Paola Flocchini
School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Ottawa, Canada
About the speaker
Paola Flocchini is Full Professor at the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Ottawa, Canada. Her main research areas are theoretical computer science and distributed computing with special focus on mobility (“moving and computing”) and on dynamic networks. She is interested in fundamental computational and algorithmic issues that arise among autonomous mobile computational entities, in the design of algorithmic solutions in the context of dynamic networks, and in sense of direction and other structural information. In these areas, she has published more than 200 scientific papers. In 2019, she was awarded the Prize for Innovation in Distributed Computing for her work on sense of direction and computing by asynchronous mobile robots.