Daniele Bernardini was born in Siena, Italy, in 1982. He received his master’s degree in Computer Engineering in 2007 and his Ph.D. in Information Engineering in 2011 from the University of Siena, Italy, specializing in automatic controls. From 2011 to 2015, he was with IMT Lucca as a post-doctoral fellow. In 2011 he co-founded ODYS Srl, where he is CTO. His main expertise is in model predictive control, embedded optimization, and their application to real-time problems in the automotive, aerospace, energy, and process control domains.