Maria Pia Fanti

Polytechnic University of Bari
Italy

Maria Pia Fanti, IEEE Fellow, received the Laurea degree from the University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy. Since 1983, she has been with the Department of Electrical and Information Engineering of the Polytechnic of Bari, Italy, where she is a Full Professor of system and control engineering and Chair of the Laboratory of Automation and Control. Her research interests include management and modeling of complex systems, intelligent transportation, logistics and manufacturing systems; discrete event systems; Petri nets; fault detection and cybersecurity. Prof. Fanti has published more than 370 papers and two textbooks on her research topics. She is senior editor of the IEEE Trans. on Automation Science and Engineering, and Associate Editor of the IEEE Trans. on SMC: Systems. She is member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE SMC Society, and founder and chair of the TC on Automation in Logistics and TC on Machine Learning for Automation.