Short Bio

Education

• PhD in Computer Science and Engineering, Sapienza - University of Rome
• MSc in Computer Engineering - Artificial Intelligence, Sapienza - University of Rome
• BEng in Computer Engineering, Sapienza - University of Rome

Research Experience

• Associate Professor, University of Parma, Dept. of Engineering and Architecture (2025-)
• Assistant Professor, University of Parma, Dept. of Engineering and Architecture (2022-2025)
• Assistant Professor, Aalborg University, Dept. of Electronic Systems (2019-2022)
• Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Oxford, Oxford Robotics Institute (2014 - 2018)
• Visiting Marie Curie Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Centre for Applied Hearing Research, Technical University of Denmark (2013)
• Marie Curie Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Language and Speech Laboratory, University of the Basque Country (2012 - 2013)
• Visiting PhD Student, Cognitive System Group, Technical University of Denmark (2010 - 2012)

Projects

• LiSA: Listen, See and Act: fusing audio-video cues to perceive visible and invisible events and develop perception-to-action solutions for autonomous vehicles, PRIN 2022 PNRR
• IntellIoT: Intelligent, distributed, human-centered and trustworthy IoT environments, H2020-957218
• Sense-Assess-eXplain (SAX): Building trust in autonomous vehicles in challenging real-world driving scenarios

Research Project Contributions

• EXO-AIDER Exoskeleton joints for physical assistance of the elderly, Innovation Fund Denmark
• Program Grant Mobile Autonomy: Enabling a Pervasive Technology of the Future, EPSRC, EP/M019918/1
• EUROPA2 (European Robotic Pedestrian Assistant 2.0), FP7-610603
• Robot Navigation, Perception and Planning for Intelligent Energy Management in Electric Vehicles , EPSRC, P/K034472/1
• INSPIRE (Investigating Speech Processing In Realistic Environment), FP7-PEOPLE-2011-290000

Journal Editor

• Associate Editor of IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)
• Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on AI
• Guest Editor of Frontiers in Neurorobotics

Conference Chair / Associate Editor

• Associate Editor, IEEE IV (2023, 2024)
• Associate Editor, IEEE ICRA (2023, 2024)
• Workshop Lead Organiser, IEEE ITSC 2024
• TPC Co-Chair - Special Session Organiser, IEEE ITSC (2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022)
• Associate Editor, IEEE ITSC (2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024)
• TPC Co-Chair - Workshop Organiser, IEEE Ro-man 2020

Journal Referee

• IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)
• IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
• IEEE Sensors Journal
• IEEE Access
• Scientific Data - Nature
• Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (JASA);
• Cognitive Computation
• Computer Vision and Image Understanding
• International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems
• Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics
• Acoustics, MDPI
• Applied Science, MDPI

Conference TPC Member / Reviewer

• IEEE ICRA
• IEEE IROS
• IJCAI
• IEEE ITSC
• IEEE IV
• ECCV - ACVR
• HAI
• ICVS
• IEEE SenseApp
• IEEE EUROCON
• ICAART