He was an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control during 2001-2004 and Chair of the Technical Committee on Hybrid Systems of the IEEE Control Systems Society in 2002-2010 (read article). As a member of the Technical Activities Board of the IEEE Control Systems Society, he served on the Program Committee of the IEEE CDC 2002, 2004, 2008. He was Program Committee member of the "Hybrid Systems Computation and Control" workshops 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, of the "1st IFAC Workshop on Estimation and Control of Networked Systems (NecSys'09), of the IFAC Conference on the Analysis and Design of Hybrid Systems (ADHS) in 2006 and 2009, and of the Int. Conf. on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics, 2004, 2005 editions.

He has been an IEEE Fellow since 2010. He received the IFAC High-Impact Paper Award for the 2011-14 triennial and the IEEE CSS Transition to Practice Award in 2019. He received the best master thesis award "G. Barzilai", IEEE Centre and South Italy section, 4th edition, and best master thesis award "R. Mariani", AEI (Italian Electrotechnical Association) for year 1993.