Maria Pia Fanti (born 21 February 1957)[1] is an Italian control theorist known for her research on topics that include discrete event dynamic systems, Petri nets, consensus, fault detection and isolation, agile manufacturing, and road traffic control.
[2][3] She is a professor in the Department of Electrical and Information Engineering at the Polytechnic University of Bari,[2] where she heads the Laboratory for Control and Automation.
[2][4] Fanti studied electronic engineering at the University of Pisa, and earned a laurea there in 1983.
[2] She has been a full professor at the Polytechnic University of Bari since 2012.
[5] Fanti was named an IEEE Fellow in 2017 "for contributions to modeling and control of discrete event systems".