Francesco Conte

Francesco Conte He is an Associate Professor of Electrical Power Systems at the Department of Engineering, Campus Bio-Medico, Rome. He is a senior member of the IEEE, a member of the IEEE Power & Energy Society, a member of the University Group on Electrical Power Systems (GUSEE) for the IIND-08/B SSD, and an associate member of the Genoa unit of the National Interuniversity Consortium for Energy and Electrical Systems (ENSIEL). He has authored over 100 publications in international journals and international conference proceedings. His research focuses on the provision of regulation services to the electricity grid operated by renewable generation sources, electrical loads, and storage systems, the intelligent management of microgrids and energy communities, the identification of equivalent models for portions of electricity distribution networks, fault detection and localization in distribution networks, and the optimal design and control of multi-energy hubs.

He received his Master's degree in Computer Science and Control Engineering in 2009 and his PhD in Electrical and Information Engineering in 2013, both from the University of L'Aquila. From 2013 to 2021, he was a Research Fellow and then a Research Assistant (RTD-A) at the Department of Naval, Electrical, Electronic and Telecommunications Engineering (DITEN) of the University of Genoa. In 2009, he was a visiting student at the National Institute for Computer and Automation Research (INRIA Rhone-Alpes) in Grenoble, France. In 2025, he received the National Scientific Qualification for Full Professorship, in the Competition Sector 09/E2 Electrical Energy Engineering, SSD IIND-08/B Electrical Systems for Energy.

All 'Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma He teaches the courses "Innovation and Digital Transformation" and "Smart Grids and Renewable Energy." At the University of Genoa, he taught the courses "Protection of Electrical Systems" and "Optimization Techniques for Electrical Systems." He has also served as an assistant and member of the examination committees for the courses "Fundamentals of Control for Electrical Systems" and "Management and Control of Electrical Systems."Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma He taught the course "Economics and Smart Management of Renewable Energy Systems" as well as served as an assistant and member of the examination committee for the course "Probability and Statistics." At the University of L'Aquila, he served as an assistant for the courses "Complements of Automatic Control" and "Model Identification and Data Analysis." He has collaborated and/or is currently collaborating on over twenty national and international research projects. He is an Associate Editor of the international journals IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy and the Journal of Modern Power Systems and Clean Energy.

Selection of articles in international journals

- F. Conte, G. Natrella, D. Sasso, F. Silvestro, F. D'Agostino, F. D'Antoni, M. Merone, “Optimizing green port operations with reinforcement learning and model predictive control,” INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ELECTRICAL POWER & ENERGY SYSTEMS, vol. 173, 111437, Dec. 2025, doi: 10.1016/j.ijepes.2025.111437

- G. Baglietto, S. Massucco, F. Silvestro, A. Vinci, F. Conte, “Optimization Model for Demand Flexibility Based on a Non-Intrusive Load Disaggregation Tool,” IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INDUSTRY APPLICATIONS, vol. 62, no. 1, pp. 436-445, Jan.-Feb. 2026, doi: 10.1109/TIA.2025.3590337.

- D. Cirio, F. Conte, B. Gabriele, C. Gandolfi, S. Massucco, M. Rapizza, F. Silvestro, “Fast Frequency Regulation from a Wind Farm-BESS Unit by Model Predictive Control: Method and Hardware-In-the-Loop Validation,” IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SUSTAINABLE ENERGY, vol. 14, no. 4, pp. 2049-2061, Oct. 2023, doi: 10.1109/TSTE.2023.3265187.

- F. Conte, F. D'Agostino, F. Silvestro, “Rethinking Ports as Multienergy Hubs: Managing cold ironing and hydrogen supply/bunkering,” in IEEE ELECTRIFICATION MAGAZINE, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 43-51, Mar. 2023, doi: 10.1109/MELE.2022.3232981.

- FR Bianchi, B. Bosio, F. Conte, S. Massucco, G. Mosaico, G. Natrella, M. Saviozzi, “Modelling and optimal management of renewable energy communities using reversible solid oxide cells,” APPLIED ENERGY, vol. 334, 120657, Mar. 2023, doi: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2023.120657.

- F. Conte, F. D'Agostino, B. Gabriele, G.-P. Schiapparelli, F. Silvestro, “Fault Detection and Localization in Active Distribution Networks using Optimally Placed Phasor Measurements Units,” IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON POWER SYSTEMS, vol. 38, no. 1, pp. 714-727, Jan. 2023 doi: 10.1109/TPWRS.2022.3165685

- F. Conte, F. D'Antoni, G. Natrella, M. Merone, “A new hybrid AI optimal management method for renewable energy communities,” ENERGY AND AI, Vol. 10, 2022, 100197, doi: 10.1016/j.egyai.2022.100197.

- F. Conte, S. Massucco, M. Paolone, G.-P. Schiapparelli, F. Silvestro, Y. Zuo, “Frequency stability assessment of modern power systems: models definition and parameters identification”, SUSTAINABLE ENERGY, GRIDS AND NETWORKS, Vol. 23, 100384, September 2020, doi: 10.1016/j.segan.2020.100384

- F. Conte, S. Massucco, GP Schiapparelli, and F. Silvestro, “Day-Ahead and Intra-Day Planning of Integrated BESS-PV Systems providing Frequency Regulation”, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SUSTAINABLE ENERGY, vol. 11, no. 3, pp. 1797-1806, July 2020, doi: 10.1109/TSTE.2019.2941369

- F. Conte, F. D'Agostino, S. Massucco, F. Silvestro, “Operational constrained nonlinear modeling and identification of active distribution networks”, ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEM RESEARCH, Vol. 168, pp. 92-104, 2019, doi: 10.1016/j.epsr.2018.11.014

- F. Conte, F. D'Agostino, P. Pongiglione, M. Saviozzi, F. Silvestro, “Mixed-Integer Algorithm for Optimal Dispatch of Integrated PV-Storage Systems”, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INDUSTRY APPLICATIONS, Vol. 55, No. 1, January 2019, doi: 10.1109/TIA.2018.2870072, doi: 10.1109/TIA.2018.2870072

- F. Conte, S. Massucco, M. Saviozzi, F. Silvestro, “A Stochastic Optimization Method for Planning and Real-Time Control of Integrated PV-Storage Systems: Design and Experimental Validation,” IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SUSTAINABLE ENERGY, Vol. 9, Issue 3, July 2018, doi: 10.1109/TSTE.2017.2775339

- F. Baccino, F. Conte, S. Grillo, S. Massucco, and F. Silvestro, “An Optimal Model-Based Control Technique to Improve Wind Farm Participation to Frequency Regulation,” IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SUSTAINABLE ENERGY, Vol. 6, No. 3, July 2015, doi: 10.1109/TSTE.2014.2327243