Francesca Parise is an Assistant Professor at Cornell University in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. She received the BSc and MSc degrees in Information and Automation Engineering from the University of Padova, Italy, in 2010 and 2012. She graduated from the Galilean School of Higher Education, University of Padova, Italy, in 2013. She defended her PhD at the Automatic Control Laboratory, ETH Zurich, Switzerland in 2016 and was a Postdoctoral researcher at MIT from 2016 to 2020. Her research focuses on the identification, analysis and control of multi- agent systems composed by a large number of autonomous users, with application to transportation, economics and social networks. She was recognized as an EECS rising star in 2017 and is the recipient of the Guglielmo Marin Award, the SNSF Early Postdoc Fellowship, the SNSF Advanced Postdoc Fellowship and the ETH Medal.