Roberto Tempo

April 10, 1956 – January 14, 2017

Roberto Tempo was a leader in the study of complex networked systems, their analysis and control under uncertainty, and robust design.
From 1991 to 2017 he was Director of Research of Systems and Computer Engineering at the National Research Council of Italy (CNR) at the research institute IEIIT in Torino. He also held visiting and research positions at Tsinghua University and Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, Kyoto University, The University of Tokyo, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, German Aerospace Research Organization in Oberpfaffenhofen, University of Wisconsin at Madison and Columbia University in New York City.

In 2010 Roberto Tempo was President of the IEEE Control Systems Society.