Matthew Hale is an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech. He received his BSE from the University of Pennsylvania in 2012 and received his PhD from Georgia Tech in 2017. His research is broadly in the areas of control and optimization, with a strong emphasis on multi-agent systems and applications to robotics. His long-term goal is to develop new theoretical tools that solve fundamental, practical problems in multi-agent systems and to enable safe, reliable, and efficient operation of multi-agent systems across a wide spectrum of applications.