Dr. Pavankumar Tallapragada‘s paper titled “Differentially Private Distributed Convex Optimization via Functional Perturbation” which he has co-authored with his collaborators Erfan Nozari and Jorge Cortes, was selected as the winner for the 2019 IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems Outstanding Paper Award. The award was presented at the 2019 Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) held in December at Nice, France.