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PCC 2026

Wed, Jul 1, 2026 - Fri, Jul 3, 2026

22nd Polish Control Conference

Poznań, Poland

General Chair(s): Maciej Marcin Michalek

Program Chair(s): Dariusz Pazderski

VSS 2026

Mon, Jul 27, 2026 - Thu, Jul 30, 2026

18th International Workshop on Variable Structure Systems

Exeter, Devon, UK

General Chair(s): Christopher Edwards

, Antonella Ferrara

Antonella Ferrara

8 (Africa, Europe, Middle East)

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Biography

Antonella Ferrara received the M.Sc. degree (Cum Laude and printing honors) in electronic engineering and the Ph.D. degree in computer science and electronics from the University of Genova, Italy, in 1987 and 1992, respectively. Since 2005, she has been Full Professor of automatic control at the University of Pavia, Italy, where she is the Head of the Intelligent Robotics Laboratory, as well as the President of the Research Standing Committee of the Department of Electrical, Computer and Biomedical Engineering. Her research activities are mainly in the area of nonlinear control, with a special emphasis on sliding mode control, with application to road traffic, automotive systems, robotics and power systems. She is author and co-author of more than 450 publications including more than 150 journal papers, 2 monographs and one edited book.

She was Visiting Professor at Graz University of Technology, visiting scholar at the University of Minnesota, as well as Invited Lecturer at Harvard University, University of California at Los Angeles, University of Stuttgart, Technical University of Delft, INRIA Grenoble, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Hanyang University in Seoul, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Dalian Maritime University, National Institute of Technology Silchar, IIIT Kharagpur, Murdoch University, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Imperial College, University of Cambridge, and University of Exeter, among others. She was/is Principal Investigator in several European, international and national projects and was one of the eleven experts appointed by the Italian Ministry of Research to write the National Research Plan for the period 2021-2027 for the research area “Sustainable Mobility”.

She was Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Control Systems, of the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, and of the IEEE Control Systems Magazine. She was Subject Editor of the International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control. She was Associate Editor and Senior Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles. Since 2018 she has been Associated Editor of Automatica, and, since January 2022, Senior Editor of IEEE Open Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems.

She served as a member of the EUCA Council and, since ECC 2019, she has been the EUCA Conference Editorial Board Chair. She will serve as one of the IPC Chairs (together with Maurice Heemels) for the 24th IFAC Word Congress to be held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in 2029.

She was “appointed member” of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Control Systems Society in 2012. She was Chair of the Women in Control Committee of the IEEE Control Systems Society (July 2013-December 2016) and, at present, she is a member of the Advisory Board of that committee. She was “elected member” of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Control Systems Society for the triennium 2016-2018. She was member of the IEEE Control System Society Outreach Task Force (2017-2019) and was the Chair of the Task Force in 2020. She is incoming member of the ExCom of the IEEE Control System Society with the role of Director of Operations (2023-2026 term). In 2015-2019, she was a Member of the European Control Association (EUCA) Council.

She is a member of the IFAC Technical Committee (TC) on Nonlinear Control Systems, IFAC TC on Transportation Systems, IFAC TC on Intelligent Autonomous Vehicles, IEEE TC on Automotive Control, IEEE TC on Smart Cities, and IEEE TC on Variable Structure Systems. Among several awards, she was a co-recipient of the 2020 IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology Outstanding Paper Award. She is IEEE Fellow and IFAC Fellow.

Affiliation(s)

The University of Pavia

Italy

Program Chair(s): Prathyush P. Menon

MMAR 2026

Tue, Aug 18, 2026 - Fri, Aug 21, 2026

30th International Conference on Methods and Models in Automation and Robotics

Miedzyzdroje, Poland

General Chair(s): Zbigniew Emirsajlow

Program Chair(s): Andrzej Bartoszewicz

ICSTCC 2026

Wed, Oct 21, 2026 - Sat, Oct 24, 2026

30th International Conference on System Theory, Control and Computing

Iasi, Romania

General Chair(s): Marius Kloetzer

Program Chair(s): Maria Elena Valcher

ICoCTA'26

Thu, Oct 22, 2026 - Sun, Oct 25, 2026

2026 6th International Conference on Control Theory and Applications

Qingdao, China

General Chair(s): Kemin Zhou , Huanshui Zhang

Program Chair(s): Youyi Wang , Juha Röning , Zhiwu Li

2026 IMC-SSGP

Tue, Oct 27, 2026 - Fri, Oct 30, 2026

IEEE 3rd International Multi-Conference on Smart Systems & Green Process

Zarzis, Tunisia

General Chair(s): Mohamed N. Abdelkrim

Program Chair(s): Ali Zemouche , Abdellah Kouzo

AdCONIP 2026

Sun, Nov 29, 2026 - Tue, Dec 1, 2026

International Symposium on Advanced Control of Industrial Processes

Auckland, New Zealand

General Chair(s): Brent Young

Program Chair(s): Ikuro Mizumoto

CPHS 2026

Thu, Dec 10, 2026 - Sat, Dec 12, 2026

2026 IFAC Workshop on Cyber-Physical Human Systems

Redondo Beach, USA

General Chair(s): Ketan Savla

Ketan Savla

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Biography

Ketan Savla is an assistant professor and John and Dorothy Shea Early Career Chair in Civil Engineering at the University of Southern California, with joint appointments in the Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, the Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering (courtesy), and the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering-Systems (courtesy). Prior to that, he was a research scientist in the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems at MIT. Ketan is 2017 recipient of American Automatic Control Council’s prestigious the Donald P. Eckman Award. The Eckman Award recognizes an outstanding young engineer in the field of automatic control. The recipient must be younger than 35 years on January 1 of the year of award. In addition, he has been recognized with NSF CAREER and an IEEE CSS George S. Axelby Outstanding Paper Award. He obtained his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and M.A. in Applied Mathematics from the University of California at Santa Barbara, M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and B. Tech. in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. His current research interest is in distributed robust and optimal control, dynamical networks, state-dependent queuing systems, and incentive design, with applications in civil infrastructure and autonomous systems. He currently serves as an Associate Editor for the Conference Editorial Board of the IEEE Control Systems Society, the IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, and the IEEE Control Systems Letters.