GIULIA GIORDANO
Since January 2013, doctoral candidate in Industrial and Information Engineering.
Curriculum: Automation
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Udine
Via delle Scienze, 206 - 33100 Udine, Italy
Phone (office): +39 0432 558440
E–mail: giulia.giordano@uniud.it
Education and Professional Qualification
• M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, 110/110 cum laude, University of Udine - 22/10/2012
• B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, 110/110 cum laude, University of Udine - 18/11/2010
• High School (Lyceum) Diploma, 100/100 cum laude, Liceo “G. Bertoni”, Udine - 13/07/2007
• Italian State Examination and Professional Qualification to practice as an ICT Engineer,
University of Udine - 2013, 2nd session
Pre–Doctoral Research Experience
• 2012: Master thesis in Systems and Control Theory, “Structural Properties of Biochemical Systems”;
supervisors Prof. Franco Blanchini and Prof. Elisa Franco; University of Udine.
• Summer 2012: SURF Project at Caltech, “Biomolecular Rate–Regulator Circuits”; mentors Prof.
Richard M. Murray and Prof. Elisa Franco; California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA.
• 2010: Bachelor thesis in Systems and Control Theory, “Equalized Filtering of Discrete–Time
Processes”; supervisor Prof. Franco Blanchini; University of Udine.
List of Publications
Journal Papers
• F. Blanchini, E. Franco, G. Giordano, “Network-Decentralized Control Strategies for Stabilization”, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, to appear.
• F. Blanchini, G. Giordano, “Piecewise-linear Lyapunov functions for structural stability of
biochemical networks”, Automatica, 50 (10), pp. 2482–2493, 2014.
• F. Blanchini, E. Franco, G. Giordano, “A structural classification of candidate oscillatory and
multistationary biochemical systems”, Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, 76 (10), pp. 2542–2569,
2014.
• E. Franco, G. Giordano, P.-O. Forsberg, R. M. Murray, “Negative autoregulation matches
production and demand in synthetic transcriptional networks”, ACS Synthetic Biology, 3 (8),
pp. 589–599, 2014.
Conference Papers (peer reviewed)
• F. Blanchini, G. Giordano, P. L. Montessoro, “Network–decentralized robust congestion control
with node traffic splitting”, to appear in Proceedings of the 53rd IEEE Conference on Decision
and Control (CDC), Los Angeles (CA), December 2014.
• F. Blanchini, C. Cuba Samaniego, E. Franco, G. Giordano, “Design of a molecular clock with
RNA–mediated regulation”, to appear in Proceedings of the 53rd IEEE Conference on Decision
and Control (CDC), Los Angeles (CA), December 2014.
• F. Blanchini, E. Franco, G. Giordano, “Structured-LMI Conditions for Stabilizing NetworkDecentralized Control”, Proceedings of the 52nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC),
pp. 6880–6885, Firenze, December 2013
• G. Giordano, E. Franco, R. M. Murray, “Feedback architectures to regulate flux of components in
artificial gene networks”, Proceedings of the American Control Conference (ACC), pp. 4747–4752,
Washington (DC), June 2013
• F. Blanchini, E. Franco, G. Giordano, “Determining the structural properties of a class of
biological models”, Proceedings of the 51st IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC),
pp. 5505–5510, Maui (HI), December 2012
Submitted Papers
• F. Blanchini, G. Giordano, S. Olaru, “A set–theoretic approach to fault isolation based on convex
programming”.
• F. Blanchini, G. Fenu, G. Giordano, F. A. Pellegrino, “A convex programming approach to the
inverse kinematics problem for manipulators under constraints”.
• F. Blanchini, D. Casagrande, G. Giordano, P. L. Montessoro, “A robust decentralized control for
channel sharing communication”.
Talks
• F. Blanchini, G. Giordano, “Structural analysis of generalized compartmental systems”, PhD
Conference for Industrial and Information Engineering, Udine, Italy, 26th June 2014
• F. Blanchini, G. Giordano, “Robotic automation and safe positioning” (poster), PhD Expo,
Udine, Italy, 26th June 2014
• F. Blanchini, E. Franco, G. Giordano, “Structured-LMI conditions for stabilizing networkdecentralized control”, 52nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Firenze, Italy,
13th December 2013
• G. Giordano, E. Franco, R. M. Murray, “Feedback architectures to regulate flux of components
in artificial gene networks”, 1st FVG PhD Symposium, Grado (UD), Italy, 8th October 2013
• F. Blanchini, G. Giordano, “Analysis and synthesis of decentralized systems”, PhD Conference
for Industrial and Information Engineering, Udine, Italy, 27th June 2013
• F. Blanchini, G. Giordano, “System supervision: control and optimization” (poster), PhD Expo,
Udine, Italy, 27th June 2013
• G. Giordano, E. Franco, R. M. Murray, “Feedback architectures to regulate flux of components
in artificial gene networks”, American Control Conference (ACC), Washington (DC), USA, 19th
June 2013
Attended PhD Schools and Conferences
• “WUDS’14 (Workshop on Uncertain Dynamical Systems)”, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, August
2014.
• “Lyapunov methods for robustness of control systems”, Grenoble, France, May 2014.
• “52nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC)”, Firenze, Italy, December 2013
• “1st FVG PhD Symposium”, Grado (UD), Italy, October 2013
• “National PhD School SIDRA 2013: Systems Biology & Vehicle Dynamics Control”, Bertinoro
(FC), Italy, July 2013
• “American Control Conference (ACC)”, Washington (DC), USA, June 2013
• “Course of deontology and of professional practice”, Professional Association of Engineers, Udine,
Italy, March–May 2013
• “Interdisciplinary PhD Spring School”, Udine, Italy, March 2013
Visits
• Grenoble INP (Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble), France, 14–16 May 2014
• Supélec (École supérieure d’électricité), Gif-sur-Yvette, France, 7–10 April 2014
• Caltech (California Institute of Technology), Pasadena (CA), USA, June–August 2012
Reviewing Activity
• Reviewer for international journals (IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Journal of the
Royal Society Interface)
and for international conferences (IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, American Control
Conference, European Control Conference, Mediterranean Conference on Control & Automation)
Academic Service
• Since May 2014, member of the work group for the implementation of the European Charter for
Researchers and of the Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers at the University of Udine
Honors and Awards
• Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF), California Institute of Technology - 2012
• Italian Ministry of Education Scholarship for excellence and enrollment in the National Register
of Excellence - 2007
• XIV International Philosophy Olympiad (IPO), second place in national rankings - May 2006
Skills and Activities
Computer Skills:
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Operating systems MS Windows, Linux
Word processing, electronic spreadsheet, slide show preparation (MS Office)
Digital typesetting (LaTeX)
CAD/CAE (Ansoft Designer, Microwave Office, Modelsim, Pspice-Orcad)
Multimedia (Audacity, GIMP, Corel Designer)
Website design (HTML, CSS)
Internet & computer networks
Programming languages: C, C++, MATLAB
Language Skills:
• Italian (mother tongue)
• English (fluent)
Driving Licence: car driving licence (“patente B”)
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Deep love for Humanities: Literature, History, Philosophy, classical languages (Greek and Latin)
Writing poems and novels
Singing and playing the flute
Classical Music and Opera
Theater
Art & Photography
Swimming, cycling, hiking
Travels in Europe and North America