Biography

Gianluca Bianchin is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematical Engineering and ICTEAM institute at the University of Louvain (UCLouvain), Belgium.

He received the Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California Riverside in 2020. He previously obtained both his M.Sc. degree in Controls Engineering (Summa Cum Laude, 2014) and his B.Sc. degree in Information Engineering (2012) from the University of Padua, Italy. Dr. Bianchin was a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Department of Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder from 2020 to 2022. He has also spent time as a visiting researcher at the Bosch Research and technology Center North America and at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

Prof. Bianchin received the IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems Best Paper Award in 2023 and the Dissertation Year Award from the University of California, Riverside, in 2019. Additionally, his research on secure robotic navigation was selected as the Editor's Choice of the Month by the Elsevier journal Automatica in February 2020.

His research interests include dynamical systems, control theory, and algorithmic optimization and their applications in traffic control and network infrastructures (such as power networks and sociotechnical networks).