Giorgio Picci
Giorgio Picci | |
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Picci in around 2022 | |
| Born | 26 May 1942 |
| Died | 11 March 2026 (aged 83) |
| Alma mater | University of Padua (Dr. Eng. in 1967)
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| Awards | Fellow of the IEEE (1994) Foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA) (2004) Fellow of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) (2009) Member of the Galilean Academy of Sciences, Letters and Arts in Padova (2024) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Electrical Engineering and Control Theory |
| Institutions | University of Padua (retired in 2012) |
Giorgio Picci (26 May 1942 – 11 March 2026) was an Italian electrical engineer and control theorist. He made widely recognized contributions to the field of Systems and Control, and in particular, to the areas of Stochastic Realization and System Identification. He had also been a pioneer in Computer Vision.[1][2] He published a monograph (in English)[3] and nearly 200 papers in these areas.
He was a Professor Emeritus with the Department of Information Engineering, University of Padua, Italy.[4] He was also the Italian director of the Confucius Institute at the University of Padua,[5] where he actively promoted cultural and scientific exchanges between China and Italy,[6] in collaborations with Guangzhou University in China.
Biography
Picci obtained the Doctor in Engineering (Dr. Eng.) degree (summa cum laude) from the University of Padua in 1967. From 1980 to 2012, he was the Chair Professor in System Identification at the Department of Information Engineering, University of Padua. During his career, he had a number of visiting positions with different universities on three continents, namely North America (the United States), Europe (the Netherlands, Austria, and Sweden), and Asia (Japan and China).[7]
Picci was a Fellow of the IEEE,[8] a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences,[9] a Fellow of the International Federation of Automatic Control,[10] and a member of the Galilean Academy of Sciences, Letters and Arts in Padua.[11]
Picci died on the morning of 11 March 2026, at the age of 83.
Selected publications
- Lindquist, A., & Picci, G. (2015). Series in Contemporary Mathematics: vol. 1, Linear Stochastic Systems: A Geometric Approach to Modeling, Estimation and Identification. Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg.[3] This book was translated into Chinese and published in two volumes by the Shanghai Scientific and Technical Publishers in 2018.[12]
- Picci, G. (2024). An Introduction to Statistical Data Science: Theory and Models. Springer, Cham.[13]
- Picci, G. (2007). Filtraggio Statistico (Wiener, Levinson, Kalman) e Applicazioni (in Italian). Progetto Libreria, Padua.[14]
Edited books:
- Picci, G. & Valcher, M. E. eds. (2007). A Tribute to Antonio Lepschy. Libreria Progetto, Padua.[15]
- Picci, Giorgio; Gilliam, David S., eds. (1999). Dynamical Systems, Control, Coding, Computer Vision. doi:10.1007/978-3-0348-8970-4. ISBN 978-3-0348-9848-5.
- Beghi, A., Finesso, L., & Picci, G. eds. (1998). Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems: Proceedings of the MTNS-98 Symposium Held in Padova, Italy, July, 1998, Il Poligrafo, Padua.[16]
- Bittanti, S. & Picci, G. eds. (1996). NATO ASI Subseries F: vol. 153, Identification, Adaptation, Learning: The Science of Learning Models from Data. Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg.[17]
Recent papers:
- Leahu, Timofei; Picci, Giorgio (2025). An Empirical Bayes Approach to ARX Estimation (Preprint). arXiv:2505.13384.
- Picci, Giorgio (2025). On Irreversibility and Stochastic Systems; Part One (Preprint). arXiv:2508.08330.
- Picci, Giorgio (2024). On Irreversibility and Stochastic Systems; Part Two (Preprint). arXiv:2411.01516.
- Cao, Wenqi; Lindquist, Anders; Picci, Giorgio (December 2023). "Modeling of Low Rank Time Series". IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. 68 (12): 7270–7285. arXiv:2109.11814. Bibcode:2023ITAC...68.7270C. doi:10.1109/TAC.2023.3321370.
- Cao, Wenqi; Picci, Giorgio; Lindquist, Anders (May 2023). "Identification of low rank vector processes". Automatica. 151 110938. doi:10.1016/j.automatica.2023.110938.
- Picci, Giorgio (April 2023). "Periodic vector processes with an internal Reciprocal Dynamics". Systems & Control Letters. 174 105503. doi:10.1016/j.sysconle.2023.105503.
- Picci, Giorgio; Falconi, Lucia; Ferrante, Augusto; Zorzi, Mattia (March 2023). "Hidden factor estimation in Dynamic Generalized Factor Analysis models". Automatica. 149 110834. doi:10.1016/j.automatica.2022.110834.
- Picci, Giorgio; Zhu, Bin (August 2022). "Empirical Bayes identification of stationary processes and approximation of Toeplitz spectra". Automatica. 142 110362. doi:10.1016/j.automatica.2022.110362.
References
- ^ Finesso, Lorenzo; Spreij, Peter (24 October 2007). Chiuso, Alessandro; Ferrante, Augusto; Pinzoni, Stefano (eds.). Modeling, Estimation and Control: Festschrift in Honor of Giorgio Picci on the Occasion of his Sixty-Fifth Birthday. Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences. Vol. 364. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer. p. XXVI, 356. arXiv:0704.2208. doi:10.1007/978-3-540-73570-0. ISBN 978-3-540-73570-0. Retrieved 8 February 2025.
- ^ "sergio bittanti memorabilia: people | Celebrating 65-th birthday of Giorgio Picci in Venice at Marzollo's".
- ^ a b Lindquist, Anders; Picci, Giorgio (24 April 2015). Linear Stochastic Systems: A Geometric Approach to Modeling, Estimation and Identification. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer. p. XV, 781. doi:10.1007/978-3-662-45750-4. ISBN 978-3-662-45750-4. Retrieved 8 February 2025.
- ^ "Automatica | People".
- ^ "Staff | Istituto Confucio di Padova". www.istitutoconfuciopadova.it.
- ^ Multiple sources:
- For cultural exchanges, see e.g., the Chinese news reports ""一带一路"中国太极文化世界行威尼斯站完美收官". sports.tom.com., and "帕多瓦大学孔子学院外方院长荣获孔子学院院长纪念奖章-广州大学新闻网". news.gzhu.edu.cn..
- For scientific exchanges, see e.g., the Chinese news reports "意大利帕多瓦大学孔子学院意方院长在我校讲学-广州大学新闻网". news.gzhu.edu.cn., "意大利帕多瓦大学Giorgio Picci教授应邀为我院学生开展学术讲座-数统学院". mci.hubu.edu.cn., and "意大利科学家点赞政府工作报告扩大国际创新合作内容". news.cri.cn..
- For improving understanding of China in Italy, see e.g., the Italian TV interviews "7INPUNTO GIORGIO PICCI, INT. ANTONELLA PRIGIONI". www.youtube.com. 10 February 2016., "Intervista Giorgio Picci | 21 Settembre 2018". www.youtube.com. 28 September 2018., and "Intervista a Giorgio Picci | 4 Febbraio 2019". www.youtube.com. 9 February 2019..
- ^ "Giorgio Picci's Homepage". www.dei.unipd.it.
- ^ "CSS IEEE Fellows Archive | IEEE Control Systems Society". ieeecss.org.
- ^ "Ledamot". www.iva.se.
- ^ "IFAC Fellows — IFAC · International Federation of Automatic Control". www.ifac-control.org.
- ^ "Classe di Scienze Matematiche e Naturali". www.accademiagalileiana.it. October 25, 2024.
- ^ "《线性随机系统(一种关于建模估计和辨识的几何方法上下)(精)/现代数学丛书》 【简介_书评_在线阅读】 - 当当 - 博库图书音像专营店". product.dangdang.com.
- ^ Picci, Giorgio (8 October 2024). An Introduction to Statistical Data Science: Theory and Models. Cham: Springer. p. XI, 432. doi:10.1007/978-3-031-66619-3. ISBN 978-3-031-66618-6. Retrieved 22 February 2025.
- ^ Picci, Giorgio (1 January 2007). Filtraggio Statistico (Wiener, Levinson, Kalman) e Applicazioni. Padova: Progetto Libreria. p. 432. ISBN 9788887331882. Retrieved 22 February 2025.
- ^ Picci, Giorgio; Valcher, Maria Elena, eds. (2007). A Tribute to Antonio Lepschy. Padova: Libreria Progetto. p. 221. Retrieved 22 February 2025.
- ^ Beghi, Alessandro; Finesso, Lorenzo; Picci, Giorgio, eds. (1998). Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems: Proceedings of the MTNS-98 Symposium Held in Padova, Italy, July, 1998. Padova: Il Poligrafo. p. 1117. ISBN 9788871151175. Retrieved 22 February 2025.
- ^ Bittanti, Sergio; Picci, Giorgio, eds. (1 July 1996). Identification, Adaptation, Learning: The Science of Learning Models from Data. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer. p. XXI, 552. ISBN 978-3-540-61080-9. Retrieved 22 February 2025.