Francesco Bullo

Biography

Francesco Bullo is a Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering at
the University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA. He was previously
with the University of Padova (Laurea degree, 1994), Italy, the California
Institute of Technology (Ph.D. degree, 1998), Pasadena, CA, and the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA. His research interests
include contraction theory, network systems, and distributed control.

He is the author or coauthor of Geometric Control of Mechanical Systems
(Springer, 2004), Distributed Control of Robotic Networks (Princeton,
2009), Lectures on Network Systems (KDP, 2022), and Contraction Theory for
Dynamical Systems (KDP, 2023).

He served as elected IEEE CSS President and SIAG CST Chair. He is a Fellow
of ASME, IEEE, IFAC, and SIAM. He has published more than 300+ papers in
international journals and refereed conferences.

Research

In recent years I’ve become very interested in biological and artificial
neural networks and published on their stability and functionality.  While
most of these publications at this time are more on the artificial neural
network side, I am also interested in biological neural network and their
interpretation as solvers of optimization problems. I am also interested in
biologically-plausible learning schemes and oscillatory dynamics.