Chiara Toffanin

Chiara Toffanin was born in Vizzolo Predabissi, Milan, Italy, in 1985. She received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in computer science engineering from the University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy in 2007 and 2009, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electronics, computer science and electrical engineering from the University of Pavia in 2013. She was a Post-Doctoral Researcher with the University of Pavia and Oxford University, Oxford, U.K., from 2013 to 2016, where she was an Assistant Professor until 2021. She is currently an Associate Professor with the Department of Electrical, Computer and Biomedical Engineering, University of Pavia. She is also an Associate Professor with the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA. She is the author of 34 journal articles, 40 conference manuscripts, and two book chapters. She holds two patents. Her research interests include process identification and modeling, model predictive control, and data analysis applied to different industrial and biomedical topics, but also machine learning techniques used to model dynamic systems and study of the stability properties of neural networks. Dr. Toffanin was a recipient of the Best Paper Award for the manuscript “Artificial pancreas under periodic MPC for trajectory tracking: handling circadian variability of insulin sensitivity” at the 18th IFAC Workshop on Control Applications of Optimization in 2022. She was an Organizer and the Chair of the invited session “Glucose Regulation and Biomedical Systems” at the 57th IEEE CDC 2018. In 2022, she was a Guest Editor of the Special Issue of “Recent Advances in Computer Simulation for Diabetes Treatment and Care” (Frontiers in Endocrinology). She is also an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology and Clinical Diabetes, Special Section of Frontiers in Endocrinology, Frontiers in Public Health, Frontiers in Neuroscience, and Frontiers in Nutrition.