Participated in European projects such as Control and Computation (CC) within the HYCON network and Italian national interest research projects: Models for optimization, control, and coordination of distributed production systems and Analysis and Control of Hybrid Systems PRIN.
Research Experience
Since September 2011, with Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories as Team Leader for Optimization-based Control and Senior Principal Member of the Research Staff focusing on advanced control systems for robotics, factory automation, space systems, and automotive components. From April 2008 to September 2011, worked at Ford Motor Company's Powertrain Control R&A investigating advanced control strategies for powertrain, vehicle dynamics, energy management, and supply chain.
Education
Obtained a MSc in Computer Engineering (EE) from the University of Siena in 2004; PhD in Information Engineering from the same university in 2008, under the supervision of Prof. A. Bemporad.
Background
Interests include Constrained Control, Model Predictive Control, Networked Control Systems, Automotive systems, Space Systems, Hybrid systems, and Optimization.
Miscellany
Was a visiting student at Technical University of Denmark during the academic year 2002/2003; Visiting graduate student/researcher at the Control and Dynamical Systems department of California Institute of Technology, supervised by Prof. R.M. Murray, also worked on Caltech's entry in the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge.