Plenary Lectures

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.*

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.