Speakers

Andrea Testa received the Laurea degree "summa cum laude" in Computer Engineering from the Università del Salento, Lecce, Italy in 2016 and the Ph.D degree "summa cum laude" in Engineering of Complex Systems from the same university in 2020.

He is a Research Fellow at Alma Mater Studiorum Universit\`a di Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
He was a visiting scholar at LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse, (July to September 2015 and February 2016) and at Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna (October 2018 to June 2019).

His research interests include control of UAVs and distributed optimization.

Andrea Camisa received the Laurea degree summa cum laude in Computer Engineering from the University of Salento, Italy in 2017 and the Licenza degree from the excellence school ISUFI, Italy in 2018. He is a Ph.D student within the Ph.D Programme "Biomedical, Electrical, and Systems Engineering" at the Department of Electrical, Electronic and Information Engineering, University of Bologna, Italy. He was a visiting student at the University of Stuttgart in 2017 and 2018. His research interests include convex, distributed and mixed-integer optimization.

Giuseppe Notarstefano received the Laurea degree summa cum laude in electronics engineering from the Università di Pisa, Pisa, Italy, in 2003 and the Ph.D. degree in automation and operation research from the Università di Padova, Padua, Italy, in 2007.

He is a Professor with the Department of Electrical, Electronic, and Information Engineering G. Marconi, Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy. He was Associate Professor (from June 2016 to June 2018) and
previously Assistant Professor, Ricercatore (from February 2007), with the Università del Salento, Lecce, Italy. He has been Visiting Scholar at the University of Stuttgart, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, USA and University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA. His research interests include distributed optimization, cooperative control in complex networks, applied nonlinear optimal control, and trajectory optimization and maneuvering of aerial and car vehicles.

Dr. Notarstefano serves as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, and IEEE Control Systems Letters. He has been also part of the Conference Editorial Board of IEEE Control Systems Society and EUCA. He is recipient of an ERC Starting Grant 2014.