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    Present Position

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


    • Previous Positions and Short Term Appointments

  • 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


    • Awards and Recognitions

  • Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences, Institute of Bologna, Italy, Class Physical Sciences, Section Technical Sciences, 2011


  • Fellow of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) for “Contributions to the Analysis and Control of Uncertain Systems, for Pioneering the Probabilistic Approach to Robustness,“ 2007


  • Distinguished Member Award of the IEEE Control Systems Society for “Significant Technical Contributions and Outstanding Long-Term Service,” 2005


  • Fellow of the IEEE for “Contributions to Robust Identification and Control of Uncertain Systems,” 2000


  • IFAC (International Federation of Automatic Control) “Outstanding Paper Prize Award” for the three year period 1990-1992 for the paper titled “The Robust Root Locus,” by B. R. Barmish and R. Tempo which appeared in Automatica, Vol. 26, pp. 283-292, 1990


    • Selected Plenary Lectures

  • IEEE - LARC & CCAC 2011 (XI IEEE Latin-American Robotics Competition & IX IEEE Latin-American Robotics Symposium & IEEE Colombian Conference on Automatic Control), Bogota', Colombia, October 2011 (Plenary Lecture)


  • Chinese Control and Decision Conference (CCDC), Mianyang, China, May 2011 (Plenary Lecture)


  • 5th International ICST Conference on Performance Evaluation Methodologies and Tools (ValueTools 2011), Paris, France, May 2011 (Plenary Lecture)


  • SICE (The Society of Instrument and Control Engineers of Japan) Annual Conference, Taipei, Taiwan, August 2010 (Plenary Lecture)


  • The 29th Chinese Control Conference, Beijing, China, July 2010 (Plenary Lecture)


  • European Control Conference, Kos, Greece, July 2007 (Semi-plenary Lecture)


  • Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems, Kyoto, July 2006 (Semi-plenary Lecture)


  • Robust Control Workshop, Delft, The Netherlands, June 2005 (Plenary Lecture)


  • Robust Control Workshop, Newcastle, Australia, December 2000 (Plenary Lecture)


    • Selected Scientific, Professional and Conference Activities

  • General Co-Chair for IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Firenze, Italy, 2013


  • Member of the IEEE Fellow Committee, 2012


  • Co-General Vice-Chair for 5th International Conference VALUETOOLS, Paris, 2011


  • Member of the IFAC Fellow Selection Committee, 2011-2014


  • 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 Appointments

  • Senior Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2012-present


  • Editor at Large of the Asian Journal of Control, Wiley, 2011-present


  • Editor of the IFAC Journal Automatica, Elsevier Science, 1996-present; Deputy Editor-in-Chief, 2004-present


  • Editor for Technical Notes and Correspondence, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2005-2009


  • Associate Editor of Journal of Complexity, Academic Press, 1996-present


  • Associate Editor of Systems and Control Letters, Elsevier Science, 1993-1998