Beyond Stability: Performance, Efficiency, and Disturbance Management for Smart Infrastructure Systems

Dennice F. Gayme received a B. Eng & Society from McMaster University in 1997 and an M.S. from the University of California at Berkeley in 1998, both in Mechanical Engineering. In 2010, she received her Ph.D. in Control and Dynamical Systems from the California Institute of Technology, where she was a recipient of the P.E.O. scholar award in 2007 and the James Irvine Foundation Graduate Fellowship in 2003. Prior to her doctoral work (1999-2003) she was a Senior Research Scientist in the Systems and Control Technology and Vehicle Health Monitoring Groups at Honeywell Laboratories in Minneapolis, MN. She joined the Mechanical Engineering Department at Johns Hopkins University in 2012, where she is currently an Assistant Professor. In 2015 she was awarded a JHU Catalyst Award. Prof. Gayme's research interests are in the study of large- scale networked and spatially distributed systems in applications such as power networks, wind farms and wall-turbulence.

Enrique Mallada is an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at Johns Hopkins University. Before joining Hopkins in 2016, he was a post-doctoral fellow at the Center for the Mathematics of Information at the California Institute of Technology from 2014 to 2016. He received his Ingeniero en Telecomunicaciones degree from Universidad ORT, Uruguay, in 2005 and his Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering with a minor in applied mathematics from Cornell University in 2014. Dr. Mallada was awarded the ECE Director's Ph.D. Thesis Research Award for his dissertation in 2014, the Cornell University's Jacobs Fellowship in 2011 and the Organization of American States scholarship from 2008 to 2010. His research interests lie in the areas of control, networked dynamics, and optimization, with applications to engineering networks such as power systems and the Internet.