Cuzzola Francesco Alessandro

Post doc fellow

Francesco received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Information Technology Engineering from Politecnico di Milano, both with a GPA of 4.0.

He has held leading positions in major industrial companies in the software and digitalisation sectors and has been a postdoctoral research assistant at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH, Zurich). He has received several awards for his professional achievements, including the Ettore Lewis Award, the Dimitris Chorafas Award, the Journal of Process Control Award, the Danieli Ethics Award and the IEEE TEMSCON Global best paper award. In 2022, he completed the Executive MBA at the University of Udine, earning a GPA of 4.0.

He currently serves (or “has served”, depending on status) as Associate Editor for Control Engineering Practice and IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, and as Vice-Chair of the IFAC Technical Committee on Mining, Mineral and Metal Processing.

Career

Executive MBA: University of Udine (2022).

PhD: Information technology engineering, Politecnico di Milano (2000).

Master of Science: Information technology engineering, Politecnico di Milano (1996).

Research

Research interests: Advanced planning and scheduling, optimisation technologies, software engineering, data-analytics, healthcare industry, sustainability in industry, manifacturing execution systems, managerial decision making, control systems technology.

Research projects: s-X-AIPI Incode Modul4r AI Redgio aerOS

Research Groups, Labs, Centers: Manufacturing Group - Industry 4.0 Lab

Selected Publications

Samad T. Abramovitch D. Y. Lees M. Mareels I. Russell Rhinehart R. Cuzzola F.A. Grosman B. Gusikhin O. Juuso E. Patil B. V. & Pickl S., "Managerial Decision Making as an Application for Control Science and Engineering", American Control Conference 2022 - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 3071-3081

Grants, awards and Honours

IEEE TEMSCON Global, best paper award (2025)

Journal of Process Control, best application paper award (2013)

Danieli&C Team Work Ethics award (2006)

"Dimitris N. Chorafas Foundation" award for the best PhD thesis (2000)

ANIPLA best paper award (2004)

Community service