Andreagiovanni Reina
Research Associate in Collective Robotics
Behavioural and Evolutionary Theory Lab -
University of Sheffield, UK
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Andreagiovanni Reina
Born on the 7th of December 1985 in Erba (Co), Italy. |
Education
Since 2015 | Research Associate in Collective Robotics Behavioural and Evolutionary Theory Lab - University of Sheffield, UK. Project leader: Prof. James Marshall ERC Project: DiODe - Distributed Algorithms for Optimal Decision-Making. |
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Since 2011 |
Ph.D. Student IRIDIA, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. Supervisor: Prof. Marco Dorigo. Co-supervisor: Dr. Vito Trianni Topic: Engineering distributed cognition. |
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2008 - 2010 | Master of Science in Computer Engineering held in English language (110/110 cum laude). Politecnico di Milano - Faculty of Computer Engineering, Como campus, Italy. Web technologies, artificial intelligence and robotics. |
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2004 - 2007 | Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering (106/110) Politecnico di Milano - Faculty of Computer Engineering, Como campus, Italy. Computer technology, programming languages and automatic control. |
Academic and Teaching Activities
Feb. 2015 - Aug 2015 | Teaching Assistant of the Swarm Intelligence course at Université Libre de Bruxelles (Course INFO-H-414, 5 ECTS). | |
Oct. 2014 - Aug 2015 | Co-supervisor of two Master students: - Davide Brambilla from Politecnico di Milano, Italy Thesis: Environment Classification: an Empirical Study of the Response of a Robot Swarm to Three Different Decision-Making Rules; - Anthony Debruyn from Université Libre de Bruxelles Thesis: Human-Swarm Interaction: An Escorting Robot Swarm that Diverts a Human away from Dangers one cannot perceive. |
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Oct. 2013 - Sep. 2014 | Co-supervisor of two Master students: - Mattia Salvaro from Università di Bologna, Italy Thesis: Virtual sensors for a robot swarm; - Bernard Mayeur from Université Libre de Bruxelles Thesis: A tool for automatic robot placement in swarm robotics experiments (in French). |
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Sep. 2012 - Sep. 2013 | Co-supervisor of the Master student Jacopo De Stefani of Université Libre de Bruxelles and Politecnico di Milano (Project TIME for double degree). Thesis: Spatial Allocation in Swarm Robotics. |
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Since Oct. 2011 | Principal supervisor for the computer programming project (5 ECTS) of several master students of Université Libre de Bruxelles enrolled in the first year of the “Master en sciences informatique”. | |
Nov.2009 - Apr.2011 | Internship - junior researcher European project (6th Framework Programme): Swarmanoid. Research activity. Analysis, design and implementation of specific robot controllers. Writing and publishing scientific papers. Master thesis project [Nov.09 – July.10]: "Swarms of flying robots performing distributed path planning for objects on the ground" Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence Studies (IDSIA) - Lugano (Switzerland). |
Conference Organization
2014 | Local Arrangement Chair of ANTS 2014 - Ninth International Conference on Swarm Intelligence | |
2012 | Local Arrangement Chair of ANTS 2012 - Eighth International Conference on Swarm Intelligence |
Peer reviewer
Peer reviewed papers for the following journals, conferences and workshops.
International Journals | Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, Swarm Intelligence, Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science | |
International Conferences | SAB 2016, EvoRobot 2015 (Evo*), ANTS 2014, DARS 2014, SASO 2014, Living Machines 2014, GECCO 2013, EvoRobot 2013 (Evo*), ANTS 2012, IEEE CEC 2012, BIONETICS 2012 | |
National Workshops | WIVACE 2012 |
Work Experiences
Apr.2009 - Jul.2009 | Software developer. European project (6th Framework Programme): PHAROS (Platform for searcHing of Audiovisual Resources across Online Spaces). Analysis, design and implementation of specific processes and functionalities within a multimedia information retrieval system (the PHAROS platform). FAST Search and Transfer (A Microsoft Subsidiary) - Oslo (Norway) |
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Jul.2008 - Apr.2009 | Software developer. European project (6th Framework Programme): PHAROS (Platform for searcHing of Audiovisual Resources across Online Spaces). Analysis, design and implementation of wrappers for the integration of a face recognition and identification technology into a multimedia search engine platform. Web Models S.r.l. - Milano (Italy) |
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Oct.2006 - Jun.2007 | Web designer, HTML programmer. Designing web sites, programming in HTML and CSS languages. Use of CMS. Part-time job. Webjobs.it - Como (Italy) |
Awards and Grants
2011 | Best Poster Award at the 12th International Conference Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems (TAROS), Sheffield, UK, August 31 - September 2, 2011. | |
2011 | Four Years Scholarship funded by the European Research Council - Advanced Grants program of the European Union. | |
2010 | Master Thesis's Grant – Zeno Karl Schindler Foundation (Genève – Switzerland) | |
2009 | Scholarship for the International Traineeship within the LLP-Erasmus Placement Programme |
Languages
Italian | mother tongue | ||
English | fluent written and verbal skills | ||
French | good written and verbal skills (CEFR Level B1) | ||
Spanish | good understanding, basic written and verbal skills |