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Mario di Bernardo (SMIEEE ’06, FIEEE 2012) is Professor of Automatic Control at the University of Naples Federico II, Italy and Honorary Professor of Nonlinear Systems and Control at the University of Bristol, U.K. He currently serves as Rector's Delegate for International Relations at the University of Naples Federico II and coordinates the research area and PhD Program on Modeling and Engineering Risk and Complexity of the Scuola Superiore Meridionale, the new School of Advanced Studies located in Naples. On 28th February 2007 he was bestowed the title of Cavaliere of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic for scientific merits from the President of Italy. In January 2012 he was elevated to the grade of Fellow of the IEEE for his contributions to the analysis, control and applications of nonlinear systems and complex networks. (read more)
Current and recent roles:
Current and recent roles:
Vice President Technical Activities of the IEEE Control Systems Society for the term 2025-2026
Director of the PhD program in Modeling and Engineering Risk and Complexity at the SSM - School for Advanced Studies in Naples, Italy
Rector's Delegate for International Relations
Member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Control Systems Society (2023-2025)
Senior Editor IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems
Steering Committee member of the IEEE Control Systems Letters
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July 2025 - Gian Carlo Maffettone won the prestigious SIDRA Best PhD Thesis Award for his thesis on continuification-based and density control of large-scale multi-agent systems. The prize is awarded every year by SIDRA, the Italian Society of Researchers in Control for the best PhD Thesis in Control in Italy. The award ceremony will be held in Perugia, Italy on 5th September 2025 during the general meeting of the society.
July 2025 - Stefano Covone is a finalist of the best SIDRA Master Thesis Award with his thesis on reinforcement learning and shepherding. The final winner will be announced in early September.
July 2025 - Francesco De Lellis is a finalist of Best Young Author Award of the IEEE CSS Italy Chapter for his paper entitled: F. De Lellis, M. Coraggio, G. Russo, M. Musolesi and M. di Bernardo, “Guaranteeing Control Requirements via Reward Shaping in Reinforcement Learning” in IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, vol. 32, no. 6, pp. 2102-2113, Nov. 2024.
June 2025 - Mario di Bernardo and Diego di Bernardo to give joint talks at the Workshop for the professorial inauguration of Lucia Marucci a former member of our group, now professor of Systems and Synthetic Biology at the University of Bristol .
May 2025 - Mario di Bernardo will be delivering a plenary lecture at the next Chinese Control Conference in Chonqing, China (28-30 July 2025).
April 2025 - Mario di Bernardo is invited to present the Galileo Night Lecture by Naomi Leonard (Princeton) at the American Academy in Rome.
December 2024 - Beniamino Di Lorenzo wins the Road2CDC Best Master Thesis Award at the IEEE CDC 2024 in MIlan
July 2024 - A PhD position in Analysis and control of Complex Systems is available in the framework of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Doctoral Network (MSCA-DN) “BeyondTheEdge”.
July 2024 - Mario di Bernardo appointed Vice President Technical Activities of the IEEE Control Systems Society for the 2025-2026 term.
October 2023 - New collaborative research project MENTOR funded by the Italian Ministry for Research and University started.
September 2023 - Marco Coraggio wins the "IEEE-CSS Italy Best Young Paper Award 2023" for the paper "Minmax flow over acyclic networks: distributed algorithms and microgrid application".
May 2023 - Andrea Lama wins the "red sock" best poster award at the SIAM Conference on Applied Dynamical Systems in Portland (Portland).
March 2023 - New perspective paper out on Nature Reviews Physics on "Controlling Complex Networks with Complex Nodes" with Raissa D'Souza (UC Davis) and Yang-Yu Liu (Harvard). Check it out online.
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