Dr. Frazzoli moved to MIT, Aeronautics and Astronautics, on Sept. 1, 2006

Emilio Frazzoli, Ph.D., joined the faculty of the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department in July, 2004. He received the Laurea degree in Aeronautical Engineering, magna cum laude, from the University of Rome La Sapienza , Rome, Italy, in 1994, and a Ph. D. from the Aeronautics and Astronautics Department of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2001. Between 2001 and 2004, Dr. Frazzoli was on the faculty of the Aerospace Engineering Department of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; before going back to school for his doctorate, he served as an officer in the Italian Navy, and was a flight dynamics specialist in the spacecraft control center of Telespazio (Rome, Italy). Dr. Frazzoli is the recipient of a 2002 NSF CAREER award, for research on "High-Confidence Software for Aerospace Embedded Systems".

Current research interests include algorithmic, computational and geometric approaches to the design and development of decision and control architectures for complex networked and autonomous systems, in aerospace and other domains. Application areas include distributed cooperative control of multiple vehicle systems over wireless networks, guidance and control of agile vehicles, high-confidence software engineering for high-performance dynamical systems, verification of hybrid systems.