• 04/2025-:  Assistant Professor at Politecnico di Torino

• 12/2020-05/2025: Research assistant at Politecnico di Torino

• 9/2018-8/2019, 1-3/2020: Visiting student at Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (Massachussets Institute of Technology), under the supervision of Asuman Ozdaglar and Francesca Parise

• 01/2022: PhD Defense at the Department of Mathematical Sciences of Politecnico di Torino

• 07/2017: Master Degree in Physics of Complex Sytems at Università di Torino

• 04/2014: Bachelor degree in Physics and Astrophysics at Università degli Studi di Firenze

My research interests include but are not limited to applications related to game theory and dynamics over networks. In particular, my current research focuses focuses on control in network systems, with application to epidemics, transportation, and social networks.

Submitted paper

1. L. Cianfanelli, G. Como, L. Damonte, F.Fagnani, Targeting Interventions for Volatility Reduction in Quadratic Network Games, submitted to 2026 IEEE 65th Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) (full version here)

International Journal Papers

1. L. Cianfanelli, G. Como. ”On the stability of the logit dynamics in population games”. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 70 (9), 5910 - 5925, 2025. DOI: 10.1109/TAC.2025.3553096

2. L. Cianfanelli, C. Senore, G. Como et al. ”Prevention Lab: a predictive model for estimating the impact of prevention intervention in a simulated Italian cohort.” BMC Public Health, 24 (1), 1-15, 2024. DOI: 10.1186/s12889-024-20212-6

3. M. Alutto, L. Cianfanelli, G. Como, F. Fagnani. ”On the dynamic behavior of the network SIR epidemic model”. IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, 2024. DOI: 10.1109/TCNS.2024.3448136

4. S. Messina, L. Cianfanelli, G. Como, F. Fagnani, ”Optimal Seeding in Large-Scale Super-Modular Network Games”. IEEE Control Systems Letters, 8, 1811-1816, 2024. DOI: 10.1109/LCSYS.2024.3418308

5.  L. Cianfanelli, F. Parise, G. Como, A. Ozdaglar. ”Optimal intervention in transportation networks”. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 68 (12), 7073-7088, 2023. DOI: 10.1109/TAC.2023.3247542

Proceedings of international conferences

1. L. Cianfanelli, G. Como, F. Fagnani, A. Ozdaglar, F. Parise. ”Optimal interventions in opinion dynamics on large-scale, time-varying, random networks”. To appear in 2025 IEEE 64th Conference on Decision and Control (CDC)

2. A. Ambrogio, L. Cianfanelli, G. Como. ”Information design for congestion minimization in transportation networks”. IFAC-PapersOnLine, 58 (30), 181-185, 2024.

3. L. Cianfanelli, A. Ambrogio, G. Como. ”Information design in Bayesian routing games”. 2023 IEEE 62nd Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 3945-3949, 2023.

4. M. Alutto, L. Cianfanelli, G. Como, F. Fagnani. ”Multiple peaks in network SIR epidemic models”. 2022 IEEE 61st Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 5614-5619, 2022.

5. L. Cianfanelli, G. Como, T. Toso. ”Stability and bifurcations transportation networks with heterogeneous users”. 2022 IEEE 61st Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 6371-6376, 2022.

6. L. Cianfanelli, F. Parise, D. Acemoglu, G. Como, A. Ozdaglar. ”Lockdown interventions in SIR models: Is the reproduction number the right control variable?”. 2021 60th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 4254-4259, 2021.

7. L. Cianfanelli, G. Como. ”On stability of users equilibria in heterogeneous routing games”. 2019 IEEE 58th Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 355-360, 2019.