Cesar A. Uribe is a Rice Faculty Scholar at the Baker Institute Center for U.S. and Mexico and the Louis Owen Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rice University. He earned M.Sc. degrees in systems and control from Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands and in applied mathematics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2013 and 2016, respectively. Uribe received his Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2018.

Before joining Rice, he was a postdoctoral associate at the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology until 2020. Uribe is a recipient of the Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award, the 100k Strong in the Americas Innovation Award, and the Google Research Scholar Award. He has also held visiting professor positions at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and KTH Royal Institute of Technology.

His research interests include distributed learning and optimization, decentralized control, algorithm analysis, and computational optimal transport.