Sandro Zampieri

Sandro Zampieri is a Professor at the Department of Information Engineering, University of Padova, Italy. His academic career has been dedicated to networked control systems, distributed control and estimation, and smart grids, with a focus on communication constraints, quantized feedback, and optimal reactive power flow in power distribution networks.

• Education: Laurea in Electrical Engineering (1988) and Ph.D. in System Engineering (1993) from University of Padova
• Visiting Positions: MIT (1991-1992, 1993, 1996), University of Groningen (Mathematics), University of California at Santa Barbara (Mechanical Engineering)

Research Interests: His work explores control systems under communication constraints, consensus algorithms for distributed estimation, and optimal reactive power flow in smart microgrids. He investigates trade-offs between data rates and control performance, develops consensus-based synchronization protocols, and designs distributed strategies for power loss minimization and voltage regulation.

Scientific Contributions: He has published over 150 papers and received the

• 2016 IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems Best Paper Award

His recent work analyzes network centrality in controllability, Shannon capacity in dynamical networks, and non-normality effects in communication efficiency.

Academic Leadership: He served as

• Head of the Department of Information Engineering (2014-2018)
• Chair of IFAC technical committee 'Networked systems' (2005-2008)
• Associate Editor for SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization (2002-2004) and IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (2012-2014)