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Academic
activities
Professor of Automatic Control
Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
Director of the System Dynamics Laboratoy
Past activities
1985: Lecturer of Numerical Analysis
1986-1992: Research Associate of Dynamic System Theory
1992-2000: Associate Professor of Automatic Control
Biography
Franco Blanchini was born on December 29, 1959, in Legnano, Italy. He is the Director of the Laboratory of System Dynamics at the University of Udine. He has played an active role in organizing several international conferences. Notably, he served as Program Vice-Chair of the Joint CDC-ECC 2005 (Seville, Spain); Program Vice-Chair of CDC 2008 (Cancun, Mexico); Program Chair of ROCOND 2012 (Aalborg, Denmark); and Program Vice-Chair of CDC 2013 (Florence, Italy). He is co-author of the book Set Theoretic Methods in Control (Birkhäuser) and has received several prestigious awards. He was co-recipient of the 2001 ASME Oil & Gas Application Committee Best Paper Award for the article Experimental Evaluation of a High-Gain Control for Compressor Surge Instability. In 2002, he received the IFAC Survey Paper Prize for his article Set Invariance in Control – A Survey (Automatica, November 1999), which was later recognized with a High Impact Paper Award. In 2017, he received the Nonlinear Analysis: Hybrid Systems Best Paper Award for the paper A Switching System Approach to Dynamic Race Modeling (Nonlinear Analysis: Hybrid Systems, vol. 21, no. 8, pp. 37–48, 2016). He has delivered several invited lectures, including the plenary lecture Lyapunov and Invariance Methods in Control Design at the IFAC Joint Conference (Grenoble, February 2013); the plenary lecture Set Invariance and Lyapunov Methods at the 32nd Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control; and the semi-plenary lecture Structural Analysis: The Control Language to Understand Mechanisms at the 59th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (Jeju Island, Republic of Korea, December 14–18, 2020). He served as an Associate Editor for Automatica from 1996 to 2006 and again from 2017 to 2020, and for IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control from 2012 to 2016. He was also an Editor for IEEE CSS Letters from 2016 to 2018. Outside of his academic work, he is a passionate rock climber and plays the violin. He is a member of the University of Udine Orchestra.
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CONFERENCES COMMITTEES
1997: member of the program committee of the Conference on Decision and Control, S. Diego, California;
1999: member of the program committee of the Conference on Decision and Control, Phoenix, Arizona;
2001: member of the program committee of the Conference on Decision and Control, Orlando, Florida:
2003: member of the program committee of the Conference on Decision and Control, Maui Hawaii;
2009: member of the program committee of the
Conference Rocond 09, Haifa, Israele.
ACTIVITY AS
CHAIRMAN OR CO-CHAIRMAN IN CONFERENCES
2002: Program Chairman of the workshop on Uncertain Dynamical Systems of the IFAC Technical Committee on Robust Control, Cascais, Portugal, July 18-20, 2002.
2005: Program Vice-Chairman for the conference Joint CDC-ECC, Seville, Spain, December 2005.
2008: Program Vice-Chairman for Tutorial Sessions for the conference CDC08, Cancun, Mexico, December 2008.
2012: Program Chairman for the conference IFAC ROCOND, Aalborg, 2012.
2013: Vice-Program Chairman for tutorial sessions of the conference 52th Conference on Decision and Control, Firenze, Italy, Dicembre 2013.
PLENARY LECTURES
2000: coauthor of the plenary lecture "Minicourse on Saturation in Control" al 19th Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control, 2000.
2013: plenary lecture "Lyapunov and invariance methods in control design", IFAC Joint conference, Grenoble, February 4, 2013.
AWARDS
2001: recipient of 2001 ASME Oil & Gas Application Committee Best Paper Award as a co-author of the article F. Blanchini and P. Giannattasio, P. Pinamonti and D. Micheli, "Experimental Evaluation of a High--Gain Control for Compressor Surge Suppression", ASME Journal on Turbomachinery, Vol. 124, no.1, pp.27-35, 2002;
2002: recipient of the 2002 IFAC prize survey paper award as author of the article F. Blanchini, ``Set invariance in control", Automatica, no. 11, pp.1747--1768, Nov. 1999
2006: recipient of the Automatica Certificate of Outstanding Service.
2017: Certificate for excellence in reviewing for NAHS Nonlinear Analysis: Hybrid Systems.
2017: recipient of the IFAC High Impact Paper Award for the paper F. Blanchini, ``Set invariance in control", Automatica, no. 11, pp.1747--1768, Nov. 1999.
2017: recipient of the IFAC Prize Nonlinear Analysis and Hybrid Systems Best Paper Award for he paper “A switching system approach to dynamic race modeling, Nonlinear Analysis and Hybrid Systems, vol. 21, no. 8, pp. 37-48, 2016.
EDITORIAL ACTIVITY
1996-2006: Associate Editor of Automatica.
2011-2015: Associate Editor for the journal IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
2017-today: Associate Editor of Automatica.
2016-2017: Senior Editor for the journal IEEE CSS Letters.
2018: Guest Editor for the journal IEEE CSS Letters, special issue on: Control and network theory for Biological systems, April 2019.
BOOKS
co-author of the book: "Set-theoretic methods in control", Franco Blanchini and Stefano Miani, 2nd Edition, Birkhauser, Boston, 2015.