University of Padova, Italy
Brief info
Elena Valcher (Ph.D. Degree, 1995) is Professor of Control Theory at the University of Padova since 2005. Her current research interests include data-driven methods, distributed estimation, social networks, Boolean control networks, multi-agent systems and consensus problems.
Author of approximately 100 journal papers, 18 book chapters, 115 conference papers and 3 textbooks.
She has been an active volunteer since 1999, serving in various roles for IEEE Control Systems Society, IEEE, IFAC and EUCA.
She was IEEE CSS President in 2015, she is currently EUCA President (2024-2025). She was a member of the IFAC Technical Board (2017-2023) and she is Chair del 2026 IFAC Major Awards Search Committee.
She is the Founding Editor in Chief of the IEEE Control Systems Letters (2017-2024) and co-Editor in Chief of Foundations and Trends in Systems and Control. She was Program Chair of the 2012 IEEE CDC, and co-General Chair of the 2022 IEEE CDC. She is an IEEE Fellow, an IEEE CSS Distinguished Member and an IFAC Fellow.