CV
Education
Oct 2024 - today
Position
Institution
Topics
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Department of Engineering for Innovation Medicine, University of Verona, Italy
Nonlinear control, Optimization, Stochastic Control, Planning, Reinforcement learning
Oct 2021 - May 2025
Position
Institution
Title
Ph.D. in Computer Science
Department of Computer Science, University of Verona - Italy
Stochastic Constrained Optimal Control and Planning via Monte Carlo Tree Search for Autonomous Aircraft Systems
Oct 2018 - Mar 2021
Position
Institution
Title
Master’s degree in computer science and engineering
Department of Computer Science, University of Verona - Italy
Bilateral teleoperation of YuMi robot with embedded collision avoidance algorithm
Academic Experience
Visiting Experience
Aug 2023 – Dec 2023
Institution
Supervisor
Topic
The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA
Prof. Andrea Serrani
This visit aimed at defining a geometric approach for adaptive control on a linear system
Teaching Experience
2024-2025
Position
Institution
Program
Teaching Assistant of AI and Robotics
Department of Computer Science, University of Verona (Italy)
Master's Degree in Artificial Intelligence
2024-2025
Position
Institution
Program
Teaching Assistant of Robotics, Vision, and AI
Department of Engineering for Innovation Medicine, University of Verona (Italy)
Master’s degree in computer engineering for Robotics and Smart Industry
2021-2022 2022-2023 2023-2024
Position
Institution
Program
Teaching Assistant of AI and Robotics
Department of Engineering for Innovation Medicine, University of Verona (Italy)
Master’s degree in computer engineering for Robotics and Smart Industry
Award and Mentoring
2023
Internationalization program scholarship (destination: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering - The Ohio State University).
I co-advised: 3 master’s Students Thesis. I was a mentor to 1 younger PhD Students during my PhD and subsequent postdoctoral positions.
Services to the Scientific Community
Technical Reviewer for peer-reviewed journals
Elsevier Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Elsevier Artificial Intelligence Journal, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering
Technical Reviewer for peer-reviewed conferences
IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), IEEE European Control Conference (ECC), IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), IEEE International Symposium on Multi-Robot & Multi-Agent Systems (MRS), ACM/SIGAPP Symposium On Applied Computing (SAC), ACM International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), Intelligent Autonomous Systems 19 (IAS19)
Memberships of Scientific Societies
Since 2023, I have been a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (IEEE), where I publish most of my research articles and journals. I am part of the IEEE Control Systems Society and the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society. IEEE e-mail: francesco.trotti@ieee.org
Skills
Languages
Python
C/C++/KerasC#
Matlab
Library
Cuda
Numpy/Pandas
Keras/TensorFlow/PyTorch
Frameworks
ROS, ROS2,
Matlab/Simulink,
Unity, Unreal Engine 5
Simulator
Matlab/Simulink Simscape
Matlab/Simulink Robotics System Toolbox
Gazebo, CoppeliaSim