Francesca Boem

Lead of the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Group

Francesca Boem received the MSc degree (cum laude) in Management Engineering in 2009 and the PhD degree in Information Engineering in 2013, both from the University of Trieste, Italy. She was Post-Doc at the University of Trieste with the Machine Learning Group from 2013 to 2014. From 2014 to 2018, she was Research Associate with the Control and Power research group at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London, UK.

From 2015 to 2018 she was part of the team at Imperial College working on the flagship EU H2020-WIDESPREAD-TEAMING project for the development of the EU KIOS Research and Innovation Centre of Excellence in Cyprus. Dr Boem was awarded the Imperial College Research Fellowship in 2018, and in the same year she has been appointed as a Lecturer in the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at University College London, UK. She also is Honorary Lecturer at Imperial College London. In 2022 she has been awarded as PI the EPSRC New Investigator Award and a NNTI Joint Lab – Base Exploratory project in 2023. She is the Director of UCL’s MSc in Integrated Machine Learning Systems.

Her current research interests include distributed fault diagnosis and fault-tolerant control methods for large-scale networked systems, safety and security of cyber-physical systems, learn-based control. Dr Boem is member of the IFAC Technical Committees 1.5 (Networked Systems) and 6.4 (“Fault Detection, Supervision & Safety of Technical Processes – SAFEPROCESS”) and Associate Editor for the IEEE Systems Journal, the EUCA European Journal of Control, and for the IEEE Control System Society, IFAC and EUCA Conference Editorial Boards.