Giacomo Como
Assistant Professor at the Department of Automatic Control, Lund University
Box 118 SE-221 00 Lund, Sweden
Research Affiliate at the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems, MIT
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LCCC focus period and workshop on Information and Control in Networks
Research interests
Mathematics of information and control theory, network science, coding theory, discrete mathematics, applied probability.
Keywords: large-scale network dynamics; transportation networks; opinion dynamics; distributed control, estimation, and computation over networks; channel coding with feedback; control with communication constraints; group codes, LDPC and turbo codes.
Brief bio
Since August 2011: Assistant Professor at the Department of Automatic Control, Lund University; Research Affiliate at LIDS, MIT
May 2008 - July 2011: Post-Doctoral Fellow at LIDS, MIT, supervised by prof. Munther Dahleh and prof. Sanjoy Mitter.
Jan. 2005 - March 2008: Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics, Politecnico di Torino, thesis: “Ensembles of codes over Abelian groups”, advisor prof. Fabio Fagnani.
Sept. 2006 - May 2007: Visiting Assistant in Research, Yale University, working with prof. Sekhar Tatikonda.
Journal Papers
G. Como, K. Savla, D. Acemoglu, M. Dahleh, and E. Frazzoli, “Distributed robust routing for dynamical flow networks -- Part II: Strong Resilience, Equilibrium Selection and Cascaded Failures”, provisionally accepted in IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2011.
G. Como, K. Savla, D. Acemoglu, M. Dahleh, and E. Frazzoli, “Distributed robust routing for dynamical flow networks -- Part I: Locally responsive policies and weak resilience”, provisionally accepted in IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2011.
G. Como, K. Savla, D. Acemoglu, M. Dahleh, and E. Frazzoli, “Stability analysis of transportation networks with multiscale driver decisions” , submitted to SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, revised, April 2012.
D. Acemoglu, G. Como, F. Fagnani, and A. Ozdaglar, “Opinion fluctuations and disagreement in social networks”, submitted to Mathematics of Operation Research, revised in July 2011.
F. Garin, G. Como, and F. Fagnani, “The performance of serial turbo codes does not concentrate”, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 58 (5), pp. 2570-2588, May 2012.
G. Como and F. Fagnani, “Scaling limits for continuous opinion dynamics systems”, The Annals of Applied Probability, Vol. 21 (4), pp. 1537-1567, August 2011.
G. Como and S. Yuksel, “On the capacity of memoryless finite state multiple access channels with asymmetric state information at the encoders”, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 57 (3), pp.1267-1273, March 2011.
R. Carli, G. Como, P. Frasca, and F. Garin, “Distributed averaging on digital erasure networks”, Automatica, Vol. 47 (1), pp. 115-121, January 2011.
G. Como, “Group codes outperform binary coset codes on non-binary symmetric memoryless channels”, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 56 (9), pp. 4321-4334, September 2010.
G. Como, F. Fagnani, and S. Zampieri, “Anytime reliable transmission of real-valued information through digital noisy channels”, SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, Vol. 48 (6), pp. 3903-3924, April 2010.
G. Como and F. Fagnani, “The capacity of finite Abelian group codes over memoryless symmetric channels”, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 55 (5), pp. 2037-2054, May 2009.
G. Como, S. Yuksel, and S. Tatikonda, “The error exponent of variable-length codes over Markov channels with feedback”, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 55 (5), pp. 2139-2160, May 2009.
G. Como and F. Fagnani, “Average spectra and minimum distances of low-density parity-check codes over Abelian groups”, SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics, Vol. 23 (1), pp. 19-53, Oct. 2008.
G. Como, F.Fagnani, S.Zampieri, “I sistemi multi-agente e gli algoritmi di consenso”, La matematica nella Società e nella Cultura: rivista dell'Unione Matematica Italiana, sottomesso, 2011.
G. Como, “Ensemble di codici su gruppi abeliani”, La matematica nella Società e nella Cultura: rivista dell'Unione Matematica Italiana, Serie I, 2(2), pp.~227-230, 2009.
Proceedings of international conferences:
N. Sen, F. Alajaji, S. Yuksel, and G. Como,
“Multiple access channel with various degrees of asymmetric state information”,
in Proc. of ISIT 2012, (Cambridge, MA, USA), accepted, July 1 - 6, 2012.
D. Acemoglu, G. Como, F. Fagnani, and A. Ozdaglar,
“Opinion fluctuations and persistent disagreement in social networks”,
Proc. of 2011 Control Decision Conference, (INVITED), (Orlando, FL, USA), pp. 2347-2352, December 12-15, 2011.
G. Como, K. Savla, D. Acemoglu, M.A. Dahleh, and E. Frazzoli,
“On Distributed robust routing for transportation networks under local information constraint”,
Proc. of 2011 Control Decision Conference, (INVITED), (Orlando, FL, USA), pp. 6290-6295, December 12-15, 2011.
N. Sen, G. Como, S. Yuksel, F. Alajaji,
“On the capacity of memoryless finite-state multiple access channels with asymmetric noisy state information at the encoders”,
in Proc. of Forty-Ninth Allerton Conference, (Monticello, IL, USA), pp. 1562-1566, Sept.28 - 30, 2011.
G. Como, K. Savla, D. Acemoglu, M. Dahleh, and E. Frazzoli,
“Stability analysis of transportation networks with multiscale driver decisions”,
American Control Conference, (San Francisco, CA, USA), pp. 2436-2441, June 29 - July 1, 2011.
R. Carli, G. Como, P. Frasca, and F. Garin,
“Distributed averaging on digital noisy networks”,
Proc. of Information Theory and its Applications Workshop, (INVITED),
(San Diego, CA, USA), Feb. 6-11 2011. G. Como and B. Nakiboglu,
“ Sphere-packing bound for block-codes with feedback and finite memory”,
Proc. of ISIT 2010, (Austin, TX, USA), pp. 251-255, June 13-18, 2010. G. Como, K. Savla, D. Acemoglu, M. Dahleh, and E. Frazzoli,
“On robustness analysis of transportation networks”,
Proc. of MTNS 2010, (Budapest, Hungary), pp. 2399-2406, July 5-9, 2010. D. Acemoglu, G. Como, F. Fagnani, and A. Ozdaglar,
“Persistence of disagreement in social networks”,
Proc. of MTNS 2010, (Budapest, Hungary), July 5-9, 2010. G. Como and F. Fagnani,
“Scaling limits for continuous opinion dynamics systems”,
in Proc. of Forty-Seventh Allerton Conference, (Monticello, IL, USA), pp. 1562-1566, Sept.30 - Oct.2, 2009. R. Carli, G. Como, P. Frasca, and F. Garin,
“Average consensus on digital noisy networks”,
in Proc. of Necsys, (Venice, Italy), pp. 36-41, Sept. 24-26, 2009. G. Como and S. Yuksel,
“On the capacity of finite state multiple access channels with asymmetric partial state feedback”,
in Proc. of ConCom 2009, (Seoul, Korea), June 26, 2009. G. Como and M. Dahleh,
“Lower bounds on the estimation error in problems of distributed computation”,
invited, in Proc. of ITA Workshop, (San Diego, CA, USA), pp. 70-76, Feb. 8-13, 2009. G. Como, F. Fagnani, and S. Zampieri,
“Anytime reliable transmission of real-valued information through digital noisy channels”,
invited, in Proc. of Forty-Sixth Allerton Conference, (Monticello, IL, USA), pp. 1473-1480, Sept. 23-26, 2008. D. Capirone, G. Como, F. Fagnani, and F. Garin,
“Non-binary Decoding of Structured LDPC Codes: Density Evolution”,
in Proc. of ISIT 2008, pp. 950-954, (Toronto, Canada), July 6-11, 2008. D. Capirone, G. Como, F. Fagnani, and F. Garin,
“Non-binary decoding of structured LDPC codes”,
in Proc. of 2008 IZS on Communications, pp. 68-71, (Zurich, Switzerland), March 12-14, 2008. G. Como, S. Yuksel, and S. Tatikonda,
“On the error exponent of Markov channels with ISI and feedback”,
in Proc. of ITW 2007, pp. 184-189, (Lake Tahoe, CA, USA), September 3-7, 2007. G. Como, S. Yuksel, and S. Tatikonda,
“On the Burnashev exponent of Markov channels”,
in Proc. of ISIT 2007, pp. 1871-1875, (Nice, France), June 25-29, 2007. G. Como and F. Fagnani,
“On the Gilbert-Varshamov distance of Abelian group codes”,
in Proc. of ISIT 2007, pp. 2651-2655, (Nice, France), June 25-29, 2007. F. Garin, G. Como and F. Fagnani,
“Staircase and other structured linear-time encodable LDPC codes: analysis and design”,
in Proc. of ISIT 2007, pp. 1226-1230, (Nice, France), June 25-29, 2007. G. Como, F. Garin and F. Fagnani,
“ML performances of serial turbo codes do not concentrate!”,
in Proc. of 4th Int. Symp. on Turbo Codes (Munich, Germany), April 3-7, 2006. G. Como and F. Fagnani,
“Ensembles of Codes over Abelian Groups”,
in Proc. of ISIT 2005 (Adelaide, SA, Australia), pp. 1788-1792, September 5-9 2005.
