Claudio Altafini

Professor

Research interests

I am a Professor in Automatic Control at the Department of Electrical Engineering (ISY), Linköping University, Sweden. My research interests broadly cover modeling and control of nonlinear dynamical systems, multiagent systems, complex networks, opinion dynamics, and related areas in systems and control theory. Here a brief description of my research area.

Publications

For a full list of publications, see my Google Scholar page.

Some recent review/survey papers that I coauthored

• J. Wendin and C. Altafini. Gradient Flow Equations for Deep Linear Neural Networks: A Survey from a Network Perspective. SIAM Review, 2026.
• C. Bernardo, C. Altafini, A. V. Proskurnikov and F. Vasca. Bounded confidence opinion dynamics: A survey. Automatica, 159:111302 2024.
• G. Shi, C. Altafini, and J. S. Baras. Dynamics over Signed Networks. SIAM Review, 61(2), 229-257, 2019.
• C. Altafini and F. Ticozzi. Modeling and Control of Quantum Systems: An Introduction. IEEE Trans. on Automatic Control, 57(8):1898-1917, 2012.

Current PhD students

• Luca Lebon (2022-on)
• Ahsan Razaq (2022-on)
• Joel Wendin (2022-on)
• Duy-Nam Bui (2025-on)
• Chenglong Li (2025-on)

Teaching

M.Sc. Courses

• TSRT09 – Control Theory (since 2020)
• TSRT62 – Modeling and Simulation (2015-2019)

PhD Courses

• Nonlinear Control Systems
• Opinion Dynamics on Social Networks
• Systems Biology: nonlinear mechanistic models
• Networked Dynamical Systems