Antonello Venturino
Ricercatore in Automatica
Curriculum Vitae
Languages
- Italian (L1)
- English (B2)
- Spanish (B2)
- French (B2)
Academic Education
09/2019 - 09/2022
Université Paris-Saclay (L2S/CentraleSupélec and ONERA)Paris, France
European PhD (Doctor Europaeus) in Automatic Control
Dissertation on Constrained distributed state estimation for surveillance missions using multi-sensor multi-robot systems. Scientific supervision carried out in collaboration with research groups at Université Paris-Saclay and Universidad de Sevilla.
10/2016-04/2019
University of CalabriaRende, Italy
Master's Degree in Automation Engineering
09/2013-09/2016
University of CalabriaRende, Italy
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering
Academic and Research Positions
Since 01/08/2023
University of Calabria, Rende, Italy
Assistant Professor (RTD-A)
Research activity in the field of automatic control, with particular attention to resilient control strategies and the security of cyber-physical systems. Teaching activity in the graduate course Mobile Cognitive Robotics.
02/11/2022 - 31/07/2023
NATO STO Centre for Maritime Research and Experimentation, La Spezia, Italy
Researcher
Research activity on state estimation, cyber attacks, and anomaly detection for cyber-physical systems applied to fleets of naval vehicles, with particular attention to localization problems and GNSS spoofing attacks.
International Research Visits
04/2021 - 07/2021
Universidad de Sevilla, Seville, Spain
Research Visit
International mobility period carried out during the PhD, within the framework of the scientific collaboration with the group of Teodoro Alamo and Eduardo F. Camacho.
11/2019 - 12/2019
ÉTS – École de Technologie Supérieure, Montréal, Canada
Research Visit
International scientific collaboration activity within the associated laboratory on information, control, and learning.
09/2018 - 12/2018
Concordia University, Montréal, Canada
Research Visit
International research period devoted to scientific collaboration activities on distributed control and autonomous systems.
Scientific Affiliations
Since September 2023, I have been a member of the IEEE Control Systems Society.
Editorial Activities
Since January 2026, I have been an Associate Editor of the Journal of Control, Automation and Electrical Systems, and since October 2025 I have been an Associate Editor of IET Control Theory & Applications.
Reviewing Activities
I regularly serve as a reviewer for international scientific journals, including Automatica, IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, IEEE Control Systems Letters, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles, and IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica.
Conferences and Scientific Activities
I regularly take part in national and international scientific conferences in the fields of automatic control, autonomous systems, and cyber-physical systems, presenting research contributions and engaging with the reference scientific community.
In recent years, I have presented as a speaker at venues such as the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), the IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA), the IEEE International Conference on Information Fusion (FUSION), the IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA), the International Conference on Control, Decision and Information Technologies (CoDIT), and the IFAC Symposium on System Structure and Control (SysTol).
I have also taken part in scientific activities related to the organization and management of events in the field, such as co-organizer of the special session “Autonomous Vehicles in Industry 5.0” within IEEE ETFA 2024 and as Associate Editor of the joint IFAC event SSSC 2025 – TDS 2025 – COSY 2025.
Research Projects
since 08/2023
SERICS – SEcurity and RIghts in the CyberSpaceCollaborator
Project funded by the Italian Ministry of University and Research (MUR) and the European Union under the NextGenerationEU programme.
07/2024 - 03/2025
∞sCaR – 2D Animated Cart∞ns for Control Education RiseCollaborator
International project funded by IFAC.
05/2020 - 09/2022
OCONTSOLAR – Optimal Control of Thermal Solar Energy SystemsCollaborator
International project funded by the Agencia Estatal de Investigación (Spain) and the European Research Council.
11/2022 - 07/2023
DKOE – Data Knowledge and Operational EffectivenessCollaborator
International project funded by NATO Allied Command Transformation (ACT).
Scientific Collaborations
Throughout my research activity, I have developed scientific collaborations with universities, research centers, and international institutions.
These include collaborations with the NATO STO Centre for Maritime Research and Experimentation (CMRE), the University of Connecticut, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology – Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS), the University of Florence, Université Paris-Saclay with the L2S – Laboratoire des Signaux et Systèmes, ONERA – The French Aerospace Lab, the Universidad de Sevilla, and Concordia University.
