Control and European
Control Conference, Seville, Spain, 2005. He has been Vice-President
for Conference Activities of the IEEE Control Systems Society during
the period 2002-2003 and a member of the EUCA Council in 1998-2003. He
is currently President of the IEEE Control Systems Society.
Host: ME/CCDC - please contact Anna at ccdc_office [at] ece [dot] ucsb [dot] edu for further details or to schedule a meeting with Dr. Tempo.
