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Elena De Santis is a Full Professor in Systems and Control Engineering with the Department of Information Engineering, Computer Science and Mathematics (DISIM), University of L'Aquila Since 2019, she has been the Director of the Italian Center of Excellence for Research DEWS "Architectures and Design methodologies for Embedded controllers, Wireless interconnect and System-on-Chip". She graduated (summa cum laude) in Electrical Engineering from the University of L'Aquila in 1983 and joined the same university as an assistant professor in 1987. Since then, she has published more than 100 papers on analysis, control and optimization of constrained and uncertain dynamic systems, model management for decision support systems, positive systems, dynamic games, hybrid and switching systems. She has been a member of the IEEE since 1999 (elevated to the rank of Senior Member in 2006) and of the IFAC TC 1.3 Committee on Discrete Event and Hybrid Systems. She has served as a member of numerous conference program committees and has been a member of the editorial board of the European Journal of Control. She was a guest editor of the Special Issue: "Observability and observer-based control of hybrid systems", Int. J. of Robust and Nonlinear Control, 19(4), 2009, and coauthor (with M.D. Di Benedetto) of the monograph Observability of Hybrid Dynamical Systems, 2016. On the same topic of observability of hybrid systems, she has chaired and/or organized sessions in major international conferences.

Maria Domenica Di Benedetto is a Full Professor of Automatic Control at the University of L'Aquila (Italy). She obtained her PhD degree in Electrical Engineering in 1981 and the "Doctorat d'Etat ès Sciences" in 1987, both from Université de Paris-Sud (now Université Paris-Saclay, France). She was McKay Professor from 1990 to 1995 and Adjunct Professor from 1995 to 2002, at the University of California, Berkeley. She held visiting positions at MIT, the University of