Damiano Varagnolo

Damiano Varagnolo received the Dr. Eng. degree in automation engineering and the Ph.D. degree in information engineering from the University of Padova respectively in 2005 and 2011. He worked as a research engineer at Tecnogamma S.p.A., Treviso, Italy during 2006-2007 and visited UC Berkeley as a scholar researcher in 2010. From March 2012 to December 2013 he worked as a post-doctoral scholar at KTH, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. From January 2014 to November 2019 he worked first as Associate Senior Lecturer and then as Senior Lecturer at LTU, Luleå University of Technology in Sweden, teaching system identification and state-space based automatic control. He is now serving as Professor at NTNU in Trondheim within the Department of Engineering Cybernetics. His research interests include statistical learning, distributed optimization, and distributed nonparametric estimation, with a special focus on applications including identification and control for the built environment, learning analytics, and muscular rehabilitation.