short cv
Professional Experience
- october 2007-present Assistant Professor, Dipartimento di Tecnica e Gestione dei Sistemi Industriali, University of Padua
- july - october 2010 Visitor Researcher, School of Sport Science, Exercise and Health at the University of Western Australia (UWA)
- april-july 2007 Visiting Professor, University of Applied Sciences Bonn-Rhein-Sieg, Germany
- april 2006-september 2007 Research Fellow, University of Verona, Topics: Research on task and motion planning
- august 2001- july 2005 Research Fellow, University of Parma, Topic: Parallel and Distributed architec- tures for robotics and real-time systems
- january - july 2001 Research Fellow, University of Parma, Topic: Computer science technologies for logistics
- may 1999-february 2000 Graduate Research Assistant, Computer Research and Applications group (CIC-3) of Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), USA
Education
- PhD in Information Technologies University of Parma, Italy
- Laurea Degree in Electronic Engineering, University of Parma, Italy
Workshop Organization
- Workshop on Biomechanical simulation of Humans and Bio-inspired Humanoids (BH)^2, Darmstadt, Germany, november 2010 (with Oskar von Stryk and Andre Seyfarth)
- Workshop on Concept Learning for Embodied Agents, 2007 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Roma, Italy, 10 april 2007 (with P. Fiorini, professor at the University of Verona, Italy and E. Prassler, professor at the Fachhochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg, Germany)
- Workshop on Principles and Practice of Software Development in Robotics: crafting modular and interoperable systems, 2005 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Barcelona, Spain, 18 april 2005 (with D. Brugali, assistant professor at the University of Bergamo)
- Meeting on Motion Planning Benchmarks, Amsterdam, 12 march 2004 (with A. P. del Pobil, professor at the Jaume I University - Spain)
Professional Service
- International Program Co-chair of the 2nd International Conference on Simulation, Modeling, and Programming for Autonomous Robots (SIMPAR 2010), Darmstadt, Germany, 2010
- Publicity Chair of 14th International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR 2009), Munich, Germany, June 2009;
- Local Chair of the International Conference on Simulation, Modeling, and Programming for Autonomous Robots (SIMPAR 2008), Venice, Italy, November 2008
- Poster Program Committee member of the International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA2006
- Program Committee member of the 9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS2010) and Performance Metrics for Intelligent Systems Workshop (PERMIS’09) Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR) 2005, 2007, and 2009;
- Reviewer for IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing, CLUSTER 2000, International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications, PDPTA 2001, International Conference on Computer Vision Systems, ICVS 2003, International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA 2005, 2007-2011, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems IROS 2007-2009, IEEE Transaction on Robotics (2007), IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine (2008), IEEE Transaction on Automation Science and Engineering (2009), external reviewer per il National Institute of Standards and Technology - NIST (2009)
- Examiner of Thomas Dirk's PhD thesis, Middleware for Efficient Programming of Autonomous Mobile Robots presso Technischen Universität Darmstadt (Germania), november 2010
