Alessandro Giua

Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
University of Cagliari

Via Marengo 2
09123 Cagliari, Italy

Tel: +39-070-675-5751
Email: giua@unica.it
Skype: alessandro.giua

Home page (English): https://alessandro-giua.it/UNICA
Pagina principale (Italiano): https://alessandro-giua.it/UNICA/infoit.html

Publications

Alessandro Giua is a professor at the University of Cagliari (Italy) with the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, where he is a member of the of Automatic Control group.

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 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, II edition, 2009.

From 2013 to 2017 he was a professor at Aix-Marseille University, France with the Computer and Systems Sciences Laboratory (LIS). 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), Université de Valenciennes et du Hainaut-Cambrésis (France), Xidian University (China).

He is Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Fellow of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) and Fellow of the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA). He received the IFAC Outstanding Service Award. In 2017, he was a recipient of the Friendship Award from the People's Republic of China.

Teaching activities

Coordinator of the Ph.D. Program in Electronic and Computer Engineering (DRIEI) of the University of Cagliari.

Current courses at the University of Cagliari

• Elementi di Analisi dei Sistemi (Bachelor in Biomedical Engineering, since 2017)
• Analysis and control of cyber-physical systems (Master in Electronic Engineering, since 2020)

Past courses at the University of Cagliari:

• Analisi dei sistemi (Bachelor in Electronic Engineering, 2002-11)
• Automi e reti di Petri (Master in Electronic Engineering, 2001-2018)
• Automazione industriale (Master in Telecommunications Engineering, 2007)
• Controllo digitale (Master in Electronic Engineering, 2019)
• Modelli stocastici (Master in Internet Technologies Engineering, 2018 and 2020)
• Hybrid systems (PhD course, since 2006)

Recent graduate students

Editorial activities

• Nonlinear Analysis: Hybrid Systems (Editor in chief: 2014-22; Main Editor: 2011-13; Associate Editor: 2006-10)
• IEEE Trans. on Automatic Control (Senior editor: 2017-22; Associate editor: 2001-05)
• Discrete Event Dynamic Systems: Theory and Applications (Department Editor: 2015-20; Associate editor: 2001-14)
• IEEE Trans. on Control Systems Technology (Associate editor: 2006-12)
• European Journal of Control (Associate editor: 2001-05)

Conference activities

• General chair of CDC'16: 55th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (Las Vegas, NV, USA), December 12-14, 2016.
• Chair of ADHS'06: IFAC 2nd Int. Conf. Analysis and Design of Hybrid Systems (Alghero, Italy). 7-9 Jun 2006.
• Chair of WODES'98: 4th Int. Work. on Discrete Event Systems (Cagliari, Italy), 26-28 Aug 1998
• Program Chair of CASE'11: 7th IEEE Int. Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (Trieste, Italy), Aug 24-27, 2011.
• Program Co-Chair of WODES'16, MOSIM'12, ADHS'12, WODES'10, ADHS'09, WODES'08, WODES'02.

International projects

• Coordinator of the FP7-ICT-2007.3.7.(c) project DISC: Distributed Supervisory Control of Large Plants, 1 Sep 2008-31 Dec 2011
• Local coordinator at the Univ. of Cagliari of the ARTEMIS-JU 2012 project ACCUS: Adaptive Cooperative Control in Urban (sub) Systems, Jun 2013-Jan 2016.
• Local coordinator at the Univ. of Cagliari of the FP7-ICT-2009-5 Network of Excellence HYCON2: Highly-complex and networked control systems, Sep 2010-Aug 2014.

Services in scientific societies

IEEE

• Vice President for Conference Activities of the IEEE Control Systems Society (2020-21)
• Member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Control Systems Society (2013-15)
• Member of the Steering Committee of IEEE CASE: Conference Series on Automation Science and Engineering (2011-15)

IFAC

• Member of the IFAC Publications Committee (2014-22)
• Chair of the IFAC Technical Committee 1.3 on Discrete Event and Hybrid Systems (2008-11 and 2011-14)
• Member of the Steering Committee ADHS: IFAC Conference Series on Analysis and Design of Hybrid Systems (2012-2018)

Others

• Member of the Executive Board of SIDRA: Società Italiana Docenti e Ricercatori in Automatica (2010-13)
• Member of the Steering Committe WODES: Workshop Series on Discrete Event Systems (1998-2006)