Speaker: Professor Giordano Scarciotti (Imperial College London, Assistant Professor in Control Theory)
Date｜Time Nov 10 (Tuesday), 2026｜14:00
Location Room 316-1, Building 133
Abstract
In this seminar we present a framework for direct data-driven control for general problems involving interconnections of dynamical systems. We first develop a method to determine the solution of a Sylvester equation from data. Such solution is used to describe a subspace that plays a role in a large variety of problems. We then provide an error analysis of the impact that noise has on this solution. Thanks to the interconnection approach developed, we are able to track how the noise propagates at each stage and thereby provide bounds on the final designs. Among the many potential problems that can be solved with this framework, we focus on three representatives: cascade stabilisation, output regulation, and model order reduction.
Part I: https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17248v1
Part II: https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17251v1
Biography
Giordano Scarciotti received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Automation Engineering from the University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Italy, in 2010 and 2012, respectively. In 2012 he joined the Control and Power Group, Imperial College London, UK, where he obtained a Ph.D. degree in 2016. He also received an M.Sc. in Applied Mathematics from Imperial in 2020. He is currently an Associate Professor at Imperial. He was a visiting scholar at New York University in 2015, at the University of California Santa Barbara in 2016, and a Visiting Fellow of Shanghai University in 2021-2022. He is the recipient of an Imperial College Junior Research Fellowship (2016), of the IET Control & Automation PhD Award (2016), the Eryl Cadwaladr Davies Prize (2017), an ItalyMadeMe award (2017) and the IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology Outstanding Paper Award (2023). He is a member of the IFAC and IEEE CSS Technical Committees on Nonlinear Control Systems and has served in the International Programme Committees of multiple conferences. He is an Editor of IMA Journal of Mathematical Control and Information, and an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control and Automatica. He was the National Organising Committee Chair for the EUCA European Control Conference (ECC) 2022, and of the 7th IFAC Conference on Analysis and Control of Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos 2024, and the Invited Session Chair and Editor for the IFAC Symposium on Nonlinear Control Systems 2022 and 2025, respectively. He is the General Co-Chair of ECC 2029. He is the General Co-Chair of ECC 2029. He has an outreach YouTube channel (@Prof_Gio) with 43k subscribers and 6.4M views to promote public engagement in science and engineering.
