Biography

Santiago Paternain received the B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from Universidad de la República Oriental del Uruguay, Montevideo, Uruguay in 2012, the M.Sc. in Statistics from the Wharton School in 2018 and the Ph.D. in Electrical and Systems Engineering from the Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, the University of Pennsylvania in 2018.

He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Computer and Systems Engineering at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Prior to joining Rensselaer, Dr. Paternain was a postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Pennsylvania. His research interests lie at the intersection of machine learning and control of dynamical systems.

Dr. Paternain was the recipient of the 2017 CDC Best Student Paper Award and the 2019 Joseph and Rosaline Wolfe Best Doctoral Dissertation Award from the Electrical and Systems Engineering Department at the University of Pennsylvania.