Diego Regruto Tomalino is an active Associate Professor in the Department of Control and Computer Engineering (DAUIN) at Polytechnic University of Turin, Italy, with contact details +39 0110907077 and diego.regruto@polito.it. He holds leadership roles in the IEEE Control Systems Society as Scientific Committee member of the Technical Committee on System Identification and Adaptive Control (2008-present) and served as its President (2013-2015). His work spans academic research, teaching, and international collaboration within control engineering. Education : Laurea in Electronic Engineering, Politecnico di Torino (2000) Ph.D. in Systems Engineering, Politecnico di Torino (2004) Research Interests : System Identification : Specializing in set-membership, sparse, and LPV techniques for nonlinear systems with applications in automotive and biomedical domains. Optimization & Control : Developing convex relaxation methods for model predictive control, robust control algorithms, and electrified vehicle propulsion systems. Control Education : Innovating through remote laboratories and industrial platforms to enhance engineering pedagogy globally. Publication Trends : Recent work (2021-2024) focuses on sparse optimization for cyber-physical security and electrified vehicles, extending set-membership identification to continuous-time systems, and educational frameworks. Dominant fields include control theory, optimization, and automotive applications with increasing emphasis on data-driven methods and sparse computing. Scientific Awards : No specific prizes, medals, or fellowships were documented in the provided texts. Advising and Grants : PhD Supervision : Alice Re (2024-present, sparse optimization for identification), Francesco Ripa (2023-present, electric vehicle propulsion management), Simone Pirrera (2021-2025, dynamical systems learning). Research Projects : Principal investigator for OpThermEV (2021-2022) on thermal management of electric vehicles, plus corporate-funded automotive research initiatives. Labs and Teams : Core member of the SIC (System Identification & Control) research group and LAB 11 at DAUIN. Leads international control education collaborations, notably a remote laboratory partnership between Asian and European institutions.






