I am an Assistant Professor, the Varma Family Professor in Robotics, and the director of the Ecological and Resilient Autonomous roBots Lab (ERABLab) in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo.
In my research, I am broadly interested in robot design and control for long-duration autonomy with applications to sustainable environmental monitoring for climate change mitigation and adaptation. More details here.
My multi-scale quasiperiodic academic path bounced multiple times between Italy and Germany, and between Europe and the Americas. I studied Mechanical and Automotive Engineering in Napoli and Ingolstadt, respectively, I completed a PhD in Robotics at the Georgia Institute of Technology, and I spent one year as a post-doctoral researcher at the CNRS in Rennes, France. Here is the complete trajectory.
I am always looking for motivated students at all levels (PhD, MASc, undergraduate researchers). If you are interested in designing novel energy-efficient robotic platforms, closing the loop with optimization programs, or if you excited about using robots for climate change ecological studies, don't hesitate to reach out.