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