Carlo NovaraCarlo Novara received his MSc degree in Physics from the University of Turin in 1996 and his PhD degree in Computer and System Engineering from Politecnico di Torino in 2002. He held a visiting researcher position at University of California at Berkeey in 2001 and 2004 and is currently a Full Professor at Politecnico di Torino. He is a really prolific author of peer-reviewed scientific publications in international journals and conference proceedings. He has been involved in several national and international projects and in several research contracts in collaboration with Italian and European companies. He is the co-author of several patents in the automotive field. He is a member of the IEEE Technical Committee on System Identification and Adaptive Control, of the IFAC Technical Committee on Modelling, Identification and Signal Processing, of the IFAC Technical Committee on Modelling and Control of Environmental Systems, and a founding member of the IEEE-CSS Technical Committee on Medical and Healthcare Systems. His research interests include nonlinear and linear parameter-varying system identification, filtering/estimation, time series prediction, nonlinear control, predictive control, data-driven methods, set membership methods, sparse methods, nonlinear optimization, and aerospace, automotive, biomedical, and energy applications. Read More Read Less