Assistant Professor - Politecnico di Torino
LORENZO ZINO
Assistant Professor - Politecnico di Torino
I majored in Applied Mathematics (Ingegneria Matematica) at Politecnico di Torino in 2014 and received my PhD degree (with honors) in Pure and Applied Mathematics from Università di Torino - Politecnico di Torino (joint doctorate program) in 2018. After research fellowships at Politecnico di Torino, New York University, and University of Groningen, since October 2022, I joined the Department of Electronics and Telecommunications of the Politecnico di Torino, Italy, where I am a Senior Assistant Professor (RTDb), since 2023. Since 2025 I am a Research Associate with the CNR. I had extended visiting periods at Lund University, Curtin University, University of Adelaide, Hiroshima University, and New York University. My research production includes more than 100 international scientific publications, including 60 papers in scientific journals. My research interests include but are not limited to the modeling, the analysis, and the control aspects of dynamical processes over network systems (epidemic spreading, opinion dynamics, diffusion of innovation, etc.), applied probability, network modeling and analysis, and game theory.
IN THE SPOTLIGHT
Our paper on the control of networked cyber–physical–human systems is now out in Nature Reviews Electrical Engineering
November 2025
MOST RECENT PUBLICATIONS
UPCOMING EVENTS
VISIT PEKING UNI
Beijing, China (Aug 18-22, 2026)
I have been invited by Prof. Wenjun Mei to visit Peking University to give a seminar on Controlling a Network Coevolutionary Model to Promote Social Change, and discuss research. During my stay, I will also visit the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Beijing Institute of Technology, and the Beihang University.
IFAC26
Busan, South Korea (Aug 23 – 28, 2026)
I will attend the 23rd IFAC World Congress, where my collaborators and I will give presentations on control of vector-borne diseases (with R. Raineri, M. Pagone, and A. Rizzo), quantum computing for epidemic control (with D. Volpe, G. Orlandi, G. Boggio, G. Turvani, and C. Novara), social systems (with M. Alutto, K.H. Johansson, and A. Fontan), and hierarchical networks (with M. Ye and B.D.O. Anderson)
AUTOMATICA.IT 2026
Parma, Italy (Sep 2 – 4, 2026)
I will attend Automatica.it 2026, the main national meeting of professors and researchers in control systems, from Italian Universities and Research Institutions, and I will give a talk On Controlling a Network with Coevolving Actions and Opinions
VISIT NYU
Brooklyn NY, US (Nov-Dec, 2026)
I will visit the NYU Center for Urban Science and Progress of the New York University to work with prof. Maurizio Porfiri under a research project founded by Politecnico di Torino and CRT
IEEE CDC26
Honolulu HI, US (Dec 15 – 18, 2026)
I will attend the IEEE CDC26, where my collaborators and I will give talks on controlling social systems (with R. Raineri and M. Ye), stubbornness in Nash equilibrium problems (with B. Franci and F. Fabiani), modeling leadership in social networks (with M. Alutto, K.H. Johansson, and A. Fontan), and hierarchical networks (with M. Ye and B.D.O. Anderson), the last two within an Invited Session co-organized with M. Ye, M. Cao, and N.E. Leonard