Biography

Gianluca Bianchin is currently an Assistant Professor in the ICTEAM Institute and Department of Mathematical Engineering (INMA) at the Universit'e Catholique de Louvain, 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 Padova, 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 was a Graduate Intern at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA, in 2018, and a Research Intern at the Bosch Research Center North America, USA, in 2019. 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 optimization algorithms and their applications in traffic control and complex network control.