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Giorgio Picci is Professor Emeritus with the University of Padova,
Italy, Department of Information Engineering. He graduated (summa cum laude) from the University of
Padova in 1967 and since then has held several
long-term visiting positions with various American, European Japanese and Chinese universities among which Brown
University, M.I.T., University of Kentucky,
Arizona State University, the Center for Mathematics and Computer
Sciences (C.W.I.) in Amsterdam, the Royal
Institute of Technology, Stockholm
Sweden,
Kyoto University, Whasington University in St. Louis, Mo. and more recently
Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Guangzhou University in China.
He has been contributing to Systems and Control theory mostly in the
area of modeling, estimation and
identification of stochastic systems and published over 150 papers and the book: Linear Stochastic Systems: A Geometric Approach to Modeling, Estimation and Identification, Springer series in Contemporary Mathematics, co-authored with
Anders Lindquist. The book was translated in Chinese and published in
two volumes by the Shanghai Scientific and Technical Publishers,
in 2018. He also edited three books in this area.He has been
active also in the field of dynamic vision
and on-line scene and motion reconstruction.
Giorgio Picci has been involved in various joint research projects with industry and state agencies. He has been general
coordinator of an italian national research
project on New techniques for identification and adaptive control of industrial systems, funded by MIUR (the
Italian ministery for higher education) for the years 1998 to 2012; has been project manager of the italian team for
the Commission of the European Communities
Network of Excellence System Identification (ERNSI)
and general project manager of the
Commission of European Communities IST project
RECSYS, in the fifth Framework Program.
Giorgio Picci is a Life Fellow of the IEEE, Fellow of IFAC, past chairman of
the IFAC
Technical Committee on Stochastic Systems
and past member of the EUCA council. He is a foreign member of the
Swedish Royal Academy of Engineering Sciences and member of the Galileian Academy in Padova.
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