Simone Formentin
Professor- Head of the Group
Simone Formentin was born in Legnano, Italy, in 1984. He received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees cum laude in Automation and Control Engineering from Politecnico di Milano, Italy, in 2006 and 2008, respectively. In 2012, he obtained his Ph.D. degree cum laude in Information Technology within a joint program between Politecnico di Milano and Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Austria. After that, he held two postdoctoral appointments at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland and the University of Bergamo, Italy, respectively. Since 2014, he has been with Politecnico di Milano, first as an assistant professor, then as an associate professor. He is the chair of the IEEE TC on System Identification and Adaptive Control, the social media representative of the IFAC TC on Robust Control and a member of the IFAC TC on Modelling, Identification and Signal Processing. He is an Associate Editor of Automatica and the European Journal of Control. His research interests include system identification and data-driven control with a focus on automotive and financial applications.