Luca Schenato was born in Treviso in 1974 and he is currently Associate Professor at the Department of Information Engineering at the University of Padova.
He received the Laurea Degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Padova in 1999, the Management of Technology Certificate from the Haas Business School at UC Berkeley, USA, in 2003, and the Ph.D. from the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department of UC Berkeley in 2003. In 1997 he was a visiting student at the Department of Computing Science at the University of Aberdeen, UK, and in 2004 he help a post-doctoral fellowship at the EECS Department of UC Berkeley.
From 2004 to 2007 he was the recipient of the Professorship "Returning Brains (Rientro dei Cervelli)" sponsored by the Italian Ministry of Education and he served as Adjunct Professor at the Department of Information Engineering at the University of Padova.
He won the Eli Jury Award from the EECS Department of UC Berkeley in 2006 for his "for outstanding achievement in the area of Systems, Communications, Control, or Signal Processing".
His expertise includes distributed control, estiamation and optimization; networked control systems; wireless sensor networks; consensus algorithms; and biomimetic locomotion.
He is the author of more than 100 publications in international peer-reviewed conferences and journals and is current h-index=30 (Google Scholar).
He is one of the founders of the Conference on Robotics, Communication and Coordination (Robocomm) for which he served as General vice-Chair (2007) and Technical Program Chair (2009), and of the Workshop on Estimation and Control of Networked Systems (Necsys) for which he served as as General vice-Chair (2009) and in the Advisory Board (2010). He is also serving as Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions of Automatic Control and was Associate Editor for the following international conferences: IEEE CDC, IEEE ACC, IEEE ECC, IEEE IROS, IEEE CASE, IEEE ICRA.