Anna Scaglione is the Stephen M. Ross/Related Companies Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell Tech, Cornell University. She was Program Director of the Urban Tech program from 2022 to 2026. She directs the SINE Lab.

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Research

Her work is in statistical signal processing and machine learning, applied to electric power systems, communication networks and network science. The common thread is learning and inference on networked systems, with an emphasis on methods that utilities and operators can actually use. Current projects:

• Graph learning for the power grid. Models that transfer across grid topologies without retraining, and certify when their output can be trusted. This work is the basis of GridMind, a grid foundation model for monitoring and control.
• Differential privacy for grid data. Releasing synthetic grid measurements and power flow solutions with formal privacy guarantees, so that utilities can share data for machine learning (DoE GENESIS program).
• AI data centers as grid loads. Modeling the power demand of AI computing, its flexibility, and the effect of cyber attacks on data center power (DoE, with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory).
• Cyber-physical security of distributed energy resources. Attack detection and mitigation for grid-connected inverters (DoE CESER, with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory).
• Distributed and federated learning. Multi-agent optimization, its robustness to adversarial agents, and privacy.

Her research has been sponsored by NSF, DoE, ONR, ARO, ARPA-E and industry. She is an IEEE Fellow and a co-inventor on several U.S. patents.

Career

• 2021-present: Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell Tech, Cornell University. Stephen M. Ross/Related Companies Professor.
• 2022-2026: Program Director, Urban Tech program, Cornell Tech.
• 2015-2021: Professor, School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering, Arizona State University (now adjunct faculty).
• 2008-2014: Associate Professor, then Professor (2010), Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Davis.
• 2001-2008: Assistant Professor, then Associate Professor with tenure (2006), Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell University.
• 2000-2001: Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of New Mexico.
• Visiting positions: EPFL (2006), NYU Center for Neuroscience and Courant Institute (2007), Stanford University (2013-2014).

Education

• Ph.D., University of Rome “La Sapienza”, 1999 (advisor: S. Barbarossa).
• Laurea (M.Sc.), University of Rome “La Sapienza”, 1995, magna cum laude.
• Postdoctoral researcher, University of Minnesota, 1999-2000 (with G. B. Giannakis).

Awards

• IEEE Fellow (2011), Signal Processing and Communications Societies.
• 2020 Technical Achievement Award, IEEE Communications Society Technical Committee on Smart Grid Communications.
• IEEE Signal Processing Society Distinguished Lecturer, 2019-2020.
• 2013 IEEE Donald G. Fink Prize Paper Award, best review paper across all IEEE publications.
• 2013 Outstanding Mid-Career Faculty Award, College of Engineering, UC Davis.
• 2002 NSF CAREER Award.
• 2000 IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award (IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing).
• Best paper awards with students: 2025 ICASSP Best Student Paper (Chenyue Zhang), 2020 HICSS best paper (Kari Hreinsson), 2018 ICASSP Best Student Paper (Hoi-To Wai), 2014 IEEE SmartGridComm Best Student Paper (Lorenzo Ferrari), 2013 IEEE SPS Young Author Best Paper Award (Lin Li), 2005 MILCOM Ellersick Best Paper Award.

Professional service

• IEEE AI Coalition, 2026-present.
• IEEE Conference Committee, 2021-2025.
• IEEE Publication Services and Products Board Committee, 2021-2025.
• IEEE Communications Society Awards Board, 2021-2024.
• Deputy Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, 2018-2023 (Associate Editor 2016-2017, Senior Editor 2018-2020).
• Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, 2012-2013.
• Board of Governors, IEEE Signal Processing Society, 2012-2014 and 2025-2027; SPS Awards Board, 2015-2018.
• Area Editor (2010-2011) and Associate Editor (2008-2010), IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing; Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 2002-2005.
• General Co-Chair, IEEE SPAWC 2005; Technical Co-Chair, DCOSS 2010, IEEE SmartGridComm 2012, IEEE GlobalSIP 2013.
• Guest editor of special issues in IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, IEEE JSAC, IEEE JSTSP and IEEE Communications Magazine.