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Curriculum

Position

  • 1991-2017: Director of Research of Systems and Computer Engineering, National Research Council, CNR-IEIIT, Torino, Italy

Previous Positions and Short Term Appointments

  • October 2016: Distinguished Visiting Professor, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
  • October-November 2015, March 2014 and March-April 2013: Visiting Research Professor, AMSS, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
  • August 2010: Visiting Professor, Department of Information Physics and Computing, The University of Tokyo, Japan
  • August-November 2009: Visiting Research Professor, Coordinate Science Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • November 2004: Visiting Professor, Department of Information Physics and Computing, The University of Tokyo, Japan
  • February 2004: Visiting Professor, Department of Systems Science, Kyoto University, Japan
  • January-June 2002: Visiting Research Professor, Coordinate Science Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • 1995: NATO-CNR Senior Fellow, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Wisconsin, Madison
  • June-July 1988: Visiting Researcher, German Aerospace Center (DLR) Oberpfaffenhofen, Wessling, Germany
  • 1984-1991: Researcher, National Research Council of Italy, CENS-CNR, Politecnico di Torino
  • 1985-1986: NATO-CNR Advanced Fellow, Department of Computer Science, Columbia University, New York

Selected Professional and Conference Activities

National Member Representative of IFAC, 2015-2018

  • Member of the IFAC Fellow Selection Committee, 2015-2017 and 2011-2014
  • Co-Principal Investigator for the Joint International Lab COOPS (Cooperative Control for Energy Management Systems) CNR-JST (Japan Science and Technology Agency), 2015-2017 
  • General Co-Chair for IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Firenze, Italy, 2013
  • Member of the IEEE Fellow Committee, 2012-2015
  • Co-General Vice-Chair for 5th International Conference VALUETOOLS, Paris, 2011
  • Past-President of the IEEE Control Systems Society, 2011; President of the IEEE Control Systems Society, 2010; President-Elect of the IEEE Control Systems Society, 2009
  • Member of the Nominating Committee, IEEE Control Systems Society, 2009-2010 and 2004-2007; Chair of the Nominating Committee, IEEE Control Systems Society, 2011
  • Program Chair of the first joint IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) and European Control Conference (ECC), Seville, Spain, 2005
  • Vice-President for Conference Activities of the IEEE Control Systems Society, 2002-2003
  • Member of the Board of Governors (BoG) of the IEEE Control Systems Society, 2000-2003
  • Member of the EUCA Council (European Union of Control Associations), 1998-2003

Editorial Service

  • Editor-in-Chief of the IFAC Journal Automatica, Elsevier, 2015-present
  • Advisory Committee of the IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, 2013-2014
  • Advisory Board of Systems & Control: Foundations & Applications, Birkhauser, 2012-present
  • Senior Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2012-2014
  • Editor at Large of the Asian Journal of Control, Wiley, 2011-present
  • Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the IFAC Journal Automatica, Elsevier, 2004-2014
  • Editor of the IFAC Journal Automatica, Elsevier, 1996-2014
  • Editor for Technical Notes and Correspondence of the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2005-2009
  • Associate Editor of Journal of Complexity, Elsevier, 1996-present
  • Associate Editor of Systems and Control Letters, Elsevier, 1993-1998