Lorenzo Pollini Short Biography
Lorenzo Pollini was born in Grosseto, Italy in 1971. He received the Laurea degree in Computer Engineering (cum laude) and the Ph.D. degree in Robotics and Industrial Automation from the University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy, in 1997 and 2000, respectively.
He was an Instructor of Automatic Control with the Italian Navy Academy, Livorno, Italy from 2000 to 2002, an assistant professor of Automatic Control with University of Pisa from 2004 to 2014, and an associate professor of Automatic Control from 2014 to 2020. He is currently a Professor of Automatic Control at the University of Pisa, Italy, and teaches the courses of Guidance and Navigation Systems, Fundametals of Control Systems, and Control Systems Theory.
He is member of the IEEE Systems Man and Cybernetics Society – Shared Control Technical Committee, and of the AIAA Guidance Navigation and Control Technical Committee. He has been the Italian member of the NATO-RTO-AVT-146 Technical Team named “Platform Innovations and System Integration for Unmanned Air, Land and Sea Vehicles”. He served in the technical organizing committees of several conferences organized by international societies. His current research interests include guidance and navigation systems, vision-based control, haptic support systems, fuzzy and nonlinear adaptive control, and real-time dynamic systems simulation with specific application to unmanned systems. He has been principal investigator or participated to several research projects funded by private or public companies, the Italian Ministry of Education and the European Commission. He authored around 150 scientific publications, including 3 book chapters and he is also co-author of a chapter of the Encyclopedia of Aerospace Engineering, published by John Wiley & Sons.
Lorenzo Pollini has been PhD advisor for the following students: Paolo Binetti, Marta Niccolini, Samantha Alaimo, Mario Olivari, Stefano Geluardi, Stefano Aringhieri, Matteo Razzanelli, Giulia D’Intino, Michael Alibani, Andrea Dan Ryals, Antonio Arenella, Pierapolo Serio, Gabriele Gemignani.
He is an Associate Fellow of AIAA and member of IEEE.
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