Collaborators
Antonio Visioli
Professor - ItalyHolds a full professor position in Control Systems at the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering of the University of Brescia. He is a senior member of IEEE, the chair of the IFAC Technical Committee on Education, a member of the Technical Committee on Education of the IEEE Control Systems Society, and the secretary of the subcommittee on Industrial Automated Systems and Control of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society Technical Committee on Factory Automation.
Nicola Latronico
Professor, MD - ItalyProfessor of Anesthesia and Critical Care, University of Brescia, Head of Department of Medical and Surgical Specialties Radiological Sciences and Public Health.
Mirko Fiacchini
PhD Researcher - FranceResearcher at CNRS - HDR GIPSA-lab, Control Systems Department. His research focuses on set-theoretic methods for nonlinear systems, hybrid and switched systems, predictive control strategies, and the modeling and control of biological systems, including anesthesia and cancer dynamics.
Isabela Birs
FWO Postdoctoral ResearcherIsabela Birs is currently a postdoc FWO researcher at Ghent University. She has a PhD in the field of modeling and control of non-Newtonian fluids with multi-industry applicability. Her main research focus is fractional order systems, event-based fractional order control, advanced control strategies, and biomedical systems.
Cristina Muresan
ProfessorFull professor at the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania, with approximately 15 years of experience in controlling multivariable time delay systems. Passionate about developing and implementing new fractional order control algorithms. Current focus on the design and analysis of fractional order controllers for the combined anesthesia and hemodynamic system.
Cosmin Copot
Senior ResearcherExpert in the development of dynamical models for control systems with interdisciplinary applications. He has vast experience in image-based methodologies (using AI tools) with applicability in both technical and biomedical applications. His knowledge will be employed to achieve the exploratory research objectives within this project.
Ascensión Zafra-Cabeza
Associate Professor, University of SevilleAscensión Zafra-Cabeza received the Ph.D. degree from the University of Seville, Seville, Spain, in 2006. She was an Engineer in computer science with the University of Seville, in 1995, where she joined the Escuela Superior de Ingeniería of Seville as an Assistant Lecturer in 2003 and has been an Associate Professor of systems engineering and automatic control since 2016. She has authored or coauthored articles in indexed scientific journals, almost all in Q1–Q2, and contributed to conference papers, including the most important international congresses in the field of control (IFAC World Congress, CDC, ECC, and so on). She is currently the Co-Head of the project PID2019-104149RB-I00 SAFEMPC funded by the Spanish Government and oriented to MPC techniques applied to fault and risk management. Her research interests include fault diagnosis, risk mitigation, and stochastic model-predictive control applied to industrial systems, such as energy systems.
Carlos Bordons
IEEE Fellow, University of Seville, SpainCarlos Bordons (Fellow, IEEE) received the Electrical Engineer and the Ph.D. degrees in automatic control and robotics from the University of Seville, Seville, Spain. Since 2008, he has been a Full Professor with the Department of Systems Engineering and Automatic Control, University of Seville, where he was the Department Head from 2013 to 2017. He was also the Managing Director of AICIA (Research and Industrial Cooperation Association of Andalusia), and since 2015 he has been a Member of the Board of Corporación Tecnológica de Andalucía (CTA), representing Andalusian research groups. He is currently the Founder and the Director of ENGREEN, the Engineering Laboratory for Energy and Environmental Sustainability (established in 2020). He is coauthor of several reference books, including Model Predictive Control in the Process Industry (Springer), Model Predictive Control (three editions, Springer), and Model Predictive Control of Microgrids (Springer). His research interests include advanced process control, particularly model predictive control and its applications to energy systems and green hydrogen. He was a Council Member of the European Union Control Association (EUCA) from 2007 to 2015. He has supervised 18 Ph.D. dissertations in automatic control and was also an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics and Control Engineering Practice. Since 2015, he has been a Visiting Professor with the Federal University of Santa Catarina (Brazil), and since 2020 with the University of Technology Sydney (Australia). He is a Fellow of the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association.
Robert SZABO
Assistant Professor at "Iuliu Hațieganu" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Cluj-NapocaROBERT SZABO received the Ph.D. degree in medicine from the “Iuliu Hațieganu” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, where he is currently an Assistant Lecturer in anesthesiology and intensive care. He is also a practicing Anesthesia and Intensive Care Specialist and a Diplomate of the European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care (DESAIC), with particular emphasis on airway management, advanced life support, simulation-based training, and the management of critically ill patients. His research focuses on inflammatory anemia and iron metabolism in intensive care, as well as on translational and clinical studies in severe COVID-19, difficult airway assessment, and perioperative monitoring.
Teodoro Alamo
Professor, University of SevillaTeodoro Alamo was born in Spain in 1968. He received the M.Eng. degree in telecommunications engineering from the Polytechnic University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain, in 1993 and the Ph.D. degree in telecommunications engineering from the University of Seville, Seville, Spain, in 1998. From 1993 to 2000, he was an Assistant Professor with the Department of System Engineering and Automatic Control, University of Seville, where he was an Associate Professor from 2001 to 2010 and has been a Full Professor since March 2010. He was at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Tèlècommunications (Telecom Paris) from September 1991 to May 1993. Part of his Ph.D. was done at RWTH Aachen, Alemania, from June to September 1995. He is the author or co-author of more than 200 publications including books, book chapters, journal papers, conference proceedings, and educational books.
Massimiliano Paltenghi
Medical Doctor at Spedali Civili di BresciaMassimiliano Paltenghi is an anesthesiologist at the Brescia Hospital with fifteen years of practice experience, using of the latest industry equipment and technology. He has been the supervisor of medical students, fellows, and residents. He has also been the author or co-author of several medical articles on current anaesthesia techniques that has been published in professional journals. From 2019 he is also operating room manager, so that he is in charge of the supervision of the planning, implementation and evaluation of patient care programs for the perioperative patient population, working with associated services and clinics as appropriate. He is the principal medical investigator of the ACTIVA project.
Former Collaborators
Martine Neckebroek
Dr. MD. Anesthetist - Belgium 2016-2024
Ghada Ben Othman
PhD ResearcherMotivated and dedicated PhD researcher working on artificial intelligence algorithms for scarce data. Eager to make great progress in the development of methodologies for objective pain assessment.
I will focus on the development of artificial intelligence algorithms for pain prediction.
