Assistant Professor Alberto Padoan was born in Ferrara, Italy, in 1989. He received his M.Sc. degree (Laurea Magistrale) cum laude in Automation Engineering from the University of Padua in 2013 and his Ph.D. in Control Theory from Imperial College London in 2018. His dissertation was awarded the IET Control & Automation Doctoral Dissertation Prize (2018) and the Eryl Cadwallader Davies Prize (2020).
From 2017 to 2021, he was a Research Associate in the Control Group at the University of Cambridge and a member of Sidney Sussex College. In 2021, he joined ETH Zurich’s Automatic Control Laboratory and NCCR Automation, first as a Postdoctoral Scholar and later as a Senior Scientist.
He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of British Columbia. His research focuses on the modeling, analysis, and control of complex dynamical systems, with an emphasis on biological applications, large-scale cyber-physical systems, and the interplay between data, learning, and control.
Research Interests
Optimization, Learning, Control, Mathematical Biology, Cyber-Physical Systems, Traffic Networks