Alberto Bemporad

Biography

Alberto Bemporad (F’10) received a master’s degree in electrical engineering and a Ph.D. degree in Control Engineering from the University of Florence, Florence, Italy, in 1993 and 1997, respectively.

From 1996 to 1997, he was with the Center for Robotics and Automation, Department of Systems Science and Mathematics, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA. From 1997 to 1999, he held a post-doctoral position with the Automatic Control Laboratory, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland, where he collaborated as a Senior Researcher until 2002. From 1999 to 2009, he was with the Department of Information Engineering, University of Siena, Siena, Italy, becoming an Associate Professor in 2005. From 2010 to 2011, he was with the Department of Mechanical and Structural Engineering, University of Trento, Trento, Italy. He spent visiting periods with the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, and Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China. Since 2011, he has been a Full Professor with the IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca, Lucca, Italy, where he served as the Director of the Institute from 2012 to 2015. In 2011, he co-founded ODYS S.r.l., Lucca, a consulting and software development company specialized in advanced controls and embedded optimization algorithms. He has authored over 300 papers in the areas of model predictive control, automotive control, hybrid systems, multiparametric optimization, computational geometry, robotics, and finance. He holds seven patents. He has authored or co-authored various MATLAB toolboxes for model predictive control design, including the model predictive control toolbox (The Mathworks, Inc.) and the hybrid toolbox.

Dr. Bemporad received the IFAC High-Impact Paper Award for the 2011–2014 Triennial. He was an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control from 2001 to 2004, and the Chair of the Technical Committee on Hybrid Systems of the IEEE Control Systems Society from 2002 to 2010.