Giuseppe Belgioioso

I am an Assistant Professor in the Division of Decision and Control Systems (DCS) at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. From 2021 to 2024, I was first a Postdoc and then a Senior Scientist in the Automatic Control Laboratory (ifA) at ETH Zurich, Switzerland. I obtained my Bachelor's and Master's degrees (cum laude) at the University of Padova, Italy, in 2012 and 2015, respectively; and my PhD in automatic control from Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands, in 2020. I was also a visit scholar at Arizona State University (ASU), USA, in 2019; and an Intern at the Control Systems group a the University of Padova, Italy, in 2016.

Research Interests

My research is primarily focused on the interplay of automatic control, optimization, and game theory for studying and solving coordination, decision, and control problems that arise in large-scale complex systems, especially electrical power grids but also transportation networks and supply chains. My ultimate goal is to improve their efficiency, reliability, sustainability, and fairness by:

1. Designing novel algorithms and numerical methods to enable effective deployment of smart control mechanisms (such as demand-side management, real-time voltage control, and autonomous energy trading in smart grids);

2. Developing a solid theoretical framework to certify reliability, performance, and fairness of these smart control mechanisms 

3. Driving technological advancements through the integration of the methods developed in (1) and validated in (2) into real-world energy systems, through collaborations with industrial partners.

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For an updated list of publications, preprints, and report visit my Google Scholar profile, and for the latest news my LinkedIn profile.

 

Recent topics:

• Systems theory persepective on algorithms
  • Dörfler, F., He, Z., Belgioioso, G., Bolognani, S., Lygeros, J., & Muehlebach, M. (2024). Towards a systems theory of algorithms.IEEE Control Systems Letters.

• Bilevel programming and application to incentives design
  • Grontas, P. D., Belgioioso, G., Cenedese, C., Fochesato, M., Lygeros, J., & Dörfler, F. (2024). BIG Hype: Best intervention in games via distributed hypergradient descent.IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control.
  • Grontas, P. D., Cenedese, C., Fochesato, M., Belgioioso, G., Lygeros, J., & Dörfler, F. (2023, December). Designing Optimal Personalized Incentive for Traffic Routing using BIG Hype. In2023 62nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) (pp. 3142-3147). IEEE.

• Feedback optimization and application to electrical power grids
  • Belgioioso, G., Liao-McPherson, D., de Badyn, M. H., Bolognani, S., Smith, R. S., Lygeros, J., & Dörfler, F. (2024). Online feedback equilibrium seeking.IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control.
  • Belgioioso, G., Bolognani, S., Pejrani, G., & Dörfler, F. (2023, December). Tutorial on congestion control in multi-area transmission grids via online feedback equilibrium seeking. In2023 62nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) (pp. 3995-4002). IEEE.

• Algorithmic game theory and application to energy markets
  • Belgioioso, G., Yi, P., Grammatico, S., & Pavel, L. (2022). Distributed generalized Nash equilibrium seeking: An operator-theoretic perspective.IEEE Control Systems Magazine,42(4), 87-102.
  • Belgioioso, G., Ananduta, W., Grammatico, S., & Ocampo-Martinez, C. (2022). Operationally-safe peer-to-peer energy trading in distribution grids: A game-theoretic market-clearing mechanism.IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid,13(4), 2897-2907.

• Distributed and game-theoretic model predictive control
  • Hall, S., Liao-McPherson, D., Belgioioso, G., & Dörfler, F. (2024). Stability Certificates for Receding Horizon Games.arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.12165.
  • Belgioioso, G., Liao-McPherson, D., de Badyn, M. H., Pelzmann, N., Lygeros, J., & Dörfler, F. (2023). Stability and robustness of distributed suboptimal model predictive control.IFAC-PapersOnLine,56(2), 5115-5120.

Note to prospective students

I am currently looking for outstanding doctoral students and postdoctoral scholars. If you are interested in joining my research group, please send me an email with your resume, transcript of courses, a statement of research interests, as well as a list of reference contacts.