Franco Blanchini

Biography

Franco Blanchini was born on December 29, 1959, in Legnano (Italy). He is the Director of the Laboratory of System Dynamics at the University of Udine. He has been involved in the organization of several international events including as Program Vice-Chair of the 2005 Joint IEEE Conference on Decision and Control and European Control Conference (CDC-ECC), 2008 CDC, and 2013 CDC and Program Chair of the 2012 IFAC Symposium on Robust Control Design (ROCOND). He was an Associate Editor for Automatica from 1996 to 2006 and from 2017 to 2019, and for the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control from 2012 to 2016. He was a Senior Editor for IEEE CSS Letters from 2017 to 2018. He is a co-author of the book "Set Theoretic Methods in Control" published by Birkhauser.

He received the 2001 ASME Oil & Gas Application Committee Best Paper Award as a co-author of the article "Experimental evaluation of a High-Gain Control for Compressor Surge Instability" and the 2002 Automatica Paper Prize for "Set Invariance in Control - A Survey". He received the IFAC High Impact Paper Award for the latter paper in 2017, the year in which he also received the Nonlinear Analysis and Hybrid Systems Best Paper Award as a co-author of the paper "A Switched System Approach to Dynamic Race Modelling."