Giorgio Picci

Giorgio Picci
Picci in around 2022
Born(1942-05-26)26 May 1942
Died11 March 2026(2026-03-11) (aged 83)
Padua (PD), Italy
Alma materUniversity of Padua (Dr. Eng. in 1967) www.dei.unipd.it/~picci/
AwardsFellow of the IEEE (1994)
Foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA) (2004)
Fellow of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) (2009)
Member of the Galilean Academy of Sciences, Letters and Arts in Padova (2024)
Scientific career
FieldsElectrical Engineering and Control Theory
InstitutionsUniversity of Padua (retired in 2012)

Giorgio Picci (26 May 1942 – 11 March 2026) was an Italian electrical engineer and control theorist. He made widely recognized contributions to the field of Systems and Control, and in particular, to the areas of Stochastic Realization and System Identification. He had also been a pioneer in Computer Vision. He published a monograph (in English) and nearly 200 papers in these areas.

He was a Professor Emeritus with the Department of Information Engineering, University of Padua, Italy. He was also the Italian director of the Confucius Institute at the University of Padua, where he actively promoted cultural and scientific exchanges between China and Italy, in collaborations with Guangzhou University in China.