Andreagiovanni Reina

Research Associate in Collective Robotics

Behavioural and Evolutionary Theory Lab - University of Sheffield, UK

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.
Since 2011		Ph.D. Student IRIDIA, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. Supervisor: Prof. Marco Dorigo. Co-supervisor: Dr. Vito Trianni Topic: Engineering distributed cognition.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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)
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)
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