Seminars and Defenses

All are welcome and encouraged to attend the seminars and defenses.

Oct. 2, 11AM. PLEASE EMAIL yazdani@ryerson.ca FOR ZOOM LINK.
News Sharing, Persuasion, and Spread of Misinformation on Social Networks
Prof. Ali Jadbabaei • INVITED LECTURE
Ali Jadbabaie is the JR East Professor and Head of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, a core faculty member in the Institute for Data, Systems and Society (IDSS), and a PI at the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS). Previously, he served as the director of the Sociotechnical Systems Research Center and as the Associate Director of IDSS at MIT which he helped found in 2015.

He received his BSc from Sharif University of Technology, his MSc in electrical and computer engineering from the University of New Mexico, and his PhD in control and dynamical systems from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). He was a postdoctoral scholar at Yale University before joining the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania where he was subsequently promoted through the ranks and held the Alfred Fitler Moore Professorship in Network Science in the Electrical and Systems Engineering department with secondary appointments in computer and information science and operations, information and decisions in the Wharton School.

A member of the General Robotics, Automation, Sensing & Perception (GRASP) Lab at Penn, Prof. Jadbabaie was also the cofounder and director of the Raj and Neera Singh Program in Networked and Social Systems Engineering (NETS), a new undergraduate interdisciplinary degree program.

Prof. Jadbabaie was the inaugural Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, a new interdisciplinary journal sponsored by several IEEE societies. He is a recipient of a National Science Foundation Career Award, an Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award, the O. Hugo Schuck Best Paper Award from the American Automatic Control Council, and the George S. Axelby Best Paper Award from the IEEE Control Systems Society. He is an IEEE Fellow and received a Vannevar Bush Fellowship from the office of Secretary of Defense.

Prof. Jadbabaie's current research interests include the interplay of dynamic systems and networks with specific emphasis on multi-agent coordination and control, distributed optimization, network science, and network economics.