CV

Short bio

Saverio Bolognani received the Ph.D. degree in Information Engineering from the University of Padova, Italy, in 2011. In 2006-2007, he was a visiting graduate student at the University of California at San Diego. In 2013-2014, he was a Postdoctoral Associate at the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge (MA). He is currently a Senior Scientist at the Automatic Control Laboratory at ETH Zurich. His research interests include the application of networked control system theory to power systems, cyber-physical systems, the intersection of nonlinear optimization with feedback control design, multi-agent systems, and game theory.

I am currently affiliated with the Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) Automation. Here is a short video about my interests!

Education

I received my Ph.D. degree in Information Engineering in 2011 from the University of Padova in Italy, under the supervision of Prof. Sandro Zampieri.

Before that, I received my M.Sc. degree in Automation Engineering, also from the University of Padova in Italy. During my graduate studies, in 2006/07, I was a visiting student at the University of California, San Diego, where I wrote my M.Sc. thesis under the supervision of Prof. Miroslav Kristić.

Research positions

In 2013-2014 I was Postdoc at the Laboratory for Information & Decision Systems at MIT, in the group of Prof. Munther Dahleh.

I have been at the Automatic Control Laboratory at ETH Zurich since 2015, in Prof. Florian Dörfler's group.

Research projects

  • 2021 NCCR Automation collaborative project "Urban driving games" (PI: Florian Dörfler, Emilio Frazzoli)

  • 2021 NCCR Automation collaborative project "Dynamic population games for efficient autonomous mobility" (PI: Florian Dörfler, Emilio Frazzoli)

  • 2019 [Principal Investigator] Swiss Federal Office of Energy project "UNICORN - A unified control framework for real-time power system operation"

  • 2019 [Principal Investigator] EU H2020 ERIGrid grant "TEAMVAR2 - Networked feedback control of distributed energy resources for real-time voltage regulation"

  • 2017 [Principal Investigator] EU H2020 ERIGrid grant "TEAMVAR - Networked feedback control of distributed energy resources for real-time voltage regulation"

  • 2016 EU H2020 project "MIGRATE - Massive integration of power electronic devices" (PI: Florian Dörfler, Gabriela Hug)

  • 2013 MIT & Masdar Institute program "Information and Decision Architectures for Robustness, Resilience, and Risk Mitigation in Power Grids" (PI: Munther Dahleh)

  • 2013 MIT-Siemens cooperation "Electric mobility and electric vehicle grid integration" (PI: Mardavij Roozbehani)

  • 2010 EU FP7 project "FeedNetBack - Feedback design for wireless networked systems" (PI: Sandro Zampieri)

Honors and awards

  • 2020 ETH Medal for Outstanding Master Thesis (student: Ezzat Elokda)

  • 2020 SGA Förderpreis Award (student: Verena Häberle)

  • 2020 ETH Medal for Outstanding Master Thesis (student: Verena Häberle)

  • 2017 Basil Papadias Student Paper Award (students: A. Hauswirth and A. Zanardi), IEEE PES PowerTech

  • 2016 Best Student Paper Award finalist (student: B. K. Poolla), American Control Conference

  • 2011 "Ottavio Bonazzi 2011" Award, AICT (ICT section of the AEIT)

  • 2009 Best Student Paper Award, NecSys 09

  • 2007 Provost’s Honor, Thurgood Marshall College, University of California, San Diego

  • 2006 Innovation Prize, IEEE First Region 8 Robotic Contest