David Naso

David Naso is a Full Professor at the Department of Electrical and Information Engineering (DEI) of the Polytechnic University of Bari, Italy. He teaches courses in feedback control, optimization, and system identification, and serves as the head of the DEI Robotics Laboratory and coordinator of the Master's Degree in Automation Engineering.

• PhD in Automatic Control from Polytechnic University of Bari (1998)
• Guest researcher at Technical University of Aachen (1997)
• Visiting professor at Saarland University (2013)

His research focuses on robust control of aeronautical engines, control of high-speed electrical machines, mechatronic devices based on smart materials, distributed automation, and fault prevention with sensor networks. He has coauthored over 250 publications cited more than 3,000 times (h-index 29).

Recent publications highlight expertise in control systems for dielectric elastomer actuators, energy management in hybrid-electric aircraft, and fault-tolerant microgrids. His work spans aerospace, robotics, and renewable energy systems.

He leads the "Control Systems Team" at Energy Factory Bari (a GE Avio-Polytechnic partnership), and collaborates with AROL S.p.A for food industry robotics and Casillo Group for windmill monitoring systems. He sits on multiple Politecnico subsidiary committees.

He has coordinated research projects with €2M+ funding and consulting contracts worth €400k. Currently serves as technical editor for IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics.