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Professional History
May 2017-Present Tenured Associate Professor at the Department of Electronics and Telecommunications, Department of Electronics and Telecommunications, Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy
2015-May 2017 Tenured Associate Professor at the Department of Electronics and Telecommunications, Department of Control and Computer Engineering, Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy
2016-Present Visiting Professor at the New York University Tandon School of Engineering, Office of Innovation, Brooklyn NY, USA.
2013-2015 Visiting Full Professor at the New York University Tandon School of Engineering, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Brooklyn NY, USA.
2002-2015 ‑ Tenured Assistant Professor of Automation, Politecnico di Bari, Italy
May-August 2012 and 2013 - Visiting Assistant Professor at the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department of the Polytechnic Institute of New York University, Dynamical Systems Lab, Brooklyn, NY, USA
1999-2002 – Professor of Robotics, University of Messina, Italy
1999-2001 ‑ consultant to ST Microelectronics, Catania, Italy
1998 ‑ appointed by EURATOM at JET Joint Undertaking, Culham, for the development of artificial intelligence techniques for fault detection and sensor validation.
Research Interests
Complex networks and systems
Modeling and control of social systems
Sustainable mobility
Cooperative robotics
Data-driven modeling and control
Teaching
At present, at Politecnico di Torino: Automation and Planning of Production Systems (Graduate) and Integrated Production Management (Graduate)
Past classes at Politecnico di Torino: Convex Optimization (Graduate) and Automatic Control (Undergraduate)
During my visiting professorship at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering: Linear Control Systems, Nonlinear Control Systems, Simulation Tools for Robotics and Mechatronics (Graduate), Automatic Control, Measurement Systems (Undergraduate)
Formerly taught at Politecnico di Bari: Robot Control (Graduate), Foundations of Linear Signals and Systems, System Theory, Digital Control Systems (Undergraduate)
Awards and Patents
2001 – Best Paper Award at Fourth International ICSC Symposium on Soft Computing and Intelligent Systems for Industry, Paisley, Scotland, U.K., June 26 - 29, 2001
2002 – Award Winning Application at 15th Triennal IFAC World Congress, Barcelona, Spain
2002 – US Patent #6,738,313 “System for detecting distances using chaotic signals”
2002 – US Patent # 6,842,745 “Programmable chaos generator and process for use thereof”
2008 - Senior Member IEEE
2010 - IMACS Award 2010 (International Associations for Mathematics and Computers in Simulation) for the most successful papers published in 2009 in Mathematics and Computers in Simulation and Applied Numerical Mathematics, Elsevier.
2010 - IMACS Honor Member
2012 - SIDRA (Società Italiana Docenti e Ricercatori in Automatica - Italian Association of Professors and Researchers in Automation) Award for the best contributions at the interactive sessions at the Italian congress of the association.
Distinguished Lecturer for IEEE
Invited Activity
2020 - invited speaker at the 2nd International School on Informatics and Dynamics
in Complex Networks, University of Catania, Italy, February 10-14
2018 - invited speaker at the Delft Center for Delft Center for Systems and Control at Delft Technical University, The Netherlands, September 13
2018 - invited speaker at the Symposium in Memory of Prof. Ali H. Nayfeh, New York University - Abu Dhabi, UAE, January 28-29
2017 - Invited speaker at the International Workshop “Complex networks: from socio-economic systems to biology and brain”, organized by the Lipari School, Lipari, Italy, September 8-14
2017 - Invited speaker with the talk “Dynamical Processes in Time-Varying Networks with Spatial and Temporal Inhomogeneities”, invited presentation in the invited session “Connected countries - Italian Israeli roundtable on network science” at the International School and Conference on Network Science NetSci-X 2017, Tel Aviv, Israel, January 15-18
2014 - Northeastern University, Boston MA - Invited seminar on "Effect of spatial and temporal inhomogeneity on dynamical processes on time-varying networks with applications to synchronization, flocking, and epidemic spreading". December 10
2014 - New York University, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences - Invited seminar on "Spatial Pinning Control: collective phenomena in spaces with inhomogeneous features”, April 3
2013 - Invited Lecturer at the School Analysis of Complex Networks: Structure and Dynamics, Milan, Italy, February 20-22
2012 - University of Ontario Institute of Technology - Ontario, Canada. IEEE Distinguished Lecture on “Soft Sensors for Monitoring and Control of Industrial Processes and Nuclear Fusion Experiments”.
2010 - MELECON2010, the 15th IEEE Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference, Malta Apr. 25-28 2010, NPSS-IEEE Distinguished Lecture on "Soft Sensors and Artificial Intelligence with Applications to Nuclear Fusion Experiments"
2009 - European Commission, DG Information Society and Media, Bruxelles, Third Monitoring and Control Concertation Week, Concertation Meeting on Control of Large-Scale Systems, Keynote Presentation on "Complex Systems: from Science to Technology"
2009 - 4th International Scientific Conference on Physics and Control, PHYSCON09, Catania, NPSS-IEEE Distinguished Lecture on "Soft Sensors and Artificial Intelligence with Applications to Nuclear Fusion Experiments"
2004 - International Conference "Foundation and Advances in Nonlinear Science", Minsk, Belarus, Plenary Talk on "Nonlinear Phenomena in IPMC Materials"
2001 - Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science - Contribution on "Complexity for System Engineering"
2001 - 3rd IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) Technical Committee Meeting - Invited Talk on "Control, Data acquisition and Remote Participation for Fusion Research"
1999 - ENEA Frascati, Nuclear Fusion Division, Invited Talk on "Diagnostical Techniques for Tokamaks"
1999 - NJIT, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Invited Talk on "Nonlinear Circuits and Nonrecurrent Complex Systems: New Results"
University Service
2017-present Member of the Professor Council in the Electrical, Electronics and Communication Engineering Ph.D. Program of Politecnico di Torino
2016-2017 Member of the Professor Council in the Computer and Systems Engineering Ph.D. Program of Politecnico di Torino
2012-2015 Member of the Professor Council in the Electric and Infrormation Engineering Ph.D. Program of Politecnico di Bari
2006-2012 Member of the Professor Council in the Information Engineering Ph.D. Program of Politecnico di Bari
2002 - present Component of the external tutor team in the Electronics, Automation and Complex System Control Ph.D. of Università degli Studi di Catania
Professional Society Service
SICC, Italian Society for Chaos and Complexity. Executive Committee, Member
IEEE, Nuclear and Plasma Science Society. Chapter Chair, Italy Section
IEEE, Circuits and System Society. Member of Cellular Neural Networks and Array Computing and Neural Systems and Applications Technical Committees
IEEE, Distinguished Lecturer of the Nuclear and Plasma Science Society
IEEE, Italy Section. Member of the Executive Committee
IPACS - International Physics and Control Society. Member.
IMACS - International Association for Mathematics and Computers in Simulation - Honor Member for 2010.
Education
2000 ‑ Ph.D. Degree in Electronics and Automation Engineering, University of Catania, Italy. Thesis: “An intelligent system for the fault diagnosis and data validation in the JET machine”
1996 ‑ Laurea cum Laude in Computer Engineering, University of Catania, Italy
1995 ‑ Erasmus Fellowship, spent at IRISA, Institut de Recherche en Informatique et Systèmes Aléatoires, Rennes, France. Internship on Visual Servoing with Prof. François Chaumette and the TEMIS Group