Maria Prandini received her laurea degree in Electrical Engineering (summa cum laude) from Politecnico di Milano (1994) and her Ph.D. degree in Information Technology from Università degli Studi di Brescia, Italy (1998). From 1998 to 2000 she was a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California at Berkeley. She also held visiting positions at Delft University of Technology (1998), Cambridge University (2000), University of California at Berkeley (2005), and Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (2006). In 2002, she started as an assistant professor in systems and control at Politecnico di Milano, where she is a full professor since 2018. She is currently Chair of the Automation and Control Engineering Program at Politecnico di Milano.
She was principal investigator in the EC-funded projects FP6 iFly (2007-2011), FP7 MoVeS (2010-2013), and H2020 UnCoVerCPS (2015-2018). She is member of the IFAC Technical Committee on Discrete Event and Hybrid Systems, the IEEE Control Systems Society Conference Editorial Board and the EUCA Conference Editorial Board. She serves on the editorial board of IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, and previously of European Journal of Control, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, and Nonlinear Analysis: Hybrid Systems. From 2013 to 2105, she has been editor for Electronic Publications of the IEEE CSS. She was elected member of the IEEE CSS Board of Governors for a triennium (2015-17), and CSS Vice-President for Conference Activities in 2016 and 2017. She is currently a member of SIGBED Board of Directors and of the IFAC policy committee.
She was co-chair of the 21st ACM International Conference on Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control (HSCC 2018). Currently she is co-program chair of IEEE Conference on Decision and Control 2020 and program chair of IEEE Conference on Decision and Control 2021.
In 2018, she received the IEEE CSS Distinguished Member Award for contributions to stochastic, hybrid, and distributed control systems and outstanding service to the Control Systems Society related to electronic publications and conference activities. In 2019 she has been elevated to IEEE Fellow, effective 1 January 2020, with the following citation: for contributions to stochastic, hybrid and distributed control systems theory.
Her research interests include stochastic hybrid systems, randomized algorithms, constrained control, system abstraction and verification, nonlinear identification, distributed optimization, and the application of control theory to air traffic management and energy systems.
She was principal investigator in the EC-funded projects FP6 iFly (2007-2011), FP7 MoVeS (2010-2013), and H2020 UnCoVerCPS (2015-2018). She is member of the IFAC Technical Committee on Discrete Event and Hybrid Systems, the IEEE Control Systems Society Conference Editorial Board and the EUCA Conference Editorial Board. She serves on the editorial board of IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, and previously of European Journal of Control, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, and Nonlinear Analysis: Hybrid Systems. From 2013 to 2105, she has been editor for Electronic Publications of the IEEE CSS. She was elected member of the IEEE CSS Board of Governors for a triennium (2015-17), and CSS Vice-President for Conference Activities in 2016 and 2017. She is currently a member of SIGBED Board of Directors and of the IFAC policy committee.
She was co-chair of the 21st ACM International Conference on Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control (HSCC 2018). Currently she is co-program chair of IEEE Conference on Decision and Control 2020 and program chair of IEEE Conference on Decision and Control 2021.
In 2018, she received the IEEE CSS Distinguished Member Award for contributions to stochastic, hybrid, and distributed control systems and outstanding service to the Control Systems Society related to electronic publications and conference activities. In 2019 she has been elevated to IEEE Fellow, effective 1 January 2020, with the following citation: for contributions to stochastic, hybrid and distributed control systems theory.
Her research interests include stochastic hybrid systems, randomized algorithms, constrained control, system abstraction and verification, nonlinear identification, distributed optimization, and the application of control theory to air traffic management and energy systems.
