Giorgio Rizzoni received his undergraduate and graduate training in electrical and computer engineering at the University of Michigan and went on to conduct research as a postdoctoral fellow, assistant research scientist and lecturer at UM. He joined the OSU mechanical engineering faculty in 1990. He has held visiting positions at the University of Bologna, Italy, the Swiss Federal Polytechnic Institute (ETH) in Zürich and the Politecnicos of Milan and Turin. Since 1999 he has been the director of the OSU Center for Automotive Research (CAR), an interdisciplinary university research center in the College of Engineering. CAR conducts research on advanced automotive and transportation technologies and systems engineering, focusing on sustainable, safe and intelligent mobility. Rizzoni’s research interests are in system dynamics, measurement, control and fault diagnosis with application to automotive systems. He has a special interest in future ground vehicle propulsion systems, including advanced engines, electric and hybrid-electric drivetrains, and electrochemical energy storage and conversion systems. Twitter