Bio

About me (CV)

Since October 2020 I'm Associate Professor at Milano Bicocca University. Before, I had joined University of Essex as Lecturer in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence in October 2017 moving from University Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona, Spain) where I was focusing on the development of algorithms for intelligent social agents with bounded sensory and computational resources supported by a Marie Curie Actions COFUND fellowship. Before I have been developing algorithms for active vision in industrial robotic tasks as a Research Associate (RA) at Centre for Robotics Research, Kings College London; devising Bayesian methods and robotic models for attention in social and dynamic environments as a RA at the Personal Robotics Laboratory in Imperial College London; studying interaction between active vision and autonomous learning in neuro-robotic models as a RA at Institute of Cognitive Science and Technologies of the Italian Research Council (ISTC CNR). I also collaborated with Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging (UCL) to study how to model exploration in the active inference modelling paradigm. I have also been Visiting Researcher at Bounded Resource Reasoning Laboratory in UMass and at University of Reykjavik (Iceland) exploring the symmetries between active sensor control and active computation or metareasoning. I obtained my PhD in Robotics in 2009 from University of Genoa with a thesis titled "Ecological Adaptive Perception from a Neuro-Robotic perspective: theory, architecture and experiments " and graduated in Information Engineering at the University of Palermo in 2004.