Dr Ing. Luana Chetcuti Zammit is a passionate academic and engineer who has been part of the University of Malta’s Department of Systems and Control Engineering since 2015. She began her journey as an Assistant Lecturer and was promoted to Lecturer in 2020, bringing both academic expertise and hands-on engineering experience to her role.
Luana teaches a wide range of courses in control systems to undergraduate and postgraduate students. She is also the Coordinator of the MSc in Intelligent Systems, Signals and Control, where she helps shape the future of intelligent technologies through both teaching and mentorship. She places a strong emphasis on digital learning, having developed online versions of several courses and integrating gamification tools to enhance student engagement.
Her research focuses on intelligent transportation systems, real-time traffic modeling, machine learning, and the emerging role of blockchain in transport. She has published widely and presented her work at international. Much of her research looks at real-world problems, from modelling traffic flow in urban environments to analyzing traffic data from social media.
Luana also plays an active role in the academic community. She serves on various university boards and committees, including the Faculty Research Ethics Committee Board. She is an Associate Editor for the European Control Conference and regularly reviews papers for international journals and conferences.
What drives Luana is the opportunity to make a tangible impact, through mentoring students and contributing to sustainable mobility research. She’s supervised numerous engineering projects that explore innovative areas such as accident prediction, secure traffic networks, and social media analytics for real-time traffic events.
Committed to lifelong learning, Luana continues to build her skills through professional development courses. At the heart of her work is a desire to connect technology with meaningful solutions, particularly in how we move, communicate, and build smarter, more sustainable communities.
