DDLC Seminar: Thomas Parisini (Imperial)

Data Driven Learning and Control seminar series is organized by the Information and Decision Science Lab at Cornell University and aims to explore the latest advancements and interdisciplinary approaches to data-driven learning and control systems.

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Bio:
Thomas Parisini received the “Laurea” degree (Cum Laude and printing honours) in electronic engineering from the University of Genoa in 1988 and the Ph.D. degree in electronic engineering and computer science in 1993. He was with Politecnico di Milano and holds the Chair of Industrial Control at Imperial College London. He is serving as the Head of the Control and Power Research Group and served as Director of Research at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. He is also Professor and Danieli Endowed Chair of Automation Engineering with University of Trieste.

In 2018, Prof. Parisini received an Honorary Doctorate from University of Aalborg, Denmark. He has authored or co-authored a research monograph in the most prestigious series of Springer Nature and over 400 research papers in archival journals, book chapters, and international conference proceedings. His research interests include monitoring, diagnosis, control and security of large-scale critical infrastructure systems with applications in smart grids, transportation networks, power electronics and industrial process control.

Among several awards, he was a co-recipient of the 2011-2013 IFAC Best Application Paper Prize of the Journal of Process Control, Elsevier, and of the 2004 Outstanding Paper Award of the IEEE Trans. on Neural Networks. He was also awarded the 2007 IEEE Distinguished Member Award.

Among the major research grants, he was awarded as PI at Imperial the H2020 Flagship Teaming Project KIOS (total budget for the two partners over 40 MEuros).

Prof. Parisini was awarded a prestigious ABB Research Grant and was involved as project leader in several projects funded by the European Union and by the Italian Ministry for Research. He also secured several major grants from process control industries especially in the steel-making sector.