Thomas Parisini received the Ph.D. degree in Electronic Engineering and Computer Science in 1993 from the University of Genoa. He holds the Chair of Industrial Control at Imperial College London. Since 2001 he is also Danieli Endowed Chair of Automation Engineering with University of Trieste. He authored or co-authored more than 250 research papers in archival journals, book chapters, and international conference proceedings. His research interests include neural-network approximations for optimal control problems, fault diagnosis for nonlinear and distributed systems, nonlinear model predictive control systems and nonlinear estimation. He is a co-recipient of the 2011-2013 IFAC Best Application Paper Prize of the Journal of Process Control, Elsevier, and of the 2004 Outstanding Paper Award of the IEEE Trans. on Neural Networks. He is also a recipient of the 2007 IEEE Distinguished Member Award. In 2012 he was awarded a prestigious ABB Research Grant dealing with energy-autonomous sensor networks for self-monitoring industrial environments. Thomas Parisini is the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Trans. on Control Systems Technology. He is also the Chair of the IFAC Techn. Comm. on Fault Detection, Supervision & Safety of Technical Processes. He was the Chair of the IEEE CSS Conference Editorial Board and a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE. He is currently serving as an Associate Editor of the Int. J. of Control and served as Associate Editor of the IEEE Trans. on Automatic Control, of the IEEE Trans. on Neural Networks, of Automatica, and of the Int. J. of Robust and Nonlinear Control. Among other activities, he was the Program Chair of the 2008 IEEE CDC and a General Co-Chair of the 2013 IEEE CDC.
