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Co-Founder

FocoosAI

Startup spin-off of Politecnico di Torino, whose mission is to automatically design neural models with efficiency in mind, optimizing resources and leveraging advanced algorithms to reduce latency and increase processing speed.

• Pre-seed round completed.

Assistant Professor non tenured (RTD-A)

Politecnico di Torino

Department of Control and computer engineering (DAUIN).

Postdoctoral researcher

Consorzio Interuniversitario Nazionale per l’Informatica (CINI)

Working on the development of visual geo-localization algorithms.

Postdoctoral researcher

Italian Institute of Technology (IIT)

Working on the development of visual geo-localization algorithms.

Autonomous Driving Specialist

Italdesign Giugiaro S.p.a.

Technical lead and developer for autonomous/assisted driving vehicle concepts.

• Pop.Up, https://www.italdesign.it/project/pop-up-next/
• WheeM-i, https://www.italdesign.it/project/wheem-i/

Postdoctoral researcher

Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics

Working on aerial robotics, shared control, cable driven parallel robot and cable-suspended cooperative aerial transportation and manupulation.

Summer School

ETH Zurich

Robotics summer School on Autonomous Micro Aerial Vehicles: Design, Perception and Control

Summer School

Technische Universität München

Telerobotics summer School

PhD

Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetic, University of Stuttgart

Robotics and shared control

• Magna cum laude
• Thesis: Planning and control for robotic tasks with a human-in-the-loop -- http://dx.doi.org/10.18419/opus-4589

Master degree

Sapienza University of Rome

Systems and Control Engineering

• 110/110 cum laude
• Thesis: Design, implementation and evaluation of a washout algorithm for a motion simulator using an anthropomorphic manipulator

Bachelor degree

Sapienza University of Rome

Systems and Automation Engineering

• 110/110 cum laude

High school

Scientific High School Augusto Righi

Scientific

• 100/100 cum laude
• National Plan in Computer Science

MAPP: Research Subcontract

Research subcontract (contratto per conto terzi per attività di ricerca) for the MAPP project, which is supported by a competitive award from the NODES program. The NODES program is financed by National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR) – NextGenerationEU (Grant agreement Cod. n.ECS00000036). Assignment from the firm Aditus srl.

• Principal Investigator

Research Subcontract

Research subcontract (contratto per conto terzi per attività di ricerca) on the topic of visual geolocalization using aerial images and 3D data. Assignment from CINI - Consorzio Interuniversitario Nazionale per l’Informatica.

• Principal Investigator

FAIR

Project Future AI Research (FAIR), awarded financial support by National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR) - NextGenerationEU – Mission 4, Component 2, Investment 1.3 – D.D. 1555 11/10/2022, PE00000013 - CUP: E13C22001800001)

• Task Leader for two tasks in the work package 7.4 (Computer Vision and Sensing in Extreme Computational Frameworks) of spoke 7 (EDGE AND EXASCALE AI): T7.4.3: Parallel Visual Learning and Sensing in 2D; T7.4.4: Parallel Visual Learning and Sensing in 3D.

LarGeo

ISCRA‑B project LarGeo, which aims to investigate several engineering and technical choices and their effect on the scalability of visual geo-localization methods (and closely related solutions for other tasks). ISCRA-B projects are received twice a year. They go under peer-review evaluation, concerning both technical and scientific aspects, and a 5 months delay is expected before a project gets access to HPC resources. For each user it is allowed to have only one class B project each 6 months as Project Investigator.

• Principal Investigator
• The project awarded 2.000.000 GPU hours on the Leonardo HPC at CINECA

DisGeo

ISCRA‑C project DisGeo, which aims to push the scalability of visual geo-localization algorithms, by: i) exploring solutions to distribute the training of the model developed in the MaGeo project; ii) exploring ways to formulate the visual geo-localization problem in a federated learning setting. ISCRA-C projects are received through continuous submission and reviewed once per month, both technically and scientifically. An average period of about 30 days is required for activating the project. For each user it is allowed to have only one class C project each 6 months as Project Investigator.

• Principal Investigator
• The project awarded 80.000 GPU hours on the Leonardo HPC at CINECA

GeoWarp

The ISCRA‑C project GeoWarp aims to investigate the problem of viewpoint shifts in visual geolocalization, i.e.,: i) Quantitatively assess the invariance achieved by the method with respect to different variations in the viewpoint; ii) Extend the method to new kinds of viewpoint shifts besides homographies. ISCRA-C projects are received through continuous submission and reviewed once per month, both technically and scientifically. An average period of about 30 days is required for activating the project. For each user it is allowed to have only one class C project each 6 months as Project Investigator.

• Principal Investigator
• The project awarded 32.000 core hours on the Marconi 100 HPC at CINECA

MaGeo

The ISCRA‑C project MaGeo aims to investigate the task of visual geolocalization in large scale databases (possibly with millions of images) with two studies: i) A benchmark that analyzes the impact of different architectural and training choices of the image retrieval pipeline and verifies the results on datasets with different qualities (in terms of sparsity/density and size). ii) Develop a novel architecture based on deep neural networks that leverages the advances made in large scale classification problems. ISCRA-C projects are received through continuous submission and reviewed once per month, both technically and scientifically. An average period of about 30 days is required for activating the project. For each user it is allowed to have only one class C project each 6 months as Project Investigator.

• Principal Investigator
• The project awarded 32.000 core hours on the Marconi 100 HPC at CINECA

TechDemo

Italdesign Giugiaro S.p.a

A self-driving platform built entirely at Italdesign. I contributed to the design of the system architecture (definition of sensors and compute units) and to the implementation of the software functionalities (motion planning and control, obstacle avoidance based on lidar readings).

• Developer for perception, planning and control functionalities

Pop.Up Next

Italdesign Giugiaro S.p.a

Hybrid mobility concept with seamless transition between ground and aerial transportation. I worked on a small-scale demonstrator of the concept, developing the autonomous functionalities for the ground vehicle (definition of sensors and compute units, implementation of the motion planning, motion control and perception functions).

• Developer for perception, planning and control functionalities

WheeM-i

Italdesign Giugiaro S.p.a

Micro mobility vehicle for wheelchair users. l was the technical leader in the definition of the assisted driving functionalities and in their implementation. I was involved from the early phases of the project and acted as the technical spokesperson to the presentation of the idea at the judging panel for the Mobility Unlimited Challenge organized by the Toyota Mobility Foundation.

• Technical lead for assistive functionalities
• The project was selected as one of the top‑5 finalists among all global entries for the for the Mobility Unlimited Challenge and received a grant of $500000

Habilitation for II Level professorship (Associate Level)

National Scientific Habilitation for Associate professorship in Systems and Control Engineering (academic field 09/G1)

ELLIS membership

European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems

Accepted as a member of the European Lab for Learning & Intelligent Systems (ELLIS), within the ELLIS Turin Unit. Candidates for memberships are vetted by a committee based on their scientific resume in the field of machine learning.'

Outstanding reviewer

2024 IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)

Recognized as a Top 2% reviewer.'

Reviewer of the month

Nature - Communications Engineering

Reviewer of the month recognition by the Nature - Communications Engineering journal for the month of October 2023.

Outstanding reviewer

2023 IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)

Recognized as a Top 3.5% reviewer.'

Outstanding reviewer

2022 IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)

Recognized as a Top 0.9% reviewer.'

Finalist at the Mobility Unlimited Challenger

Toyota Mobility Foundation

Finalist with Italdesign’s team WheeM-i of the Mobility Unlimited Challenge organized by the Toyota Mobility Foundation. As a finalist, the team was awarded a development grant of $500k. I was the team’s technical responsible at the pitch presentation for the judging panel that selected the finalists.

IROS JTCF Novel Technology Paper Award for Amusement Culture (winner)

2016 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)

IROS JTCF Novel Technology Paper Award for Amusement Culture (winner), at the 2016 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), for the paper 'The CableRobot Simulator - Large Scale Motion Platform Based on Cable Robot Technology'.

Best Paper Award (finalist)

2016 IEEE International Conference on Information and Automation (ICIA)

Best Paper Award (finalist) for the paper ' Modeling and Analysis of Cable Vibrations for a Cable-Driven Parallel Robot'.

Wow-Factor award (winner)

2011 Joint Virtual Reality Conference (JVRC)

Winner of the 'Wow-Factor award' for the best multimedia content presented at the conference. The prize was awarded for a video demonstrating the operation of the MPI CyberMotion Simulator.

Associate Editor

Associate Editor for the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters journal in the area 'Aerial and Field Robotics'

Reviewer

Reviewer for numerous conferences and journals

• Robotics: Science and Systems conference (RSS)
• IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (lCRA)
• IEEE/RSJ international Conference on Robotics and Intelligent Systems (IROS)
• IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
• IEEE/CVF international Conference On Computer Vision (ICCV)
• European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)
• International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR)
• IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM)
• IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV)
• IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)
• IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine (RAM)
• IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP)
• IEEE Transactions on Robotics (TRO)
• IEEE Access
• Human Robot Interaction conference (HRI)
• Sensors
• Nature - Communications Engineering

2025 IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV)

Area Chair

2024 IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV)

Area Chair

Koç University & İş Bankası AI (KUIS AI) Center

M.sc. defense jury member

Jury for the M.Sc. thesis defense of Nazir Nayal, Koç University & İş Bankası AI (KUIS AI) Center

European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems

Ph.D. applications pre-screening evaluator

Pre-screening evaluator in the selection process for the 2021/2022 ELLIS (European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems) Ph.D. program. This program aims to support excellent young researchers, granting them the supervision from two advisors within the ELLIS network. The pre-screening is the first filtering stage in the selection process.

Workshop on 'Adjustable Autonomy and Physical Embodied Intelligence'

Member of the organizing committee

Co-organizer of the workshop “Adjustable Autonomy and Physical Embodied Intelligence”, at the 27th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI), Santiago de Compostela (Spain), October 19th-24th.

Workshop on 'Learning Meets Model-based Methods for Manipulation and Grasping'

Member of the organizing committee

Co-organizer of the workshop “Learning Meets Model-based Methods for Manipulation and Grasping”, at the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Robotics and Intelligent Systems (IROS), Detroit (US), October 1st-5th.

Workshop on 'Adapting to Change: Reliable Multimodal Learning Across Domains'

Member of the organizing committee

Co-organizer of the workshop “Adapting to Change: Reliable Multimodal Learning Across Domains”, at the 2023 European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML-PKDD), Torino (Italy), September 18th-22nd.

Workshop on 'VW Group AI Workshop 2019.1'

Organizer

Organizer of the “VW Group AI Workshop 2019.1”, at Italdesign (Torino, Italy). This is a semestral private workshop that unites researchers within the Volkswagen group who work in AI. The event was attended by over 100 people from all around the world.

FocoosAI

Co-founder

Co-founder of Focoos.AI, a startup spin-off of Politecnico di Torino, whose mission is to automatically design neural models with efficiency in mind, optimizing resources and leveraging advanced algorithms to reduce latency and increase processing speed. Focoos.AI has received a pre-seed funding round.

Patent

Co-inventor

Co-inventor of the proposal 'Metodo e algoritmo per la progettazione automatica di reti neurali tramite machine learning', submitted to the Italian patent office.

Congresso dei Dottori commercialisti e degli Esperti contabili

Invited panelist

Title of the panel: 'Le prospettive del lavoro intellettuale nell’era dell’intelligenza artificiale.'

2023 IEEE/CVF International conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Tutorials

Invited speaker

Invited speaker at the tutorial on 'A Comprehensive Tour and Recent Advancements Toward Real-World Visual GeoLocalization', June 18th-22nd.

High-Frequency Workshop

Invited talk

`Semantic segmentation for automotive applications`, invited talk at the High-Frequency Workshop at Politecnico di Milano. November 22nd-23rd.

VW Group AI Workshop

Invited talk

Invited talk at the 'VW Group AI Workshop 2018.2', a semestral private workshop that is organized within the Volkswagen Group AI team, a global team with all the researchers working in Volkswagen AG on AI related topics. October 10th-11th.

2016 IEEE/RSJ International conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)

Paper presentation

Presentation of the paper 'Cooperative transportation of a payload using quadrotors: A reconfigurable cable-driven parallel robot'. October 9th-14th.

2016 IEEE/RSJ International conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)

Paper presentation

Presentation of the paper 'The CableRobot simulator large scale motion platform based on cable robot technology'. October 9th-14th.

5th International Workshop on human-Friendly Robotics (HFR 2012)

Paper presentation

Presentation of the work 'Shared trajectory planning for human-in-the-loop navigation of mobile robots in cluttered environments'. October 18th-19th.

2012 IEEE/RSJ International conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)

Paper presentation

Oral presentation of the paper 'Interactive planning of persistent trajectories for human-assisted navigation of mobile robots'. October 7th-12th.

5th Human Centered Motion cueing Workshop

Invited talk

Invited talk titled 'Mechanical design and control of the new 7-DoF CyberMotion Simulator'. May 19th.

52011 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

Paper presentation

Oral presentation of the paper 'Mechanical design and control of the new 7-DoF CyberMotion Simulator'. May 9th-11th.