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Biography
Maryam Kamgarpour is an associate professor in the School of Engineering of École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. Prior to joining EPFL, she served as a faculty at the University of British Columbia and at ETH Zürich. She holds a Doctor of Philosophy in Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley and a Bachelor of Applied Science from the University of Waterloo, Canada. Her research focuses on developing theory and algorithms for control and learning in stochastic and multi-agent systems, as well as inverse control and learning, and mechanism design. These theoretical directions are motivated by control challenges in intelligent transportation systems, robotics, and power grid applications.
She has been awarded the European Union Consolidator Grant (2026-2031), the 2024 European Control Award, the European Union Starting Grant (2016-2021), an IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems Outstanding Paper (2022), NASA High Potential Individual Award (2010) and NASA Excellence in Publication Award (2010). She is an ELLIS Fellow and an associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control.
Reflections
In the The functions of a teacher, Bertrand Russell writes “No man can be a good teacher unless he has feelings of warm affection towards his pupils and a genuine desire to impart to them what he himself believes to be of value.” In this spirit, I share some work that I find of value.
Simone Weil’s essay on “Reflections on the Right Use of School Studies with a View to the Love of God“. Note: While I do not follow a particular religion, the view of scientific research as a way of nurturing our attention and as an act of meditation resonates well with my experience.
The article “The Tyranny of Now“, in The New Atlantis magazine, exploring how modern communication technologies affect cultural and intellectual life.
A note on Traveling, from my PhD comrade Floraine Berthouzoz. Floraine contributed to over dozens of humanitarian and feminist work in her short life, while completing a PhD in computer science and a Master’s in journalism at UC Berkeley.
The podcast “The ecstatic faith of Rumi” about the poet Rumi, and his philosophy: “The human intellect is a place where hesitation and uncertainty take root. There is no way to overcome this hesitation … except by falling in love.”