Lăcrămioara Pavel (born 1965) is a Romanian and Canadian

game theorist A game is a structured type of play usually undertaken for entertainment or fun, and sometimes used as an educational tool. Many games are also considered to be work (such as professional players of spectator sports or video games) or art (such ...

and

electrical engineer Electrical engineering is an engineering discipline concerned with the study, design, and application of equipment, devices, and systems that use electricity, electronics, and electromagnetism. It emerged as an identifiable occupation in the l ...

whose research applies game theory to network controllability for

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s and

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s. She is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the

University of Toronto The University of Toronto (UToronto or U of T) is a public university, public research university whose main campus is located on the grounds that surround Queen's Park (Toronto), Queen's Park in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It was founded by ...

Education and career

Pavel graduated from the

Gheorghe Asachi Technical University of Iași The Gheorghe Asachi Technical University (; acronym: TUIASI) is a public university located in Iași, Iași County, Western Moldavia, Romania. Classified by the Ministry of Education as an ''advanced research and education university'', it has t ...

Romania Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern and Southeast Europe. It borders Ukraine to the north and east, Hungary to the west, Serbia to the southwest, Bulgaria to the south, Moldova to ...

in 1989. She received a Ph.D. in electrical engineering in 1996, from

Queen's University at Kingston Queen's University at Kingston, commonly known as Queen's University or simply Queen's, is a public university, public research university in Kingston, Ontario, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Queen's holds more than of land throughout Ontario and ...

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. She was a postdoctoral researcher for

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and then worked in industry before returning to academia in 2002, as a faculty member at the University of Toronto. She was promoted to full professor in 2013.

Book

Pavel is the author of the book ''Game Theory for Control of Optical Networks'' (

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, 2012).

Recognition

Pavel was named to the 2025 class of

IEEE Fellow , the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is an American 501(c)(3) public charity professional organization for electrical engineering, electronics engineering, and ot ...

s "for contributions to game theory, control, and optimization for network systems".

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Pavel, Lacra 1965 births Living people Romanian electrical engineers Romanian women engineers Canadian electrical engineers 21st-century Canadian women engineers Women electrical engineers Game theorists Gheorghe Asachi Technical University of Iași alumni Queen's University at Kingston alumni Academic staff of the University of Toronto Fellows of the IEEE