Francesco Borrelli received his ‘Laurea' degree from the University of Naples Federico II', Italy in 1998, and his PhD from the Automatic Control Laboratory at ETH-Zurich, Switzerland in 2002. He is currently a Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, USA, where he conducts research in the field of predictive control.

He has received several awards for his contributions to the predictive control field, including the 2009 NSF CAREER Award, the 2012 IEEE Control System Technology Award, and was elected IEEE Fellow in 2016. In 2017, he was awarded the Industrial Achievement Award by the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) Council.

Professor Borrelli industrial activities focus on the application of predictive control in self-driving vehicles, utility scale solar power plants, automotive control systems, and building energy efficiency control. He was the founder and CTO of BrightBox Technologies Inc, a company focused on cloud-computing optimization for autonomous systems, and was the co-director of the Hyundai Center of Excellence in Integrated Vehicle Safety Systems and Control at UC Berkeley. He is also the founder and CTO of WideSense Inc., a company focused on E-Mobility. Professor Borrelli's research interests include model predictive control, learning, and their application to robotics, transportation, and energy control systems.