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"Laurea" degree in Electrical Engineering from Politecnico di Torino in 1993, and the Ph.D. in Information and System Theory from Politecnico di Torino in 1997. He currently serves as Associate Professor at the "Dipartimento di Automatica e Informatica,'' Politecnico di Torino, Italy. Dr. Calafiore held visiting positions at Information Systems Laboratory, Stanford University, in 1995, at Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Techniques Avenceés (ENSTA), Paris, in 1998, and at the University of California at Berkeley, in 1999, 2003 and 2007. He is presently a visiting Senior Fellow at the Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics, UCLA. Dr. Calafiore is Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, for the IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, and for the Journal Européen des Systèmes Automatisés. His research interests are in the field of analysis and control of uncertain systems, convex optimization, probabilistic algorithms and risk management. He he is the recipient of the 2008 IEEE CSS Axelby Award. He is coauthor of 6 books and over 120 publications on international journals and conference proceedings.

Fabrizio Dabbene received the Laurea degree in Electrical Engineering in 1995 and the Ph.D. degree in Systems and Computer Engineering in 1999, both fromPolitecnico di Torino, Italy. He is currently holding a tenured research position at the institute IEIIT of the National Research Council (CNR) of Italy. He has held visiting and research positions at the Department of Electrical Engineering,University of Iowa and at the RAS Institute of Control Science, Moscow. Dr. Dabbene also holds strict collaboration with Politecnico di Torino, where he teaches several courses in Systems and Control, and with Università degli Studi di Torino, where he does research on modeling of environmental systems. His research interests include robust control and identification of uncertain systems, randomized algorithms forsystems and control, convex optimization and modeling of environmental systems. On these topics he has been the organizer or co-organizer of several invited sessions and special courses, and of two Conference Workshops (CDC-00 and MSC-08).

He is author or co-author of more than 80 publications, which include more than 25 articles published in international journals. He is author of the monograph "Randomized Algorithms for Analysis and Control of Uncertain Systems" and editor of the book "Probabilistic and Randomized Methods for Design under Uncertainty," both published by Springer. He is one of the main developers of the recently released Matlab Toolbox RACT (Randomized Algorithms Control Toolbox). Dr. Dabbene is Senior Member of the IEEE. He serves as Associate Editor for the IFAC Journal Automatica, Elsevier Science and for the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. From 2002 to 2008 he was a member of the Conference Editorial Board of the IEEE Control System Society. He is currently chairing IEEE Technical Committee on Computational Aspects of Control System Design(CACSD). He has been a member of the Program Committee for the joint conference CDC/ECC-05, for MSC 2008 and for CDC 2009, and he has served as member of several CDC and IFAC Award Committees. He was Program Chair of the CACSD Symposium for MSC 2010. He has been awarded the "Outstanding Paper Award 2010" by EurAgeng.