Short CV


Personal Data

Date of Birth 29 July 1979 
Born in Nuoro - Sardinia - Italy

Education

(2005 - 2008)  IMT Lucca Institute for Advanced Studies

  • PhD student with full grant  at the PhD Programme in Computer Science
  • December 2008 - Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering
  • Thesis awarded with the 2009 E.R. Caianiello Award for the best Ph.D. Thesis in Neural Networks and related fields

(2007 - 2008)   Liverpool John Moores University

  • Visiting researcher at the Neural Computation Research Group under the supervision of Prof. Paulo J. G. Lisboa.

(1998 - 2003)   Computer Science Department -  University of Pisa

  • May 2003 -  B.Sc. in Computer Science, Cum Laude
  • December 2003 - M.Sc. in Computer Science, Cum Laude 

(2001 - 2002)   University of Uppsala

  • Visiting student at the Computer Science Department in the framework of the EU Erasmus project

Work Experience

(June 2011 - present)  PostDoc Research Fellow of the CI&ML group at the Computer Science Department - University of Pisa

  • Work on the FP7 EU project (STREP) RUBICON: Robotic UBIquitous COgnitive Network
(2009 - May 2011)  PostDoc Research Fellow of the CI&ML group at the Computer Science Department - University of Pisa

(Oct. 2008 - Dec. 2008)  Research Assistant at Liverpool John Moores University - Unilever Research, UK

  • Structure learning in Bayesian graphical models: joint work with Paulo J.G. Lisboa (Liverpool John Moores University) and Joe Whittaker (Lancaster University)

(2004 - 2006) Robotech Srl - Italy

  •  Collaboration to prototyping and development of the I-Droid01 robotic platform 

(2004 - 2005)  Research Assistant at the Arts Lab - Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna Pisa

  • Work on the European project (IST-FET) Alladin: Natural Language Based Decision Support in Neuro-Rehabilitation

Known Languages

Italian - Native Speaker

English - Cambridge Advanded Certification (CAE) Grade B, Cambridge University

Spanish -  Advanced Spanish Knowledge Certificate, Interdepartmental Linguistic Center - Universita' di Pisa

Swedish - Certificate of Basic Swedish (9 ECTS), Uppsala University

SCientific Activity


A complete list of publications is available here

Acted as reviewer for the following international journals, conferences and workshops
  • Pattern Recognition Letters (since 2008, 12 papers)
  • IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks (since 2009, 3 papers)
  • IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics--Part C: Applications and Reviews (since 2010, 1 paper)
  • Neural Computing and Applications (since 2008, 1 paper)
  • Computational Statistics and Data Analysis (since 2011, 1 paper)
  • International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN 2011)
  • International Work-Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (IWANN 2011)
  • IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Data Mining (CIDM 2011)
  • World Congress on Nature and Biologically Inspired Computing (NaBIC2011)
  • IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN'10/ WCCI'10)
  • IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2009, IROS 2010)
  • International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN 2009)
  • International Work-Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (IWANN 2009)
  • Computational Intelligence Methods for Bioinformatics and Biostatistics (CIBB 2008)
  • IEEE/RAS-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (BioRob 2008)
  • IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2008)
  • Workshop on Rewriting Logic and its Applications (WRLA 2008)
  • Italian Conference on Theoretical Computer Science (ICTCS 2008)
Member of the Technical Program Committee of
  •  International Work-Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (IWANN 2011)
  • World Congress on Nature and Biologically Inspired Computing (NaBIC2011)
Participated to the following national and international projects
  • European FP7 project (STREP) RUBICON: Robotic UBIquitous COgnitive Network (2011-2014)
  • European FP6 project  (IST-FET) Alladin: Natural Language Based Decision Support in Neuro-Rehabilitation (2004-2007)
  • BIOPATTERN EU FP6 Network of Excellence (2004-2008)
  • Research program of relevant national interest PRIN 2005 "Integrated design of biomimetic nanostructured self-organizing systems for application in targeted drug release and tissue engineering"