Antonio Pietrabissa is Associate Professor at the Department of Computer, Control, and Management Engineering “Antonio Ruberti” (DIAG) of the University of Rome “La Sapienza,” where he received his degree in Electronics Engineering and his PhD degree in Systems Engineering in 2000 and 2004, respectively, and where, since 2010, he has been teaching Automatic Control and Process Automation and, since 2019, Systems and Control Methods for Cyberphysical Security.
His main research focus is on the application of systems and control theory methodologies to the analysis and control of networks, with specific interest to communication networks and smart grids, by means of internal model control, Markov decision processes, reinforcement learning, robust control, non-cooperative control. He is the author of more than 40 journal papers and 70 conference papers and book chapters on these topics.
Since 2000, he has participated in 17 research projects funded by the European Union (EU) (1 as scientific coordinator of the EU project, 5 as scientific coordinator for the research unit), 2 projects funded by the European Space Agency (ESA), 2 projects funded by the Italian Space Agency (ASI) (1 as scientific coordinator for the research unit) and 3 national projects (1 as scientific coordinator of the project).