Alessandro Giua

Publications

Alessandro Giua is professor of Automatic Control at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering of the University of Cagliari, Italy.

He received the Laurea degree in electric engineering from the University of Cagliari, Italy in 1988, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer and systems engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, in 1990 and 1992. He joined the University of Cagliari in 1994 as assistant professor, becoming associate professor in 1998 and full professor in 2005.

His research interests include discrete event systems, hybrid systems, networked control systems, automated manufacturing, Petri nets, control of mechanical systems, failure diagnosis. He maintains a web page on hybrid Petri nets. He co-authored, with Angela Di Febbraro, the book Sistemi ad eventi discreti, McGraw-Hill Italia, 2002, and co-authored with Carla Seatzu the book Analisi dei sistemi dinamici, Springer-Verlag Italia, 2005.

He has been a visiting researcher at: Universidad de Zaragoza (Spain), INRIA Rocquencourt e Lorraine (France), Université d'Angers (France), Université de Metz (France), CINVESTAV  Guadalajara (Mexico), Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon (France), Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan (France), Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne (France), Otto-von-Guericke Universität Magdeburg (Germany), Ecole Centrale de Lille (France), Université Paul Cézanne - Aix-Marseille III (France), Zhejiang University (China).

He teaches the courses:

• Systems Analysis. 6 credits. Electrical and Electronic Engineering.
• Automata and Petri Nets. 5 credits. Electrical and Electronic Engineering.
• Hybrid Systems. 3 credits. Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

He is the director of the PhD School in Information Engineering and coordinator of the PhD Program in Electronic and Computer Engineering of the University of Cagliari.

[Recent graduate students]

He is a member of the editorial board of the journals:

• Discrete Event Dynamic Systems: Theory and Applications;
• IEEE Trans. on Control Systems Technology;
• Nonlinear Analysis: Hybrid Systems;
• e-STA, e-revue des Sciences et Technologies de l’Automatique.

He is Chapter Activities chair of the Member Activities Board of the IEEE Control Systems Society, chair of the IFAC Technical Committee 1.3 on Discrete Event and Hybrid Systems, member of IFAC Technical Committee 6.4 SAFEPROCESS. He was a member of the WODES Steering Committe (1998-2006).

Current activities:

• Program committee co-chair for ADHS'09: 3rd IFAC conference on the Analysis and Design of Hybrid Systems (Zaragoza, Spain), 16-18 Sep 2009.
• Area editor for CDC-CCC'09: 48th IEEE Conf. on Decision and Control and Chinese Control Conference (Shanghai, China), 16-18 Dec 2009.
• Member of the program committee for these incoming conferences:
  • MMAR'09: 14th IFAC International Conference on Methods and Models in Automation and Robotics (Miedzyzdroje, Poland). 19-21 August 2009.
  • CASE'09: 5th IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (Bangalore, India). 22-25 August 2009.
  • POSTA'09: 3rd Multidisciplinary International Symposium on Positive Systems: Theory and Application (Valencia, Spain). 2-4 Sep 2009.
  • FMA'09: Int. Work. on Formal Methods for Aerospace (Eindhoven, the Netherlands). 3 November 2009.
  • MSR'09: 7ième Colloque Francophone sur la Modélisation des Systèmes Réactifs (Nantes, France). 16-18 Nov 2009.
  • WHCM'10: IEEE Workshop on Health Care Management (Venice, Italy), February 18-20, 2010
  • MOSIM'10: 8ème Conférence Internationale de Modélisation et Simulation (Hammamet, Tunisia), 10-12 May 2010.
  • CIFA'10: 6ème Conférence Internationale Francophone d'Automatique (Nancy, France), 2-4 Jun 2010.

Dr. Giua is senior member of the IEEE and member of SIDRA: Società Italiana Docenti e Ricercatori in Automatica.