For her Ph.D. research activities, in 2007 she was awarded with the Dimitri N. Chorafas Ph.D. Thesis Award for the best Ph.D. Theses in “Systems Engineering and Information Technology" and the Claudio Maffezzoni Ph.D. Thesis Award.
Her main research interests focus on active control for ground vehicles, control for Smart Mobility systems, sliding mode control and technology tools for diversity and inclusion.
She is co-author of more than 150 peer-reviewed scientific publications and more than 15 patents in these research areas. She is co-author of the monograph “Active braking control systems design for vehicles”, published in 2010 for the Springer Series “Advances in Industrial Control” and she is co-editor of the book “Modelling, simulation and control of two-wheeled vehicles”, published by Wiley & Sons in 2014.
For her research activities, she has been awarded with the 2008 ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Rudolf Kalman Best Paper Award for the paper “Mixed slip-deceleration control in automotive braking systems” published in the ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement and Control in 2007. In September 2011, she received the 2011 Control Engineering Practice Best Paper Prize for the paper “On optimal motorcycle braking”. In 2014, she obtained the IEEE–CSS Italian Chapter Best Young Author Journal Paper Award 2013 for the work “Enhancing Robustness and Performance via Switched Second Order Sliding Mode Control”, published in the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control in April 2013.
Since 2012, she is Senior Member of the IEEE and since 2013 she is a member of the Conference Editorial Board of the IEEE Control Systems Society. She is Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology and the IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems.
