Giuseppe Carlo Calafiore

Giuseppe Carlo Calafiore is a Full Professor at the Department of Electronics and Telecommunications (DET) of the Polytechnic University of Turin, where he has been since 1998. He has held visiting positions at institutions like Stanford University, University of California at Berkeley, and Vietnam National University. His research focuses on convex optimization, control systems, and randomized algorithms, with applications in finance, robotics, and machine learning.

• Education: Laurea in Electrical Engineering (1993) and Ph.D in Information and System Theory (1997) from Politecnico di Torino.
• Research Interests: Span large-scale optimization, robust portfolio optimization, and distributed algorithms, with emphasis on sparsity-based methods and data-driven control for autonomous systems.

Recent Publications include works on nonlinear model predictive control, financial network robustness, and adaptive gain control in population games. His scientific awards include the IEEE CSS George S. Axelby Outstanding Paper Award (2008) and Fellow of the IEEE (2018). He has advised students in artificial intelligence and communications engineering programs. His projects include research on smart energy allocation and financial risk modeling.