Pablo A. Parrilo is an Argentinian academic working as the Joseph F. and Nancy P. Keithley Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the

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Education

Parrilo earned a Bachelor of Science degree in electronic engineering at the

University of Buenos Aires The University of Buenos Aires (, UBA) is a public university, public research university in Buenos Aires, Argentina. It is the second-oldest university in the country, and the largest university of the country by enrollment. Established in 1821 ...

and earned a PhD in control and dynamical systems from the

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. After earning his PhD, he remained at CalTech as a postdoctoral scholar.

Career

From 2001 to 2004, Parrilo worked as an assistant professor of analysis and control systems at

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. He joined the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2004 as an associate professor and has since worked as a full professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and associate director of the

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. He has held visiting appointments at the

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;

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; and Faculty of Engineering, Lund University. Parrilo was named

Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers , 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 ...

(IEEE) in 2016 for contributions to semidefinite and sum-of-squares optimization. He was named a

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in 2018.

References

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