Alejandro Ribeiro

Alejandro Ribeiro serves as the Solomon & Sylvia G. Charp Professor of Electrical Engineering in the Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering (ESE) at the University of Pennsylvania's School of Engineering and Applied Science. His research focuses on Distributed Collaborative Intelligence systems where autonomous agents operate without central coordination.

His primary research areas include Statistical Signal Processing, Network Data Analysis, and Network Algorithms. He leads three major research thrusts:

• Wireless Autonomous Networks for self-configuring communication systems
• Machine Learning on Network Data for processing graph-structured information
• Distributed Collaborative Learning for multi-agent representation systems

Ribeiro directs Alelab, Penn's signal and information processing research laboratory, which investigates unconventional signal structures including graph-based and homological representations. His work has significant applications in autonomous robotics, distributed optimization, and collaborative intelligence systems.

His scientific contributions have been recognized with numerous awards including IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Awards (2022, 2024), the Cambridge Ring Publication of the Year Award (2021), and Intel's Outstanding Researcher Award (2019). He has received teaching honors including Penn's Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching (2017) and the S. Reid Warren, Jr. Award (2012).

Ribeiro actively mentors doctoral students whose research has garnered multiple paper awards across major conferences. His teaching portfolio includes advanced courses on Graph Neural Networks, Signal and Information Processing, and Stochastic Systems.