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Incoming (June 2025) Associate Professor at the University of Oxford
and Tutorial Fellow at St Hugh's College

Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) Ambizione Fellow at EPFL
ME C2 399 (Bâtiment ME), Station 9, 1015, Lausanne

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Brief Biography

I am an SNSF Ambizione Fellow at EPF Lausanne since January 2023. I will be joining the Department of Engineering Sciences at the University of Oxford as an Associate Professor in June 2025. My research focuses on learning and optimal control for distributed decision-making and large-scale safety-critical applications.

Previously, I have been a Postdoctoral researcher at the Automatic Control Laboratory, EPFL, working in Giancarlo Ferrari Trecate's group, DECODE. In September 2020, I received the Ph.D. degree in Control and Optimization from ETH Zurich in the Automatic Control Laboratory (IfA) under the supervision of Prof. Maryam Kamgarpour. I earned my Bachelor and Master degrees in Automation Engineering from the University of Bologna in 2014 and 2016, respectively.

I have received the SNSF Ambizione career grant in 2022. My papers have been awarded the IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems Best Paper Award in 2022, the European Control Conference Best Paper Award (finalist) in 2019, and the American Control Conference O. Hugo Schuck Best Paper Award in 2018.

Research

Below you will find a few slides that describe my recent research work.

Job Talk

Brief overview of selected contributions

Job Talk

DNN control, distributed PH control, regret-optimal control

Stuttgart

Learning to optimize with convergence guarantees

ECC Workshop

Deep Neural Network Control

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