Giuseppe L. Conte received the Laurea (Hons.) degree in mathematics from the University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy, in 1974. He has been Professor of automation with the Polytechnic University of Marche, Ancona, Italy. He authored more than three hundred papers in journals, conference proceedings, and books; he coedited four books and coauthored the research monographs Algebraic Methods for Nonlinear Control Systems. Theory and Applications (Springer Verlag, 2007). His research interests are in algebraic and geometric system and control theory and in robotics. Prof. Conte served in the editorial boards of several journals and as Program Chair and General Chair of systems and control conferences. He was Chairman of the IFAC TC on Linear Control Systems and Chairman of the Italian Chapter of the IEEE CSS.

Olivier Sename received the Ph.D. degree in automatic control from École Centrale de Nantes, Nantes, France, in 1994. He is currently Professor with the Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble, GIPSA-lab, Grenoble, France. His main research interests include linear parameter varying systems and automotive applications. He is currently Co-Author of two books, 60 international journal papers, and more than 200 international conference papers. Dr. Sename was the General Chair of the IFAC Joint Conference SSSC-TDS-FDA 2013, of the 1st IFAC Workshop on Linear Parameter Varying Systems 2015, and he was IPC Chair of the 2nd IFAC Workshop LPVS 2018. He has led several industrial (Renault, Volvo Trucks, JTEKT, Delphi) and international (Mexico, Italy, Hungary) collaboration projects.