Igor Boiko Author & Editor

Igor Boiko received M.Sc. degree in electro-mechanical engineering, Ph.D. degree in control systems, and D.Sc. degree in control theory in 1984, 1990, and 2009, respectively. Since 2014, he has been a full professor with department of Electrical Engineering of Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi. He has authored and co-authored over 250 publications, including 4 monographs. His research interests are in the areas of discontinuous control, robotics, sliding mode control, power converter control, process control, frequency-domain methods and PID controller tuning. Dr. Boiko has a substantial industry experience. He worked in the fields of process automation, instrumentation and process control for such companies as Honeywell, Syncrude Canada, Chevron Texaco, SNC Lavalin. He has important technological developments in the control of the Claus (sulfur recovery) process, deployed in a number of sulfur recovery plants, and methods of controller tuning.

Antonella Ferrara received the M.Sc. degree in electronic engineering and the Ph.D. degree in computer science and electronics from the University of Genoa, Italy, in 1987 and 1992, respectively. Since 2005, she has been a full professor of automatic control at the University of Pavia, Italy. She has authored and co-authored over 450 publications, including more than 160 journal papers, 2 monographs, and 1 edited book. Her research primarily focuses on sliding mode control and other nonlinear control methodologies applied to traffic systems, intelligent vehicles, power networks, and robotics. Dr. Ferrara is currently a senior editor of the IEEE Open Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems and an associate editor of Automatica. Previously, she served as a senior editor of the IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles and an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, IEEE Control Systems Magazine.