Mario Milanese
Founder

Ordinary professor of Systems and Control Theory at the Politecnico of Turin, Italy. From 1982 to 1987 Director of the newborn Department of Automation and Information Technology. In 2004 founded Modelway, an academic spin-off at the Incubator for Innovative Enterprises of the Politecnico of Turin. Has been visiting professor at the Massachusset Institute of Technology, University of California Berkeley, Princeton University, Tokyo University, Warsaw University, Columbia University.

Author of more than 200 works on papers and international congresses focused on modelization, simulation, prediction and control of complex systems and their application to biomedical, automotive, aerospatial, economic, environmental and energy problems. Co-author of two books “Robustness in Identification and Control”, Plenum Press, New York, 1989; “Bounding Approaches to System Identification”, Plenum Press, New York, 1996.

Honoured with the International Huspy Awards for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, 1984 and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Fellowship, 1999. Inventor of four patents related to automotive and control of power kites.

Holds a 1967 degree in Electronic Engineering from the Politecnico of Turin.