Plenary Lectures

Prof. Antonella Ferrara, University of Pavia, Italy
Antonella Ferrara received the M.Sc. degree (Cum Laude and printing honors) in electronic engineering and the Ph.D. degree in computer science and electronics from the University of Genova, Italy, in 1987 and 1992, respectively. Since 2005, she has been Full Professor of automatic control at the University of Pavia, Italy, where she is the Head of the Intelligent Robotics Laboratory, as well as the President of the Research Standing Committee of the Department of Electrical, Computer and Biomedical Engineering. Her research activities are mainly in the area of nonlinear control, with a special emphasis on sliding mode control and application to road traffic, automotive systems, robotics and power systems. Among several awards, she was a co-recipient of the 2020 IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology Outstanding Paper Award. She is IEEE Fellow and IFAC Fellow.*

Prof. Silvère Bonnabel, Mines Paris PSL, France
Silvère Bonnabel is a Professor at Mines Paris PSL, Paris Sciences et Lettres Research University. His research lies in the intersection of control theory, robotics, and learning. He received his doctoral degree in Mathematics and Control from Mines Paris in 2007. He was an Invited Fellow at the University of Cambridge in 2017, and at INRIA Paris in 2022. Prof. Bonnabel was awarded the IEEE – SEE Glavieux prize in 2015, the Automatica Paper Prize in 2020, the European Control Award in 2021, and the Prix IMT Espoir from the French Academy of Sciences in 2022. He currently serves as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Control Systems journal.

Prof. Paweł Skruch, AGH University of Kraków, Poland
Paweł Skruch is a Professor at the AGH University of Kraków. He graduated in 2001 in Automation and Robotics, obtained his PhD in 2006, and completed his habilitation in 2016. Since 2025, he has held the title of Full Professor in the Department of Automatic Control and Robotics at AGH, where he leads the Dynamic Systems and Control Theory Group. His expertise lies at the intersection of control theory, artificial intelligence, and autonomous systems, with applications in autonomous vehicles, robotics, and advanced driver assistance systems. He has participated in numerous interdisciplinary projects combining engineering, computer science, and applied mathematics, focusing on the design of safe and reliable solutions for modern mobility and intelligent systems. He has led several research projects funded by the European Union and the National Centre for Research and Development in Poland, as well as industry projects in automated driving, whose results have been successfully implemented by global automotive corporations. He actively collaborates with research institutions in Europe, Asia, and the United States.