I am an Associate Professor of Engineering Sciences at the University of Oxford and a Tutorial Fellow at St Hugh’s College. Previously, I was a Principal Investigator at EPFL (since 2023) and a postdoctoral researcher at EPFL (since 2021). I received my Ph.D. in 2020 from ETH Zurich (Automatic Control Laboratory, IfA). I was awarded the SNSF Ambizione career grant (2022). My papers received the TCNS Best Paper Award (2022), the ECC Best Paper (finalist) (2019), and the ACC O. Hugo Schuck Award (2018).
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Recent updates
- 08/2025 Excited to share our latest preprint on learning to optimize: Learning to optimize with guarantees: a complete characterization of linearly convergent algorithms, by Andrea Martin, Ian R. Manchester and Luca Furieri.
- 07/2025
CDC 2025 results are out:
MAD: A Magnitude And Direction Policy Parametrization for Stability Constrained Reinforcement Learning was accepted for presentation.
Do not miss a line-up of amazing speakers at the invited session on "Control Theory for Algorithm Analysis and Design". Organized by Andrea Martin, Guido Carnevale, Nicola Bastianello and myself.
- 06/2025 Invited talk on learning to optimize with convergence guarantees at the ECC 2025 workshop “Systems Theory of Optimization, Learning, and Control Algorithms”.
- 06/2025 Joined the University of Oxford as an Associate Professor of Engineering Sciences.
- 04/2025 New preprint MAD: A Magnitude And Direction Policy Parametrization for Stability Constrained Reinforcement Learning on arXiv.
- 02/2025 Had a great time visiting Prof. Yang Zheng and his group at UC San Diego. I shared recent work on learning-based control and optimization. LinkedIn post.
- 09/2024 Paper On the guarantees of minimizing regret in receding horizon accepted in the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control.
- 08/2024 Paper Learning to boost the performance of stable nonlinear systems accepted in the IEEE Open Journal of Control Systems.
- 06/2024
Attended the European Control Conference (ECC) in Stockholm!
Organized The Workshop Neural Networks in Control.
Paper Regret optimal control for uncertain stochastic systems (also published in the European Journal of Control).
- 06/2024 Invited talk at University of Stuttgart (Kolloquium Technische Kybernetik) here. I also had the pleasure to visit the Institute of Systems Theory and Automatic Control hosted by Prof. Andrea Iannelli.
- 05/2024 Our paper Learning to optimize with convergence guarantees using nonlinear system theory was accepted