Giordano Scarciotti

Giordano Scarciotti is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Imperial College London, within the Faculty of Engineering. His research focuses on control systems, model reduction, and nonlinear dynamics, with applications in energy systems such as wave energy converters. He leads the Control and Power Research Group and has affiliations with organizations like EPSRC and MINES ParisTech. Scarciotti has received notable awards, including the IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology Outstanding Paper Award and the President's Award for Excellence in Teaching Innovation. His work emphasizes data-driven methods and stochastic control, addressing challenges in large-scale systems like wind farms and differential-algebraic systems.

Research Interests:

• Nonlinear and stochastic control theory
• Model reduction techniques (moment matching, data-driven approaches)
• Energy systems optimization (wave energy, wind farms)
• Control of complex systems with constraints

Awards:

• IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology Outstanding Paper Award
• IET Control & Automation PhD Award
• President's Award for Excellence in Teaching Innovation

Grants & Collaborations:

• EPSRC-funded research on model reduction
• Affiliations with MINES ParisTech and the Italian Embassy in London

Scarciotti's recent publications emphasize innovative methods for system modeling and control, including energy-maximizing strategies for wave energy systems and hybrid observer-based approaches for output regulation.