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Activities in Professional Societies

 

  • since 2020: Member of the IFAC Technical Committee 1.3: Discrete Event and Hybrid Systems.
  • 2017-2019: Elected member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Control Systems Society.
  • since 2016 Fellow of the IEEE.
  • since 2016 Member of the IEEE-CSS technical committee on nonlinear systems and control and the IEEE-CSS technical committee on hybrid systems.
  • since 2015 Associate Editor of Electronic Publications (Conference Information) for the IEEE-CSS.
  • 2015-2017 Student Activities Chair for the IEEE-CSS.
  • 2014: Appointed member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Control Systems Society.
  • since 2009: Senior member of the IEEE
  • since 2008: Active Member of the IFAC Technical Committee 2.3: Nonlinear Control Systems.
  • 2008–2014 Member of the IEEE-CSS technnical committee on power generation control.

Editorial Work

 

  • since 2019 Associate Editor of the Elsevier journal “European Journal of Control”.
  • since 2015 Associate Editor of the IFAC journal “Automatica”.
  • since 2013: Member of the European Control Association Conference Editorial Board (EUCA-CEB).
  • 2011-2016: Associate Editor of “IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control”.
  • 2010-2014: Associate Editor of “Systems and Control Letters”.
  • 2009–2013: Member of the Control Systems Society Conference Editorial Board (IEEE-CSS CEB).

Organization of International Conferences

 

  • 2020: Program Co-Chair of the 2020 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control.
  • 2020: Member of the international program committee of the IFAC World Congress, Berlin, Germany.
  • 2019: Member of the international program committee of the 2019 American Control Conference (ACC 2019).
  • 2019: Member of the international program committee of the 2019 IFAC Workshop on Nonlinear Control Systems (NOLCOS 2019).
  • 2019: Member of the international scientific committee of the 12th International Workshop on Robot Motion and Control (RoMoCo) 2019.
  • 2018: Program Vice-Chair of the 2018 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control.
  • 2018: Member of the international program committee of the 2018 IFAC Conference on Robust Control Systems Design (ROCOND 2018).
  • 2018: Member of the international program committee of the IFAC Conference on Analysis and Design of Hybrid Systems (ADHS) 2018.
  • 2017: Publications co-chair for the IFAC World Congress, Toulouse (France).
  • 2017: Program Vice-Chair of the 2017 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control.
  • 2016: Area Chair for Invited Sessions for the IFAC Nonlinear Control Systems Symposium (NOLCOS) 2016.
  • 2016: Member of the International Program Committee of the IFAC Workshop on Adaptation and Learning in Control and Signal Processing (IFAC ALCOSP 2016).
  • 2015: Member of the International Program Committee of the IFAC Conference on Analysis and Design of Hybrid Systems (ADHS 2015).
  • 2015: Member of the international program committee of the 2015 IFAC Conference on Robust Control Systems Design (ROCOND 2015)
  • 2014: Program Vice-Chair of the 2014 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control.
  • 2013: Member of the international program committee of the 2013 European Control Conference.
  • 2013: Member of the international program committee of IFAC Nonlinear Control Systems Symposium (NOLCOS) 2013.
  • 2012: Member of the international program committee of the IFAC Symposium on Robust Control Design (ROCOND) 2012.
  • 2012: Member of the international program committee of the IFAC Conference on Analysis and Design of Hybrid Systems (ADHS) 2012.
  • 2012: Publicity co-chair for the 2012 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control.
  • 2011: Publicity co-chair for the 2011 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control.
  • 2009: Member of the International Program Committee of the 2009 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control.
  • 2009: Member of the International Program Committee of the 2009 IEEE-MSC (which includes the IEEE Conference on Control Applications).
  • 2008: Publicity co-chair for the 2008 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control.
  • 2007: Member of the International Program Committee of the 2007 IEEE-MSC (which includes the IEEE Conference on Control Applications).
  • 2005: Associate editor for the 2005 IEEE Joint European Control Conference and Conference on Decision and Control.
  • 9-11/6/1998 Member of the organizing committee of the “6th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Systems,” Alghero (SS).

Organization of Events

 

  • 12/2008: Co-organizer of the invited session “Hybrid Systems: Lyapunov Theory and Controller Design”, presented at the 25th International Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems (MTNS 2022). Bayreuth, Germany
  • July 2017: Local Organizer of the 2017 Roberto Tempo Workshop on Uncertain Dynamical Systems, Banyuls-sur-Mer, France.
  • January 2017: Organizer of the Workshop Hybrid Dynamical Systems: optimization, stability and applications, Trento, Italy.
  • 2016: Co-organizer of the tutorial session “Input allocation for systems with redundant actuators” presented at the 2016 European Control Conference, Aalborg (Denmark), June 2016. Click next to download the Structure of the tutorial and the slides of the presentations of Tor Arne Johansen, Luca Zaccarian, Andrea Serrani, and Sergio Galeani.
  • 2014: Scientific organizer of the PhD summer school “Modern tools for nonlinear control” held in Grenoble (France) on 8-12, 2014.
  • 2009: Organizer of the mini-tutorial session “Constructive anti-windup design methods” presented at the 2009 European Control Conference, Budapest (Hungary), August 2009.
  • 12/2008: Co-organizer of the invited session “Control of Tokamak plasmas: past, present and future perspectives”, presented at the 2008 Conference on Decision and Control.
  • 2005: Co-guest editor of the “Special Issue on Anti-windup Design” published on the International Journal of Systems Science.
  • 20/07/2004: Co-organizer of the workshop “Modern anti-windup synthesis”, Asian Control Conference.
  • 03-04/06/2004: Co-organizer of the workshop “Applications of advanced control theory to robotics and automation”, Villa Mondragone, Frascati (Roma). The workshop speakers have been invited to contribute to an edited volume published in 2005.
  • 03/06/2003: Co-organizer of the workshop “Modern anti-windup synthesis”, American Control Conference.

PhD and Habiliation Committees

 

  • December 6, 2019: final PhD exam of Jérémie Kreiss, thesis title “Allocation de commande pour l’électrotechnique et l’électronique de puissance”. INSA-Lyon, France. Rapporteur.
  • April 28, 2019: final PhD exam of Tobias Van Damme, thesis title “Thermal-aware job scheduling in data centers. An optimization approach”. University of Groningen, The Netherlands. Reader.
  • March 22, 2018: final PhD exam of Giulia Michieletto, thesis title “Sistemi Multi-Agente in Ambienti Smart - dalle reti di sensori alle formazioni di piattaforme aeree”. University of Padova, Italy. Reviewer (Rapporteur).
  • January 22, 2018: final PhD exam of Muhammad Farooq Haydar, thesis title “Nonlinear Hinf filtering for attitude estimation problems in aircraft and spacecraft control”. Politecnico di Milano, Italy. Reviewer (Rapporteur).
  • September 19, 2017: final PhD exam of Jihene Ben Rejeb, thesis title “Analyse de stabilite et synchronisation des systemes singulierement perturbes”. CRAN, Nancy, France. Reviewer (Rapporteur).
  • June 14, 2017: Habilitation a Diriger des Recherches (HDR) of Laurentiu Hetel entitled “Discrete Constraints in Control: Discontinuous feedback under Sampled-data and Switching implementations”. Lagis, Lille. Reviewer (Rapporteur).
  • January 13, 2017: final PhD exams of Alberto Lucchetti and Daniele Berretta. Politecnico di Milano, Italy. Reviewer and member of the Jury.
  • November 29, 2016: final PhD exam of Emmanuel Chambon, thesis title “Frequency- and time-domain constrained control of linear systems: Application to a flexible launch vehicle”. Onera, Toulouse, France. Member of the Jury.
  • November 3, 2016: Habilitation a Diriger des Recherches (HDR) of Constantin Morarescu entitled “Sparsity and Clustering in Multi-Agent Systems”. CRAN, Nancy. Reviewer (Rapporteur).
  • May 26, 2016: Mid-term evaluation for the PhD studies of Jonathan Laporte. Thesis title: “Outils avancs pour ltude de la stabilit et la robustesse des systmes non linaires”. Université Paris-Saclay. Member of the Jury (Examinateur).
  • April 22, 2016: Final PhD exam of the PhD school on Mathematical Enginnering and Simulation (4 candidates: Enrica Della Moglie, Silvia Donnarumma, Manuel Monteverde, Alberto Taddeo). University of Genova. Member of the Jury.
  • January 26, 2016: final PhD exam of Bas van Loon, thesis title “Hybrid control for performance improvement of linear systems”. Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands. Member of the Jury.
  • November 26, 2015: final PhD exam of Ngoc Anh Nguyen, thesis title “Explicit robust constrained control for linear systems: analysis, implementation and design based on optimization” University Paris Saclay, France. Member of the Jury.
  • July 9, 2015: final PhD exam of Miguel Ángel Davó Navarro, thesis title “Analysis and Design of Reset Control Systems”. University of Murcia, Spain. Reviewer.
  • March 16, 2015: final PhD exam of C. Alberto Pascucci, thesis title “Model Predictive Control for Adaptable Space Applications”. University of Trento, Italy. Member of the Jury.
  • December 4, 2014: final PhD exam of Ali El Ati, thesis title “Synchronization analysis of complex networks of nonlinear oscillators”. Université Paris SUD, Paris. Member of the Jury (Examinateur).
  • July 23, 2014: final PhD exam of Mahmoud Mohammed Othman Abdelrahim, thesis title “Output Feedback Event-Triggered Control”. CRAN-CNRS, Université de Lorraine, Nancy. Reviewer (Rapporteur).
  • June 23, 2014: final PhD exam of Humberto Stein Shiromoto, thesis title “Stabilisation sous contraintes locales et globales”. Gipsa LAB, Grenoble. Member of the Jury
  • March 24, 2014: Final PhD exam of Hassan Omran, Thesis title: “Contribution to the control of nonlinear systems under aperiodic sampling”. LAGIS-Lille. Reviewer (Rapporteur).
  • October 17, 2013: Final PhD exam of Laurie Conteville, Thesis title “Analyse de la stabilité des réseaux d’oscillateurs non-linéaires, applications aux populations neuronales”. Université de Paris Sud. Reviewer (Rapporteur).
  • October 11, 2013: Final PhD exam of Francesco Fichera, Thesis title “Lyapunov techniques for a class of hybrid systems and reset controller syntheses for continuous-time plants”. ISAE Toulouse. Member of the Jury (Examinateur).
  • February 22, 2013: Habilitation a Diriger des Recherches (HDR) of Nicolas Marchand entitled “Contribution à la commande contrainte des systèmes”. Gipsa LAB, Grenoble. Reviewer (Rapporteur).
  • November 27, 2012; Habilitation a Diriger des Recherches (HDR) Antoine Chaillet. L2S-Supelec. Reviewer (Rapporteur).
  • November 2011: Final PhD exam of David Paesa. University of Zaragoza, Spain. Thesis “Reset Observers and Temperature Control for Induction Hobs”. Reviewer.
  • February 21, 2011: Final PhD exam of the PhD school on Information Engineering (3 candidates). University of Siena. Member of the Jury and reviewer for the candidate Daniele Bernardini.
  • July 1, 2010: Final PhD exam of Thomas Loquen, Thesis title “Some results on reset control systems”. LAAS-CNRS Toulouse. Reviewer (Rapporteur).
  • April 2, 2008: Final PhD exam of the PhD school on Systems Engineering (5 candidates). University of Rome, La Sapienza. Member of the Jury.