Researcher | Lorenzo Zino

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. 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.

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IN THE SPOTLIGHT

Our paper on the control of networked cyber–physical–human systems is now out in Nature Reviews Electrical Engineering

November 2025

Mitigating vector-borne diseases on networks: A feasible and stable nonlinear MPC approach

R. Raineri, M. Pagone, L. Zino, A. Rizzo
Nonlinear Anal. Hybrid Syst. 61, 101719, 2026

Inference of the size of nonlinear network systems from perceptible dynamics

F.B. Brovia, R. Succar, L. Zino, M. Porfiri
Chaos, 36, 023147, 2026

Adaptive-Gain Control for Equilibrium Selection in the Logit Dynamics

R. Gavin, K. Paarporn, B. Ye, L. Zino, M. Cao
Proc. IEEE CDC, 2025

MOST RECENT PUBLICATIONS

UPCOMING EVENTS

VISIT
Hiroshima, Japan (Mar 30 – Apr 27, 2026)

I will visit Prof. Yu Kawano, at the Graduate School of Advanced Science and Engineering of the University of Hiroshima, Hiroshima, Japan, where I will give a presentation in the ASPIRE CPDS Workshop, on April 20.

VISIT
Stockholm, Sweden (May 20 – 22, 2026)

I will visit the Division of Decision and Control Systems, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), KTH Royal Institute of Technology to give a seminar and discuss about research

WORKSHOP
Reykjavik, Iceland (Jul 7, 2026)

I will attend the ECC Workshop Control Theory: Yesterday’s News or Tomorrow’s Foundation?, in which I will give a talk on Control for Social Systems: A Journey through Experiments, Modeling, and Data

ECC26
Reykjavik, Iceland (Jul 7 – 10, 2026)

I will attend the 2026 European Control Conference, with two papers on coordination in public goods games (with E.C. Davidson, M. Cao, and M. Ye) and optimal control for population games (with G. Brusadin, M. Pagone, and A. Rizzo)

IFAC26

Busan, South Korea (Aug 23 – 28, 2026)

I will attend the 23rd IFAC World Congress, with several presentations on control of vector-borne diseases (with R. Raineri, M. Pagone, and A. Rizzo), on quantum computing for epidemic control (with D. Volpe, G. Orlandi, G. Boggio, G. Turvani, and C. Novara), on social systems (with M. Alutto, K.H. Johansson, and A. Fontan), and on hierarchical networks (with M. Ye and B.D.O. Anderson)