Francesco Tedesco received his Master Degree in Automation Engineering in 2008 and his Ph.D. in Systems and Computer Engineering in 2012 from the University of Calabria, Italy. In 2010 he was a visiting Scholar Research at the ETH Zurich (Switzerland) and in 2014 he covered the same position at the Imperial College of London (United Kingdom). From 2012 to 2017 he was an Assistant Researcher at the DIMES department of the University of Calabria where, since 2018, he served first as Assistant Professor  and then as Associate Professor since 2022.  He is a co-recipient of the Best Paper Award at the IEEE-CoDIT 2019 Conference, Paris, France. His main research interests involve Supervision Approaches over Data Network, Model Predictive Control, Automotive Applications and Control of Cyber-Physical Systems. Since 2022 he is Senior Member of IEEE. He currently serves as an Associate Editor of the Asian Journal of Control, IET Control Theory & Application and IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering. Since January 2022, he is a member of the IFAC Technical committee TC 6.4. Fault Detection, Supervision & Safety of Techn. Processes-SAFEPROCESS. Within the same committee, he is a member of the working group “Safety and Security of Cyberphysical Systems”