Alessandro Vittorio Papadopoulos

Alessandro Vittorio Papadopoulos is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Mälardalen University (MDU) and a QUALIFICA Fellow at the University of Málaga's Institute for Software Technology and Software Engineering. His research focuses on modeling and control of interconnected systems under uncertainty, integrating Control Theory with Embedded Systems, Distributed Systems, and Real-Time Systems. He has served as a Scientific Advisor for companies like ABB and Zero Point Technologies.

• Education: PhD from Politecnico di Milano (2013), supervised by Alberto Leva; Postdoctoral work at Politecnico di Milano and Lund University's Department of Automatic Control under Karl-Erik Årzén.
• Research Trends: His articles emphasize Swarm Robotics, Stochastic Scheduling, Privacy-Preserving Control, and Edge-Cloud Continuum. Key subfields include Distributed Control, Uncertainty Modeling, Real-Time Optimization, and Secure Communication.
• Awards: He received the Most Influential Paper Award at SEAMS 2025, QUALIFICA Fellowship, and Outstanding Paper Award at ECRTS 2021, alongside a Best Artefact Award in 2017.
• Advising: Supervised PhD theses by Anna Friebe and Daniel Bujosa Mateu.
• Labs & Collaborations: Affiliated with the Lund Center for Control of Complex Engineering Systems (LCCC) and MDU's research groups.