Bruno Sinopoli

Bruno Sinopoli is the Truet B. Thompson Professor and Director of the School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering. Sinopoli received his laurea in electrical engineering from the Università di Padova and master's and doctoral degrees in electrical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. From 2007 to 2018, he served on the faculty of Carnegie Mellon University. During his time there, Sinopoli also served as co-director of the Smart Infrastructure Institute and held affiliate appointments in Mechanical Engineering and with the university’s Robotics Institute. From 2019 to 2025, he served as The Das Family Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Preston M. Green Department of Electrical & Systems Engineering in the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis.

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Research areas:
Smart infrastructures (e.g. energy, transportation, buildings), resilient cyber-physical systems, networked and distributed control systems, distributed inference in networks, control of computing systems, energy systems, neuro-inspired learning and control, dimensionality reduction and human-AI interaction.

Awards:

• IEEE Fellow, 2021 for contributions to networked and secure control systems
• Microsoft Indoor Localization Competition, winners in the infrastructure-based category, at IPSN 2015 with Patrick Lazik, Niranjini Rajagopal, Oliver Shih, and Anthony Rowe. http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/events/indoorloccompetition2015/
• George Tallman Ladd Research Award, Carnegie Institute of Technology, Carnegie Mellon, in recognition of outstanding research and professional accomplishments and potential, 2010
• NSF Career Award to develop computer tools for securing and controlling cyber-physical systems, 2010
• Eliahu Jury Award for outstanding achievement in the area of Systems, Communications, Control, or Signal Processing, 2006

Patents:

• Rowe, A., Lazik, P., Rajagopal, N., Shih, O., Sinopoli, B., ” METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR LOCATING A MOBILE DEVICE “, United States Patent US10247807B2, 4/2/2019
• Sinopoli, B., Sekar, V., Yin, X., “SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DYNAMIC ADAPTIVE VIDEO STREAMING USING MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL”, United States Patent 20170026713A1, 4/23/2019
• Sinopoli, B., Krogh, B., Parolini, L., Tolia, N., “MANAGING COOLING DEVICES AND COMPUTING NODES IN AN INFRASTRUCTURE”, United States Patent US8539059B2, 9/17/2013
  
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