Mariana Netto is Researcher in the Université Gustave Eiffel, France. She obtained her French Senior diploma Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches in 2013 and her Ph.D degree in automatic control, in collaboration with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, from the Laboratory of Signals and Systems (L2S) – CentraleSupélec & University of South-Paris, France, in 2001, on the topic “Adaptive Control of Nonlinearly Parameterized Systems”. She has also been assistant professor within the University of South-Paris for one year before integrating the Univ. Eiffel. Before her PhD, she obtained her Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, option control theory, in 1995, and her Master’s degree from the Research Program (COPPE) of the same university, in 1997, on the control of robots with flexible joints. During her Master’s, she worked within the Group in Simulation and Control on Automation and Robotics (GSCAR laboratory). Among her international research activities, Mariana Netto has led her institution (IFSTTAR) in the European Network of Excellence HYCON2; she is serving as chair of the IFAC Technical Committee 9.2 'Systems and Control for Societal Impact', for 2020-2023, after having served as vice-chair of this committee from 2014 to 2020. She has also been member of the iMobility Forum Expert Community working to give advice to the European Commission on the Transportation research priority areas, in 2012-2013. Mariana Netto has led research and industry partners as co-coordinator of a team on driving assistance systems technical evaluation, within the European PReVENT Project, subproject PReVAL (6th European Research Framework). In this role, she has worked in close collaboration with the Human Factors team of the same project for the construction of a reference guide on the technical evaluation of advanced driving assistance systems. Mariana Netto has also been co-founder and co-leader of the national research forum on Intelligent Electric Systems and Networks from the CNRS Research Forum GDR MACS (2010-2020). She has also contributed to the international scientific community through the IFAC CPHS event, by the following actions: the IFAC IEEE workshop Human Cyber Physical System Interaction: Control for Human Welfare (H-CPS-I 2014), in Paris, for which she has served as IPC co-chair. And then the IFAC IEEE CPHS 2016 (Cyber-Physical and Human Systems), also co-sponsored by IEEE CSS, in Florianopolis, Brazil, for which she has served as General Chair. Finally, the second IFAC CPHS 2018 has been held in Miami, US, led by the MIT and NSF, when she has served as member of the Advisory Board. She serves since 2019 as member of the CPHS Steering Committee, and as so she served to CPHS 2020 as steering committee member, IPC member and publicity chair. Mariana Netto belongs to the roll of honor of the laureates of IFAC France, as recipient of the IFAC Service French Award in 2018. Her research interests are on linear and nonlinear control, including the adaptive control of nonlinearly parameterized systems and hybrid systems. She has been working in hybrid and piecewise linear control for improved vehicle’s safety. She believes in the increasing need for interdisciplinary collaboration following the recent enormous technological advances and the new multiple possibilities and that’s why she worked for the IFAC CPHS Conference. In control, she also believes in the importance of shared control for keeping the humans active, avoiding loss of competences, and combining skills. She is also particularly interested in the automation design on the basis of a pre-study for safe interaction with humans. She believes that prior the control synthesis, philosophy principles should be studied guiding the design towards an ethical introduction in the cities of these automated systems.