Maria Pia Fanti

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Maria Pia Fanti (born 21 February 1957) [1] is an Italian control theorist known for her research on topics that include discrete event dynamic systems, Petri nets, consensus, fault detection and isolation, agile manufacturing, and road traffic control. [2] [3] She is a professor in the Department of Electrical and Information Engineering at the Polytechnic University of Bari, [2] where she heads the Laboratory for Control and Automation. [2] [4]

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Education and career

Fanti studied electronic engineering at the University of Pisa, and earned a laurea there in 1983. [2] She has been a full professor at the Polytechnic University of Bari since 2012. [5]

Recognition

Fanti was named an IEEE Fellow in 2017 "for contributions to modeling and control of discrete event systems". [6]

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References

  1. Author biography from Fanti, M.P.; Maione, B.; Mascolo, S.; Turchiano, A. (June 1997), "Event-based feedback control for deadlock avoidance in flexible production systems", IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, 13 (3): 347–363, doi:10.1109/70.585898
  2. 1 2 3 4 Distinguished lecturers, IEEE Technical Committee for Automation in Logistics, retrieved 2020-12-13
  3. "Meet Our Volunteers: Maria Pia Fanti", IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Magazine, vol. 1, no. 4, pp. 28–30, October 2015, doi:10.1109/msmc.2016.2520072
  4. Team of LCA, Polytechnic University of Bari, Laboratory for Control and Automation, retrieved 2020-12-13
  5. "Maria Pia Fanti", ORCID, retrieved 2020-12-13
  6. IEEE Fellows from CSS – Women (PDF), 29 November 2017, retrieved 2020-12-13