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Laura Giarré received the Laurea degree in electronic engineering from the Universitá di Firenze, Italy, and the Ph.D. degree in system engineering from the Universitá di Bologna, Italy, in 1986 and 1992, respectively. She has held visiting positions at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California at Santa Barbara, CA, USA, and the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems and Computer Science Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA, in 1999, 2006, and 2015, respectively. Since 1993, she has been an Assistant Professor with the Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy, and an Associate Professor with the University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy, since 1998. Her research interests include networked systems, according to a game theoretical approach with applications to WiFi networks, sensor networks, inventory networks, and smart grid. She worked also on identification of LPV, nonlinear and networked systems, and e-health solutions for interoperability. In 2013, she received the national qualification (ASN) for full professor. She served as an Associate Editor of Systems and Control Letters from 1999 to 2011 and the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control from 2012 to 2015. In 2010, she was the Vice Chair of SING6 and the General Chair of the IEEE MED in 2014. She has recently developed an interest in assistive technology for visually impaired persons, organizing and chairing three workshops (2012 Pisa, 2013 Boston, 2015 Milan EXPO) on this theme, and co-founded the startup insight to develop systems enhancing senses through technology for which she is the CEO.

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Università di Palermo

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Università di Palermo

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Università di Palermo

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Elisa Franco

University of California, Riverside

United States

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Elisa Franco received her B.S. and M.S. (Laurea Degree) in Power Systems Engineering from the University of Trieste (Italy) in 2002, summa cum laude. In 2007, she received her Ph. D. in Automation from the same institution. In 2011, she completed her second Ph. D. at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, in Control and Dynamical Systems. Dr. Franco is currently an Associate Professor Adjunct in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of California, Riverside.