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Prof. 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)

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)

Lead PI, AFOSR Center of Excellence on Compositional Optimization, Dynamical Systems, and Control

Doctor of Science ETH Zurich, December 2023

Email: gzardini at mit dot edu

Administrative Assistant: Katie O’Reilly

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.