SPC - EPFL
Swiss Plasma Center,
École polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Rt. Cantonale,
1015 Ecublens (VD)
Switzerland

adriano.mele@unitus.it E-mail

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About

I am currently an Assistant Professor in Automatic Control at the University of Tuscia, Viterbo.
I am also Research Topic Coordinator in the EUROfusion Tokamak Exploitation WorkPackage, for the Research Topic 04: Physics-based machine generic systems for an integrated control of plasma discharge.

In the years 2019-2021, I have been a post-doctoral researcher at the CREATE consortium, host by the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology (DIETI) of the University of Napoli Federico II. The position was funded by an EUROfusion Engineering Grant for the development of diagnostic systems for the DTT device.

In the years 2015-2019, I've been enrolled in the Joint European Research Doctorate in Fusion Science and Engineering PhD programme, in co-supervision with the University of Padua. My main PhD research topic was the development of a flexible and robust control architecture for plasma magnetic control in tokamak reactors (read the full thesis).

My research interests include control systems for nuclear fusion reactors, data-driven and machine learning control applications and control theory in general.

For further information or collaboration proposals, feel free to reach out!

PS. I shoot (almost) all the pictures on this website. If you like them, you can find more here.

Latest news

02/01/2024	Special session on Optimization and control for tokamak plasmas accepted at the 2024 CoDIT conference.
28/12/2023	New paper out on the Journal of the Franklin Institute describing a novel data-driven method for Vertical Stabilization in tokamaks. You can find it here.
27/09/2023	Read about our mini-symposium on Diagnostic and Control Systems in Nuclear Fusion Reactors on the IPFN website!
29/06/2023	Selected as a new coordinator for the Eurofusion workpackage WPTE - Tokamak Exploitation Research Topic devoted to physics-based integrated control of tokamak plasmas.
23/06/2023	New paper out on Systems&Control Letters about how to verify the Finite-Time Stability of nonlinear systems with Physics-Informed Neural Networks. You can find it here.
11/05/2023	The call for the Joint Doctorate in Fusion Science and Engineering between the Universities of Napoli and Padova is now open. Take a look here.
11/05/2023	The website is currently under maintenance. Sorry for any inconvenience!
11/05/2023	The paper Implementation of a high-speed multichannel data acquisition system for magnetic diagnostics and plasma centroid position control in ISTTOK has been published on IEEE Access.
31/03/2023	The mini-symposium "Diagnostics and Control Systems for Nuclear Fusion Reactors", organized together with dr Gaetano Tartaglione (Uniparthenope - Napoli) and dr Doménica Corona (PPPL - Princeton) has been officially included in the program of the 2023 SIAM Conference on Control and Its Applications (SIAM CT23). Take a look at the conference program.
20/03/2023	Joined Franklin Open as an Associate Editor. See the full editorial board.
01/03/2023	Prof. Emilia Fridman, University of Tel Aviv, hosted at the University of Tuscia for a seminar on Time-Delay systems. The seminar has been included in the official IEEE-CSS Seminar Series. Take a look at the abstract or watch the full talk.
13/05/2022	Some of our code (in collaboration with EPFL-SPC and ASIPP) will be running on ITER! Check out the news on the F4E website.