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Date Submitted:	25-08-2010
Last Modified:	25-08-2010 (11:08)

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Current job:	Researcher
Employment Term:	Temp/Contract
Job location:	Anywhere
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Industry:	Consulting/Engineering Services
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Education
January 2007 – March 2010	Aerospace Engineering Ph.D. Degree
Institute	Politecnico di Milano – Milan, Italy
Thesis Title	“Biologically inspired control of grasp-less and grasping tasks”
Thesis Summary	The thesis studies two problems: the grasp-less pushing of an object on
	a table, and the synthesis of a grasp. For each of them a control architecture has been proposed, adopting the paradigm of learning and taking inspiration from the studies about the human cognitive development to design its structure and main principles
Most Significant Results	In the field of grasp-less manipulation: 1)development of a new control
	architecture conceived at its origin to be based on learning; 2)proof of its effectiveness in extensive computer simulation; 3)introduction of the concept of wake-sleep phase alternation to increase the performance of the controller through meta-learning; 4)development of a new algorithm, called Multi-Sample Hierarchical Regression, to simulate the role of a long-term associative memory. In the field of the grasp synthesis problem: 1)development of a control architecture based on the newly introduced concept of synergy between hardware and software; 2)proof of its effectiveness through the implementation on a real, highly advanced, robotic platform (TWENDY-ONE robot from Sugano Laboratory, http://twendyone.com/index_e.html); 3)successful implementation of the principle of executive learning (i.e. on-line adaptation) to increase the quality of the grasp and its robustness, tested thanks to the development of a multi-body computer simulation of a soft skin equipped robotic hand.
Ph.D. Courses	Functional Analysis and Differential Equations, prof. Filippo Gazzola
	Non-linear and Chaotic Systems Dynamics, prof. Fabio Cipriani Advanced Control of Mechanical Systems, prof. Franco Bernelli (project: implementation of an attitude state estimation algorithm using Quaternion Neural Networks) Multi-body Systems Dynamics, prof. Federico Cheli (project: implementation of neural networks based algorithms for the inverse kinematics identification of a redundant 7 DOF manipulator) Genetic Algorithms and Other Evolutionary ComputationTechniques, prof. Pier Luca Lanzi Distributed Intelligent Systems, prof. Mohsen Jafari

September 2003 – April 2006	Space Engineering Master of Science Degree
Institute	Politecnico di Milano – Milan, Italy
Grades	110/110 cum laude
Thesis Title	“Distributed architecture for robust scheduling: optimal reconfiguration of
	orbiting systems”
Master Courses (Grade)	Models of Aerospace Systems (30/30 cum laude)
	Advanced Aerodynamics (30/30 cum laude)
	Gasdynamics I (28/30)
	Space Technologies and Materials (28/30)
	Numerical Approximation of Differential Problems (30/30 cum laude)
	Thermal Analysis (30/30)
	Heat Transfer (29/30)
	Dynamic Models for Aerospace Structures (28/30)
	Principles of Radio-communications (30/30 cum laude)
	Orbital Mechanics (30/30 cum laude)
	Space Systems Integration and Testing (27/30)
	Space Systems Design (30/30)


September 2000 – July 2003	Aerospace Engineering Bachelor Degree
Institute	Politecnico di Milano – Milan, Italy
Grades	110/110 cum laude

September 1995 – July 2000	Scientific High School Degree
Institute	“Collegio Gallio” – Liceo Scientifico – Como, Italy
Grades	100/100

Work Experiences
September 2006 – January 2007	Politecnico di Milano
Main Activity	Consulting project with Thales Alenia Space on the development of a
	Multi-agent control architecture for the ExoMars mission

Abroad Experiences
February 2009 – August 2009	Tokyo, Japan
Institute	TWENDY-ONE Laboratory – Waseda University
Activity	Collaboration research on learning techniques applied to humanoid
	robotic manipulation

August 2004 – March 2005	Toulouse, France
Institute	École Nationale Superieure de l’Aéronautique et de l’Espace
Activity	ERASMUS project: specialization courses in Space Engineering,
	French language courses

Achievements
January 2009	First foreign researcher to be accepted as guest at the
	TWENDY-ONE laboratory of the Waseda University

November 2006	Winner of the National Fellowship for the Ph.D. programme at the
	Department of Aerospace Engineering of the Politecnico di Milano

March 2004	Winner of the ERASMUS Fellowship for the French University
	“École Nationale Superieure de l’Aéronautique et de l’Espace”

March 2002	Winner of the “Angelo Colombo” Fellowship for academic merits

April 2000	National finalist at the Mathematics Olympic Games organised by
	“Scuola Normale Superiore” of Pisa

Languages
Mother Tongue	Italian

Other Languages	English
Reading / Writing / Oral Expression	Excellent / Very Good / Good
Certificates	Toefl (2003): 270/300

	French
Reading / Writing / Oral Expression	Excellent / Good / Good

Computer Knowledge
Operative Systems	Microsoft Windows, Linux (Ubuntu e Gentoo)

Computer Languages	C ANSI, C++, nVdia CUDA, Matlab, Simulink, PHP, HTML, LaTeX

Other Software Packages	Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Power Point, OneNote, Publisher, Visio)

Additional Information
Skills and Characteristics	Marked predisposition to analysis and solution of problems, determined
	and passionate personality coupled with high adaptability
Interest and Passions	Music, reading, sport (captain of a basketball team), astrophysics, Hi-Fi,
	comics collecting, hi-tech electronics, enogastronomy, cinema

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