NCCR Automation
Challenge 2 · Responsible Automation — coordinator of WP 2.1, Responsible Design.
2025 — now
About me
I work on responsible automation and the co-design of autonomous multi-agent systems within the NCCR Automation and RobotX programs, bridging optimization, game theory, and reinforcement learning with non-standard analysis.
“The infinite! No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man.” — David Hilbert
News
2026
Awarded the RobotX ENCODER grant (124,000 CHF) for environment co-design of autonomous mobile robots.
2026
Co-organizing the Workshop on Responsible Automation, Zürich.
2025
Joined ETH Zürich as a postdoctoral researcher in Mechanical Engineering.
2024
Delivered a keynote at ICORES 2024 on lexicographic multi-objective optimization.
Research projects
ESTRA — Efficient Safe Train Dynamics
Work-package coordinator (WP 4 & 6) — safety certification & driving-rule optimization.
2025 — now
FAIR — Future Artificial Intelligence Research
Spoke 1 · Human-centered AI (PNRR). WP 2.3 — non-standard analysis to empower deep neural networks & reinforcement learning.
2023 — 2025
TEXTAROSSA
Horizon 2020 — mixed-precision algorithms for HPC applications of optimization & machine learning.
2022 — 2023
Teaching
Reinforcement Learning for Path Planning
Seminar · M.Sc. Mechanical Engineering, ETH Zürich
Fall 2025
Reinforcement Learning
M.Sc. Information Engineering, University of Pisa
2020 — 2025
Elements of Programming
B.Sc. Information Engineering, University of Pisa
2019 — 2025
Experience
Postdoctoral Researcher
Department of Mechanical Engineering, ETH Zürich
2025 — now
Postdoctoral Researcher
Department of Information Engineering, University of Pisa
2022 — 2025
Education
Ph.D. in Information Engineering (Honors)
University of Pisa
2019 — 2022
M.Sc. Computer Science & A.I. (Honors)
University of Genoa · GPA 4.00
2017 — 2019
B.Sc. Computer Engineering (Honors)
University of Pisa · GPA 3.83
2014 — 2017