Alessio La Bella received the M.Sc. in Automation Engineering cum laude from Politecnico di Milano in 2015, and the M.Sc. in Mechatronics Engineering cum laude from Politecnico di Torino in 2016, within the Alta Scuola Politecnica honors program. He obtained the Ph.D. degree cum laude in Information Technology – Systems and Control from Politecnico di Milano in 2020. From 2020 to 2022, he worked as a Research Engineer at Ricerca sul Sistema Energetico (RSE SpA), where he developed and deployed advanced predictive control systems for district heating networks and large-scale battery plants in collaboration with industrial partners and energy utilities.
In 2022, he joined Politecnico di Milano as Assistant Professor at the Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria, and he was appointed Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in 2024. He has been a visiting researcher at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland) in 2018, at Technische Universiteit Delft (The Netherlands) in 2024, and at Imperial College London (United Kingdom) in 2024 and 2025. He serves as Associate Editor for the International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing, for the EUCA Conference Editorial Board, and for the Technology Conference Editorial Board of the IEEE Control Systems Society. His research interests include the theory and design of predictive, multi-agent, and learning-based control systems, with particular emphasis on practical challenges arising from ongoing energy transition. He was the recipient of the Dimitris N. Chorafas Prize in 2020.