PALUMBO PASQUALE

Role
Associate professor  
Academic disciplines
Automatica (ING-INF/04)
Office phone

Biography

Laurea degree in Electronic Engineering, University of L’Aquila, 1995. Thesis on filtering: state estimate for stochastic non Gaussian systems. Qualification to the profession of EngineerUniversity of L’Aquila, 1995. Ph.D. in Electronic Engineering, University of L’Aquila, 2000. Thesis on control of flexible systems

National Scientific Qualification (Italian ASN) as Associate Professor. Scientific Research Sector (SSD) 09/G1 - AUTOMATICA, 2014

Associate Professor of Automatic Control (ING/INF-04), Department of Biotechnologies and Biosciences, University of Milano-Bicocca, since 2019

In 2000 joined the Institute of Systems Analysis and Computer Science “A. Ruberti” at the National Research Council (IASI-CNR) as a post-doc till 2005, then as a reasearcher till 2019, then as a research associate till present. In 2019 won a CNR contest as a senior researcher

Contract Professor at the University of L’Aquila, School of Engineering, from 2000 till 2019, teaching Probability and Statistics (2000/01 and 2001/02), Automatic Control (2002/03), Systems Theory (from 2003/04 till 2006/07), Systems Biology (lessons in English, 2018/19). Supervisor of more than 80 theses (36 Master theses) concerning Systems Theory, Automatic Control, Biomathematics and Systems Biology

Honorary Professor at Obuda University, Budapest, Hungary (since 2018)

Member of the IEEE Control Systems Society and of the IEEE Technical Committees on Systems Biology and on Healthcare and Medical Systems. Member of the Italian Association of Researchers in Automatic Control (SIDRA). Member of the Italian Society for Applied and Industrial Mathematics (SIMAI). Member of the Italian Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (SIB)

Author of over 100 peer-review publications, indexed on ISI-WOS and Scopus. Recipient of the 2013 Editor's Award of the Kybernetyka Journal. Recipient of the 2018 Editor's Award of the IET Systems Biology Journal

Member of the Editorial Board of PLoS ONE, Frontiers, Mathematical Problems in Engineering journals. Member of the Conference Editorial Board (CEB) of the IEEE Control Systems Society

Research

Scientific activity involves both methodological items, like Mathematical control theory (Polynomial method for stochastic control and filtering, Positive systems) and application items, like Mathematical modeling and control in biology and medicine (glucose-insulin models, the artificial pancreas, tumor growth control) and Systems and Synthetic Biology (Integrated models of cellular metabolism, growth and cycle, Metabolic Flux Analysis, Chemical Master Equations, noise propagation in transcriptional and metabolic networks)

Publications

  • Borri, A., Palumbo, P., & Singh, A. (2020). Time Delays in a Genetic Positive-Feedback Circuit. IEEE CONTROL SYSTEMS LETTERS, 4(1), 163-168. Detail
  • Cacace, F., Cusimano, V., & Palumbo, P. (2020). Optimal impulsive control with application to antiangiogenic tumor therapy. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CONTROL SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY, 28(1), 106-117. Detail
  • Borri, A., Cacace, F., De Gaetano, A., Germani, A., Manes, C., Palumbo, P., et al. (2017). Luenberger-Like Observers for Nonlinear Time-Delay Systems with Application to the Artificial Pancreas: The Attainment of Good Performance. IEEE CONTROL SYSTEMS, 37(4), 33-49. Detail
  • Borri, A., Palumbo, P., & Singh, A. (2016). Impact of negative feedback in metabolic noise propagation. IET SYSTEMS BIOLOGY, 10(5), 179-186. Detail
  • Palumbo, P., Vanoni, M., Cusimano, V., Busti, S., Marano, F., Manes, C., et al. (2016). Whi5 phosphorylation embedded in the G 1 /S network dynamically controls critical cell size and cell fate. NATURE COMMUNICATIONS, 7, 11372. Detail

Research projects

Formal Methods for the design of an Artificial Pancreas for subjects with type 2 diabetes and clinical validation
Year: 2023
Call: FAQC 2023 - seconda finestra
Grantors: Università degli Studi di MILANO-BICOCCA

Awards

Awards

  • IET Systems Biology Premium Award, The Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2018
  • Honorary Professorship, Obuda Unversity (former Budapest Tech), 2018
  • SysBio Award, Sysbio - Centre for Systems Biology, 2016
  • Kybernetika Editor's Award 2013, Institute of Information Theory and Automation -- Academy of Science of the Czech Republic, 2013

Scientific fellowships

  • Socio effettivo o corrispondente - SIB - Società Italiana di Biochimica e Biologia Molecolare, 2019
  • Socio effettivo o corrispondente - IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS), 2016
  • Componente del Comitato Scientifico - IEEE-CSS Technical Committee on Healthcare and Medical Systems, 2016
  • Componente del Comitato Scientifico - IEEE-CSS Technical Committee on Systems and Synthetic Biology, 2016
  • Socio fondatore - Società Italiana dei Docenti e Ricercatori in Automatica (SIDRA), 2007

Editorial boards

  • Guest Editor di rivista o collana editoriale - SYMMETRY, 2021 - 2023
  • Editor di rivista, collana editoriale, enciclopedia - SEMA SIMAI SPRINGER SERIES, 2021 - 2023
  • Associate Editor di rivista o collana editoriale - AXIOMS, 2021
  • Associate Editor di rivista o collana editoriale - IET SYSTEMS BIOLOGY, 2021
  • Guest Editor di rivista o collana editoriale - INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ROBUST AND NONLINEAR CONTROL, 2021 - 2022
  • Membro del Comitato Editoriale - PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN CONTROL CONFERENCE, 2019
  • Membro del Comitato Editoriale - PROCEEDINGS OF THE IEEE CONFERENCE ON DECISION & CONTROL, 2019
  • Guest Editor di rivista o collana editoriale - CURRENT OPINION IN BIOTECHNOLOGY, 2019 - 2020
  • Membro del Comitato Editoriale - PLOS ONE, 2018
  • Membro del Comitato Editoriale - MATHEMATICAL PROBLEMS IN ENGINEERING, 2017

Research and teaching assignments

  • Attivita' didattica - Incarico di insegnamento presso la Scuola di Dottorato (Dottorato Nazionale di Ricerca in Autonomous Systems, DAUSY) del Politecnico di Bari per l’A.A. 2022/2023 - Politecnico di BARI, 2023
  • Ricercatore presso Ente di ricerca - Ricercatore associato CNR - Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, 2019
  • Ricercatore presso Ente di ricerca - Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, 2009 - 2019
  • Attivita' didattica - 30 ore di lezione in inglese nel corso di "Intensive Programme on Mathematical Models in Life Science" (3CFU), corso di Laurea Specialistica in Ingegneria Matematica, a partire dall'AA 2010/11 - Università degli Studi dell'AQUILA, 2011 - 2012
  • Ricercatore a t.d. presso Ente di ric. - Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, 2007 - 2009
  • Ricercatore a t.d. presso Ente di ric. - Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, 2005 - 2007
  • Professore a contratto - Professore di "Systems Biology" (6CFU), Corso di Laurea Specialistica in Ingegneria Matematica, 60 ore di lezione in inglese a partire dall'AA 2010/11 - Università degli Studi dell'AQUILA, 2010 - 2019
  • Attivita' didattica - Professore di "Controlli Automatici II" (6CFU). Corso di Laurea in Ing. Informatica Automatica - Università degli Studi dell'AQUILA, 2002 - 2003
  • Attivita' didattica - Professore di "Calcolo delle Probabilità e Statistica" (3CFU). Corso di Laurea in Ing. Civile - Università degli Studi dell'AQUILA, 2001 - 2002
  • Professore a contratto - Professore di "Systems Biology" (9CFU), Corso di Laurea Specialistica in Ingegneria Matematica, 90 ore di lezione in inglese, AA 2008/09 e 2009/10 - Università degli Studi dell'AQUILA, 2008 - 2010
  • Professore a contratto - Professore di "Teoria dei Sistemi II" (6CFU). Corso di Laurea in Ingegneria Informatica Automatica, 60 ore di lezione dall'AA 2003/04 all'AA 2006/07 - Università degli Studi dell'AQUILA, 2003 - 2007
  • Professore a contratto - Professore di Calcolo delle Probabilità. Corso di Laurea in Ing. Civile, Ing. dell'Ambiente e del territorio (120 ore di lezione, vecchio ordinamento), AA 200/01 - Università degli Studi dell'AQUILA, 2000 - 2001

Congresses/Conferences

  • Program committee - 1st IFAC Workshop on Control of Complex Systems (COSY 2022)(Italia), 2022
  • Partecipazione al comitato organizzativo - Mathematical Modelling and Control for Healthcare and Biomedical Systems (MCHBS 2021)(Italia), 2021
  • Program chair - Mathematical Modelling and Control for Healthcare and Biomedical Systems (MCHBS 2021)(Italia), 2021
  • Program chair - 3rd SYSBIO.IT School on Computational Systems Biology: Mathematical models for Chemical Reaction Networks in living systems(Italia), 2018
  • Partecipazione al comitato organizzativo - MathCell2010. A meeting between Mathematics and Biological and Medical Sciences, about tumors, regenerating tissues, and biofilms(Italia), 2010