Rate My Professor Fabrizio Padula

Fabrizio Padula is an Associate Professor in the School of Electrical Engineering, Computing and Mathematical Sciences at Curtin University, where he also serves as Deputy Director of the Curtin Centre for Optimisation and Decision Science. He joined Curtin University in 2016 and has progressed through roles including Lecturer and Senior Research Fellow. Prior to this, Padula was a Research Associate in the Department of Information Engineering at the University of Brescia, Italy, from January 2014 to November 2015. His academic background includes an MSc degree in Industrial Automation Engineering obtained in 2009 and a PhD in Computer Science and Automatic Control completed between November 2009 and October 2012, both from the University of Brescia. Padula's research specializations centre on automatic control, with a strong emphasis on fractional-order control systems, PID and FOPID controllers, and their applications in medical and industrial contexts. He focuses on modelling industrial processes and designing advanced control algorithms, including event-based control, robust tuning methods, gain scheduling, and geometric control theory approaches such as disturbance decoupling and eigenstructure assignment. Notable applications include closed-loop regulation of depth of hypnosis during general anesthesia using propofol and remifentanil, mechanical ventilation for lung protection, and system identification for mechanical systems.