Speaker Profiles

Francesca Boem is an Associate Professor with the Electronic and Electrical Engineering Department at University College London (UCL). She received the MSc degree (cum laude) in Management Engineering in 2009 and the PhD degree in Information Engineering in 2013, both from the University of Trieste, Italy. She was Post-Doc at the University of Trieste with the Machine Learning Group from 2013 to 2014. From 2014 to 2018, she was Research Associate with the Control and Power research group at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London. From 2015 to 2018 she was part of the team at Imperial College working on the flagship EU H2020-WIDESPREAD-TEAMING project for the development of the EU KIOS Research and Innovation Centre of Excellence in Cyprus for the Monitoring, Control, Security and Management of Critical Infrastructure Systems.

“Dr Boem was awarded the Imperial College Research Fellowship in 2018, and in the same year she has been appointed as a Lecturer at UCL. She also is Honorary Lecturer at Imperial College London. In 2022 she has been awarded the EPSRC New Investigator Award and a NNTI Joint Lab – Base Exploratory project in 2023. She is the Director of UCL’s MSc in Integrated Machine Learning Systems. Her current research interests include distributed fault diagnosis and fault-tolerant control methods for large-scale networked systems, safety and security of cyber-physical systems, learn-based control. Dr Boem is the EDI Chair for the UK Automatic Control Engineering (ACE) Network.”