Cesar 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 a 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.
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Research Areas
Professor Uribe's research areas are the analysis of algorithms for distributed inference and social learning, and the fundamental limits of distributed optimization over networks. He has a passion for all things distributed.
Education
2018 Ph.D. Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2016 MSc. Applied Mathematics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2013 MSc. Systems and Control, Delft University of Technology
2010 BSc. Electronic Engineering from Universidad de Antioquia
Honors & Awards
2025 NSF CAREER Award
2024 Google Scholar Award
2023 100k Strong of the Americas Innovation Award
2022 Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award
2020 INFORMS Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion – Ambassadors Program Award
2019 Yahoo! Research – Faculty and Research Engagement Program (FREP) Award
2018 Best Poster Award, Midwest Machine Learning Symposium (MMLS)
2018 Best Poster Presentation Award, 7th Midwest Workshop on Control and Game Theory
2018 Best Talk Award Machine Learning Session, CSL Student Conference
2016 Best Presentation Learning and Estimation in Networks Session, American Control Conference
2016 Outstanding Poster Award, Stochastic Networks Conference
2016 Best Talk Award Security Session, CSL Student Conference
Fall 2016 Teacher Ranked as Excellent (Student selected rank), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2014 Best Presentation Decentralized Control Session, American Control Conference