Andrea Ghezzi
PhD Student
Short Bio
Andrea Ghezzi was born in Bergamo, Italy, in 1996. He obtained his Master degree cum laude in Automation and Control Engineering from Politecnico di Milano with a thesis about stochastic MPC with constraint prioritization. From December 2020 to September 2021 he was a researcher at Data Science R&D Department of Tenaris Dalmine, working on virtual sensing for improving the steel making process. From October 2021 he joined SYSCOP Laboratory at University of Freiburg, carrying out a PhD under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Moritz Diehl. He is a Marie-Curie fellow of the ELO-X project.
Visiting Periods
- Nov - Dec 2022: Dr. Jonas Asprion at Tool Temp AG, Sulgen (CH) - within the ELO-X framework
- Oct - Nov 2023: Prof. Alberto Bemporad at IMT Lucca (IT) - within the ELO-X framework
- Jan - May 2024: Dr. Stefano Di Cairano at Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL), Cambridge (MA, USA) - within the ELO-X framework
- Jun - Aug 2024: Dr. Sven Leyffer at Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont (IL, USA) - within the ELO-X framework
Research Interests
- Mixed-integer nonlinear optimization and applications to optimal control
- Intersection of nonlinear model predictive control and learning methods
- Programming and open-source software
- Dual control and optimization-based estimation
News
- May 2026: our paper "A sequential Benders-based Mixed-Integer Quadratic Programming Algorithm and its Implementation in the CAMINO Toolbox". A. Ghezzi *, W. Van Roy *, S. Sager, M. Diehl, has been published in Mathematical Programming Computation!
Software projects
- https://github.com/minlp-toolbox/CAMINO:
- Collection of Algorithms for Mixed-Integer Nonlinear Optimization
- User-friendly python/CasADi software
Teaching / Thesis
- Together with Yunfan Gao I supervise the Race Car Control Lab (SoSe 2026)
- Together with Jakob Harzer and Mohammed Hababeh I supervise the Flight Control Lab (WiSe 2022/23)
- I am happy to supervise Master (or Bachelor) Theses (or semester projects) about: