Maria Domenica Di Benedetto (born 1953) is an Italian electrical engineer and
control theorist whose interests include the control of
hybrid systems,
embedded control systems, automotive engine control, and aerospace flight control. She is Professor of Automatic Control at the
University of L'Aquila, president of the European Embedded Control Institute, and the former president of the Italian Society of researchers in Automatic Control.
She should be distinguished from
Maria-Gabriella Di Benedetto
Maria-Gabriella Di Benedetto (born 1958) is an Italian electrical, audio, and communications engineer, whose research involves speech processing, wireless communication, and ultra-wideband signal processing. She is a professor of electrical engine ...
, another Italian electrical engineer with similar career details.
Education and career
Di Benedetto earned a master's degree (Dr. Ing.) at
Sapienza University of Rome in 1976. She earned a French doctorate of engineering at
Paris-Sud University
Paris-Sud University (French: ''Université Paris-Sud''), also known as University of Paris — XI (or as Université d'Orsay before 1971), was a French research university distributed among several campuses in the southern suburbs of Paris, in ...
in 1981 and a state doctorate there in 1987.
She worked as a research engineer for IBM in Paris and Rome from 1979 to 1983, as an assistant professor at Sapienza University from 1983 to 1987, as an associate professor at the
Parthenope University of Naples
The Parthenope University of Naples ( it, Università degli Studi di Napoli "Parthenope") is one of the universities located in Naples, Italy.
Historical notes
Now one of the fully accredited universities of Naples, the “Parthenope” Universi ...
(then called the Istituto Universitario Navale) from 1987 to 1990, and again at Sapienza University from 1990 to 1993. She joined the Department of Information Engineering at the University of L'Aquila as Professor of Automatic Control in 1994. At L'Aquila, she directs the Center of Excellence for Research in Design methodologies of Embedded controllers, Wireless interconnect and Systems-on-chip (DEWS).
She has headed the European Embedded Control Institute (EECI) since 2009, and served as president of the Italian Society of researchers in Automatic Control (SIDRA) from 2013 to 2019.
Book
With Elena De Santis, Di Benedetto is the coauthor of the book ''Observability of Hybrid Dynamical Systems'' (Now Publishers, 2016).
Recognition
Di Benedetto was named an
IEEE Fellow in the class of 2002, affiliated with the
IEEE Control Systems Society, "for contributions to the theory of nonlinear and hybrid control system design". She was named a Fellow of the
International Federation of Automatic Control
The International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC), founded in September 1957, is a multinational federation of 49 national member organizations (NMO), each one representing the engineering and scientific societies concerned with automatic c ...
in 2019, "for contributions to nonlinear and hybrid system theory and leadership in control research and education".
References
External links
DEWS*
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1953 births
Living people
Italian electrical engineers
Italian women engineers
Control theorists
Sapienza University of Rome alumni
Academic staff of the Sapienza University of Rome
Academic staff of the Parthenope University of Naples
Fellow Members of the IEEE
Fellows of the International Federation of Automatic Control