Giuseppe Calafiore, PhD

BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Giuseppe C. Calafiore held a full professor position at DET, Politecnico di Torino, where he coordinated the Control Systems and Data Science group, and he is an associate fellow of the IEIIT-CNR, Italy. Dr. Calafiore held visiting positions at the Information Systems Laboratory (ISL), Stanford University, California, in 1995; at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Techniques Avancées (ENSTA), Paris, in 1998; and at the University of California at Berkeley, in 1999, 2003, 2007, 2017, 2018 and 2019, and 2022, where he lately co-taught a Master course on Financial Data Science. He was a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM), University of California at Los Angeles, in 2010. Dr. Calafiore is the author of about 210 journal and conference proceedings papers, and of eight books. He is a Fellow of the IEEE. He received the IEEE Control System Society “George S. Axelby” Outstanding Paper Award in 2008. His research interests are in the fields of convex optimization, identification and control of uncertain systems, with applications ranging from finance and economic systems to robust control, machine learning, and data science. Dr. Calafiore has over twenty-four years of teaching experience in Master-level and Ph.D. courses in the areas of Systems and Control Theory, Convex Optimization and Machine Learning.