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IEEE L-CSS Editor-in-Chief

IEEE L-CSS Senior Editor

Tom Oomen

Eindhoven University of Technology

Netherlands

Ketan Savla

University of Southern California

United States

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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.

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University of Southern California

United States

Pietro Tesi

University of Florence

Italy

Rafael Vazquez

Universidad de Sevilla

Spain

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IEEE L-CSS Associate Editor

Carolina Albea

Universidad de Sevilla

Spain

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Tarek Ahmed Ali

Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Ingénieurs de Caen

France

Tudor-Bogdan Airimitoaie

University of Bordeaux

France

Jean Auriol

Université Paris-Saclay

France

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Juhoon Back

Kwangwoon University

South Korea

Bart Besselink

University of Groningen

Netherlands

Francesca Boem

University College London

United Kingdom

Francesca Boem

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Francesca Boem is a Lecturer in the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at University College London (UCL). From July 2018 she has been offered an association with Imperial College London as Honorary Lecturer in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

Francesca Boem received the M.Sc. degree (cum laude) in Management Engineering in 2009 and the Ph.D. degree in Information Engineering in 2013, both from the University of Trieste, Italy. She was Post-Doc at the University of Trieste with the Machine Learning Group from 2013 to 2014.

From 2014 to 2018, she was Research Associate at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London, with the Control and Power Research Group. Since 2015 she has been part of the team at Imperial College working on the flagship EU H2020-WIDESPREAD-TEAMING project for the development of the EU KIOS Research and Innovation Centre of Excellence, a strategic partnership between University of Cyprus and Imperial College London.

In 2018 Dr. Boem has been awarded the Imperial College Research Fellowship. From April 2018 she has been appointed as a Lecturer in the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at University College London.

Dr. Boem is member of the IFAC Technical Committee 6.4 (‘‘Fault Detection, Supervision & Safety of Technical Processes - SAFEPROCESS’’) and Associate Editor for the IEEE Control System Society Conference Editorial Board and for the EUCA Conference Editorial Board.

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University College London

United Kingdom

Alessandro Borri

National Research Council of Italy (CNR-IASI)

Italy

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Philipp Braun

Australian National University

Australia

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Leila Jasmine Bridgeman

Duke University

United States

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Lucian Busoniu

Corresponding Member, Romanian Academy, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Romania

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Claudia Califano

University of Rome La Sapienza

Italy

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Paolo Castaldi

University of Bologna

Italy

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Paolo Castaldi

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Prof. Paolo Castaldi received the Master Degree cum laude in Electronic Engineering and the Ph.D in System Engineering from UNIBO. He is Associate Professor at Department of Electric, Electronic and Information Engineering of the University of Bologna “Guglielmo Marconi” and has got the Italian Scientific Habilitation as Full Professor. Paolo Castaldi published a research book, several book chapters and more than 250 Scopus refereed journal and conference papers.

He has been plenary speaker, organizer, and program chair. He has been coordinator and member of several research and industrial projects involving experimental aircraft. He is chair of the IFAC TC 7.3 on Aerospace, Member of IEEE TC on Aerospace, Chair of IFAC subcommittee on Coordination of Educational Activities with IEEE and Other Organizations and member of IFAC TC on Education and marine System. Since 2015 he has been Associated Editor of Control Engineering Practice and from 2026 Senior Editor. He is also Associate Editor of the Journal of Franklin Institute, Aerospace Engineering Journal (Wiley) and since 2022 of Frontiers in Control Engineering. He has the license as Private Pilot (PPL) and for piloting drones till 24 kg and has been coordinator of several Permit to Fly procedures. For 25 years has been teaching the course “Advanced Guidance and Control for Aircraft and Spacecraft” for the Master of Science in Aerospace Engineering. His research interests include Intelligent Control of Aerospace and Marine systems, Fault Diagnosis and Fault Tolerant Control, Nonlinear Geometric Approach Theory, Fractional System Control, Predictive Maintenance, Neuro-Fuzzy Systems and System Identification. These techniques have been applied to UAV and experimental aircraft, marine drones, industrial processes, power plants and renewable energy conversion systems such wind turbine and wind farm.

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University of Bologna

Italy

Ashish Cherukuri

University of Groningen

Netherlands

Michelle Chong

Eindhoven University of Technology

Netherlands

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Samuel Coogan

Georgia Institute of Technology

United States

Jorge Dávila

Instituto Politecnico Nacional

Mexico

Carmen Del Vecchio

Università del Sannio

Italy

Mario di Fernando

University of L’Aquila

Italy

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Thach N. Dinh

Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers

France

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Thach N. Dinh

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Thach Ngoc Dinh received the M.Sc.Res. degree in Automatic Control (with honors) and the Diplôme d’Ingénieur (Master’s degree) in Electrical Engineering from INSA Lyon, France, in 2011, and the Ph.D. degree in Physics from Paris-Saclay University, France, in 2014. His doctoral work was funded by Inria and conducted at the CAOR Laboratory of Mines Paris–PSL and the L2S Laboratory (UMR 8506) of CentraleSupélec. From 2015 to 2016, he was a JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow at the Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan. He subsequently held a temporary Assistant Professor position at the Polytechnic University of Hauts-de-France, France, from 2016 to 2017. Since September 2017, he has been a tenured Associate Professor at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers (CNAM), France. He was appointed Adjunct Professor at Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City (VNU-HCM), Vietnam, for the period 2025–2027 under the excellence program VNU350. He has also held visiting positions at the Kyushu Institute of Technology (Japan, February–March 2019), the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg – Institute for Advanced Study and the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg (Germany, February–May 2025), the Harbin Institute of Technology (China, June–July 2025), and the Vietnam Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics (Vietnam, June–July 2026). His research interests include observer design, set-theoretic methods, delay and sampling systems, and optimization-based design. He has served as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Control Systems Letters and the Journal of the Franklin Institute, as an Editor for Nonlinear Dynamics, and as an Editorial Board Member or Guest Editor for several other scholarly journals. He is also a member of the IFAC Technical Committee on Linear Control Systems.

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Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers

France

Filippo Fabiani

IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca

Italy

Huazhen Fang

University of Kansas

United States

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Zhiguang Feng

Harbin Engineering University

China

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Francesco Ferrante

University of Perugia

Italy

Mirko Fiacchini

Université Grenoble-Alpes

France

Davide Fiore

University of Naples Federico II

Italy

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Davide Fiore

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Davide Fiore is Assistant Professor of Automatic Control at the Department of Mathematics and Applications "R. Caccioppoli", University of Naples Federico II. He is currently working on synthetic biological applications.

He received his Bachelor's and Master’s degrees in Automation Engineering from University of Naples Federico II in 2010 and 2013, respectively.
As visiting Ph.D. student, he visited the University of Cambridge, UK, and the University of Bristol, UK.
In May 2017, he received his Ph.D. in Information Technology and Electrical Engineering from the University of Naples Federico II, Italy, under the supervision of Prof. Mario di Bernardo.
In 2017 he did a research internship at IBM Research Ireland on distributed optimization and consensus.
From 2017 to 2019 he held a Postdoctoral Researcher position at the University of Naples Federico II working on convergence analysis and control of stochastic multi-agent systems in synthetic biological applications.
From May 2020 he is Assistant Professor at the University of Naples Federico II, Italy.
On February 2023 he achieved the National Scientific qualification as Associate Professor (Professore universitario di seconda fascia) in the Italian higher education system, in the call 2021/2023 for the disciplinary field of 09/G1 – Systems and Control Engineering.

His research interests include nonlinear systems and control, switched and hybrid systems, multi-agent systems, and synthetic biology.
Editorial activities:

From July 2019 to July 2022, he was Associate Editor of the EUCA Conference Editorial Board.
From July 2022 he is Associate Editor of the IEEE CSS Conference Editorial Board.
From January 2025 he is Associate Editor for IEEE Control Systems Letters.

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University of Naples Federico II

Italy

Sophie M. Fosson

DAUIN - Politecnico di Torino

Italy

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Federica Garin

INRIA Grenoble Rhône-Alpes

France

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Alejandro Gonzalez

CONICET, University of Litoral

Argentina

Sofie Haesaert

TU Eindhoven

Netherlands

Matthew Hale

Georgia Tech University

United States

Yutaka Hori

Keio University

Japan

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Raffaele Iervolino

Università di Napoli Federico II

Italy

Gian Paolo Incremona

Politecnico di Milano

Italy

Gian Paolo Incremona

Biography

Gian Paolo Incremona was born in Comiso, Italy, in 1988. He was a student of the Almo Collegio Borromeo of Pavia and of the class of Science and Technology of the Institute for Advanced Studies (IUSS) of Pavia. He received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees summa cum laude in Electric Engineering in 2010 and 2012, respectively, from the University of Pavia, where he also obtained his Ph.D. degree in Electronics, Computer Science, and Electrical Engineering in 2016. Since then, he has been with the Identification and Control Systems Dynamics Laboratory of the University of Pavia as a postdoc, and, from October to December 2014, he was with the Dynamics and Control Group of the Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands. He is currently an associate professor of Automatic Control with the Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria, Politecnico di Milano, Italy. From 2018 to 2024 he has been a member of the conference editorial board of the IEEE Control System Society, and since 2018 has been a member of the conference editorial board of the European Control Association. At present, he is Associate Editor of the journal Nonlinear Analysis: Hybrid Systems, of International Journal of Control, and of IEEE/ /Control Systems Letters.

Gian Paolo Incremona has carried out research in the area of variable structure control and optimal control and he is active in the following topics: sliding mode control, model predictive control, switched systems, rail control systems, industrial robotics and power systems.

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Politecnico di Milano

Italy

Marc Jungers

CRAN Laboratory

France

Rushikesh Kamalapurkar

Oklahoma State University

United States

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Kenji Kashima

Kyoto University

Japan

Pauline Kergus

LAPLACE Toulouse

France

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Steffi Knorn

TU Berlin

Germany

Abolfazl Lavaei

Newcastle University

United Kingdom

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Negar Mehr

University of California, Berkeley

United States

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Yuan-Hua Ni

Nankai University

China

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Marco Nicotra

University of Colorado, Boulder

United States

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Gabriele Oliva

University Campus Bio-Medico of Rome

Italy

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Tiago Roux Oliveira

State University of Rio de Janeiro

Brazil

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Debasattam Pal

IIT Bombay, Mumbai

India

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Pasquale Palumbo

University of Milano-Bicocca

Italy

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Corrado Possieri

Tor Vergata University of Rome

Italy

Shi Pu

The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen

China

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Héctor Ríos

Instituto Tecnológico de La Laguna

Mexico

Alessandro Rizzo

Politecnico di Torino

Italy

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Sebastian Trimpe

RWTH Aachen University

Germany

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Xiang Yin

Shanghai Jiao Tong University

China

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Sze Zheng Yong

Northeastern University

United States

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Shuai Yuan

Harbin Institute of Technology

China

Lorenzo Zino

Politecnico di Torino

Italy

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Yanzheng Zhu

Shandong University of Science and Technology

China