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Adriano Festa

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Associate Professor (L. 240)
Department of Mathematical Sciences (DISMA)

  • Member Specialising Master’s Programmes and Lifelong Learning School
  • Referente delle materie di base del 1° anno di Ingegneria

Profile

Keywords

Controllo ottimo
Equazioni a derivate parziali
Metodi numerici problemi differenziali

Biography

Associate Professor at Politecnico di Torino, specializing in numerical analysis, optimal control, PDEs, mean-field models, and high-performance computing. Since 2022 he has been Associate Professor at Politecnico di Torino. Previously, he held research positions at the University of L’Aquila, INSA Rouen (France), RICAM – Austrian Academy of Sciences (Austria), ENSTA ParisTech, and Imperial College London. He has also been a visiting researcher at several international institutions, including the University of Waterloo, KAUST, the University of Mannheim, and PUC-Rio. He has served as Principal Investigator for international projects on mean-field games, traffic modeling, and numerical simulation, and has participated in several national PRIN research projects. His research focuses on mathematical models for collective dynamics, transportation networks, differential games, Hamilton–Jacobi equations, and advanced numerical simulations. He has extensive teaching experience in undergraduate, master’s, and PhD courses in Numerical Computing, Applied Mathematics, PDEs, and Control Systems at Politecnico di Torino and other European universities. He earned a PhD in Mathematics from Sapienza University of Rome in 2012 with a dissertation on Hamilton–Jacobi equations. He also graduated with honors in Mathematics for Applications and in Mathematics. Author of numerous international publications in journals such as SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis, Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, and Dynamic Games and Applications, he also serves as reviewer for leading scientific journals in applied mathematics and control theory. In addition, he regularly organizes international conferences and seminars in numerical analysis and optimal control. Languages: Italian (native), English (C2), French (C1). Technical skills: C/C++, MPI, MATLAB, Mathematica, Maple.

Scientific branch

MATH-05/A - Numerical Analysis
(Area 0001 - Mathematical and computer sciences)

Research topics

  • Analysis and Numerics of PDE, High Performances Computing. Optimal control, Multi-agents systems, Mean-field models,

Skills

ERC sectors

PE1_22 - Application of mathematics in industry and society
PE1_20 - Control theory, optimisation and operational research
PE1_18 - Numerical analysis

SDG

Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities
Goal 14: Life below water

Fellowships

Editorial boards

  • JOURNAL OF DYNAMICS AND GAMES (2021), Guest Editor of magazine or editorial series
  • LECTURE NOTES IN MATHEMATICS (2017), Other editorial activities

Conferences

  • M-day III - Numerics for Controls, PDEs and Images (27/11/2025-28/11/2025), Participation to the organizing committee
  • W-Math (1/12/2022-2/12/2022), Participation to the organizing committee
  • Rencontres Normandes sur les aspects theoriques et numeriques des EDP (5/10/2019-9/10/2019), Participation to the organizing committee

Other research or teaching roles outside Politecnico

  • Ricercatore/Ricercatrice a t.d. - t.pieno (art. 24 c.3-a L. 240/10), presso Università degli Studi dell'AQUILA (2/11/2018-22/7/2019)
  • Ricercatore/Ricercatrice, presso Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Rouen (1/12/2016-30/11/2018)
  • Ricercatore/Ricercatrice, presso Johann Radon Institute for Computational and Applied Mathematics (1/12/2014-1/12/2016)
  • Ricercatore/Ricercatrice, presso ENSTA ParisTech (1/11/2013-1/11/2014)
  • Ricercatore/Ricercatrice, presso Imperial College London (1/3/2012-1/9/2013)
  • Borsista, presso Università degli Studi di ROMA "La Sapienza" (1/9/2009-1/6/2010)
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Non-commercial collaboration agreements

Teaching

Collegi of the degree programmes

Teachings

PhD

MostraNascondi A.A. passati

Master of Science

MostraNascondi A.A. passati

Bachelor of Science

MostraNascondi A.A. passati

Research

Research groups

Other activities and projects related to research

Nonlinear Hyperbolic Partial Differential Equations, Optimal Control, Numerical Modelling.

Publications

Last years publications

Publications by type

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