Alessandro Vittorio Papadopoulos Curriculum Vitæ Personal Information First name Alessandro Vittorio Last name Papadopoulos E-mail alessandro.papadopoulos@control.lth.se alessandro.papadopoulos@polimi.it alessandro.papadopoulos@gmail.com Website http://www.control.lth.se/Staff/AlessandroPapadopoulos.html Office (+46) 46 222 8777 Mobile phone (+46) 721 598359 (+39) 347 6425754 Citizenship Italian Birth date October 21st , 1986 Birth place Verona (VR), Italy Address Ole Römers Väg 12D, SE 223 63, Lund, Sweden Current 2014–today Postdoctoral Researcher, Lund University, Department of Automatic Control, Lund, Sweden (SE). Supervisor: Prof. Karl-Erik Årzén. Research topic: I am involved in the Cloud Control project. We take a control theoretic approach to a range of cloud management problems, aiming to transform today’s static and energy consuming cloud data centers into self-managed, dynamic, and dependable infrastructures, constantly delivering expected quality of service with acceptable operation costs and carbon footprint for large-scale services with varying capacity demands. Such data centers will form the backbone of the digitalized society by providing unparalleled information storage and processing capabilities. Education 2011–2013 Ph.D. in Information Technology – Systems and Control, Politecnico di Milano, Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione, Milano, Italy (IT). Advisor: Prof. Alberto Leva. PhD thesis: Automatic Model Simplification for Continuous and Discontinuous Systems Research topic: My research presents a unified framework aimed at addressing Symbolic Model Manipulation of complex DAE systems. The main focus is on automatic methods capable to symbolically manipulate complex models and reach more suitable ones for given objectives, like, for instance, specific usage scenarios, selected time scales, outputs of interest, belonging to a class of models and so on. In addition, heuristics and methodologies able to decouple large systems interacting together are formalized and exploited in order to make simulation tasks more efficient, avoiding monolithical approaches. from 06/2012 Visiting Ph.D. Student, Lund University, Department of Automatic Control, Lund, Sweden to 09/2012 (SE). 1/5 Supervisor: Prof. Johan Åkesson. Research topic: Simulation of complex engineering systems requires modelling of components from different engineering fields. Object-Oriented Modelling approaches allow to build such models conveniently and to perform simulations without any added effort of the analyst. The goal of this research is to find a way to automatically partition a multi-physics system and to exploit structural properties of the model in order to improve simulation performance, with a particular focus on real-time simulation and co-simulation. 2011 Professional Engineer License in Information Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy (IT). 2008–2010 Master of Science in Computer Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy (IT). Degree Date: 22/10/2010 Evaluation: Summa cum Laude, 110L/110; GPA: 28.98/30 Thesis title: Advanced control techniques for resource management in computing systems. 2005–2008 Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy (IT). Degree Date: 23/07/2008 Evaluation: 108/110; GPA: 27.59/30 Thesis title: Model parameterisation for the automatic tuning of industrial regulators: the proposal of a unitary approach. Teaching Experience Fall 2013 Teaching Assistant, Fundamentals of Automatic Control (for Bioengineering) – 7 ECTS, Prof. Maria Prandini, (20h). Spring 2013 Teaching Assistant, Fundamentals of Automatic Control (for Aerospace Engineers) – 8 ECTS, Prof. Luca Bascetta, (26h). Fall 2012 Teaching Assistant, Fundamentals of Automatic Control (for Bioengineering) – 7 ECTS, Prof. Maria Prandini, (28h). Spring 2012 Teaching Assistant, Fundamentals of Automatic Control (for Aerospace Engineers) – 8 ECTS, Prof. Luca Bascetta, (27h). Fall 2011 Teaching Assistant, Fundamentals of Automatic Control (for Bioengineering) – 7 ECTS, Prof. Maria Prandini, (20h). Spring 2011 Teaching Assistant, Fundamentals of Automatic Control (for Aerospace Engineers) – 8 ECTS, Prof. Luca Bascetta, (12h). Languages Italian Greek English French Mother language Mother language, bilingual Fluent Basic TOEFL iBT 81/120 – C1 (CEFR) (October 2007) Books and book chapters [B1] A. Leva, M. Maggio, A. V. Papadopoulos, and F. Terraneo. Control-based operating system design. Control Engineering Series. IET, 2013. isbn: 978-1-84919-609-3. International Journals [J7] A. V. Papadopoulos and A. Leva. “A model partitioning method based on dynamic decoupling for the efficient simulation of multibody systems”. In: Multibody System Dynamics (2014). (accepted). [J6] F. Dercole, M. De Carli, F. Della Rossa, and A. V. Papadopoulos. “Overpunishing is not necessary to fix cooperation in voluntary public goods games”. In: Journal of Theoretical Biology 326.0 (2013), pp. 70–81. issn: 0022-5193. doi: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2012.11.034. 2/5 [J5] A. Leva and A. V. Papadopoulos. “Tuning of event-based industrial controllers with simple stability guarantees”. In: Journal of Process Control 23.9 (2013), pp. 1251–1260. issn: 0959-1524. doi: 10.1016/j.jprocont.2013.07.010. [J4] M. Maggio, A. V. Papadopoulos, and A. Leva. “On the Use of Feedback Control in the Design of Computing System Components”. In: Asian Journal of Control 15.1 (2013), pp. 31–40. issn: 1934–6093. doi: 10.1002/asjc.509. [J3] M. Maggio, H. Hoffmann, A. V. Papadopoulos, J. Panerati, M. D. Santambrogio, A. Agarwal, and A. Leva. “Comparison of Decision Making Strategies for Self-Optimization in Autonomic Computing Systems”. In: ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems 7.4 (2012), 36:1–36:32. issn: 1556-4665. doi: 10.1145/2382570.2382572. [J2] A. V. Papadopoulos, M. Maggio, S. Negro, and A. Leva. “General control-theoretical framework for online resource allocation in computing systems”. In: IET Control Theory & Applications 6.11 (2012), pp. 1594–1602. issn: 1751-8644. doi: 10.1049/iet-cta.2011.0632. [J1] A. Leva, S. Negro, and A. V. Papadopoulos. “PI/PID autotuning with contextual model parametrisation”. In: Journal of Process Control 20.4 (2010), pp. 452–463. issn: 0959-1524. doi: 10.1016/j. jprocont.2010.01.005. International Conferences [C18] A. V. Papadopoulos, L. Bascetta, and G. Ferretti. “A Comparative Evaluation of Human Motion Planning Policies”. In: Proceedings of the 19th IFAC World Congress. (accepted). Cape Town, South Africa, 2014. [C17] A. V. Papadopoulos, F. Casella, and A. Leva. “Model separability indices for efficient dynamic simulation”. In: Proceedings of the 19th IFAC World Congress. (accepted). Cape Town, South Africa, 2014. [C16] A. V. Papadopoulos and M. Prandini. “Model reduction of switched affine systems: a method based on balanced truncation and randomized optimization”. In: HSCC’14: Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control (part of CPS Week). (accepted). 2014. doi: 10.1145/2562059.2562131. [C15] A. Leva and A. V. Papadopoulos. “Teaching a conscious use of PI/PID tuning rules”. In: 10th IFAC Symposium on Advances in Control Education (ACE 2013). Vol. 10. Sheffield, UK, 2013, pp. 25–30. isbn: 978-3-902823-43-4. doi: 10.3182/20130828-3-UK-2039.00052. [C14] A. Leva, A. V. Papadopoulos, and M. Maggio. “A general control-theoretical methodology for runtime resource allocation in computing systems”. In: Decision and Control (CDC), 2013 IEEE 52nd Annual Conference on. Florence, Italy, 2013, pp. 3487–3492. isbn: 978-1-4673-5716-6. [C13] A. V. Papadopoulos, J. Åkesson, F. Casella, and A. Leva. “Automatic Partitioning and Simulation of Weakly Coupled Systems”. In: Decision and Control (CDC), 2013 IEEE 52nd Annual Conference on. Florence, Italy, 2013, pp. 3172–3177. isbn: 978-1-4673-5716-6. [C12] A. V. Papadopoulos, L. Bascetta, and G. Ferretti. “Generation of Human Walking Paths”. In: Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2013 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on. Tokyo, Japan, 2013, pp. 1676–1681. isbn: 978-1-4673-6357-0. doi: 10.1109/IROS.2013.6696574. [C11] A. V. Papadopoulos and A. Leva. “Automating Dynamic Decoupling in Object-Oriented Modelling and Simulation Tools”. In: 5th International workshop on Equation-Based Object-Oriented Modeling Languages and Tools. Nottingham, UK, 2013, pp. 37–44. isbn: 978-91-7519-621-3. [C10] A. V. Papadopoulos and A. Leva. “Laboratories over the network: from remote to mobile”. In: 10th IFAC Symposium on Advances in Control Education (ACE 2013). Vol. 10. Sheffield, UK, 2013, pp. 84–89. isbn: 978-3-902823-43-4. doi: 10.3182/20130828-3-UK-2039.00051. [C9] M. Maggio, A. V. Papadopoulos, and A. Leva. “SMART Computing Systems: Sensing, Modelling, Actuating, Regulating, and Tuning”. In: Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Feedback Computing. San Jose, CA, USA, 2012. 3/5 [C8] M. Maggio, F. Terraneo, A. V. Papadopoulos, and A. Leva. “A PI-based control structure as an operating system scheduler”. In: Proceedings IFAC Conference on Advances in PID Control. Vol. 2. Brescia, Italy: IFAC, 2012, pp. 329–334. doi: 10-3182/20120328-3-IT-3014.00056. [C7] A. V. Papadopoulos and A. Leva. “Antiwindup-aware PI autotuning”. In: Proceedings IFAC Conference on Advances in PID Control. Vol. 2. Brescia, Italy: IFAC, 2012, pp. 554–559. doi: 10-3182/201203283-IT-3014.00094. [C6] A. V. Papadopoulos, M. Maggio, F. Casella, and J. Åkesson. “Function inlining in Modelica models”. In: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference of Mathematical Modelling, MATHMOD’12. Vol. 7. Vienna, Austria: IFAC, 2012, pp. 1091–1094. isbn: 978-3-902823-23-6. doi: 10.3182/20120215-3AT-3016.00193. [C5] A. V. Papadopoulos, M. Maggio, and A. Leva. “Control and design of computing systems: what to model and how”. In: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference of Mathematical Modelling, MATHMOD’12. Vol. 7. Vienna, Austria: IFAC, 2012, pp. 102–107. isbn: 978-3-902823-23-6. doi: 10.3182/20120215-3-AT-3016.00018. [C4] P. Cremonesi, F. Garzotto, S. Negro, A. V. Papadopoulos, and R. Turrin. “Comparative evaluation of recommender system quality”. In: CHI EA ’11: Proceedings of the 2011 annual conference extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems. Vancouver, BC, Canada: ACM, 2011, pp. 1927– 1932. isbn: 978-1-4503-0268-5. doi: 10.1145/1979742.1979896. [C3] P. Cremonesi, F. Garzotto, S. Negro, A. V. Papadopoulos, and R. Turrin. “Looking for “Good” Recommendations: A Comparative Evaluation of Recommender Systems”. In: INTERACT’11: Proceedings of the 13th IFIP TC 13 international conference on Human-computer interaction. Vol. 6948. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Lisbon, Portugal: Springer-Verlag, 2011, pp. 152–168. isbn: 978-3-642-23764-5. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-23765-2_11. [C2] A. V. Papadopoulos, M. Maggio, S. Negro, and A. Leva. “Enhancing feedback process scheduling via a predictive control approach”. In: Proceedings of the 18th IFAC World Congress. Vol. 18. Milan, Italy, 2011, pp. 13522–13527. isbn: 978-3-902661-93-7. doi: 10.3182/20110828-6-IT-1002.01156. [C1] A. Leva, S. Negro, and A. V. Papadopoulos. “PI(D) Tuning with Contextual Model Identification”. In: Proceedings of the European Control Conference (ECC ’09). Budapest, Hungary, 2009. Submitted to International Journals [SJ3] A. V. Papadopoulos and A. Leva. “Automating efficiency-targeted approximations in modelling and simulation tools: dynamic decoupling and mixed-mode integration”. In: SIMULATION: Transactions of The Society for Modeling and Simulation International (2013). (submitted under review). [SJ2] A. V. Papadopoulos and A. Leva. “Enhancing Dynamic Simulation Performance for Models of Energy Systems and Smart Grids”. In: IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (2013). (submitted under review). [SJ1] A. V. Papadopoulos, M. Maggio, F. Terraneo, and A. Leva. “A Dynamic Modelling Framework for Control-based Computing System Design”. In: Mathematical and Computer Modelling of Dynamical Systems (2013). (submitted under review). Grants & Honours 2011-2013 Ph.D. Scholarship funded by the Italian Government, $55000. Computer skills OSs Linux, MacOS XTM , MicrosoftTM operating systems. Languages C, Python, Java, Bash scripting, XML, XSD, (X)HTML, CSS, LATEX, SQL, XPath, XQuery, OWL 2. 4/5 Scientific MatlabTM , Scilab, Modelica, R, NI LabVIEW, Maxima, Maple, Mathematica, AMPL, UML 2.0. Languages & Tools Technologies MySQL, Assimulo, Android. IDE and Dymola, Eclipse, Netbeans, XCode, Protégé, Microsoft Office Editors VisioTM , Omnigraffle. TM and other office packages, Ms More Associations Interests Sports Hobbies IEEE Student Member (from 2012), IEEE Control Systems Society Member (from 2012) technology, mathematics, economics, travelling. running, judo, volleyball, official volleyball referee for the Italian Federation Volleyball (FIPAV). photography, music, arts, literature, archaeology. Musical guitar. 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