Giorgio Picci Editor & Author

Giorgio Picci is Professor Emeritus at the Department of Information Engineering of the University of Padova, Italy. He has also held several long-term visiting positions at various American, European Japanese and Chinese universities. He has contributed to the field of systems and control theory, mostly in the areas of modeling, estimation and identification of stochastic systems, and has published about 200 papers. He has also published a book, co-authored with Anders Lindquist,  Linear Stochastic Systems: A Geometric Approach to Modeling, Estimation and Identification in the Springer Series in Contemporary Mathematics, and edited three other books in this area. He has also been active in the field of dynamic vision and on-line scene and motion reconstruction, and is involved in various joint research projects with industry and state agencies. He 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 also a foreign member of the Swedish Royal Academy of Engineering Sciences and a member of the Galileian Academy in Padova.