Biography for Dr. Pablo Parrilo

Associate Professor

Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Pablo A. Parrilo received an Electronics Engineering undergraduate

degree from the University of Buenos Aires, and a Ph.D. in Control and

Dynamical Systems from the California Institute of Technology in 1995

and 2000, respectively. He has held short-term visiting appointments

at the University of California at Santa Barbara (Physics), Lund

Institute of Technology (Automatic Control), and UC Berkeley

(Mathematics). From October 2001 through September 2004, he was

Assistant Professor of Analysis and Control Systems at the Automatic

Control Laboratory of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH

Zurich). He is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science of the Massachusetts

Institute of Technology, where he is affiliated with the Laboratory

for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS) and the Operations

Research Center (ORC).

Prof. Parrilo is the recipient of the 2005 Donald P. Eckman Award of

the American Automatic Control Council, as well as the triennial SIAM

Activity Group on Control and Systems Theory (SIAG/CST) Prize. He was

also a finalist for the Tucker Prize of the Mathematical Programming

Society for the years 2000-2003.

His research interests include optimization methods for engineering

applications, control and identification of uncertain complex systems,

robustness analysis and synthesis, and the development and application

of computational tools based on convex optimization and algorithmic

algebra to practically relevant engineering problems.