Francesca Parise

Francesca Parise joined the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell University as an assistant professor in July 2020. Before then, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems at MIT. She defended her PhD at the Automatic Control Laboratory, ETH Zurich, in 2016 and she received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees (summa cum laude) in Information and Automation Engineering in 2010 and 2012, respectively, from the University of Padova in Italy, where she simultaneously attended the Galilean School of Excellence.

Francesca’s research interests include the identification, analysis, and control of complex multi-agent systems, with applications to transportation, energy, social and economic networks. Specifically, Francesca’s recent work focuses on developing novel mathematical models and automation techniques to enable sustainable smart city technology in interconnected networked environments, with specific focus on the increasingly important role that human decision-making plays within such physical and technological infrastructures.

Francesca has co-authored over 35 peer-reviewed scientific contributions and has given over 40 invited talks and seminars. She was recognized as an EECS rising star in 2017 and is the recipient of the C3.ai COVID-19 Award, the Guglielmo Marin Award from the “Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti”, the SNSF Early Postdoc Fellowship, the SNSF Advanced Postdoc Fellowship and the ETH Medal for her doctoral work.