Associate Professor
Department of Electronics and Telecommunications (DET)
- Member of Interdepartmental Center PIC4SeR - PoliTO Interdepartmental Centre for Service Robotics
Profile
Research interests
Biography
Alessandro Rizzo received the Laurea degree (summa cum laude) in computer engineering and the Ph.D. degree in automation and electronics engineering from the University of Catania, Italy, in 1996, and 2000, respectively. In 1998, he worked as EURATOM Research Fellow at JET Joint Undertaking, Abingdon, U.K., researching on sensor validation and fault diagnosis for nuclear fusion experiments. In 2000 and 2001, he worked as Research Consultant to ST Microelectronics, Catania Site, Italy, and as Industry Professor of Robotics at the University of Messina, Italy. From 2002 to 2015 he was a tenured Assistant Professor at Politecnico di Bari, Italy, where he conducted and supervised research on modeling and control of nonlinear systems, robotics, complex networks and systems, distributed estimation and control, and dynamical systems theory. In November 2015, he joined the Politecnico di Torino, Italy, as a tenured Associate Professor in the Department of Control and Computer Engineering. From 2012, he has also been a Visiting Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering of the New York University Tandon School of Engineering, Brooklyn, NY, USA. Prof. Rizzo is engaged in conducting and supervising research on complex networks and systems, modeling and control of nonlinear systems, cooperative robotics. He is author of two books, two international patents, and more than 100 papers on international journals and conference proceedings. Prof. Rizzo has been the recipient of the award for the best application paper at the IFAC world triennial conference in 2002 and of the award for the most read papers in Mathematics and Computers in Simulation (Elsevier) in 2009. Prof. Rizzo is also a Distinguished Lecture of the IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Science Society.
Scientific branch
(Area 0009 - Industrial and information engineering)
Skills
ERC sectors
SDG
Awards and Honors
- Borsa Erasmus conferred by Comunità Europea, Italy (1995)
- Best Paper Award SOCO/ISFI Conference conferred by International Computing Sciences Conferences ICSC, Italy (2001)
- Award Winning Application Paper conferred by IFAC International Federation of Automatic Control, United States (2002)
- IEEE Distinguished Lecturer conferred by IEEE, United States (2007)
- IEEE Senior Member conferred by IEEE, United States (2008)
- Most 10 read papers on on Mathematics and Computers in Simulation (Elsevier) conferred by IMACS International Association for Mathematics and Computers in Simulation, Belgium (2009)
- IMACS (International Association for Mathematics and Computers in Simulation) Honor Member conferred by IMACS (International Association for Mathematics and Computers in Simulation), Belgium (2010)
- Scolarship H2CU Honors Center of Italian Universities conferred by H2CU Honors Center of Italian Universities, Italy (2012)
- Migliore presentazione SIDRA Società Italiana Docenti e Ricercatori in Automatica conferred by SIDRA Società Italiana Docenti e Ricercatori in Automatica, Italy (2012)
- APS Highlight in Physics - Synopsis conferred by APS - American Physical Society, United States (2014)
Fellowships
- Executive Committee member - Italy Chapter della IEEE Control Systems Society, Italia (2023-2025)
- Steering Committe member - SICC - Società Italiana Caos e Complessità, Italia (2018-2025)
Editorial boards
- IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CONTROL OF NETWORK SYSTEMS (2022-), Associate Editor of magazine or editorial series
- IEEE CONTROL SYSTEMS LETTERS (2022-), Associate Editor of magazine or editorial series
- JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE (2021-), Associate Editor of magazine or editorial series
- JOURNAL OF INTELLIGENT & ROBOTIC SYSTEMS (2020-), Associate Editor of magazine or editorial series
- PLOS ONE (2018-), Associate Editor of magazine or editorial series
Conferences
- ICUAS - International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (4/6/2024-7/6/2023), Invited Session Chair
- COMPENG Complexity in Engineering, Program chair
Other research or teaching roles outside Politecnico
- Visiting Professor, presso New York University (1/9/2013-31/5/2015)
- Visiting Professor, presso New York University (1/5/2012-31/8/2012)
- Visiting Researcher, presso New York University (1/5/2012-31/5/2015)
- Professore a contratto, presso Università degli Studi di MESSINA (1/11/1999-30/6/2002)
- Titolare di contratto di ricerca, presso STMICROELECTRONICS S.R.L (ITALY) (1/11/1999-31/10/2001)
- Visiting Researcher, presso ENEA Agenzia nazionale per le nuove tecnologie, l'energia e lo sviluppo economico sostenibile (1/1/1999-31/12/2002)
- Visiting Researcher, presso European Fusion Development Agreement (1/3/1998-31/12/1998)
- Visiting Researcher, presso Institut national de recherche en informatique et en automatique INRIA (1/1/1995-31/7/1995)
Teaching
PhD Boards
- INGEGNERIA ELETTRICA, ELETTRONICA E DELLE COMUNICAZIONI, 2021/2022 (38. ciclo)
Politecnico di TORINO - ROBOTICS AND INTELLIGENT MACHINES, 2021/2022 (38. ciclo)
Università degli Studi di GENOVA - INGEGNERIA ELETTRICA, ELETTRONICA E DELLE COMUNICAZIONI, 2020/2021 (37. ciclo)
Politecnico di TORINO - INGEGNERIA ELETTRICA, ELETTRONICA E DELLE COMUNICAZIONI, 2019/2020 (36. ciclo)
Politecnico di TORINO - INGEGNERIA ELETTRICA, ELETTRONICA E DELLE COMUNICAZIONI, 2018/2019 (35. ciclo)
Politecnico di TORINO - INGEGNERIA ELETTRICA, ELETTRONICA E DELLE COMUNICAZIONI, 2017/2018 (34. ciclo)
Politecnico di TORINO - INGEGNERIA ELETTRICA, ELETTRONICA E DELLE COMUNICAZIONI, 2016/2017 (33. ciclo)
Politecnico di TORINO - INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA E DEI SISTEMI, 2015/2016 (32. ciclo)
Politecnico di TORINO - INGEGNERIA ELETTRICA E DELL'INFORMAZIONE, 2014/2015 (31. ciclo)
Politecnico di BARI - INGEGNERIA ELETTRICA E DELL'INFORMAZIONE, 2012/2013 (29. ciclo)
Politecnico di BARI - INGEGNERIA ELETTRICA E DELL'INFORMAZIONE, 2011/2012 (28. ciclo)
Politecnico di BARI - INGEGNERIA ELETTRICA E DELL'INFORMAZIONE, 2010/2011 (27. ciclo)
Politecnico di BARI - INGEGNERIA ELETTRICA E DELL'INFORMAZIONE, 2009/2010 (26. ciclo)
Politecnico di BARI - INGEGNERIA DELL'INFORMAZIONE, 2008/2009 (25. ciclo)
Politecnico di BARI - INGEGNERIA DELL'INFORMAZIONE, 2007/2008 (24. ciclo)
Politecnico di BARI - INGEGNERIA DELL'INFORMAZIONE, 2006/2007 (23. ciclo)
Politecnico di BARI - INGEGNERIA DELL'INFORMAZIONE, 2005/2006 (22. ciclo)
Politecnico di BARI
Courses of Study Boards
Teachings
PhD
- The art of manipulation in robotics and metaverses (didattica di eccellenza). A.A. 2021/22, INGEGNERIA ELETTRICA, ELETTRONICA E DELLE COMUNICAZIONI. Main teacher
- The art of manipulation in robotics and metaverses (didattica di eccellenza). A.A. 2022/23, INGEGNERIA ELETTRICA, ELETTRONICA E DELLE COMUNICAZIONI. Main teacher
- Navigation and Control of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) : A Comprehensive Approach (didattica di eccellenza). A.A. 2021/22, INGEGNERIA ELETTRICA, ELETTRONICA E DELLE COMUNICAZIONI. Main teacher
- PRINCIPI, MATERIALI E APPLICAZIONI DELLA ROBOTICA IN BIOMEDICINA 2. A.A. 2022/23, BIOINGEGNERIA E SCIENZE MEDICO-CHIRURGICHE. Teaching assistant
Master of Science
- Automation and planning of production systems. A.A. 2017/18, INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA (COMPUTER ENGINEERING). Titolare del corso
- Automation and planning of production systems. A.A. 2018/19, INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA (COMPUTER ENGINEERING). Titolare del corso
- Automation and planning of production systems. A.A. 2019/20, INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA (COMPUTER ENGINEERING). Titolare del corso
- Automation and planning of production systems. A.A. 2020/21, INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA (COMPUTER ENGINEERING). Titolare del corso
- Automation and planning of production systems. A.A. 2021/22, INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA (COMPUTER ENGINEERING). Titolare del corso
- Automation and planning of production systems. A.A. 2022/23, INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA (COMPUTER ENGINEERING). Titolare del corso
- Automation and planning of production systems. A.A. 2023/24, INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA (COMPUTER ENGINEERING). Titolare del corso
- Robotics. A.A. 2017/18, MECHATRONIC ENGINEERING (INGEGNERIA MECCATRONICA). Titolare del corso
- Robotics. A.A. 2018/19, MECHATRONIC ENGINEERING (INGEGNERIA MECCATRONICA). Titolare del corso
- Robotics. A.A. 2019/20, MECHATRONIC ENGINEERING (INGEGNERIA MECCATRONICA). Titolare del corso
- Robotics. A.A. 2020/21, MECHATRONIC ENGINEERING (INGEGNERIA MECCATRONICA). Titolare del corso
- Robotics. A.A. 2021/22, MECHATRONIC ENGINEERING (INGEGNERIA MECCATRONICA). Titolare del corso
- Robotics. A.A. 2022/23, MECHATRONIC ENGINEERING (INGEGNERIA MECCATRONICA). Titolare del corso
- Robotics. A.A. 2023/24, MECHATRONIC ENGINEERING (INGEGNERIA MECCATRONICA). Titolare del corso
- Challenge@CLIK - PeopleFlowing. A.A. 2019/20, ARCHITETTURA COSTRUZIONE CITTA'. Collaboratore del corso
Research
Research fields
- Modeling and Control of Mobility-on-Demand Systems
- Modeling, optimization, and control of complex and networked systems
- Unmanned aerial vehicles for smart cities
- Data-driven control of autonomous vehicle and fleets
- Control of mobility-on-demand systems
- Innovative robotic solutions for planetary exploration missions
- Combined grey-black-box (GBB) model identification.
Research groups
Research projects
Projects funded by competitive calls
- CNMS - Spoke 1 - Sustainable Mobility Center (Centro Nazionale per la Mobilità Sostenibile – CNMS) - Spoke 1 , (2022-2025) - Responsabile Scientifico di Struttura
PNRR – Mission 4 - PHYSINFORM - Physics-Informed Machine Learning for Trustworthy Control of Autonomous Robots , (2022-2023) - Responsabile Scientifico
Non-EU international research - SINAV - Soluzioni Innovative per la Navigazione Autonoma Veloce – SINAV , (2021-2023) - Responsabile Scientifico
ASI Research - Mac2Mic - Macro to Micro: uncovering the hidden mechanisms driving network dynamics , (2018-2020) - Responsabile Scientifico
National Research - Multi-modal crowd sensing to monitor buildings in smart cities , (2017-2018) - Responsabile Scientifico
Non-EU international research
Projects funded by commercial contracts
- Intelligenza artificiale per la gestione di una flotta di velivoli autonomi , (2022-2024) - Componente gruppo di Ricerca
Commercial Research - “Realization of a demonstrator for autonomous robotics applications” , (2022-2022) - Responsabile Scientifico
Commercial Research - Intelligenza artificiale per l’autonomia dei velivoli , (2021-2022) - Responsabile Scientifico
Commercial Research - Connected Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMR): coordination in outdoor and indoor environments - Progetto N. 13 , (2021-2021) - Responsabile Scientifico
Commercial Research - Connected autonomous mobile robots (AMR): coordination in outdoor environments - Progetto N. 14 , (2020-2020) - Responsabile Scientifico
Commercial Research - Connected Drone: Cloud-based Framework for multilayer planning , (2018-2018) - Responsabile Scientifico
Commercial Research - Progetto n.2 - Connected Drone: Cloud-based Framework of risk-aware intelligent navigation , (2017-2017) - Responsabile Scientifico
Commercial Research
Supervised PhD students
- Lorenzo Calogero. Programme in Ingegneria Elettrica, Elettronica E Delle Comunicazioni (cycle 38, 2022-in progress)
Research subject: Machine Learning and data-driven Model Predictive Control for fuel cell hybrid EVs power management
Big Data, Machine Learning, Neural Networks and Data Science Mechatronics and robotics Systems, Automation and Control - Yuan Cao. Programme in Ingegneria Elettrica, Elettronica E Delle Comunicazioni (cycle 38, 2022-in progress)
Research subject: Reinforcement learning control, continually updated the control law over measured performance
Big Data, Machine Learning, Neural Networks and Data Science Mechatronics and robotics Systems, Automation and Control - Jinze Wu. Programme in Ingegneria Elettrica, Elettronica E Delle Comunicazioni (cycle 38, 2022-in progress)
Research subject: Complex and networked systems, Multi-agent systems, Distributed Control, Cooperative Localization
Systems, Automation and Control - Zhipeng Ding. Programme in Ingegneria Elettrica, Elettronica E Delle Comunicazioni (cycle 37, 2021-in progress)
- Giada Galati. Programme in Ingegneria Elettrica, Elettronica E Delle Comunicazioni (cycle 36, 2020-in progress)
Research subject: Humans-robot interaction
Mechatronics and robotics Systems, Automation and Control - Weibin Gu. Programme in Ingegneria Elettrica, Elettronica E Delle Comunicazioni (cycle 36, 2020-in progress)
Research subject: Autonomous Robots with Data-driven Modeling and Control Techniques
Big Data, Machine Learning, Neural Networks and Data Science Mechatronics and robotics - Francesco Parino. Programme in Ingegneria Elettrica, Elettronica E Delle Comunicazioni (cycle 35, 2019-2023)
Thesis: Mathematical modeling and control of epidemics as decision support systems to steer effective public health policies
Big Data, Machine Learning, Neural Networks and Data Science Modeling, simulation and CAD - Francesco Vincenzo Surano. Programme in Ingegneria Elettrica, Elettronica E Delle Comunicazioni (cycle 34, 2018-2023)
Thesis: Unveiling human interactions : approaches and techniques toward the discovery and representation of interactions in networks
Big Data, Machine Learning, Neural Networks and Data Science Modeling, simulation and CAD Systems, Automation and Control Big Data, Machine Learning, Neural Networks and Data Science Modeling, simulation and CAD Systems, Automation and Control
Publications
Last years publications
Publications by type
Latest publications View all publications in Porto@Iris
- Rinaldi, Marco; Primatesta, Stefano; Guglieri, Giorgio; Rizzo, Alessandro (2023)
Multi-Auctioneer Market-based Task Scheduling for Persistent Drone Delivery. In: 2023 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), Warsaw (PL), 6-9 Giugno 2023, pp. 790-797. ISBN: 979-8-3503-1037-5
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding) - Zino, Lorenzo; Barzel, Baruch; Rizzo, Alessandro (2023)
Network Science and Automation. In: Springer Handbook of Automation / Nof, S.Y., Cham, Svizzera, Springer, Cham, pp. 251-274. ISBN: 978-3-030-96728-4
Contributo in Volume - Galati, Giada; Primatesta, Stefano; Rizzo, Alessandro (2023)
Auction-Based Task Allocation and Motion Planning for Multi-Robot Systems with Human Supervision. In: JOURNAL OF INTELLIGENT & ROBOTIC SYSTEMS, vol. 109. ISSN 0921-0296
Contributo su Rivista - Truszkowska, A; Zino, L; Butail, S; Caroppo, E; Jiang, Zp; Rizzo, A; Porfiri, M (2023)
Exploring a COVID-19 Endemic Scenario: High-Resolution Agent-Based Modeling of Multiple Variants. In: ADVANCED THEORY AND SIMULATIONS, vol. 6. ISSN 2513-0390
Contributo su Rivista - Zino, Lorenzo; Rizzo, Alessandro; Porfiri, Maurizio (2023)
The impact of deniers on epidemics: A temporal network model. In: IEEE CONTROL SYSTEMS LETTERS, vol. 7, pp. 685-690. ISSN 2475-1456
Contributo su Rivista - Burbano Lombana, Daniel Alberto; Zino, Lorenzo; Butail, Sachit; Caroppo, Emanuele; ... (2022)
Activity‑driven network modeling and control of the spread of two concurrent epidemic strains. In: APPLIED NETWORK SCIENCE, vol. 7, pp. 1-27. ISSN 2364-8228
Contributo su Rivista - Rinaldi, Marco; Primatesta, Stefano; Guglieri, Giorgio; Rizzo, Alessandro (2022)
Auction-based Task Allocation for Safe and Energy Efficient UAS Parcel Transportation. In: 11th International Conference on Air Transport – INAIR 2022, Returning to the Skies, Bratislava (SK), 9-10 November 2022, pp. 60-69. ISSN 2352-1465
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding) - Galati, Giada; Primatesta, Stefano; Grammatico, Sergio; Macrì, Simone; Rizzo, Alessandro (2022)
Game theoretical trajectory planning enhances social acceptability of robots by humans. In: SCIENTIFIC REPORTS, vol. 12. ISSN 2045-2322
Contributo su Rivista - Pfeiffer, Sven; Munaro, Veronica; Li, Shushuai; Rizzo, Alessandro; de Croon, Guido C. H. ... (2022)
Three-dimensional relative localization and synchronized movement with wireless ranging. In: SWARM INTELLIGENCE. ISSN 1935-3812
Contributo su Rivista - Castrogiovanni, Pino; Fadda, Edoardo; Perboli, Guido; Rizzo, Alessandro (2020)
Smartphone Data Classification Technique for Detecting the Usage of Public or Private Transportation Modes. In: IEEE ACCESS, vol. 8, pp. 58377-58391. ISSN 2169-3536
Contributo su Rivista