Gioele Zardini
Rudge (1948) and Nancy Allen Assistant Professor
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (PI)
Institute for Data, Systems and Society (Affiliate Faculty)
Lead PI, AFOSR Center of Excellence on Compositional Optimization, Dynamical Systems, and Control
MIT Maritime Consortium (Steering Committee, leading Optimization Vertical)
World Infrastructure Forum (Knowledge Manager)
Selected member of the MIT Mobility Initiative (MMI) Mobility Council
MIT Mobility Initiative (Affiliate Faculty)
Norman B. Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism (Affiliate Faculty)
Doctor of Science, ETH Zurich, December 2023
Gioele is the Rudge (1948) and Nancy Allen Assistant Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
He is a PI in the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS), the Department of Civil and
Environmental Engineering (CEE), and an affiliate faculty with the Institute for Data, Systems and
Society (IDSS).
He received his doctoral degree in 2024 from ETH Zurich, and holds both a BSc. and a MSc. in Mechanical
Engineering and Robotics, Systems and Control from ETH Zurich.
Before joining MIT as a faculty, he was a Postdoctoral Scholar at Stanford University (January to June
2024), and held various visiting positions at nuTonomy Singapore (then Aptiv, now Motional), Stanford,
and MIT.
Driven by societal challenges, the goal of his research is to develop efficient computational tools and
algorithmic approaches to formulate and solve complex, interconnected system design and autonomous
decision making problems.
His interests include the co-design complex systems, all the way from future mobility systems to
autonomous systems, compositionality in engineering, planning and control, and game theory.
He is the lead PI for the AFOSR Center of Excellence on Compositional Optimization, Dynamical Systems,
and Control.
He is the recipient of the ETH Silver Medal for his Doctoral Thesis, the 2025 DARPA Young Faculty Award,
the 2026 Maseeh Excellence in Teaching Award in CEE at MIT, an award (keynote talk) at the 2021 Applied
Category Theory Conference, the Best Paper Award (1st Place) at the 2021 24th IEEE International
Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC), and Amazon, DoE, AFOSR, and MISTI-UK awards.
He created the Autonomy Talks. Check out the
webpage, and have a look at the
(over 200) recorded talks.
Upcoming Talks
- FORCE at FLoC and CAD, Lisbon, Portugal — July 25, 2026
- Beaver Works Summer Institute Lecture, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA — July 30, 2026
- IFAC World Congress, Busan, South Korea — August 2026
Selected Past Talks
2026
- European Control Conference, Reykjavík, Iceland — July 2026
- Boeing Invited Seminar, online — July 2026
- MIT Maritime Consortium Talks, Athens, Greece — May 2026
- Seminar at Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA — April 2026
- Seminar (CS Colloquium) at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA — April 2026
- Seminar (Robotics Seminar) at University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK — March 2026
- Seminar and panel at EU "Prepare to Lead!" Leadership Training for a Successful Academic Career event, online — March 2026
- Seminar at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA — February 2026
- Seminar at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore — January 2026
- Seminar at Tokyo Institute of Science, Tokyo, Japan — January 2026
- Seminar at Keio University, Tokyo, Japan — January 2026
- Seminar at Osaka Metropolitan University, Osaka, Japan — January 2026
2025
- Seminar at Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea — December 2025
- MIT Maritime Consortium Talks, Seoul, South Korea — December 2025
- Seminar at Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA — October 2025
- IDSS Doctoral Seminar, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA — October 2025
- Seminar at NYU Tandon School of Engineering, New York City, NY, USA — October 2025
- Seminar at MIT Amazon Science Hub's Robotics Event, Cambridge, MA, USA — September 2025
- Seminar at AVIATE, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (remote) — September 2025
- Seminar at Swiss CLOCK Summit, Engelberg, Switzerland — September 2025
- Talk at Workshop on Applied Category Theory for Compositional Decision-Making, American Control Conference, Denver, CO, USA — July 2025
- Talk at Workshop on Multiobjective Optimization, RSS, Los Angeles, CA, USA — June 2025
- Plenary at Rice Global Paris Center, Paris, France — June 2025
- Seminar at the Séminaire Systèmes Complexes, Télécom Paris, Paris, France — June 2025
- Seminar at Singapore Maritime Institute, Singapore — May 2025
- Talk at Maritime Platform Conference, Valletta, Malta — May 2025
- CCSD Seminar, University of California, San Diego, CA, USA — May 2025
- Invited Seminar at SDM Class, MIT, MA, USA — April 2025
- Seminar at Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Kongens Lyngby, Denmark — March 2025
- CAS 2025 Panel on the Future of Systems Engineering, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA — March 2025
- Short Keynote, CEE Research Day, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA — February 2025
- Seminar at LCAU Gehl and Medinah Meeting, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA — February 2025
- Keynote Address EEE, Columbia University, New York City, NY, USA — February 2025
- IDSS Lunch Seminar, MIT, Boston, MA, USA — February 2025
- 30th Annual Sanjoy K. Mitter LIDS Conference, Panel on "Doing Impactful Research", Cambridge, MA, USA — January 2025
- ITS Seminar, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA — January 2025
2024
- Seminar at Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy — December 2024
- CDC 2024 Workshop on Control Architecture Theory, Milan, Italy — December 2024
- GRASP SFI Seminar at University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA — November 2024
- Seminar at University of Connecticut, Mansfield, CT, USA — October 2024
- CCDC Seminar at University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA — October 2024
- IDSS Doctoral Seminar, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA — September 2024
- Talk at Amazon Robotics, North Reading, MA, USA — September 2024
- Seminar at NASA Jet Propulsion Lab, Pasadena, CA, USA — June 2024
- Special Seminar at California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA — June 2024
- Seminar at the MIT Club of Norway, Oslo, Norway (remote) — May 2024
- Seminar at the Intelligent Systems Lab, Stanford University, CA, USA — May 2024
- Seminar at Topos Colloquium, Berkeley, CA, USA — April 2024
- Seminar at University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA — April 2024
- Seminar at MIT Mobility Forum, online — March 2024
- Seminar at Center for Autonomy, University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA — March 2024
- Talk at INFORMS IOS'24, Houston, TX, USA — March 2024
- Seminar at TAMU, College Station, TX, USA — March 2024
- Seminar at NASA University Leadership Initiative, Stanford University, CA, USA — March 2024
- Seminar at the Human-Centered Autonomy Lab, UIUC, IL, USA — February 2024
2023
- Seminar at National University of Singapore, Singapore — December 2023
- Seminar at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore — December 2023
- Talk at IEEE CDC 2023, Workshop on Learning Enabled Control and Coordination for Societally Aware Transportation Systems, Singapore — December 2023
- Seminar at Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, online — November 2023
- Seminar at Apple Special Projects, online — October 2023
- Talk at IEEE IROS 2023, Tutorial on Computational Co-Design for Robotics, Detroit, MI, USA — October 2023
- Talk at IEEE IROS 2023, Workshop on Multi-Agent Dynamic Games, Detroit, MI, USA — October 2023
- Computational Social Science Seminar, MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA, USA — May 2023
- JTL and Transit Seminar, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA — April 2023
- Robotics Seminar, Boston University, MA, USA — March 2023
- Seminar at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA — March 2023
- Seminar at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA — March 2023
- Seminar at University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA — March 2023
- Seminar at KTH, Stockholm, Sweden — March 2023
- Seminar at MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA — February 2023
- Seminar at Imperial College London, London, UK — February 2023
- Seminar at National University of Singapore, Singapore — February 2023
- Seminar at University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, IL, USA — February 2023
- Seminar at University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA — February 2023
- Talk at University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA — February 2023
- Talk at University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada — February 2023
- Talk at University of Wisconsin–Madison, WI, USA — February 2023
2022
- Talk at IEEE ITSC 2022, Workshop on Co-Design and Coordination of Future Mobility Systems — October 2022
- Future Sustainable Mobility Initiative, ETH Zurich, Switzerland — September 2022
- Séminaire d'Automatique du Plateau du Saclay, Paris, France — September 2022
- Talk at IEEE ICRA 2022, 2nd Workshop on Compositional Robotics: Mathematics and Tools, Philadelphia, PA, USA — May 2022
2021
- Talk at NCCR Automation Review, ETH Zurich, Switzerland — December 2021
- Talk at Mobility Initiative Council, ETH Zurich, Switzerland — December 2021
- Seminar at Motional, online — November 2021
- Talk at ICRA 2021, 1st Workshop on Compositional Robotics: Mathematics and Tools, online — May 2021
2020
- Talk at IPAM Long Program on Mathematical Challenges and Opportunities for AVs, UCLA, online — November 2020
- Mobility Initiative, ETH Zurich, Switzerland — March 2020
2019
- Seminar at Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control, ETH Zurich, Switzerland — October 2019
- Seminar at the Autonomous Systems Laboratory, Stanford University, CA, USA — September 2019