Bianchi Domenico received B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees (summa cum laude) in computer and control engineering and a Ph.D. degree in information engineering from the University of L’Aquila, in 2005, 2008, and 2012, respectively. He spent research periods at Ford Motor Company, Aachen, Germany in 2007; the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA from 2009 to 2010; and at University of Pavia (Italy) and INRIA - Grenoble (France) in 2012 and 2013. From 2012 to 2014, he was a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the University of L’Aquila. From 2014 to 2020, he worked in several research companies in the public and private sectors and participated in research projects. Since November 2020, he has been a senior postdoc researcher at DISIM, DEWS Research Center of Excellence at the University of L'Aquila where he is an Adjunct Professor of “Systems modeling and simulation”. His research interests include control applications (vehicle dynamics, hybrid electric vehicles, traffic control, battery management, and UAV) and robust nonlinear control systems.

Nicola Epicoco is currently an Associate Professor in control system engineering at the LUM University, Bari, Italy. He received a Master’s degree in mechanical engineering from the Polytechnic of Bari (Italy) in 2002 and a Ph.D. degree in electrical and information engineering from the same university in 2016, where he was post-doctoral researcher from 2016 to 2019. He was Assistant Professor at the University of L’Aquila (Italy) from 2019 to 2022 and at the LUM University, Bari (Italy) from 2022 to 2024. In 2021, he was visiting researcher at the l’École Centrale de Lille (France). He is also a member of the Center of Excellence on Design methodologies for Embedded controllers, Wireless interconnect and System–on–chip (DEWS), University of L’Aquila (Italy).

Mario Di Ferdinando received a Master’s Degree in Computer and Systems Engineering (Summa Cum Laude) in 2015 and a Ph.D. Degree in Information and Communication Technology (Summa Cum Laude) in 2018, both from University of L’Aquila, L’Aquila, Italy. He is currently a Researcher in Automatic Control field with the University of L’Aquila. Moreover, and he is currently serving as Associate Editor of the IEEE Conference Editorial Board. His research interests include the sampled-data control of nonlinear systems with applications to biomedical, chemical, and robotic engineering.

Stefano Di Gennaro obtained a degree in Nuclear Engineering in 1987 (summa cum laude) and a Ph.D. degree in System Engineering in 1992, both from the University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Rome, Italy. In October 1990, he joined the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of L’Aquila, as Assistant Professor of Automatic Control. Since 2001, he has been Associate Professor of Automatic Control at the University of L’Aquila. In 2012, he joined the Department of Information Engineering, Computer Science and Mathematics, and he is also with the Center of Excellence DEWS. He is currently serving as full professor of automatic control at the University of L’Aquila, Italy. He holds courses on Automatic Control and Nonlinear Control. He has been visiting various Research Centers, including the Department of Electrical Engineering at Princeton University, the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Berkeley, and the Centro de Investigación y Estudios Avanzados del IPN at Guadalajara. He is working in the area of hybrid systems, regulation theory, and applications of nonlinear control.

Pierdomenico Pepe is currently serving as full professor of automatic control at the University of L’Aquila, Italy. His main research interests include stability theory, nonlinear control, observers, and optimal control, with special emphasis on systems with time-delays, and applications to biomedical, chemical, and electrical engineering. He has authored or co-authored over 200 technical articles on journals, conference proceedings, and books and is co-editor of three multi-author volumes in the Springer series LNCIS and ADD. He has served as an IPC member in several (IEEE, IFAC, and SIAM) international conferences. In 2013, he was plenary speaker at the IFAC Joint Conference SSSC-TDS-FDA in Grenoble. He was a recipient of Kybernetika Editor’s award 2013. He served as associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control in 2011–2014, Systems and Control Letters in 2012–2016, and IEEE Control Systems Letters in 2017–2022. He is currently serving as Associate Editor of SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization and Journal of Control and Decision.