Dr. Mariagrazia Dotoli was born in Bari, Italy, in 1971 (http://dclab.poliba.it/people/mariagrazia-dotoli/). She holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering and is a Full Professor in Automatic Control at Politecnico di Bari, Italy, where she is also the founder and coordinator of the Italian National PhD Program on Autonomous Systems (DAUSY, http://dausy.poliba.it/phd/). Prof. Dotoli was the Vice Rector for research of Politecnico di Bari and a member elect of the Academic Senate of the same University.
She is the 2025-2028 President of the national society SIDRA - Italian Society of Automation Professors and Researchers. She is the founder and director (2012-) of the Decision and Control Laboratory of Politecnico di Bari, Italy http://dclab.poliba.it/ and was the founder and coordinator (2020-2022) of PhD Program on Industry 4.0, Politecnico di Bari, Italy http://phdindustria40.poliba.it/ind/. She is the founder (2012) of Politecnico di Bari spin-off company Innolab S.r.l. (https://www.innolabsrl.it/). She is a member of the Executive Board of the Italian MEDITECH competence center for Industry 4.0 https://meditech4.com/ funded by the Italian Ministry for Economic Development. She has been a visiting scholar at the Paris 6 University, France, and at the Technical University of Denmark. She is currently an expert evaluator of the European Commission and of many more European national research centers.
Her research interests include decision and control approaches for energy systems, smart manufacturing, intelligent logistics, transportation systems and smart cities. She is author of 300+ international publications in these fields, including 1 textbook (in Italian) and 100+ international journal papers. Her h-index in Google Scholar equals 54, with more than 9600 citations. She is currently a Senior Editor of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AUTOMATION SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING and the appointed Editor in Chief of the same Journal. She was the General co-Chair of 2025 IFAC Workshop on Smart Energy Systems for Efficient and Sustainable Smart Grids and Smart Cities (SENSYS2025), the 2024 IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE2024) and the 2021 Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation (MED’21).
Prof. Dotoli is an IEEE Fellow and currently serves as Vice President for Membership and Student Activities of the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society and member of the Administrative Committee of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society. She was previously member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society.
She is listed in the world top 2% scientists list for career-long impact and single-year categories in the “Industrial Engineering & Automation” and “Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing” fields in the standardized citation metrics author database by Ioannidis et al. released by Stanford University and Elsevier BV.