Francesco Borrelli, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of California at Berkeley, has been named the Chair of the Technical Committee on Automotive Controls in IEEE.

The scope of interest of the Technical Committee on Automotive Control covers modeling, simulation, identification, estimation, control and diagnostics of present and future automotive systems. The Technical Committee has been in existence since 1999 and has approximately 50 active members, with many other researchers in the field benefiting from its activities.

Borrelli received the `Laurea' degree in computer science engineering in 1998 from the University of Naples `Federico II', Italy. In 2002 he received the PhD from the Automatic Control Laboratory at ETH-Zurich, Switzerland. He has been a contract Assistant Professor at the Aerospace and Mechanics Department at the University of Minnesota, USA and an Assistant Professor at the `Universita' del Sannio', Benevento, Italy. He is currently an Assistant Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the University of California at Berkeley, USA. He is author of the book Constrained Optimal Control of Linear and Hybrid Systems published by Springer Verlag and the winner of the `Innovation Prize 2004' from the ElectroSwiss Foundation. His research interests include constrained optimal control, model predictive control, robust control, parametric programming and automotive applications of automatic control.

Professor Borrelli joined the Berkeley faculty in January 2008.