![]() |
Born on the 7th of December 1985 in Erba (Co), Italy. |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
Since 2020 | ![]() |
Research Fellow of the Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research—FNRS Chargé de Recherches IRIDIA, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. Hosted by Prof. Marco Dorigo. Project: HECOROS — Heterogeneity for Cost-Effective Robot Swarms. |
2015 - 2020 | ![]() |
Research Fellow in Collective Robotics Sheffield Robotics - University of Sheffield, UK. Project leader: Prof. James Marshall ERC Project: DiODe - Distributed Algorithms for Optimal Decision-Making. |
2011 - 2015 | ![]() |
Ph.D. Student IRIDIA, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. Supervisor: Prof. Marco Dorigo. Co-supervisor: Dr. Vito Trianni Topic: Engineering distributed cognition. |
2008 - 2010 | ![]() |
Master of Science in Computer Engineering held in English language (110/110 cum laude). Politecnico di Milano - Faculty of Computer Engineering, Como campus, Italy. Web technologies, artificial intelligence and robotics. |
2004 - 2007 | ![]() |
Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering (106/110) Politecnico di Milano - Faculty of Computer Engineering, Como campus, Italy. Computer technology, programming languages and automatic control. |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
2022 - Present | ![]() |
Co-supervisor of Postdocs:
|
2020 - Present | ![]() |
Co-supervisor of PhD students:
|
Nov 2022 - Present | ![]() |
Supervisor of four Master students: - Sébastien De Vos from Université Libre de Bruxelles Thesis: Federated learning in swarm robotics using blockchain smart contracts; - Nemanja Antonic from Politecnico di Milano Thesis: Collective resilience of heterogeneous decision makers against stubborn individuals; - Francesco Cerri from Universtá di Bologna Thesis: Reputation management in swarm robotics through crypto-economy; - Angelo Moroncelli from Politecnico di Milano Thesis: Byzantine-fault tolerant Swarm SLAM; |
July 2021 - June 2022 | ![]() |
Supervisor of three Master students: - Ludéric Van Calck from Université Libre de Bruxelles Thesis: An Information Market for Social Navigation in Robots; - Antoine Bertoux from Université Libre de Bruxelles Thesis: Swarm resiliency against non-cooperative agents in collective decision-making; - Till Aust from University of Lübeck Thesis: Collective Adaptation and Symmetry Breaking to Environmental Changes in a Swarm of Kilobots Monitoring a Dynamic Environment; |
Feb 2019 - Aug 2021 | ![]() |
Co-supervisor (with J. Marshall) of the postdoc Arindam Saha at the University of Sheffield, UK. Project: Swarm Awareness. |
Sep 2016 - Mar 2021 | ![]() |
Co-supervisor of PhD students:
|
Jun. 2018 - Mar. 2019 | ![]() |
Co-supervisor of two MSc students: - Francesco Canciani from Politecnico di Milano, Italy Thesis: Swarm Resiliency in Collective Decision-Making; - Federico Pratissoli from Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy Thesis: The Kilobot Soft Robot: A Soft-Bodied Modular Reconfigurable Robotic System; |
July 2017 - March 2018 | ![]() |
Co-supervisor of the MSc student Anna Font Llenas from Sheffield Hallam University, UK Thesis: Value-sensitive decisions through pheromone trails; |
June 2016 - Spring 2017 | ![]() |
Co-supervisor of: - Master student Salah Talamali from Sheffield Hallam University, UK Thesis: Automatic calibration system for kilobot robots; - Bachelor student Eleftherios Nikolaidis from Alexander Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki, Greece Thesis: Creation of an overhead controller for the Kilobots and collective behavior. |
July 2016 - June 2019 | ![]() |
PhD’s Theses Mentoring Programme: Mentoring final year PhD students to help them go forward with their thesis. |
March 2016 | ![]() |
Online lesson on “Swarm Robotics” for the course “Building a Future with Robots” from The University of Sheffield. |
Feb. 2015 - Aug 2015 | ![]() |
Teaching Assistant of the Swarm Intelligence course at Université Libre de Bruxelles (Course INFO-H-414, 5 ECTS). |
Oct. 2014 - Aug 2015 | ![]() |
Co-supervisor of two Master students: - Davide Brambilla from Politecnico di Milano, Italy Thesis: Environment Classification: an Empirical Study of the Response of a Robot Swarm to Three Different Decision-Making Rules; - Anthony Debruyn from Université Libre de Bruxelles Thesis: Human-Swarm Interaction: An Escorting Robot Swarm that Diverts a Human away from Dangers one cannot perceive. |
Oct. 2013 - Sep. 2014 | ![]() |
Co-supervisor of two Master students: - Mattia Salvaro from Università di Bologna, Italy Thesis: Virtual sensors for a robot swarm; - Bernard Mayeur from Université Libre de Bruxelles Thesis: A tool for automatic robot placement in swarm robotics experiments (in French). |
Sep. 2012 - Sep. 2013 | ![]() |
Co-supervisor of the Master student Jacopo De Stefani of Université Libre de Bruxelles and Politecnico di Milano (Project TIME for double degree). Thesis: Spatial Allocation in Swarm Robotics. |
Oct. 2011 - May 2015 | ![]() |
Principal supervisor for the computer programming project (5 ECTS) of several master students of Université Libre de Bruxelles enrolled in the first year of the “Master en sciences informatique”. |
Nov.2009 - Apr.2011 | ![]() |
Internship - junior researcher European project (6th Framework Programme): Swarmanoid. Research activity. Analysis, design and implementation of specific robot controllers. Writing and publishing scientific papers. Master thesis project [Nov.09 – July.10]: "Swarms of flying robots performing distributed path planning for objects on the ground" Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence Studies (IDSIA) - Lugano (Switzerland). |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
Apr.2009 - Jul.2009 | ![]() |
Software developer. European project (6th Framework Programme): PHAROS (Platform for searcHing of Audiovisual Resources across Online Spaces). Analysis, design and implementation of specific processes and functionalities within a multimedia information retrieval system (the PHAROS platform). FAST Search and Transfer (A Microsoft Subsidiary) - Oslo (Norway) |
Jul.2008 - Apr.2009 | ![]() |
Software developer. European project (6th Framework Programme): PHAROS (Platform for searcHing of Audiovisual Resources across Online Spaces). Analysis, design and implementation of wrappers for the integration of a face recognition and identification technology into a multimedia search engine platform. Web Models S.r.l. - Milano (Italy) |
Oct.2006 - Jun.2007 | ![]() |
Web designer, HTML programmer. Designing web sites, programming in HTML and CSS languages. Use of CMS. Part-time job. Webjobs.it - Como (Italy) |
2021/2 | ![]() |
Tomas Bata University internal competition – Grant for support of international cooperation by Tomas Bata University in Zlín, Czech Republic. |
2020 | ![]() |
Three-year Fellowship (Chargé de Recherches) by FNRS—Belgian-Walloon National Fund for Scientific Research—on my personal project "Heterogeneity for Cost-Effective Robot Swarms" |
2018 | ![]() |
ERC-Proof of Concept: Proposal rejected with a Seal of Excellence by the EU Commission. I was a named investigator on the project with a major role in writing the grant proposal titled: “ExODUS – Extreme and Offworld Decentralised Unanimous Swarms”. |
2018 | ![]() |
Grant (£1000) OnCampUS Placements from the University of Sheffield to hire a MSc student for a 100-hours job on the project "A Robot Swarm Orchestra". |
2018 | ![]() |
Basic research grant ($205,266) Swarm Awareness from the Office of Naval Research Global (ONR-G) for 2.5 years. PIs: James Marshall and Andreagiovanni Reina. |
2017 | ![]() |
Grant (£1000) OnCampUS Placements from the University of Sheffield to hire a MSc student for a 100-hours job on the project "Robot Art". |
2011 | ![]() |
Four Years Scholarship funded by the European Research Council - Advanced Grants program of the European Union. |
2010 | ![]() |
Master Thesis's Grant – Zeno Karl Schindler Foundation (Genève – Switzerland) |
2009 | ![]() |
Scholarship for the International Traineeship within the LLP-Erasmus Placement Programme |
2019 | ![]() |
Best Poster Award at the 2019 Sheffield Robotics Showcase, University of Sheffield. |
2019 | ![]() |
Selected among the top 3 projects of the Research Software Competition for HPC@Sheffield2019 (awarded £1,000 as development fund). |
2018 | ![]() |
Best Paper Award of ANTS 2018, the 11th International Conference on Swarm Intelligence. |
2018 | ![]() |
Recognised as Fellow of Higher Education Academy (FHEA). |
2016 | ![]() |
Dedicated Outstanding Thesis Mentor of the 2016 PhD Theses Mentoring Programme of the University of Sheffield. |
2011 | ![]() |
Best Poster Award at the 12th International Conference Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems (TAROS), Sheffield, UK, August 31 - September 2, 2011. |
![]() |
Italian | ![]() |
mother tongue |
![]() |
English | ![]() |
fluent written and verbal skills |
![]() |
French | ![]() |
good written and verbal skills (CEFR Level B1) |
![]() |
Spanish | ![]() |
good understanding, basic written and verbal skills |