César A. Uribe is the Louis Owen Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rice University. He received the M.Sc. degrees in systems and control from the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands and in applied mathematics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2013 and 2016, respectively. He also received the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2018. He was a Postdoctoral Associate in the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) until 2020. He is the recipient of the NSF CAREER Award, Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award, 100k Strong in the Americas Innovation Award, and the Google Research Scholar Award. He has held a visiting professor position at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and the KTH Royal Institute of Technology. His research interests include distributed learning and optimization, decentralized control, algorithm analysis, and computational optimal transport.https://cauribe.rice.edu/
