(Senior Member, IEEE) received an M.Sc. degree in electronic engineering and Ph.D. degree in automatic control from the University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy, in 1996 and 1999, respectively. She is currently an Associate Professor of automatic control. She is involved in many projects in industry, including small- and medium-sized enterprises operating in the automotive field. Her research interests include the area of the analysis and control of nonlinear systems with applications to automotive engineering, transportation technologies, and computational biology.