Brief Bio

Luca Furieri is an SNSF Ambizione Fellow at EPF Lausanne since January 2023. His research focuses on learning and optimal control for distributed decision-making and large-scale safety critical applications.

Previously, he has been a Postdoctoral researcher at the Automatic Control Laboratory, EPFL, working in Giancarlo Ferrari Trecate's group, DECODE. In September 2020, he has received the Ph.D. degree in Control and Optimization from ETH - Zurich in the Automatic Control Laboratory (IfA) under the supervision of Prof. Maryam Kamgarpour. He has received the Bachelor and Master degrees in Automation Engineering from the University of Bologna, both with honours, in 2014 and 2016 respectively.

He has received the SNSF Ambizione career grant in 2022, and the SNSF Postdoc.mobility grant in 2020. His papers have been awarded the IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems Best Paper Award in 2022, the European Control Conference Best Paper Award (finalist) in 2019, and the American Control Conference O. Hugo Schuck Best Paper Award in 2018.