Emiliano Dall'Anese

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Associate Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
College of Engineering
Boston University

Affiliate faculty, Center for Information and Systems Engineering
Affiliate faculty, Institute for Global Sustainability


Short Bio

I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at Boston University. I received my Ph.D. in Information Engineering from the University of Padova, Italy, in 2011. I was a Postdoctoral Associate at the University of Minnesota from 2011 to 2014.

Research Interests

My general research interests are centered around optimization, control, and learning in complex, cyber-physical and network systems. I seek to develop foundational theories, methods, and algorithms that enable the deployment of efficient, safe, and autonomous decision-making architectures to address engineering and societal challenges.

Theories, methods, and algorithms are primarily motivated by (and applied to) modern power systems. In addition to power systems, my research group aims to make impactful contributions in the broad area of cyber-physical and network systems.

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Topics of current interest include:

  • Data-driven optimization and control of physical and dynamical systems.

  • Online optimization with system and human in-the-loop.

  • Safe online optimization of dynamical systems.

Theories and methods are motivated and applied to:

  • Modern power and energy systems.

  • Electrified transportation.

  • Autonomous and robotic systems.

Selected recent publications

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Acknowledgements

We are grateful for the support provided by the National Science Foundation, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, and the U.S. Department of Energy.

News

  • July '24: I started my position at Boston University

  • June '24: Congratulations to killian Wood for successfully defending his Ph.D. thesis! 

  • Dec. '23: I was the recipient of the 2023 IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems best paper award!

  • Sept. '23: New grant! Very thankful for the support from AFOSR! 

  • Aug.'23: Welcome to Antonin Colot, who will be a visiting student from one year.

  • Aug. '23: New grant! I am part of a project funded by the U.S. DOE with UCSD and NREL. 

  • July '23: I offered a course on Online Optimization of Network Systems at the University of Siena.

  • May '23: Congratulations to Ana Ospina for successfully defending her Ph.D. thesis!