Paolo Frasca received the Ph.D. degree in Applied Mathematics from Politecnico di Torino, Italy, in 2009. In 2009-10, he was at the Universit… di Salerno, Italy and at the Istituto per le Applicazioni del Calcolo, C.N.R., Roma, Italy. He has been a visiting researcher at UCSB in 2008, and at Rutgers University, Camden (NJ) and at Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden in 2010. He is currently with the Dipartimento di Matematica, Politecnico di Torino, Italy as post-doctoral researcher. His research interests include mathematical control theory and applications of probability and graph theory to distributed and networked systems.