Assist. Prof. Simone Baldi

He was born in Florence, Italy, in 1983. He received the B.Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the Faculty of Engineering, University of Florence (Italian: Università degli Studi di Firenze), Italy, in 2005, 2007 and 2011 respectively, under the supervision of Prof. Edoardo Mosca. During his Ph.D. studies at the Department of Systems and Informatics (Italian: Dipartimento di Sistemi e Informatica), he also spent some time abroad collaborating with Prof. Petros Ioannou. He is currently an Assistant Professor (tenure-track) at the Delft Center for Systems and Control of the Delft University of Technology. Prior to this, he held Postdoctoral Researcher positions at the Information Technologies Institute (I.T.I.), Centre for Research & Technology Hellas (CE.R.T.H.), Thessaloniki, Greece (under the supervision of Prof. Elias Kosmatopoulos), and at the Networks Research Laboratory (NetRL), Department of Computer Science of the University of Cyprus (under the supervision of Prof. Petros Ioannou and Prof. Andreas Pitsillides).

His main research interests are in the area of control theory and include adaptive control, adaptive optimization techniques for control of large-scale systems, switching supervisory control with multiple models. He participated in various research projects funded by the European Union, and other governmental and private research institutions. During his research activity he interacted with many research centers and universities, among which the Department of Production Engineering and Management at the Technical University of Crete, the Fraunhofer Institute for Building Physics (FIBP), the Italian National Institute of Astrophysics (INAF), as well as several industrial companies.