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Michael Cantoni is a member of the Control and Signal Processing Group in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. His research interests include mathematical systems theory, robust and optimal control, sampled-data systems, distributed control, numerical optimization, and applications in water and power distribution networks. He received the PhD degree in engineering from the University of Cambridge in 1998, and the BE (Electrical - Hons I) and BSc (Applied Mathematics) degrees from the University of Western Australia in 1995. He held post-doctoral research positions with the Department of Engineering and St. John's College at the University of Cambridge from 1998 to 2000, and a visiting academic position at Imperial College London in 2019-2020. He received the IEEE Control Systems Technology Award in 2014 for the development and implementation of controls for irrigation channels and water management with an industry partner. He served as Associate Editor for IFAC Automatica, Systems & Control Letters, IET Control Theory and Applications, and as Section Editor for the Springer Reference Works Encyclopedia of Systems and Control.