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ICRCA 2026

Thu, Mar 26, 2026 - Sat, Mar 28, 2026

10th International Conference on Robotics, Control and Automation

Osaka, Japan

General Chair(s): Chun-yi Su , Weiwei Wan

Program Chair(s): Liangjing Yang , Xingjian Jing

CCDC 2026

Fri, May 15, 2026 - Mon, May 18, 2026

The 38th Chinese Control and Decision Conference

Nanjing, China

General Chair(s): Guang-Hong Yang

Program Chair(s): Changyun Wen

, Zhong-Ping Jiang

WiOpt 2026

Wed, Jun 3, 2026 - Sat, Jun 6, 2026

The 24th International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad hoc, and Wireless Networks

Columbus, OH, USA

General Chair(s): Jia (Kevin) Liu , Yin Sun , Elif Uysal

Program Chair(s): Falko Dressler , I-Hong Hou , Bo Ji

WODES 2026

Mon, Jun 8, 2026 - Wed, Jun 10, 2026

18th Workshop on Discrete Event Systems

Eindhoven, The Netherlands

General Chair(s): Michel Reniers

Michel Reniers

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Biography

Michel Reniers is an Associate Professor at the Mechanical Engineering Department at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). His research interests include model-based engineering of supervisory controllers, synthesis of supervisory controllers for modal logics, engineering of cyber-physical systems (of systems) and development of modeling languages (CIF) and model transformations.

In Reniers’ research the emphasis is on application of formal methods in engineering of supervisory controllers for high-tech and embedded systems. The research focuses on furthering the state-of-the-art and the state-of-the-practice in model-based systems engineering approaches for supervisory controllers. This includes research themes such as supervisory controller synthesis for networked systems, the combination of supervisory control and throughput optimization, and supervisory control for system product lines.

Application areas for the research are manufacturing and high-tech systems such as lithography manufacturing, automotive systems, waterway locks and tunnel installations, robotics and autonomous systems.

Michel Reniers obtained his MSc in Computer Science from TU/e in 1994 followed by a PhD in 1999. He began working for TU/e in 1999 as an assistant professor in the section Analysis and Design of Systems (OAS), followed by an assistant professorship in the section Systems Engineering (SE). He was appointed Associate Professor in 2015.

Michel is a member of various organizations, including IEEE (senior member), IEEE CSS Technical Committee on Discrete Event Systems, and IFAC Technical Committee 1.3 on Discrete Event and Hybrid Systems. Michel has been chair of Working Group 3 on Tools for systems of systems engineering and management of the Communication and Support Action CPSoS and was coauthor of the Proposal of a European Research and Innovation Agenda on Cyber-physical Systems of Systems – 2016-2025.

Affiliation(s)

Eindhoven University of Technology

Netherlands

, Martin Fabian

Program Chair(s): Cristian Mahulea

Cristian Mahulea

Biography

Cristian Mahulea is an Associate Professor (Profesor Titular de Universidad) at the University of Zaragoza (Spain) with the Department of Computer Science and Systems Engineering.

He received the Laurea and M.S. degrees in control engineering from the "Gheorghe Asachi" Technical University of Iasi (Romania), in 2001 and 2002, respectively, and Ph.D. degree in systems engineering from the University of Zaragoza (Spain) in 2007. He joined the University of Zaragoza in 2008 as assistant professor, becoming associate professor in 2017. He was visiting professor at the University of Cagliari (Italy) with the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering during five months in 2008 and 2010.

His research interests include discrete-event systems, hybrid systems, automated manufacturing, Petri nets, mobile robotics and healthcare systems. He co-authored, with Mihaela Matcovschi and Octavian Pastravanu the book Applications of Petri Nets in Studying Discrete Event Systems, Iasi, Romania in 2002 and co-authored with Marius Kloetzer and Ramon Gonzalez the book Path Planning of Cooperative Mobile Robots Using Discrete Event Models, Wiley-IEEE Press, January 2020. He participated and was the main developer of one MATLAB toolbox called Petri Net Toolbox for the simulation, analysis and synthesis of discrete-event systems modeled with discrete Petri nets and one Matlab toolbox called RMTool for path planning and motion control of mobile robots.

He has been a Visiting Researcher at the University of Sheffield (U.K.), University of Cagliari (Italy), Boston University (USA) and ENS Paris-Saclay (France).

He is a Senior Member of IEEE.

Affiliation(s)

University of Zaragoza

Spain

, Patrícia Nascimento Pena

, Martijn Goorden

ICUAS ’26

Mon, Jun 15, 2026 - Thu, Jun 18, 2026

2026 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems

Corfu, Greece

General Chair(s): Anthony Tzes , Margarita Chli

Program Chair(s): Andrea Monteriu , Vinicius M. Goncalves , Marija Popovic

ICCA 2026

Tue, Jun 16, 2026 - Fri, Jun 19, 2026

The 20th IEEE International Conference on Control & Automation

Almaty, Kazakhstan

General Chair(s): Yunhui Liu , Yang Shi

Program Chair(s): Hao Fang , Xinyu Wu , Yamin Yan

ASCC 2026

Wed, Jun 17, 2026 - Sun, Jun 21, 2026

15th Asian Control Conference

Bali, Indonesia

General Chair(s): Yul Yunazwin Nazaruddin

Program Chair(s): Augie Widyotriatmo

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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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.