Professors
Alexandre Sanfelici Bazanella graduated in Electrical Engineering and received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees also in Electrical Engineering. He is a Professor with the School of Engineering of Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, in Porto Alegre, Brazil, and has held visiting professor appointments at Universidade Federal da Paraíba and at Université Catholique de Louvain, where he spent a sabbatical year in 2006. Dr. Bazanella is a Senior Member of the IEEE, has served as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology and of “Controle e Automação” (the Journal of the Brazilian Automation Society), and has authored two books: an undergraduate textbook on classical control systems theory and “Data-Driven Controller Design: The H2 Approach”. Presently, his main research interests are in the theory of system identification and data-driven control design, but he is also the author of a number of papers in nonlinear systems theory, particularly its application to electric power systems and electrical machines.
Lucíola Campestrini was born in Erechim, Brazil. She graduated in Control and Automation Engineering from Pontificia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul and received her M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul in 2005 and 2010, respectively. She is now with the Department of Automation and Energy (DELAE) at UFRGS. Her main research subjects are data-driven control methods and process control.
Diego Eckhard was born in Lajeado, Brazil in 1984. He graduated in Electrical Engineering from Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul and received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the same university in 2008 and 2012, respectively. He spent the year of 2011 with the Royal Institute of Technology – Sweden, under the supervision of Professor Hakan Hjalmarsson. He is now the Institute of Mathematics of UFRGS. He has authored the book “Data-Driven Controller Design: The H2 Approach”. His main research subjects are system identification, data-driven control and experiment design.
Graduate Students
Eduardo Mapurunga is a postdoctoral researcher under the supervision of Prof. Bazanella.
Eduardo Varriale da Silva graduated in Control and Automation Engineering at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) in 2018 received his M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul in 2020. He is now a Doctoral student at UFRGS under the supervision of Prof. Campestrini.
Felipe Albrecht Fitarelli graduated in Control and Automation Engineering from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) in 2024. He is currently pursuing a M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering at UFRGS, under the supervision of Prof. Campestrini.
Lucas was born in São Jerônimo, Brazil. He graduated in Control and Automation Engineering in 2024 when concluded his undergraduate final project using data-driven for tuning discrete repetitive controllers under the supervision of Prof. Campestrini.
Undergraduate Students
Vinícius Guilherme Carminatti Lorandi was born in Caxias do Sul, Brazil. He is an undergraduate student in Control and Automation Engineering from Universidade Federal do Rio grande do Sul. He works as a research assistant in our group.
Alumni
Emerson Boeira worked as a research assistant in the Data-Driven Control group from 2013 to 2015. In 2016 he graduated in Control and Automation Engineering at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul and obtained his Master’s and PhD degrees in 2018 and 2023, respectively, under supervision of Prof. Eckhard.
Chrystian Remes was raised in Borrazópolis – PR, Brazil. He has graduated in Electrical Engineering in 2014 at Santa Catarina State University (UDESC) and has received his master’s degree in Electrical Engineering in 2016 at the same institution. He obtained a PhD degree at Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) in 2021, under supervision of Prof. Campestrini.
Róger Willian graduated in Computer Engineering in 2015 at Universidade Estadual do Rio Grande do Sul (UERGS).
He obtained a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering in 2017 and a PhD degree in 2021, both at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) , under the supervision of professor Eckhard.
He obtained a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering in 2017 and a PhD degree in 2021, both at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) , under the supervision of professor Eckhard.
Cristiane Garcia received a PhD degree in 2021 under the supervision of Prof. Bazanella. She developed embedded data management algorithms and DD algorithms for tuning PID controllers from smartphones and tablets through wireless networks.
Gustavo R. Gonçalves da Silvas graduated in Control and Automation Engineering in 2013 and has obtained his Master’s degree in 2016, both at UFRGS. He developed DD methods for non-minimum phase multivariable systems, a DD state-feedback approach, and also a direct DD approach of the controller certification problem as part of his PhD project under the supervision of Profs. Bazanella and Campestrini. He obtained his PhD degree in 2019.
Rafael Rui holds a BSc in Physics and, an MSc and a PhD, both in Electrical Engineering at UFRGS. He developed new concepts and tools for the identifiability analysis and identification of nonlinear systems, under the supervision of Prof. Bazanella.
Guilherme Araujo Pimentel was born in Porto Alegre, Brazil on June 7, 1982. He received the degree of Control and Automation Engineering and the Master degree of Electrical Engineering from the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul-Brazil in 2007 and 2010, respectively. He received a joint PhD degree in Mathematics & Modeling and Science of Engineering in 2015. The former from the University of Montpellier-France at the Project Group INRA-INRIA MODEMIC and UMR INRA-SupAgro MISTEA, and the latter from the University of Mons-Belgium at the Automatic Control Laboratory. He had a postdoctoral position in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
Mateus Gaspary de Freitas concluded his MSc degree in 2025 under the supervision of Prof. Bazanella. He has developed a new control strategy for welding processes that is commercially applied worldwide.
Rodrigo Binotto was born in Porto Alegre, Brazil. He graduated in Electrical Engineering in 2018 and obtained a Master’s degree in 2020, under the supervision of Prof. Bazanella.
Ricardo Scheid Filho was a research assistant and undergraduate student in Control and Automation Engineering. He obtained a Master’s degree in 2021, under supervision of Prof. Campestrini.
Virginia Bordignon graduated both in Electrical Engineering from Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) and in General Engineering from Ecole Centrale de Lyon in 2016. She was a MSc student at UFRGS under the supervision of Prof. Campestrini.
Tamara Salvatori graduated in Physics in 2014 and she worked with system identification and black-box modeling of anaerobic bioreactors under supervision of Prof. Bazanella.
Luiz Carlos Stevanatto Filho obtained his MSc in Electrical Engineering under the supervision of Prof. Bazanella.
His work developed the use of relay experiments to identify square multivariable system frequency response and to design decentralized PID controllers.
His work developed the use of relay experiments to identify square multivariable system frequency response and to design decentralized PID controllers.
Lydia Andrea Gonzalez Chia obtained her MSc in Electrical Engineering under the supervision of Prof. Campestrini and Eckhard. She has developed extensions to DD control methods for MIMO processes.
Douglas Tesch graduated in Control and Automation Engineering in 2013 and he worked in motion control of multirotors using Data-Driven Control algorithms as part of his MSc project under the supervision of Profs. Eckhard and Bazanella.
Manoel F. Flores da Cunha obtained his MSc in Electrical Engineering under the supervision of Prof. Bazanella. His work investigates the suitability of the use of IFT in systems with non-differentiable non-linearities commonly found in mechanical systems.
Tassiano Neuhaus obtained his MSc in Electrical Engineering under the supervision of Prof. Bazanella.
Marcus Eduardo Bergel obtained his MSc in Electrical Engineering under the supervision of Prof. Bazanella.
Marco Tochetto was a master student under the supervision of Prof. Bazanella.
Daniel Denardi Huff was a MSc student at UFRGS under the supervision of Prof. Campestrini.
Pedro Rodrigues de Lima graduated in Control and Automation Engineering from Universidade Federal do Rio grande do Sul. He worked as a research assistant in our group.
Alejandro Gabriel Rolon Alonso graduated in Control and Automation Engineering from Universidade Federal do Rio grande do Sul. He worksed as a research assistant in our group.
Gian Vianna da Silva graduated in Electrical Engineering from Universidade Federal do Rio grande do Sul. He worked as a research assistant in our group.
Fábio Elnecave Xavier graduated in Control and Automation Engineering. He worked as a research assistant in our group, under supervision of Prof. Campestrini.
Gabriel Rechenmacher de Aguiar was an undergraduate student and has worked as a research assistant. He worked in modelling anaerobic bioreactors and designing data-driven controller to quadcopters.
Matheus Augusto was born in Passo Fundo, Brazil, and graduated in Electrical Engineering at UFRGS. He has worked as a research assistant in data-driven systematic PID controller design.
Cássio Velho de Mesquita concluded his undergraduate final project under the supervision of Prof. Campestrini.
Filipe Couto concluded his undergraduate final project under the supervision of Prof. Campestrini.
Mauricio Richter concluded his undergraduate final project in motion control of multirotors under the supervision of Prof. Bazanella.
Leonel Acunha Guimarães concluded his undergraduate final project in IFT method applied to embedded systems under the supervision of Prof. Bazanella.
Alex Treviso has worked as a research assistant in our group.
William Guarienti has worked as a research assistant in our group.
Guilherme Fermino has worked a research assistant in our group