Alberto Isidori was born on January 24, 1942, in Rapallo and is an Italian control theorist. He is a Professor of Automatic Control at the University of Rome and an Affiliate Professor of Electrical & Systems Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis. He is well-known as the author of the book Nonlinear Control Systems, a highly-cited reference in nonlinear control.[1]
He is a Fellow of the IEEE and IFAC. He received the 1996 IFAC Georgio Quazza Medal, and was named as the recipient of the 2012 IEEE Control Systems Award.[2]