Professor Francesco Bullo has received the 2016 IEEE Circuits and Systems Guillemin-Cauer Best Paper Award for his work "Kron Reduction of Graphs with Applications to Electrical Networks". Prof. Bullo, collaborated on this paper with Prof. Florian Dorfler, who currently serves as an Assistant Professor and Deupty Head of the Automatic Control Laboratory with the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich.

Profs. Bullo and Dorfler have been collaborating for the past several years. Bullo mentored Dorfler as he obtained his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from UCSB in 2013. Dr. Dorfler's doctoral work received numerous recognitions, including the 2011 Hugo Schuck Best Paper Award from the American Automatic Control Council, the 2014 Automatica Best Paper Award from the International Federation on Automatic Control, and the 2015 Best PhD Thesis Award in our department at UCSB. For his work, Dr. Dorfler was granted the 2011 Peter J. Frenkel Foundation Fellowship.

Together, Bullo and Dorfler's work continues to break new ground. The paper has been cited as an "outstanding piece of scholarship because it pulls together and extends an important topic that ranges across multiple fields in to a coherent, authoritative and detailed account that is truly useful to researchers."

The award will be presented to Profs. Bullo and Dorfler during the 2016 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) held this month in Montreal.To read the award-winning paper, click here.