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Short biography

I was born in Benevento, Italy, in 1989. I received the bachelor’s degree in computer engineering (2012), the master’s degree in electronic engineering (2016), and the doctorate in information engineering (2020) from the University of Sannio, Benevento, Italy. From May to November 2016, I joined the automatic control group (GRACE) as a research fellow at the same university. During my doctorate, I worked on the use of software-in-the-loop methodologies for the analysis and control design of small UAV systems, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Luigi Iannelli. From March to November 2019, I was a visiting Ph.D. student at LAAS - CNRS, in Toulouse, working with Prof. Dr. Antonio Franchi and his team. From June 2020 to July 2022, I was a post-doctoral research fellow at the Czech Technical University in Prague, working with the Multi-robot System (MRS) Group together with Prof. Dr. Martin Saska. From November 17 to November 30, 2022, I was a visiting researcher at the University of Twente together with the RAM group and Prof. Dr. Antonio Franchi. Currently, I am a tenured researcher at the Ricerca sul Sistema Energetico (RSE) S.p.A., a publicly controlled research organization, with the Department of Power Generation Technologies and Materials, and an associated researcher with the Multi-robot System (MRS) Group working with Prof. Dr. Martin Saska. I serve as associate editor for the International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS) and the Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation (MED). My research interests are in simulation, control and motion planning problems for unmanned aerial vehicles, autonomous vehicles, formal methods in control and automation, human-robot collaboration, communication-aware robotics, model predictive control techniques, nonlinear optimization, and robot manipulators.

Education

PhD in Information Technologies for Engineering (curriculum in Automatic Control), November 2020
Additional mention of Doctor Europaeus
Thesis title: “Software-in-the-loop methodologies for the analysis and control design of small UAV systems”
University of Sannio in Benevento, Benevento, Italy
Advisor: Prof. Dr. Luigi Iannelli

Master Degree in Electronic Engineering (curriculum in Automatic Control), March 2016
Thesis title: “Development of a simulator aimed to detect and track moving objects for UAVs”
University of Sannio in Benevento, Benevento, Italy
Advisor: Prof. Dr. Luigi Iannelli

Bachelor Degree in Computer Engineering (curriculum in Automatic Control), July 2012
Thesis title: “An Object Oriented approach aimed to the creation of control software for industrial processes”
University of Sannio in Benevento, Benevento, Italy
Advisors: Prof. Dr. Luigi Iannelli and Eng. Paolo Rubino

Publications

(see my publications page for an up-to-date list)

Professional Affiliations

• Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), Student Member (S'17), Member (M'21)

  • IEEE Control Systems Society
  • IEEE Robotics and Automation Society