Biography

Gianmaria De Tommasi was born in Milano, Italy, in 1975. He received the Laurea degree (summa cum laude) in Electronic Engineering from the University of Naples Federico II in 2001.
From September 2000 to September 2001 he worked for a Siemens Industrial Services company located in Torre Annunziata (Naples, Italy), where he designed and developed control systems for industrial automation.
From October 2001 to April 2002 he won the MARS Scholarship Programme and he worked for the Microgravity Advanced Research and Support Center in Naples, where he designed and developed control and data acquisition software.
Since 2002 he is with University of Naples Federico II, where he received the Research Doctorate degree in Computer and Automatic Engineering in 2005, and where he is currently Full Professor in Automatic Control at the Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettrica e delle Tecnologie dell'Informazione.
He has been a visiting researcher at the JET tokamak (UK), where he has participated to various projects connected to the JET plasma current and shape control system. He has participated to the modeling activities for the Central Safety System and Central Interlock System at the ITER Organization (France). He has also been Project Leader of an international project at JET named Current Limit Avoidance Implementation, aimed at developing and implementing an intelligent control system to avoid to reach the current limits during tokamak operations (2010-12).
He is member of the IEEE Control System Society since 2006. He has been elevated to Senior Member of the IEEE Control System Society in March 2011. His current research interests include control of nuclear fusion devices, fault detection for discrete event systems, identification of discrete event systems modeled with Petri nets, and stability of hybrid systems. He has published more than 200 journal and conference papers.