Ryan K. Williams
Ryan K. Williams received the B.S. degree in computer engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, USA, in 2005, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA, in 2014. He is currently an Assistant Professor with the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, where he runs the Virginia Tech Laboratory for Coordination at Scale. His research interests include control, cooperation, and intelligence in distributed multi-agent systems, topological methods in cooperative phenomena, and distributed algorithms for optimization, estimation, inference, and learning. Dr. Williams was the recipient of the Viterbi Fellowship, the NSF CRII, and CAREER grants for young investigators. He was the finalist for the Best Multirobot Paper at the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, and has been featured by various news outlets, including the L.A. Times.