Gianmaria De Tommasi

Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettrica e Tecnologie dell'Informazione
Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
Via Claudio 21, 80125 Napoli
Tel: 081 7683853
Fax: 081 7683816
E-mail: detommas [at] unina [dot] it

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Gianmaria De Tommasi was born in Milan, Italy, in 1975. He received the Laurea degree (summa cum laude) in Electronic Engineering from the University of Naples Federico II in 2001. Since 2002 he is with Department of Computer and Systems Engineering of the 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. Since 2002 he has been visiting researcher at JET (UK), at ITER Organization (France), at Naka Fusion Institute (Japan), and at Institute of Plasma Physics of the Chinese Academy of Science (People's Republic of China), where he has participated to various projects connected to the plasma magnetic control systems. He is member of the IEEE Control System Society Conference Editorial Board. 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, stability of hybrid systems, and development of real-time frameworks for control. He has published more than 250 journal and conference papers on these topics.

Current positions

[May 2024-pres.] Vice Chair of the Fusion Science and Engineering PhD Programme at Università degli Studi di Padova

[February 2021-pres.] Member of JT-60SA International Fusion School Advisory Board (JAB)

[July 2019-pres.] Chair of the Automation Engineering & Robotics courses at Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II (Official web site)

[June 2020-pres.] Full Professor (Professore ordinario) at Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II

Past positions

[January 2022-April 2024] Chair of the Fusion Science and Engineering PhD Programme at Università degli Studi di Padova

Education

[March 2001] Laurea degree (summa cum laude) in Electronic Engineering from Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II

[December 2005] Ph.D. degree in Computer and Automation Engineering from Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II

Teaching

Current Classes

[2005/2006-2021/2022] Automation Technologies (Tecnologie dei Sistemi di Automazione e Controllo) - DIETI - Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II.

[2019/2020-2021/2022] Discrete Event Systems and Supervisory Control - DIETI - Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II.

Past Classes

[2017/2018-2018/2019,2021-2022] IT Technologies for Industrial Automation (Tecnologie Informatiche per l'Automazione Industriale) - DIETI - Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II.

[2013/2014-2018/2019] Discrete Event Systems (Sistemi ad Eventi Discreti) - DIETI - Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II.

[2008/2009-2010/2011] Supervisory Control (Controllo di Supervisione) - Faculty of Engineering - Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II.

[2010/2011] System Theory (Teoria dei Sistemi) - Faculty of Engineering - Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II.

[2008/2009] Digital Control (Controllo Digitale) - Faculty of Engineering - Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II.

[2007/2008] Fundamentals of Dynamical Systems (Fondamenti di Sistemi Dinamici) - Accademia Aeronautica di Pozzuoli.

[2006/2007] Fundamentals of Automation (Elementi di Automazione) - Faculty of Engineering - Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II.

Lectures & Workshops

• [November 2009] Lecturer - EFDA Goal Oriented Training in Theory (GOTiT) - Magnetic Control of Tokamak Plasmas - Università degli Studi di Napoli "Federico II" - material

• [June 2010] Lecturer - 4^th ITER International School - The University of Texas at Austin - material

• [January 2012] Seminars at Department of Systems and Control - Institut Jožef Stefan, Ljubljana - material

• [July 2012] "Plasma Current, Position and Shape Control in Tokamaks," workshop on "Tokamak nuclear fusion reactors: a control perspective", 20th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, Barcelona - presentation

• [November 2015] "Talk & Drinks!" - Istituto di Genetica e Biofisica, CNR Napoli - material

• [April 2016] Seminar at Università degli Studi di Salerno, Salerno - material

• [April 2017] Lecturer - International School of Fusion Reactors Technology - Ettore Majorana Centre, Erice, Sicily - material

• [May 2017] Lecturer - Advanced Course on Plasma Diagnostics and Control - Università degli Studi di Padova/Consorzio RFX, Padova - part 1 - part 2

• [December 2017] Seminars at Instituto Superior Técnico/IPFN, Lisboa - systems and control basics - plasma magnetic control in tokamaks

• [June 2019] Lecturer - Advanced Course on Plasma Diagnostics and Control - Università degli Studi di Padova/Consorzio RFX, Padova - part 1 - part 2

• [December 2020] Lecturer - From observability to privacy and security in discrete event systems - Ad hoc course for the ITEE PhD programme - Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II

• [June 2021] Lecturer - Advanced Course on Plasma Control and CODAC - PhD Programme in Fusion Science and Engineering @ Università degli Studi di Padova/Consorzio RFX, Napoli - material

• [July 2022] Lecturer - 11^th ITER International School - The University of California at San Diego - slide

Boards and Committees

[July 2022] Member of the Exam Committee for the Ph.D. programme of Dr. Brian Ospina Agudelo and Dr. Rudy Alexis Guejia Burbano - Università degli Studi di Salerno - Italy.

[May 2022] Member of the Exam Committee for the Ph.D. programme of Dr. Vincenzo Botta and Dr. Luigi Ferrara - Università degli Studi di Salerno - Italy.

[March 2022] Member of the Exam Committee for the Ph.D. programme of Dr. Antonio Guarino - Università degli Studi di Salerno - Italy.

[February 2021-pres.] Member of JT-60SA International Fusion School Advisory Board (JAB)

[2021-2022] External reviewer for the evaluation of research fundings - Dutch Research Council (NWO), Nederland

[April 2021] Member of the Exam Committee for the Ph.D. programme of Dr. Luca Calacci - Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata - Italy.

[January 2021] Member of the Exam Committee for the Ph.D. programme of Dr. Lilia Doménica Corona Rivera - Instituto Superior Técnico - Univeridade Técnica de Lisboa - Portugal.

[March 2020] Member of the Exam Committee for the Ph.D. course titled Fusion Science and Engineering - Università degli Studi di Padova - Italy.

[February 2020] Member of the Exam Committee for the Ph.D. programme of Dr. Antonio Della Gatta - Università degli Studi del Sannio di Benevento - Italy.

[July 2018] Member of the Exam Committee for the Ph.D. programme of Dr. Martynas Prokopas - Instituto Superior Técnico - Univeridade Técnica de Lisboa - Portugal.

[July 2018] Member of the Exam Committee for the Ph.D. programme of Dr. Miguel da Gama Falcão Correia - Instituto Superior Técnico - Univeridade Técnica de Lisboa - Portugal.

[April 2018] Member of the Exam Committee for the Ph.D. course titled Fusion Science and Engineering - Università degli Studi di Padova - Italy.

[March 2018] Member of the Exam Committee for the Ph.D. course titled Information Engineering - Università degli Studi di Napoli Parthenope - Italy.

[June 2017] Member of the Exam Committee for the Ph.D. programme of Dr. Luca Boncagni - Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata - Italy.

[April 2014] Member of the Exam Committee for the Ph.D. course titled Biomedical and Computer Science Engineering (Ingegneria Biomedica e Informatica - XXVI ciclo)- Università degli Studi Magna Græcia di Catanzaro - Italy.

[2013-pres.] Member of the Academic Council of the Ph.D. course "Fusion Science and Engineering" held by Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy.

[2011-pres.] Referee for the Evaluation of research projects on behalf of the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research.

[2010-pres.] Member of the IEEE Control System Society Conference Editorial Board.

[April 2011] Member of the Exam Committee for the Ph.D. programme of Dr. André Neto - Instituto Superior Técnico - Univeridade Técnica de Lisboa - Portugal.

[March 2011] Member of the Exam Committee for the Ph.D. course titled Electrical and Automation Engineering (Ingegneria Elettrica e dell'Automazione XXIII ciclo)- Università degli Studi Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria - Italy.

[January 2010] Member of the Exam Committee for the Ph.D. course titled Biomedical and Computer Science Engineering (Ingegneria Biomedica e Informatica - XXII ciclo)- Università degli Studi Magna Græcia di Catanzaro - Italy.

[February 2009] Member of the Exam Committee for the Ph.D. course titled Electrical and Automation Engineering (Ingegneria Elettrica e dell'Automazione XXI ciclo)- Università degli Studi Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria - Italy.

Scientific Activities

Grants & Projects

Gianmaria De Tommasi:

• is PI of the PRIN-PNRR 2022 project titled "Tokamak plasmas daTa-dRiven identificAtIon and magNEtic contRol (TRAINER)".

• has been member of the University of Naples Federico II research unit for the PRIN 2017 project titled "Modelling, identification and control of magnetically confined plasmas in transient phases of fusion devices in three-dimensional geometries", coordinated by Prof. Fabio Villone.

• has acted as Deputy Coordinator for the European contribution to the Integrated Commissioning of the JT-60SA tokamak (May 2019-September 2021) - Official site - EUROfusion webpage)

• has participated to the task titled Control laws and observers to improve runaway electrons beam stabilization at the JET tokamak for the 2018-2019 experimental campaign.

• has acted as chair of the EU Remote Experimentation Centre for JT-60SA Working Group setup by EUROFusion (January 2018-October 2018).

• has participated to the EUROfusion Enabling Research project titled "Fast Model Predictive Control for Magnetic Plasma Control", coordinated by Dr. Samo Gerkšič from Institut "Jožef Stefan" (2015-2017).

• has participated to the task T13-12: Develop and promote the use of Extreme Shape Controller (XSC) and Current limit avoidance (CLA) in JET scenarios at the JET tokamak for the 2013 experimental campaign.

• has participated to the FARO 2012 project titled "Un sistema elettronico di elaborazione in tempo reale per l'estrazione di informazioni da video ad alta risoluzione, alto frame rate e basso rapporto segnale rumore" (2012-2013).

• has been member of the University of Naples Federico II research unit for the PRIN 2010-11 project titled "Effetti tridimensionali, non lineari e multiphysics nella modellistica e nel controllo dei dispositivi per la fusione termonucleare controllata", coordinated by Prof. Fabio Villone.

• has been Scientific Coordinator of the experimental titled "Application of the Current Limit Avoidance (CLA) in condition of low disruption probability and low forces at disruption" at the JET tokamak during the 2011/2012 experimental campaign. presentation #1 presentation #2 physics summary - May 18th 2012

• has been Project Leader of the "Current Limit Avoidance Implementation Project" for the JET tokamak (2010-2011).

• is member (as expert) of the ITER Plasma Control Group (PCG).

• has participated to the FARO 2010 project titled "LATINO: Un sistema innovativo di LocAlizzazione e Tracciamento di INdividui per l'Ottimizzazione di percorsi in ambienti indoor" (2010-2011).

• has participated to the "Plasma Control Upgrade" project for the JET tokamak (2007-2009).

• has participated to the "eXtreme Shape Controller" project for the JET tokamak (2002-2003).

• has been member of the University of Naples Federico II research unit for the PRIN 2006 project titled "Controllo di plasmi termonucleari in presenza di effetti non assialsimmetrici in macchine a confinamento magnetico", coordinated by Prof. Fabio Villone.

Editorial and Conference Activities

Gianmaria De Tommasi has been Guest Editor of the Fusion Engineering and Design special issue titled "Design and implementation of real-time systems for magnetic confined fusion devices", March 2014

Gianmaria De Tommasi is a member of the IEEE Control System Society Conference Editorial Board, since 2011

Gianmaria De Tommasi has been the Editor of the 14th IFAC Workshop on Discrete Event Systems (WODES'18) that was held in 2018 in Italy, Sorrento Coast (Proceedings @ IFAC-PapersOnLine) (News @ IFAC Blog)

Gianmaria De Tommasi has been Associate Editor of ECC 2019

Gianmaria De Tommasi has been co-chair of the tutorial committee of the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Robotic Computing (IEEE IRC 2019)

Gianmaria De Tommasi has been Associate Editor of ECC 2018

Gianmaria De Tommasi has been Associate Editor of IEEE CASE/ISAM 2016

Gianmaria De Tommasi served as member of the Program Committee for:

• IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics 2018 - IEEE SMC 2018, Miyazaki, Japan
• 14th IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control 2017, ICNSC 2017, Calabria, Italy
• IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics 2016 - IEEE SMC 2016, Budapest, Hungary
• IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics 2014 - IEEE SMC 2014, San Diego, California
• IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics 2013 - IEEE SMC 2013, Manchester, UK

Gianmaria De Tommasi served as reviewer for the following international journals:

• Automatica (Elsevier)
• Control Engineering Practice (Elsevier)
• Systems & Control Letters (Elsevier)
• IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
• IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology
• IEEE Control Systems Letters
• IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering
• IEEE Transactions on Robotics
• IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems
• IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics
• IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics
• IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing
• IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
• IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science
• IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science
• IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
• IET Control Theory & Applications
• ISA Transactions (Elsevier)
• SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization
• International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control (Wiley)
• International Journal of Control (Taylor & Francis)
• International Journal of Systems Science (Taylor & Francis)
• Robotica (Cambridge University Press)
• Proceedings of the iMeche, Part C: Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science (SAGE Publishing)
• IMA Journal of Mathematical Control and Information (Oxford University Press)
• Asian Journal of Control (Wiley)
• Discrete Event Dynamic Systems (Springer)
• Nonlinear Analysis - Hybrid Systems (Elsevier)
• Nonlinear Analysis - Real World Applications (Elsevier)
• Signal Processing (Elsevier)
• Journal of the Franklin Institute (Elsevier)
• Acta Informatica
• Applied Mathematical Modelling (Elsevier)
• Applied Mathematics and Computation (Elsevier)
• Nuclear Fusion (IoP)
• Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion (IoP)
• Fusion Engineering and Design (Elsevier)
• Fusion Science and Technology (American Nuclear Society)
• Annals of Nuclear Energy (Elsevier)
• Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics (IoP)
• Journal of Fusion Energy (Springer)
• Plasma Science and Technology (IoP)
• Nuclear Science and Techniques (Springer)
• Kerntechnik: Independent Journal for Nuclear Engineering (De Gruyter)
• Reliability Engineering & System Safety (Elsevier)
• Journal of Computer Standards and Interfaces (Elsevier)
• International Journal of Robotics and Automation (ACTA Press)

and for the following international conferences:

• IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (IEEE CDC): 2003,2004,2006,2007,2008,2009,2010,2011,2012,2013,2014,2015,2016,2017,2018,2019,2020,2021,2022,2023,2024
• American Control Conference (ACC): 2004,2005,2007,2008,2009,2010,2012,2013,2014,2015,2016,2020,2021,2022,2023,2024
• IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (IEEE CCTA): 2022
• IEEE Multi-Conference on Systems and Control (IEEE MSC): 2011,2012,2013,2015
• IFAC World Congress: 2011,2014,2017,2023
• European Control Conference (ECC): 2019
• IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (IEEE CASE): 2007,2008,2009,2010,2011,2015
• IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (IEEE ICRA): 2014
• IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation: 2015
• IFAC Workshop on Discrete Event Systems (WODES): 2018, 2024
• IFAC Symposium on Robust Control Design (IFAC ROCOND): 2012
• IFAC Symposium on System, Structure and Control (IFAC SSSC): 2007,2010
• IFAC Symposium on Fault Detection, Supervision and Safety of Technical Processes (IFAC SAFEPROCESS): 2009
• Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation (MED): 2011,2015,2018
• Australian Control Conference (AUCC): 2014
• International Conference on System Theory, Control and Computing (ICSTCC): 2024
• XVI Congreso Latinoamericano de Control Automático 2014
• IEEE International Conference on Control & Automation (IEEE ICCA): 2011
• IEEE International Conference on Cybernetics and Intelligent Systems and IEEE International Conference on Robotics, Automation and Mechatronics (IEEE CIS-RAM): 2011
• International Conference on Methods and Models in Automation and Robotics (IFAC/IEEE MMAR): 2009
• Vienna International Conference on Mathematical Modelling (MATHMOD): 2018