

Luca Schenato
Associate Professor
Department of Information Engineering Via Gradenigo 6/B 35131 Padova Italy
Tel.: +39 049.827.7925 Fax: +39 049.827.7799
E-mail: CV (last update 2017) Webpage: http://automatica.dei.unipd.it/people/schenato.html Skype: l_schenato |
EDUCATION AND APPOINTMENTS |
2007-current | Associate Professor, Department of Information Engineering, University of Padova, Italy |
2013-2014 | Visiting Professor, Department of EECS, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA |
2004-2007 | Adjunct Professor, Department of Information Engineering, University of Padova, Italy |
2003 | Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA |
1999 | Laurea Degree, Electrical Engineering, University of Padova, Italy |
AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS |
2017 | Fellow, IEEE Society (15th youngest awardee from Ph.D year to year of awarding out of 299 awardees) |
2014 | EUCA European Control Award for outstanding contribution to Networked Control Systems and Multi-agent Systems (currently first and only Italian to be awarded) |
2006 | Eliah
Jury Award for outstanding achievement in the area of Systems,
Communications, Control, or Signal Processing, U.C. Berkeley (co-shared with Bruno Sinopoli) |
2004 | "Rientro dei Cervelli" (Brain Gain) Professorship, Ministry of Italian Education, University and Research (MIUR) (only 80 awardees in Italy in all discipline in 2004) |
2004 | International Reintegration Grant, Marie Curie Actions, European Union |
PROJECTS |
Period | Acronym | Funding | Title |
2010-2013 | HYCON2 | European | Highly-complex and Networked Control Systems |
2010-2012 | SIMEA | Industrial | Distributed Systems Design for Energy and Environment Monitoring |
2008-2011 | FeedNetBack | European | Feedback design for wireless networked systems |
2007-2011 | WISE-WAI | Italian | Wireless Sensor Networks for city-Wide Ambient Intelligence |
2010-2010 | SENSE-a-LOT | Industrial | RF localization and tracking using wireless sensor networks |
2004-2006 | SENSNET | European | Analysis and design of large scale sensor networks for distributed control applications |
EDITORIAL ACTIVITIES |
2016-current | Associate
Editor for IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems |
2018 | Conference
Editorial Board MTNS |
2017 | Conference
Editorial Board for IEEE Multi-robots and Multi-Agent Systems (MRS) |
2015 | Technical Program Committee IFAC Conference Necsys |
2013 | Technical Program Committee IFAC Conference Necsys |
2009-2013 | Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control |
2012 | Technical Program Committee SmartGridComm |
2010 | Conference Editorial Board for DARS |
2010 | Conference Editorial Board for HSCC |
2008-2011 | IEEE CSS Conference Editorial Board |
2007-2009 | IEEE RAS Conference Editorial Board |
2006-current |
Member of IFAC Technical Commiteee TC 1.5 on "Networked Systems" |
2009 | vice-General Chair for Necsys'09, Venice, Italy |
2009 | co-organizer of tutorial "Networked Control Systems subject to packet loss and random delay", Necsys'09 |
2009 | Techical Program Chair for Robocomm'09, Odence, Danmark |
2007 | vice-General Chair for Robocomm'07, Athens, Greece |
PH.D. EXAMINER |
2017 | Jingbo Wu | Univ. of Stuttgard, Germany |
2015 | Burak Demirel | KTH, Sweden |
2015 | Grazia Barchi | University of Trento, Italy |
2013 | Burak Demirel (Licenciate Degree) |
KTH, Sweden |
2013 | Yiming (Alex) Ji | Australian National University, Australia |
2013 | Domenica Borra | Polytechnic of Turin, Italy |
2013 | Luis Orihuela | University of Seville, Spain |
2012 | Nicolas Cardoso De Castro | INRIA Grenoble, France |
2010 | Nicola Varanese | Polit. Milan & New Jersey Insititute of Technology, USA |
2009 | Osvaldo Simeone | Polit. Milan & New Jersey Insititute of Technology, USA (winner of ERC Consolidator 2016) |
2009 | Maja Karasalo |
KTH, Sweden |
INVITED LECTURES |
Multi-agent map-building: Kalman Filtering meets Machine Learning
- IFAC Workshop on Estimation and Control of Networked Systems (NecSys'16), Tokyo, Japan, September 2016,
- Control Seminar Series, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland, October 2016
- Control Seminar Series, Univ. of Stuttgard, Germany, April 2017
Bayesian linear state estimation using smart meteres and PMU Measurements in Distribution Grids
- IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications (SmartGridComm'14), October 2014
Getting multi-agent systems to cooperate (Video Time Sych) (VIdeo Map Building)
- European Control Award Plenary Talk, European Control Conference (ECC14), June 2014
Control over finite capacity channels: the role of data losses, delays and SNR limitations
- Control Theory Seminars, EECS, UC Berkeley, February 2014
Newton-Raphson
Consensus for Distributed Convex Optimization
- HYCON2 Workshop on Distributed Optimization in Large Networks and its Applications, Zurich, Swizerland, July 2013.
- also presented at UC San Diego, UC Berkeley, UCLA, MIT, UC Santa Barbara, Stanford in 2014
The Consensus Algorithm in Distributed Multi-Agent Systems
Symposium on New Directions of Automatic Control, Seoul, Korea, October 2011.
Localizzazione in Reti di Sensori Wireless: Tecnologia ed Applicazioni (in Italian)
WISE-WAI project, Final Review Meeting, Padova, May 2011.
Estimation and Control Applications of Linear Consensus Algorithms,
Workshop on Multi-Agent Estimation and Control, Lund, Sweden, January 2010.
Networked Control Systems subject to random delay and packet loss: state-of-the-art, main results and future directions,
Minicourse at IFAC Workshop on Estimation and Control of Networked Systems (NecSys'09), Venice, Italy, September 2009
Distributed Estimation and Consensus,
3rd WIDE Ph.D. School on Networked Control Systems, Siena, Italy, July 2009
Application of Consensus Algorithms to Wireless Sensor Networks
Seminars on Control Systems, Mechanical Engineering Department, UC Berkeley, October 2008
Some Results on Optimal Estimation and Control for Lossy Networked Control Systems,
Seminars in Optimization and System Theory, KTH, Stockolm, Sweden, September 2007
Distributed Consensus Protocols for Clock Synchronization in Sensor Networks
Ph.D. Summer School in Automatic Control, Bertinoro, Italy, July 2007
Analysis and Control of Flapping Flight: from Biological to
Robotic Insects
Invited talk, Mechanical Enginering Department, Columbia University, NY, USA, 2004