Simona Sacone

Biography

Simona Sacone (M’13) received a master’s degree in electronic engineering in 1992 and a Ph.D. degree in electronic engineering and computer science in 1997. She is currently an Associate Professor of automatic control with the Department of Informatics, Bioengineering, Robotics and Systems Engineering, University of Genova, Italy, where she teaches systems theory, identification and estimation techniques, and optimization and control of logistic systems and where she acts as the Coordinator of the Ph.D. course on systems engineering. She has authored and co-authored over 150 papers published on international journals, international books, and international conference proceedings.

She is a member of the IFAC Technical Committees 7.4 on Transportation Systems and 1.3 on Discrete Event and Hybrid Systems. She is the Chair of the Technical Committee on Logistics of the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society. She currently serves as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems and for the IEEE Control Systems Magazine. She has acted as an Associate Editor in the IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, in the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation in the IFAC Symposium on Control in Transportation Systems, and in the IFAC/IEEE Workshop on Discrete Event Systems.