Silvia Strada received the M.Sc. degree summa cum laude in Electronics Engineering (Systems and Control track) from Politecnico di Milano, Italy, in 1990, and the Ph.D. degree in Automation and Information Technology from the same university in 1993.
She is currently a tenure-track Assistant Professor Systems and Control at the Department of Electronics, Information Technology and Bioengineering at Politecnico di Milano and teaches the course of Fundamentals of Automatic Control. She is member of the Move Research team (http://move.dei.polimi.it/)
She has authored over 80 research papers published in international journals and holds more than ten patents. She is a member of the IEEE Control Systems Society and serves on its Technical Committee on Smart Cities. Her research focuses on intelligent mechatronic systems, sensor signal processing, data analysis, and machine learning, with a particular interest in studying and forecasting new models of sustainable mobility. She is the academic scientific coordinator of several research projects in collaboration with private companies.