I was born in Florence, Italy, in 1983. I received the B.Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the Faculty of Engineering, University of Florence (Italian: Università degli Studi di Firenze), Italy, in 2005, 2007 and 2011 respectively, under the supervision of Prof. Edoardo Mosca (IEEE Life Fellow, IFAC Fellow). During my Ph.D. studies I have been a research visitor at Cyprus University of Technology and University of Southern California collaborating with Prof. Petros Ioannou (IEEE Life Fellow, IFAC Fellow, former editor-in-chief of IEEE-ITS). I am currently Professor at the Jiangsu Provincial Key Lab of Networked Collective Intelligence of Southeast University (SEU), and I hold a visiting position at the Delft Center for Systems and Control of Delft University of Technology, where I was Assistant Professor in the period June 2014-April 2019. Prior to this, I held Postdoctoral Researcher positions at the Information Technologies Institute (I.T.I.), Centre for Research & Technology Hellas (CE.R.T.H.), Thessaloniki, Greece collaborating with Prof. Elias Kosmatopoulos (founder of ConvCAO lab) and Prof. Markos Papageorgiou (IEEE Fellow, IFAC Fellow, former editor-in-chief of Transp . Reas. C), and at the Networks Research Laboratory (NetRL), Department of Computer Science of University of Cyprus collaborating with Prof. Petros Ioannou and Prof. Andreas Pitsillides. My main research interests are in the area of control theory and include adaptive and learning systems, adaptive optimization for control of large-scale systems, switching supervisory control with multiple models. Within European projects, I have participated to the development and implementation of learning algorithms in intelligent traffic solutions (cooperation with Prof. Markos Papageorgiou and Traffic Control Department of city of Chania) and in smart buildings (cooperation with prof. Elias Kosmatopoulos, Honeywell, Fraunhofer Institute for Building Physics, and Dutch Central Government Real Estate Agency).

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