Awards
- Honorary Doctorate, University of Aalborg, Denmark, 2018
- IEEE CSS Distinguished Member Award, IEEE, 2007
- 2004 Outstanding Paper Award of the IEEE Trans. on Neural Networks for the paper "Distributed-information Neural Control: the Case of Dynamic Routing in Traffic Networks,'' IEEE Trans. on Neural Networks, vol. 12, n. 3, pp. 485-582, 2001, IEEE, 2004
- IEEE Distinguished Lecturer, IEEE Control Systems Society, 2004
- 1993 Eduardo Caianiello Award for the best Italian PhD dissertation on Neural Networks., SIREN, 1993
External Positions
- Member (Chair of Conference Editorial Board), Member of the Council of the European Control Association, European Control Association (EUCA), 2012 - 2015
- Reviewer, 7th Framework EU Board of Evaluators, Commission of the European Union, 2010 - 2012
- General Co-Chair, 52nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Florence, Italy, 2013, IEEE Control Systems Society, 2009 - 2013
- Program Chair, 47th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Cancun, Mexico, 2008, IEEE Control Systems Society, 2006 - 2008
- Chair, Conference Editorial Board, IEEE Control Systems Society, 2003 - 2009
Membership of Professional Bodies
- President, IEEE Control Systems Society, 2021 - 2022
- Chair of the IFAC TC 6.4 SafeProcess, IFAC, 2014 - 2016
- Fellow IEEE, IEEE, 2011
- Elected Member of the Board of Governors, IEEE Control Systems Society, 2007 - 2010
- Chair, IEEE Technical Committee on Intelligent Control, 1999 - 2001
Links with Other Academic Bodies
- Professore Ordinario a Tempo Definito, Università di Trieste
Industrial Connections
- ABB Corporate Research, University Collaboration Project "Increased Functionality Energy-autonomous Sensor Networks for self-monitoring Industrial Environments”
- Danieli Automation, SpA (Italy), Collaboration project through Imperial Consultants. Project ID: EE01060. Value: £ 171,000.00
Fellowships
- Fellow of the International Federation of Automatic Control, IFAC, 2017
- Fellow of the IEEE, IEEE, 2011
Editorial Boards
- Automatica, Elservier, Editor for Control Applications, 2017
- IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, Editor in Chief
- International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, Subject Ediror, 2005 - 2008
- Automatica, Associate Editor, 2000 - 2005
- IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Associate Editor, 1999 - 2002
- IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, Associate Editor, 1999 - 2001
- International Journal of Control, Associate Editor
- International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing, Subject Editor, 1997 - 2005