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PCC 2026

Wed, Jul 1, 2026 - Fri, Jul 3, 2026

22nd Polish Control Conference

Poznań, Poland

General Chair(s): Maciej Marcin Michalek

Program Chair(s): Dariusz Pazderski

VSS 2026

Mon, Jul 27, 2026 - Thu, Jul 30, 2026

18th International Workshop on Variable Structure Systems

Exeter, Devon, UK

General Chair(s): Christopher Edwards

, Antonella Ferrara

Antonella Ferrara

8 (Africa, Europe, Middle East)

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Biography

Antonella Ferrara received the M.Sc. degree (Cum Laude and printing honors) in electronic engineering and the Ph.D. degree in computer science and electronics from the University of Genova, Italy, in 1987 and 1992, respectively. Since 2005, she has been Full Professor of automatic control at the University of Pavia, Italy, where she is the Head of the Intelligent Robotics Laboratory, as well as the President of the Research Standing Committee of the Department of Electrical, Computer and Biomedical Engineering. Her research activities are mainly in the area of nonlinear control, with a special emphasis on sliding mode control, with application to road traffic, automotive systems, robotics and power systems. She is author and co-author of more than 450 publications including more than 150 journal papers, 2 monographs and one edited book.

She was Visiting Professor at Graz University of Technology, visiting scholar at the University of Minnesota, as well as Invited Lecturer at Harvard University, University of California at Los Angeles, University of Stuttgart, Technical University of Delft, INRIA Grenoble, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Hanyang University in Seoul, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Dalian Maritime University, National Institute of Technology Silchar, IIIT Kharagpur, Murdoch University, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Imperial College, University of Cambridge, and University of Exeter, among others. She was/is Principal Investigator in several European, international and national projects and was one of the eleven experts appointed by the Italian Ministry of Research to write the National Research Plan for the period 2021-2027 for the research area “Sustainable Mobility”.

She was Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Control Systems, of the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, and of the IEEE Control Systems Magazine. She was Subject Editor of the International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control. She was Associate Editor and Senior Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles. Since 2018 she has been Associated Editor of Automatica, and, since January 2022, Senior Editor of IEEE Open Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems.

She served as a member of the EUCA Council and, since ECC 2019, she has been the EUCA Conference Editorial Board Chair. She will serve as one of the IPC Chairs (together with Maurice Heemels) for the 24th IFAC Word Congress to be held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in 2029.

She was “appointed member” of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Control Systems Society in 2012. She was Chair of the Women in Control Committee of the IEEE Control Systems Society (July 2013-December 2016) and, at present, she is a member of the Advisory Board of that committee. She was “elected member” of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Control Systems Society for the triennium 2016-2018. She was member of the IEEE Control System Society Outreach Task Force (2017-2019) and was the Chair of the Task Force in 2020. She is incoming member of the ExCom of the IEEE Control System Society with the role of Director of Operations (2023-2026 term). In 2015-2019, she was a Member of the European Control Association (EUCA) Council.

She is a member of the IFAC Technical Committee (TC) on Nonlinear Control Systems, IFAC TC on Transportation Systems, IFAC TC on Intelligent Autonomous Vehicles, IEEE TC on Automotive Control, IEEE TC on Smart Cities, and IEEE TC on Variable Structure Systems. Among several awards, she was a co-recipient of the 2020 IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology Outstanding Paper Award. She is IEEE Fellow and IFAC Fellow.

Affiliation(s)

The University of Pavia

Italy

Program Chair(s): Prathyush P. Menon

CCTA 2026

Wed, Aug 12, 2026 - Fri, Aug 14, 2026

Conference on Control Technology and Applications

Vancouver, Canada

General Chair(s): Ryozo Nagamune

Program Chair(s): Santosh Devasia

MMAR 2026

Tue, Aug 18, 2026 - Fri, Aug 21, 2026

30th International Conference on Methods and Models in Automation and Robotics

Miedzyzdroje, Poland

General Chair(s): Zbigniew Emirsajlow

Program Chair(s): Andrzej Bartoszewicz

CSS-Days2026

Mon, Oct 19, 2026 - Fri, Oct 23, 2026

CSS DAYS 2026

FREE VIRTUAL EVENT

General Chair(s): Mario di Bernardo

Mario di Bernardo

8 (Africa, Europe, Middle East)

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Biography

MARIO DI BERNARDO (SMIEEE ’06, FIEEE 2012) is Professor of Automatic Control at the University of Naples Federico II, Italy and Visiting Professor of Nonlinear Systems and Control at the University of Bristol, U.K. He currently serves as Deputy pro-Vice Chancellor for Internationalization at the University of Naples 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. He was elevated to the grade of Fellow of the IEEE in January 2012 for his contributions to the analysis, control and applications of nonlinear systems and complex networks. In 2009, he was elected President of the Italian Society for Chaos and Complexity for the term 2010-2013. He was re-elected in 2013 for the term 2014-2017. In 2006 and again in 2009 he was elected to the Board of Governors of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society. From 2011 to 2014 he was Vice President for Financial Activities of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society. In 2015 he was appointed to the Board of Governors of the IEEE Control Systems Society where he was elected member in 2022 for the term 2023-2025. He was Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society for the two-year term 2016-2017. His research interests include the analysis, synchronization and control of complex network systems; piecewise-smooth dynamical systems; nonlinear dynamics and nonlinear control with applications to engineering and computational biology. He authored or co-authored more than 220 international scientific publications including more than 110 papers in scientific journals, a research monograph and two edited books. According to the international database SCOPUS (June 2022), his h-index is 51 and his publications received over 11000 citations by other authors. In 2017, he received the IEEE George N. Saridis Best Transactions Paper Award for Outstanding Research. He serves on the Editorial Board of several international scientific journals and conferences. From 1st January 2014 till 31st December 2015 he was Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems: Regular Papers. He is Senior Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems and Associate Editor of the IEEE Control Systems Letters, the Conference Editorial Board of the IEEE Control System Society and the European Control Association (EUCA). He was Associate Editor of Nonlinear Analysis: Hybrid Systems; the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Sytems I: Regular Papers from 1999 to 2002 and again from 2008 to 2010, and the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Brief papers from 2003 till 2008. He is regularly invited as Plenary Speakers in Italy and abroad. He was Program co-Chair of the European Control Conference 2019, Publicity Chair of the IEEE ISCAS Conference 2018 and has been organizer and co-organizer of several scientific initiatives and events and received funding from several funding agencies and industry including the European Union, the UK research councils the Italian Ministry of Research and University.

Affiliation(s)

University of Naples Federico II

Italy

ICSTCC 2026

Wed, Oct 21, 2026 - Sat, Oct 24, 2026

30th International Conference on System Theory, Control and Computing

Iasi, Romania

General Chair(s): Marius Kloetzer

Program Chair(s): Maria Elena Valcher

ICoCTA'26

Thu, Oct 22, 2026 - Sun, Oct 25, 2026

2026 6th International Conference on Control Theory and Applications

Qingdao, China

General Chair(s): Kemin Zhou , Huanshui Zhang

Program Chair(s): Youyi Wang , Juha Röning , Zhiwu Li

2026 IMC-SSGP

Tue, Oct 27, 2026 - Fri, Oct 30, 2026

IEEE 3rd International Multi-Conference on Smart Systems & Green Process

Zarzis, Tunisia

General Chair(s): Mohamed N. Abdelkrim

Program Chair(s): Ali Zemouche , Abdellah Kouzo

AdCONIP 2026

Sun, Nov 29, 2026 - Tue, Dec 1, 2026

International Symposium on Advanced Control of Industrial Processes

Auckland, New Zealand

General Chair(s): Brent Young

Program Chair(s): Ikuro Mizumoto

CPHS 2026

Thu, Dec 10, 2026 - Sat, Dec 12, 2026

2026 IFAC Workshop on Cyber-Physical Human Systems

Redondo Beach, USA

General Chair(s): Ketan Savla

Ketan Savla

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Biography

Ketan Savla is an assistant professor and John and Dorothy Shea Early Career Chair in Civil Engineering at the University of Southern California, with joint appointments in the Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, the Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering (courtesy), and the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering-Systems (courtesy). Prior to that, he was a research scientist in the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems at MIT. Ketan is 2017 recipient of American Automatic Control Council’s prestigious the Donald P. Eckman Award. The Eckman Award recognizes an outstanding young engineer in the field of automatic control. The recipient must be younger than 35 years on January 1 of the year of award. In addition, he has been recognized with NSF CAREER and an IEEE CSS George S. Axelby Outstanding Paper Award. He obtained his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and M.A. in Applied Mathematics from the University of California at Santa Barbara, M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and B. Tech. in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. His current research interest is in distributed robust and optimal control, dynamical networks, state-dependent queuing systems, and incentive design, with applications in civil infrastructure and autonomous systems. He currently serves as an Associate Editor for the Conference Editorial Board of the IEEE Control Systems Society, the IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, and the IEEE Control Systems Letters.

Affiliation(s)

University of Southern California

United States

, Takeshi Hatanaka

Program Chair(s): Jeff S. Shamma

, Yue Wang , Masaki Inoue

CDC 2026

Tue, Dec 15, 2026 - Fri, Dec 18, 2026

65th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control

Honolulu, Hawaii

General Chair(s): Jorge Cortés

Program Chair(s): Lacra Pavel

ICSC 2026

Wed, Dec 16, 2026 - Fri, Dec 18, 2026

14th International Conference on Systems and Control

Porto, Portugal

General Chair(s): Joao Soares , Dhaker Abbes

Program Chair(s): Jose Batista , Driss Mehdi

ACC 2027

Wed, Jul 7, 2027 - Fri, Jul 9, 2027

2027 American Control Conference

Philadelphia, PA, USA

General Chair(s): Rajesh Rajamani

Program Chair(s): Junmin Wang

ECC 2027

Mon, Jul 12, 2027 - Fri, Jul 16, 2027

European Control Conference 2027

Brussels, Belgium

General Chair(s): Denis Dochain

, Rodolphe Sepulchre

Program Chair(s): Wim Michiels , Sophie Tarbouriech

CCTA 2027

Sun, Aug 22, 2027 - Wed, Aug 25, 2027

11th IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications

Hiroshima, Japan

General Chair(s): Masaaki Nagahara , Daniel Quevedo

Program Chair(s): Kai Cai

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Past Conferences

Conference Name and Organizers	Dates	Location
34th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation [MED 2026] General Chair(s): David Scaradozzi Program Chair(s): Gianluca Antonelli, Kimon P. Valavanis	Jun 22, 2026 - Jun 26, 2026	Ancona, Italy
15th Asian Control Conference [ASCC 2026] General Chair(s): Yul Yunazwin Nazaruddin Program Chair(s): Augie Widyotriatmo	Jun 17, 2026 - Jun 21, 2026	Bali, Indonesia
The 20th IEEE International Conference on Control & Automation [ICCA 2026] General Chair(s): Yunhui Liu, Yang Shi Program Chair(s): Hao Fang, Xinyu Wu, Yamin Yan	Jun 16, 2026 - Jun 19, 2026	Almaty, Kazakhstan
2026 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems [ICUAS ’26] General Chair(s): Anthony Tzes, Margarita Chli Program Chair(s): Andrea Monteriu, Vinicius M. Goncalves, Marija Popovic	Jun 15, 2026 - Jun 18, 2026	Corfu, Greece
18th Workshop on Discrete Event Systems [WODES 2026] General Chair(s): Michel Reniers, Martin Fabian Program Chair(s): Cristian Mahulea, Patrícia Nascimento Pena, Martijn Goorden	Jun 8, 2026 - Jun 10, 2026	Eindhoven, The Netherlands
The 24th International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad hoc, and Wireless Networks [WiOpt 2026] General Chair(s): Jia (Kevin) Liu, Yin Sun, Elif Uysal Program Chair(s): Falko Dressler, I-Hong Hou, Bo Ji	Jun 3, 2026 - Jun 6, 2026	Columbus, OH, USA
2026 American Control Conference [ACC 2026] General Chair(s): Randy Beard Program Chair(s): Eric Frew	May 27, 2026 - May 29, 2026	New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
The 38th Chinese Control and Decision Conference [CCDC 2026] General Chair(s): Guang-Hong Yang Program Chair(s): Changyun Wen, Zhong-Ping Jiang	May 15, 2026 - May 18, 2026	Nanjing, China
10th International Conference on Robotics, Control and Automation [ICRCA 2026] General Chair(s): Chun-yi Su, Weiwei Wan Program Chair(s): Liangjing Yang, Xingjian Jing	Mar 26, 2026 - Mar 28, 2026	Osaka, Japan
11th Indian Control Conference [ICC-11] General Chair(s): Mathukumalli Vidyasagar Program Chair(s): Pavankumar Tallapragada	Dec 18, 2025 - Dec 20, 2025	Bangalore, India

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