Associate Professor

from May, 2023

Collaboration in projects in the field of autonomous driving:

• SUNRISE, an European project focuses on ensuring the safety of cooperative, connected, and automated mobility systems, crucial for their widespread adoption. It addresses the lack of a unified approach by developing a harmonized and scalable safety assurance framework, enabling collaboration among stakeholders and supporting diverse use cases and scenarios through both physical and virtual testing.

Teaching activities at the University of Trento include:

• Architectures of intelligent transportation systems, This course covers the hardware and software design of intelligent vehicles, key safety systems, their historical context, and European directives for approving innovative safety features and V2X communication in autonomous driving.

• Intelligent vehicles and autonomous driving, This course provides essential knowledge and skills for designing autonomous driving systems, covering SAE automation levels, primary perception systems, control algorithm architectures, and implementation techniques.

Assistant Professor

from May, 2020 to April, 2023

Teaching activities as Assistant Professor at the University of Trento include:

• Vehicles dynamics, planning and control of robotic cars, The objective of the course is to develop and validate, in simulation, an autonomous driving system.

• Dynamics and control of vehicles and robots, The goal of this course is to teach the student how to model vehicle systems and sub-systems to study/optimise vehicle dynamics, design low-level control systems, the techniques for trajectory plannings, and intelligent vehicle architectures.

Postdoc Research

from December, 2017 to April, 2020

As a research fellow at the University of Trento, I design model based smart controllers for the field of autonomous driving in the framework:

• Dreams4Cars, an European project focused on developing an autonomous agent taking inspiration from the human-brain and dreams.

Phd

from November 1, 2012 to December 15, 2016

My PhD at the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna were focused on developing models and control systems for Electroactive Polymers for the exploitation of ocean wave energy and control theory in the research field relating to Human-Robot Interaction. The main projects were:

• PolyWEC, an European project focused on exploiting electroactive Polymers for Wave Energy Conversion.

• VERITAS, an European project for developing of Virtual and Augmented Environments and Realistic User Interactions To achieve Embedded Accessibility DesignS.