Luca Schenato

Biography

Luca Schenato received the Dr Eng degree in electrical engineering from the University of Padova, in 1999 and the PhD degree in electrical engineering and computer sciences from the U.C. Berkeley, in 2003. He held a post-doctoral position in 2004 and a visiting professor position in 2013-2014 with U.C. Berkeley.

Currently, he is an associate professor with the Information Engineering Department, University of Padova. His interests include networked control systems, multi-agent systems, wireless sensor networks, smart grids and cooperative robotics. He has been awarded the 2004 Researchers Mobility Fellowship by the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research (MIUR), and the 2006 Eli Jury Award in U.C. Berkeley and the EUCA European Control Award in 2014, and IEEE fellow in 2017. He served as an associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control from 2010 to 2014 and he is currently an associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems.