Davide Spinello received the B.Sc. and Laurea degrees in environmental engineering from the University of Rome ”La Sapienza,” Rome, Italy, in 2001 and 2005, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in engineering mechanics from Virginia Tech in 2006. From January 2007 to July 2009, he was a Post-Doctoral Fellow with the Autonomous Systems and Control Laboratory, Virginia Tech. Since September 2009, he has been a Faculty Member with the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada, where he teaches courses on control, dynamical systems, and continuum mechanics. His research interests include cooperative and distributed control and estimation, dynamical systems, continuum mechanics, microelectromechanical and nanoelectromechanical systems, multiphysics systems, and numerical methods.