Dr. Michele Vignati received his M.S. degree (2013) and Ph.D. (2017) in Mechanical Engineering from Politecnico di Milano with a thesis on control strategies for distributed powertrains of hybrid and electric vehicles. Since 2019, he has been an Assistant Professor in the research field of applied mechanics. In particular, he focuses on mechanical systems dynamics and control applied in the automotive field, in which he has more than 40 publications in international journals and conferences. In 2018, he won the best paper award for a paper presented at the AVEC’18 international conference. He worked on tire dynamics and modeling in cooperation with Pirelli. He works in the autonomous driving field and in-vehicle modeling, testing, state estimation, and active control systems.