Diego Deplano is an Assistant Professor (RTD-A) at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Cagliari, Sardegna, Italy.

He received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Electronic Engineering, all of them awarded summa cu​m laude, from the University of Cagliari, Italy, respectively in ’15, ’17, and ’21. He won the 2021 SIDRA Award for the Best Ph.D. Thesis defended in the area of Systems and Control Engineering at an Italian University, awarded by Società Italiana Docenti e Ricercatori in Automatica (SIDRA).

During his research activities, he has established international collaboration during his visiting periods at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Grenoble, France, and at the University of Toronto (UofT).

He ​serves as an Associate Editor for the ​International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE) since 2024.

His area of expertise is the development of distributed control and coordination algorithms for large groups of autonomous systems that interact within a communication or sensing network and suffer from limited information availability and constrained resources. His research interests include: ​Analysis and control of multi-agent systems with nonlinear dynamics, with focus on consensus and dynamic estimation problems; Nonlinear Perron-Frobenius theory with application to monotone systems; Distributed optimization for online learning and dynamic tracking; Synchronization and desynchronization of oscillator networks; Average state observer design for linear systems; Multi-robot optimal path-planning with collision avoidance.