Staff

Associate Professor (L. 240)
Department of Control and Computer Engineering (DAUIN)

Profile

Research interests

Algorithms

Artificial neural networks

Convex and nonconvex optimization

Machine learning

Mathematical modeling

Sparse optimization

Sparse system identification

Scientific branch

IINF-04/A - Systems and Control Engineering
(Area 0009 - Industrial and information engineering)

Skills

ERC sectors

PE1_22 - Application of mathematics in industry and society

PE1_21 - Application of mathematics in sciences

PE7_1 - Control engineering

PE1_20 - Control theory, optimisation and operational research

PE6_2 - Distributed systems, parallel computing, sensor networks, cyber-physical systems

PE6_11 - Machine learning, statistical data processing and applications using signal processing (e.g. speech, image, video)

Teaching

Collegi of the PhD programmes

INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA E DEI SISTEMI, 2024/2025 (40. ciclo)
Politecnico di TORINO
INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA E DEI SISTEMI, 2023/2024 (39. ciclo)
Politecnico di TORINO

Collegi of the degree programmes

Collegio di Ingegneria Informatica, del Cinema e Meccatronica. Componente

Teachings

Master of Science

Modeling and control of cyberphysical systems. A.A. 2025/26, INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA (COMPUTER ENGINEERING). Collaboratore del corso
Modeling and control of cyberphysical systems. A.A. 2024/25, INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA (COMPUTER ENGINEERING). Collaboratore del corso
Automatic control. A.A. 2024/25, MECHATRONIC ENGINEERING (INGEGNERIA MECCATRONICA). Collaboratore del corso
Modeling and control of cyberphysical systems. A.A. 2023/24, INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA (COMPUTER ENGINEERING). Collaboratore del corso
Automatic control. A.A. 2023/24, MECHATRONIC ENGINEERING (INGEGNERIA MECCATRONICA). Collaboratore del corso
Modeling and control of cyberphysical systems. A.A. 2022/23, INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA (COMPUTER ENGINEERING). Collaboratore del corso
Automatic control. A.A. 2022/23, MECHATRONIC ENGINEERING (INGEGNERIA MECCATRONICA). Collaboratore del corso
Modeling and control of cyberphysical systems. A.A. 2021/22, INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA (COMPUTER ENGINEERING). Collaboratore del corso
Automatic control. A.A. 2021/22, MECHATRONIC ENGINEERING (INGEGNERIA MECCATRONICA). Collaboratore del corso
Automatic control. A.A. 2020/21, MECHATRONIC ENGINEERING (INGEGNERIA MECCATRONICA). Collaboratore del corso
Modeling and control of cyberphysical systems. A.A. 2020/21, INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA (COMPUTER ENGINEERING). Collaboratore del corso

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Bachelor of Science

Automatic control. A.A. 2025/26, INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA (COMPUTER ENGINEERING). Titolare del corso
Controlli automatici. A.A. 2025/26, INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA. Collaboratore del corso
Automatic control. A.A. 2024/25, INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA (COMPUTER ENGINEERING). Titolare del corso
Controlli automatici. A.A. 2024/25, INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA. Collaboratore del corso
Automatic control. A.A. 2023/24, INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA (COMPUTER ENGINEERING). Titolare del corso
Controlli automatici. A.A. 2023/24, INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA. Collaboratore del corso
Automatic control. A.A. 2022/23, INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA (COMPUTER ENGINEERING). Titolare del corso
Controlli automatici. A.A. 2022/23, INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA. Collaboratore del corso
Automatic control. A.A. 2021/22, INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA (COMPUTER ENGINEERING). Titolare del corso
Controlli automatici. A.A. 2021/22, INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA. Collaboratore del corso
Automatic control. A.A. 2020/21, INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA (COMPUTER ENGINEERING). Collaboratore del corso
Controlli automatici. A.A. 2020/21, INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA. Collaboratore del corso
Automatic control. A.A. 2019/20, INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA (COMPUTER ENGINEERING). Collaboratore del corso
Controlli automatici. A.A. 2019/20, INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA. Collaboratore del corso

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Research

Research groups

SIC - System Identification & Control (DAUIN)

Supervised PhD students

Alice Re. Programme in Ingegneria Informatica E Dei Sistemi (40^th cycle, 2024-in progress)
Research subject: Control theory-based sparse optimization for system identification and data-driven control

Controls and system engineering

Controls and system engineering
Rosario Milazzo. Programme in Ingegneria Informatica E Dei Sistemi (38^th cycle, 2023-in progress)

Data science, Computer vision and AI

Data science, Computer vision and AI

Data science, Computer vision and AI
Simone Pirrera. Programme in Ingegneria Informatica E Dei Sistemi (37^th cycle, 2021-2025)
Thesis: Optimization methods for dynamical systems learning

Controls and system engineering

Controls and system engineering

Publications

PoliTO co-authors

Last years publications

Publications by type

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Milazzo, Rosario; Fosson, Sophie M.; Morra, Lia; Sterpone, Luca (2025)
Self-supervised pretraining and quantization for fault tolerant neural networks: friend or foe?. In: IEEE ACCESS, vol. 13, pp. 75546-75562. ISSN 2169-3536
Contributo su Rivista
Fracastoro, Giulia; Fosson, Sophie M.; Migliorati, Andrea; Calafiore, Giuseppe C. (2025)
Playing the Lottery With Concave Regularizers for Sparse Trainable Neural Networks. In: IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON NEURAL NETWORKS AND LEARNING SYSTEMS, pp. 1-11. ISSN 2162-237X
Contributo su Rivista
Bellarmino, Nicolò; Cantoro, Riccardo; Fosson, Sophie M.; Huch, Martin; Kilian, Tobias; ... (2025)
COSMO: COmpressed Sensing for Models and logging Optimization in MCU Performance Screening. In: IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COMPUTERS, vol. 74, pp. 652-664. ISSN 0018-9340
Contributo su Rivista
Cerone, V.; Fosson, S.; Regruto, D.; Ripa, F. (2024)
Lasso-based state estimation for cyber-physical systems under sensor attacks. In: 20th IFAC Symposium on System Identification SYSID 2024, Boston (USA), July 17-19, 2024, pp. 163-168. ISSN 2405-8963
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding)
Milazzo, Rosario; De Marco, Vincenzo; De Sio, Corrado; Fosson, Sophie; Morra, Lia; ... (2024)
On the Fault Tolerance of Self-Supervised Training in Convolutional Neural Networks. In: 27th International Symposium on Design and Diagnostics of Electronic Circuits and Systems, Kielce (Polonia), 3-5 April 2024, pp. 110-115. ISBN: 979-8-3503-5934-3
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding)
Dordoni, Luca; Migliorati, Andrea; Fracastoro, Giulia; Fosson, Sophie; Bianchi, Tiziano; ... (2024)
Sparsification of Deep Neural Networks via Ternary Quantization. In: 34th IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing, MLSP 2024, London (UK), 2024, pp. 1-6. ISSN 2161-0371. ISBN: 9798350372250
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding)
Migliorati, Andrea; Fracastoro, Giulia; Fosson, Sophie; Bianchi, Tiziano; Magli, Enrico (2024)
ConQ: Binary Quantization of Neural Networks via Concave Regularization. In: 34th IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing, MLSP 2024, London (UK), 22-25 September 2024, pp. 1-6. ISSN 2161-0371. ISBN: 9798350372250
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding)
Cerone, Vito; Fosson, Sophie M.; Pirrera, Simone; Regruto, Diego (2024)
A feedback control approach to convex optimization with inequality constraints. In: 63rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Milano (IT), December 16-19, 2024, pp. 2538-2543. ISBN: 979-8-3503-1633-9
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding)
Cerone, V.; Fosson, S.; Regruto, D. (2023)
Fast sparse optimization via adaptive shrinkage. In: 22nd IFAC World Congress, Yokohama (JPN), July 9-14, 2023, pp. 10390-10395. ISSN 2405-8963
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding)
Cerone, V.; Fosson, S.; Regruto, D. (2021)
A non-convex adaptive regularization approach to binary optimization. In: 60th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, CDC 2021, Austin, TX (USA), 14-17 December 2021, pp. 3844-3849. ISSN 0743-1546. ISBN: 978-1-6654-3659-5
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding)

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Sophie Fosson

Associate Professor (L. 240) Department of Control and Computer Engineering (DAUIN)