Giorgio Picci

Giorgio Picci
Picci in around 2022
Born (1942-05-26) 26 May 1942
NationalityItalian
Alma materUniversity of Padova (Dr. Eng. in 1967)
AwardsFellow of the IEEE (1994)
Foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA) (2004)
Fellow of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) (2009)
Member of the Galilean Academy of Sciences, Letters and Arts in Padova (2024)
Scientific career
FieldsElectrical Engineering and Control Theory
InstitutionsUniversity of Padova (retired in 2012)
Doctoral students
 
  • Alessandro Chiuso
  • Riccardo Muradore
  • Eugenio Cinquemani
  • Stefano Perabò
  • Andrea Masiero
  • Francesca Carli
  • Giulio Bottegal
  • Mattia Bruschetta
  • Martina Favaro
  • Bin Zhu
  • Wenqi Cao
Websitewww.dei.unipd.it/~picci/

Giorgio Picci is an Italian electrical engineer and control theorist. He has made widely recognized contributions to the field of Systems and Control, and in particular, to the areas of Stochastic Realization and System Identification. He was also a pioneer in Computer Vision. He has published a monograph (in English) and over 150 papers in these areas.

He is currently a Professor Emeritus with the Department of Information Engineering, University of Padova, Italy. He is also the Italian director of the Confucius Institute at the University of Padova, where he actively promotes cultural and scientific exchanges between China and Italy, in collaborations with Guangzhou University in China.