Alberto Leva is Professor of Automatic Control at the Politecnico di Milano, Italy. His main research interest concern methods and tools for the automatic tuning of industrial controllers and control structures, process modelling, simulation and control, particularly within the object-oriented paradigm, object-oriented modelling and control of energy systems with particular reference to large grids, and advanced tolls and methods for control education. In recent years, he has been concentrating on control and control-based design of computing systems, addressing in a system- and control-theoretical manner problems like scheduling, resource allocation, time synchronisation in wireless sensor networks, thermal and power/performance management, performance-driven software adaptation, and service composition.