Anna Scaglione

Anna Scaglione is the Stephen M. Ross/Related Companies Professor of electrical and computer engineering at Cornell Tech and Cornell Engineering. She is also the program director of the Urban Tech program.

Scaglione is an expert in the broad area of statistical signal processing with applications in communication networks, electric power systems, intelligent infrastructure, and network science. Scaglione’s research focuses on decentralized optimization and machine learning for energy systems, cyber-physical systems, and smart grids, with particular emphasis on the integration of communication and control in distributed systems.

Before joining Cornell Tech, Scaglione was a professor of electrical, computer, and energy engineering at Arizona State University, where she remains an adjunct faculty member. She has also held academic positions at the University of California, Davis, where she was a professor of electrical and computer engineering, and at Cornell University, where she became associate professor with tenure in 2006. She began her academic career as an assistant professor at the University of New Mexico.

Throughout her career, Scaglione has received numerous prestigious accolades. She was elected an IEEE Fellow in 2011 for her contributions to signal processing for communication networks and smart grids. She is the recipient of the 2000 IEEE Signal Processing Transactions Best Paper Award, the 2013 IEEE Donald G. Fink Prize Paper Award for the best review paper across all IEEE publications, and the 2020 Technical Achievement Award from the IEEE Communication Society Technical Committee on Smart Grid Communications.

Her work with student Lin Li also earned the 2013 IEEE Signal Processing Society Young Author Best Paper Award, and she has been recognized with several best conference paper awards. Additionally, Scaglione served as an IEEE Signal Processing Society Distinguished Lecturer from 2019 to 2020.

Scaglione’s pioneering research continues to shape the fields of network science, communication technologies, and sustainable energy systems, driving innovation in intelligent infrastructure and urban technology.