Luca Benvenuti

Luca Benvenuti was born in Rome, Italy, in 1966. He received the “Laurea” degree in electrical engineering (summa cum laude) and the Ph.D. degree in systems engineering from the University of Rome “La Sapienza,” Rome, Italy, in 1992 and 1995, respectively. He was a Visiting Graduate Student at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1995. In 1997, he was Scientific Consultant for Magneti Marelli, Bologna, Italy. From 1997 to 1999, he had a postdoctoral position at the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of L'Aquila, L'Aquila, Italy. From 1997 to 2000, he was a Scientific Consultant with the Project on Advanced Research on Architectures and Design of Electronic Systems (PARADES), a European Group of Economic Interest supported by Cadence Design Systems, Magneti Marelli, and STMicroelectronics. He is currently an Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer and System Science, University of Rome “La Sapienza,” Rome, Italy. Dr. Benvenuti was Co-Recipient of the IEEE Circuits and Systems “Guillemin-Cauer Award” in 2001. He was Co-Chairman of the First Multidisciplinary International Symposium on Positive Systems: Theory and Applications (POSTA03), held in Rome, 2003.