• Room 117
  • Via Gradenigo 6/b
  • 35131 Padova, Italy


Thank you for your visit!

I am an assistant professor at the Department of Information Engineering (DEI) of the University of Padova.

I am broadly interested in multi-agent and network control, resource allocation, and codesign. Head to the Research tab and take a peek at my bread and butter.

I am also Publicity co-chair at CSS Nextcom. If you are a (PhD) student, young researcher or professional in systems and control, or just an enthusiast, that is the right place to boost your network and career!

News

  • [1 Dec. 2025] Officially started as assistant professor at the Department of University Engineering, University of Padova.

  • [6 June 2025] Two L-CSS papers just accepted. Kudos to all co-authors!

    • O. E. Akgün, Á. Vékássy, L. Ballotta, M. Yemini, S. Gil, “Friedkin-Johnsen Is Distributed Gradient Descent.”

    • B. Wolleswinkel, I. van Straalen, L. Ballotta, A. J. Gallo, R. M. G. Ferrari, ``Periodic sparse control to deter undetectable attacks on over-actuated systems.”

  • [1 June 2025] Two new preprints fresh out of the e-press. A huge thank you to my collaborators!

  • [1 April 2025] Two workshops accepted at the European Control Conference 2025!

    • Sparsity in control: from distributed MPC to energy-efficient actuator scheduling, to optimization hierarchies for stability analysis [website]

    • Reinforcement Learning for robotic control: data-efficiency, multi-agent RL, safety and explainability, the Sim2Real challenge, and beyond [website]