Luca Schenato
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Full 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 |
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EDUCATION AND APPOINTMENTS |
| 2021-current | Full Professor, Department of Information Engineering, University of Padova, Italy |
| 2007-2021 | Associate Professor, Department of Information Engineering, University of Padova, Italy |
| 2018-2019 | Visiting Scientist, Universite' Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium |
| 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 |
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AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS |
| 2020 | Advisor of Luca Ballotta, winner of the 2020 Young Author Prize at IFAC World Congress (>3000 accepted papers) for paper "From sensor to prcessing networks: optimal estimation with computation and communication latency", out ot 140 nominations. |
| 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 |
| 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 |
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PROJECTS |
| Period | Acronym | Funding | Role | Title |
| 2022-2025 | ReActiing | Italian | PI | Restoring Antibiotic sensitivity in bacteria: A Synthetic biology approach |
| 2019-2021 | PRIN-5G | Italian | PI | Real-time Control of 5G Wireless Networks: taming the complexity of future transmission and computatiion chellenges |
| 2019-2021 | HiPer | Italian | PI | High-Performance cooperative UAV Robotic manipulation over Wi-Fi (joint project with MIT, USA) |
| 2017-2019 | MAgIC | Italian | PI | Multi-Agent Intelligent Control for time-critical Cyber-Physical Systems |
| 2017-2020 | Proactive-cell | Italian | co-PI | From single cell to multi cell information system analysis |
| 2015-2016 | DISCO | Italian | PI | Designing cost-effective DIstributed Dtrategies for the Control and Optimization of smart micro-grids |
| 2010-2013 | HYCON2 | European | Member | Highly-complex and Networked Control Systems |
| 2010-2012 | SIMEA | Industrial | Member | Distributed Systems Design for Energy and Environment Monitoring |
| 2008-2011 | FeedNetBack | European | Member | Feedback design for wireless networked systems |
| 2007-2011 | WISE-WAI | Italian | Member | Wireless Sensor Networks for city-Wide Ambient Intelligence |
| 2010-2010 | SENSE-a-LOT | Industrial | Member | RF localization and tracking using wireless sensor networks |
| 2004-2006 | SENSNET | European | PI | Analysis and design of large scale sensor networks for distributed control applications |
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EDITORIAL AND ORGANIZATION ACTIVITIES |
| 2023 | co-organizer
of EECI Ph.D. course on "Multi-Agent Distributed Optimization and
Learning over Wireless Networks", Paris-Saclay, 13-17/1/2023 |
| 2023 | IPC Technical Associate Editor for IFAC'23 |
| 2022 | IPC Technical Associate Editor for MED'22 |
| 2022 | Program Chair for NECSYS'22 |
| 2019-on | Senior Editor for IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems |
| 2019-on | Associate
Editor for Automatica |
| 2018-on | vice-Chair IFAC Technical Commitee 1.5 on Networked Systems |
| 2021 | IPC Technical Associate Editor for MED'21 |
| 2020 | IPC Technical Associate Editor for IFAC'20 |
| 2019 | co-organizer of EECI Ph.D. course on "Multi-Agent Distributed Optimization and Learning over Wireless Networks", Paris-Saclay, 3-7/6/19 (program PDF) |
| 2019 | Conference
Editorial Board NECSYS'19 |
| 2018 | co-organizer Control Days Workshop, Padova, Italy |
| 2016-2019 | Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems |
| 2017,2018 | Klaus Fischer Award committee, Padova, italy |
| 2018 | Conference
Editorial Board MTNS |
| 2017 | Conference
Editorial Board for IEEE Multi-robots and Multi-Agent Systems (MRS) |
| 2016 | Program co-Chair, SIDRA Ph.D. Summer School on Distributed Control and its applications |
| 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 |
| 2012 | Best Student Paper Committee, IFAC Workshop Necsys'12, Santa Barbara, USA |
| 2010 | Conference Editorial Board for DARS |
| 2010 | Conference Editorial Board for HSCC |
| 2010 | Advisory Committee, IFAC Workshop Necsys'10, Annecy, France |
| 2010 | Best Student Paper Committee, IFAC Workshop Necsys'10, Annecy, France |
| 2008-2011 | IEEE CSS Conference Editorial Board |
| 2007-2009 | IEEE RAS Conference Editorial Board |
| 2009 | vice-General Chair for IFAC Workshop Necsys'09, Venice, Italy |
| 2009 | co-organizer of
tutorial "Networked Control Systems subject to packet loss and random
delay", IFAC Workshop Necsys'09, Venice, Italy |
| 2009 | Techical Program Chair for Robocomm'09, Odence, Danmark |
| 2007 | vice-General Chair for Robocomm'07, Athens, Greece |
| 2006-2018 | member of IFAC Technical Commiteee TC 1.5 on "Networked Systems" |
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PH.D. EXAMINER |
| 2022 | chair of Ph.D. Examination Commitee for Ph.D. School in Electrical and Information Engineering, Politechnic of Bari, Italy | |
| 2022 | Luca Damonte | Politechnic of Turin, Italy |
| 2017 | Simone Nardi | Univ. of Pisa, Italy |
| 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 |
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INVITED LECTURES |
Syntheric Biology Activities at University of Padova
Workshop on SynthBio@UNIPD, Padova, June 2023
Control over wireless: a unfinished journey
-Online Seminars on Control and Information, March 2021
Automatic Control over Wi-Fi: a cross-layer Approach
- Workshop on Automotive: Cyber-Physical-Systems, Univ. of Modena, June 2018
Smart Multi-agent Control Systems over Wireless: Challenges and Perspectives
- Control Theory Seminars, DII, Univ. of Trento, January 2018
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
Recent publications
[ all BibTeX ]
20XX
L. Ballotta, G. Como, J. Shamma, L. Schenato. Can Competition Outperform Collaboration? The Role of Malicious Agents. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control [submitted], 20XX [url] [BibTeX]
L. Ballotta, M. Jovanovic, L. Schenato. Can Decentralized Control Outperform Centralized? The Role of Communication Latency. IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems (submitted), 20XX [url] [BibTeX]
E. Rossi, M. Tognon, R. Carli, A. Franchi, L. Schenato. Control of over-redundant cooperative manipulation via sampled communication. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control [to be submitted], 20XX [url] [BibTeX]
E. Rossi, M. Tognon, L. Ballotta, R. Carli, J. Cortes, A. Franchi, L. Schenato. Coordinated Multi-Robot Trajectory Tracking Control over Sampled Communication. Automatica [submitted], 20XX [url] [BibTeX]
N. Dal Fabbro, S. Dey, M. Rossi, L. Schenato. SHED: A Newton-type algorithm for federated learning based on incremental Hessian eigenvector sharing. Automatica [to be submitted], 20XX [url] [BibTeX]
2022
N. Bastianello, L. Schenato, R. Carli. A novel bound on the convergence rate of distributed optimization ADMM-based algorithms. Automatica, vol. 1422022 [url] [BibTeX]
L. Ballotta, G. Como, J. Shamma, L. Schenato. Competition-Based Resilience in Distributed Quadratic Optimization. Proceedings of IEEE Int. Conf. on Decision and Control (CDC'22), 2022 [url] [BibTeX]
G. Perin, F. Meneghello, R. Carli, L. Schenato, M. Rossi. EASE: Energy-Aware job Scheduling for vehicular Edge networks with renewable energy resources. IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking, 2022 [url] [BibTeX]
M. Pezzutto, R. Carli, M. Farina, L. Schenato. Remote MPC for Tracking over Lossy Networks. IEEE Control Systems Letters, (6), pp. 1040-1045, 2022 [url] [BibTeX]
S. Wildhagen, M. Pezzutto, L. Schenato, F. Allgower. Self-triggered MPC robust to bounded packet loss via a min-max approac. Proceedings of IEEE Int. Conf. on Decision and Control (CDC'22), 2022 [BibTeX]
M. Pezzutto, L. Schenato, S. Dey. Transmission Power Allocation for Remote Estimation with Multi-packet Reception Capabilities. Automatica, vol. 140(110257), 2022 [url] [BibTeX]
2021
M. Hosseinzadeh, E. Garone, L. Schenato. A distributed optimal power management system for microgrids with plug&play capabilities. Advanced Control for Applications, vol. 3(1), 2021 [url] [BibTeX]
S. Chevalier, L. Schenato, L. Daniel. Accelerated Probabilistic Power Flow in Electrical Distribution Networks via Model Order Reduction and Neumann Series Expansion. IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 2021 [url] [BibTeX]
S. Chevalier, L. Schenato, L. Daniel. Accelerated Probabilistic State Estimation in Distribution Grids via Model Order Reduction. 2021 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting (PESGM), 2021 [url] [BibTeX]
N. Bastianello, R. Carli, L. Schenato, M. Todescato. Asynchronous Distributed Optimization over Lossy Networks via Relaxed ADMM: Stability and Linear Convergence. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2021 [ abstract ] [url] [BibTeX]
M. Pezzutto, E. Garone, L. Schenato. Constrained Control with Communication Blackouts: Theory and Experimental Validation over Wi-Fi. Proceedings of IEEE Mediterranean Conference (MED'21), 2021 [BibTeX]
F. Branz, R. Antonello, M. Pezzutto, F. Tramarin, S. Vitturi, L. Schenato. Drive–by–Wi-Fi: Model–Based Control over Wireless at 1-kHz. IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, 2021 [url] [BibTeX]
M. Barbiero, A. Rossi, L. Schenato. LQR Temperature Control in smart building via real-time weather forecasting. Proceedings of IEEE Mediterranean Conference (MED'21), 2021 [BibTeX]
I. Zorzan, S. Del Favero, A. Giarretta, R. Manganelli, B. Di Camillo, L. Schenato. Mathematical modelling of SigE regulatory network reveals new insights into bistability of mycobacterial stress response. BMC Bioinformatics, vol. 22(558), 2021 [url] [BibTeX]
N. Dal Fabbro, M. Rossi, G. Pillonetto, L. Schenato, G. Piro. Model-free radio map estimation in massive MIMO systems via semi-parametric Gaussian regression. IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, 2021 [url] [BibTeX]
N. Rossello, M. Pezzutto, L. Schenato, I. Castagliuolo, E. Garone. On the effect of the number of tests and their time of application in tracing policies against COVID-19. Proceeding of 11th IFAC Symposium on Biological and Medical Systems (BMS'21), 2021 [BibTeX]
L. Ballotta, M. Jovanovic, L. Schenato. Optimal Network Topology of Multi-Agent Systems subject to Computation and Communication Latency. Proceedings of IEEE Mediterranean Conference (MED'21), 2021 [BibTeX]
M. Pezzutto, N. Rossello, L. Schenato, E. Garone. Smart Testing and Selective Quarantine for the Control of Epidemics. Annual Reviews in Control, 2021 [url] [BibTeX]
2020
F. Branz, R. Antonello, M. Pezzutto, F. Tramarin, L. Schenato. 1 kHz Remote Control of a Balancing Robot with Wi-Fi–in–the–Loop. IFAC World Congress, 2020 [BibTeX]
M. Pezzutto, F. Tramarin, S. Dey, L. Schenato. Adaptive Transmission Rate for LQG Control over Wi-Fi: a Cross-Layer Approach. Automatica, vol. 119pp. 1-12, 2020 [url] [BibTeX]
L. Ballotta, L. Schenato, L. Carlone. Computation-Communication Trade-offs and Sensor Selection in Real-time Estimation for Processing Networks. IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, vol. 7(4), pp. 2952-2965, 2020 [url] [BibTeX]
E. Rossi, M. Tognon, R. Carli, L. Schenato, J. Cortes, A. Franchi. Cooperative Aerial Load Transportation via Sampled Communication. IEEE Control Systems Letters and CDC 19, vol. 4(2), pp. 277 - 282, 2020 [url] [BibTeX]
M. Todescato, A. Carron, R. Carli, G. Pillonetto, L. Schenato. Efficient Spatio-Temporal Gaussian Regression via Kalman Filtering. Automatica, vol. 118pp. 1-14, 2020 [url] [BibTeX]
L. Ballotta, L. Schenato, L. Carlone. From Sensor to Processing Networks: Optimal Estimation with Computation and Communication Latency [YOUNG AUTHOR AWARD]. IFAC 2020 World Congress, 2020 [BibTeX]
M. Todescato, N. Bof, G. Cavraro, R. Carli, L. Schenato. Partition-based multi-agent optimization in the presence of lossy and asynchronous communication. Automatica, vol. 111pp. 1-11, 2020 [url] [BibTeX]
M. Pezzutto, E. Garone, L. Schenato. Reference Governor for Constrained Control over Lossy Channels. IEEE Control Systems Letters and CDC 19, vol. 4(2), pp. 271 - 276, 2020 [url] [BibTeX]
M. Todescato, R. Carli, L. Schenato, G. Barchi. Smart Grid State Estimation with PMUs Time Synchronization Errors. Energies, vol. 13(5148), 2020 [url] [BibTeX]
F. Branz, R. Antonello, F. Tramarin, S. Vitturi, L. Schenato. Time-Critical Wireless Networked Embedded Systems: Feasibility and Experimental Assessment. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, vol. 16(12), pp. 7732-7742, 2020 [url] [BibTeX]
M. Pezzutto, L. Schenato, S. Dey. Transmission Scheduling for Remote Estimation with Multi-packet Reception under Multi-Sensor Interference. IFAC World Congress 2020, 2020 [pdf] [BibTeX]
2019
M. Hosseinzadeh, E. Garone, L. Schenato. A Distributed Method for Linear Programming Problems With Box Constraints and Time-Varying Inequalities. IEEE Control Systems Letters, vol. 3(2), pp. 404-409, 2019 [url] [BibTeX]
I. Zorzan, S. Del Favero, B. Di Camillo, L. Schenato. Analysis of a Minimal Gene Regulatory Network for Cell Differentiation. IEEE Control Systems Letters, vol. 3(2), pp. 302-307, 2019 [url] [BibTeX]
G. Violatto, A. Pandharipande, S. Li, L. Schenato. Classification of occupancy sensor anomalies in connected indoor lighting systems. IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 6(4), pp. 7175-7182, 2019 [url] [BibTeX]
D. Varagnolo, G. Pillonetto, L. Schenato. Distributed multi-agent Gaussian regression via finite-dimensional approximations. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 41(9), pp. 2098-2111, 2019 [url] [pdf] [BibTeX]
F. Branz, M. Pezzutto, R. Antonello, F. Tramarin, L. Schenato. Drive–by–Wi-Fi: taming 1 kHz control applications over wireless. European Control Conference (ECC'19), 2019 [BibTeX]
F. Branz, R. Antonello, F. Tramarin, T. Fedullo, S. Vitturi, L. Schenato. Embedded systems for time–critical applications over Wi-Fi: design and experimental assessment. Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics (INDIN'19), 2019 [BibTeX]
M. Pezzutto, S. Dey, L. Schenato. Heavy-tails in Kalman filtering with packet losses. European Journal of Control, (50), pp. 62-71, 2019 [url] [BibTeX]
N. Bof, R. Carli, G. Notarstefano, L. Schenato, D. Varagnolo. Multiagent Newton-Raphson Optimizaton over lossy networks. IEEE Trans. Automatic Control, vol. 64(7), pp. 2983 - 2990, 2019 [url] [BibTeX]