Crescenzo Pepe received B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Computer and Automation Engineering from Università Politecnica delle Marche, in 2010 and 2013, respectively. He received a PhD (2017) in Information Engineering from the same university, working with a company. He was professor at secondary and high school. He was a control/automation engineer/researcher in different companies. He was one of the inventors (research, development, publications, patents, application to real case studies, project management, project maintenance, technical coordination, technical supervision, training of internal and external resources) of different advanced process control solutions for industrial and non-industrial processes. He participated in more than 20 advanced process control projects and he is co-author of more than 40 scientific publications and of two Italian patents. He is reviewer, editor and topical board member of different conferences and journals. He is member or affiliate of different federations, scientific societies and communities. Currently he is a Research Fellow at Università Politecnica delle Marche. His main interests are control theory and applications and industrial automation.

Silvia M. Zanoli received an MSc. degree in Electronic Engineering in 1992 and a PhD in Artificial Intelligent Systems from the University of Ancona, Italy, in 1996. She is currently an assistant professor at the Università Politecnica Marche, Ancona, Italy, holding courses in the field of Industrial Automation. She has been a visiting professor at the MSEL of Northeastern University in Boston. She is currently working on the development of advanced process control systems and fault diagnosis systems. Her research interests include model predictive control, advanced process control, fault diagnosis, and supervision, both on time-driven systems and discrete event systems. She has collaborated on many national and European projects on robotics and industrial automation. Dr. Zanoli is a member of the IEEE and of the Interuniversity Center of Integrated Systems for the Marine Environment (ISME).