Padova | Italy
3C 2025 will feature the presence of three IFAC presidents: Frank Allgöwer, who served from 2017 to 2020; Dongil “Dan” Cho, the current IFAC president; and Maria Prandini, who will serve as president starting in 2026. All three will deliver keynote speeches as outlined below.
Frank Allgöwer
Director of the Institute for Systems Theory and Automatic Control at the University of Stuttgart in Germany
Institute for Systems Theory and Automatic Control
University of Stuttgart
Stuttgart, Germany.
Frank Allgöwer is director of the Institute for Systems Theory and Automatic Control at the University of Stuttgart in Germany. His current research interests are to develop new methods for data-based control, optimization-based control and networked control.
Frank has served the scientific community through various roles including Vice-President of the German Research Foundation DFG (2012-2020), President of the International Federation of Automatic Control (2017-2020), Editor for the journal Automatica (2001-2015) and Series Editor for the Springer Lecture Notes in Control and Information Science (since 2008) and many more. He has published over 700 scientific articles with almost 40'000 citations and received several awards for his research including the IFAC Outstanding Service Award, the IEEE CSS Distinguished Member Award, the State Teaching Award of the German state of Baden-Württemberg, and the Leibniz Prize of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.
Abstract: TBD
Dongil “Dan” Cho
Chief Scientific Officer, RS Automation
President, International Federation of Automatic Control
Professor Emeritus, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Seoul National University
Abstract: TBD
Maria Prandini
Full Professor, Politecnico di Milano
Maria Prandini received the Ph.D. degree in Information Technology from the University of Brescia, Italy, in 1998. She was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California at Berkeley from 1998 to 2000. In 2002, she joined Politecnico di Milano, where she is currently full professor in Automatic Control and she has been Chair of the Automation and Control Engineering Study Program for two terms from 2019 to 2024.
She was elected Fellow of the IEEE in 2020 and received the IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS) Distinguished Member award in 2018. In 2017, she was August-Wilhelm Scheer Visiting Professor and Honorary fellow of the TUM Institute for Advanced Studied. She was nominated Visiting Professor in Engineering at the University of Oxford for the triennium 2022-2025.
She has been active in the IEEE CSS, the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC), and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), contributing to their activities in different roles. She is IFAC President-elect for the triennium 2023-26. Previously, she was Vice-President for conference activities for IFAC (2020-23) and IEEE CSS (2016 and 2017), and a member of SIGBED Board of Directors (2019-21). Her research interests include stochastic hybrid systems, randomized algorithms, distributed and data-driven optimization, multi-agent systems, and the application of control theory to transportation and energy systems.
Abstract: TBD