Maria Prandini (born 8 September 1969) is an Italian electrical engineer whose research topics have included control theory, pursuit–evasion, and air traffic control.
[1] She is a professor at the Polytechnic University of Milan.
[2] Prandini was born in Brescia, earned a laurea in electrical engineering in 1994 from the Polytechnic University of Milan, and completed her Ph.D. in 1998 at the University of Brescia,[2] with Marco Claudio Campi as her doctoral supervisor.
[1] After postdoctoral research with Shankar Sastry at the University of California, Berkeley,[1] and visiting positions at Delft University of Technology and the University of Cambridge, she became an assistant professor at the Polytechnic University of Milan in 2002.
[2] In 2020, Prandini was named an IEEE Fellow, affiliated with the IEEE Control Systems Society, "for contributions to stochastic, hybrid and distributed control systems theory".