CV

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Education

ETH Zurich

M.Sc. in Robotics, Systems, and Control
February 2019 - Present

- Master Thesis: "Tactile-Enabled Robotic Grasping"
- Semester Project: "Object-Aware Active 3D Perception"
- Main courses of interest: Vision Algorithms for Mobile Robotics, Robot Dynamics, Recursive Estimation, 3D Vision, Machine Learning, Autonomous Mobility on Demand, Dynamic Programming and Optimal Control, Autonomous Mobile Robots

Politecnico di Milano

B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering
September 2015 - July 2018

- Final year projects: Design of an Indstustrial Air-flow system, Design of a Gearbox Section
- Courses of interest: Calculus, Partial Diferential Equation, Thermodynamics, Advanced Dynamics, Fluidodynamics, Machine Construction, Machine Design, Informatics, Statistics

IIS Severi-Correnti

Secondary Education Diploma with scientific orientation
September 2010 - July 2015

Diploma from scientific oriented high school, with most of the course hours alloted to science related courses, such as Mathematics, Physics, Biology, and Chemestry. I also took part in extrahours multidiscipinary courses, including "Introduction to Coding and Python", and "Introduction to Game Theory".
My final thesis was an application of concepts from a branch of Game Theory, namely Theory of Conflicts, to interpret some pivotal aspects of the First World War.

Work experience

Duckietown

, Teaching Assistant
February 2020 - Present
Zurich, Switzerland

Teaching Assistant at ETH Zurich for Duckietown.
The activities I was involved in included, but were not limited to:
  - Development and maintenance of backend software infrastucture;
  - Implementation of new functionalities for the platform;
  - Design of practical exercises for the students of the course.
I was also part of the team that organized the 5th edition of the AI Driving Olympics (AI-DO), in conjunction with NeurIPS 2020.

PERCRO

, Visiting Student
September 2018 - January 2019
Pisa, Italy

At the PERCeptual RObotics Lab (Sant'Anna di Pisa), with the supervision of Alessandro Filippeschi and Carlo Alberto Avizzano, I worked on the design of an end-effector to mount on top of a collaborative robotic arm, optimized in order to achieve optimal performances for the application of tele-echography.

OOI Optimized Oilfield

, Intern
August 2017 - October 2017
Calgary, Canada

Working side by side with the company's CEO and Founder, I participated in the managing of a rapidly growing company.
My responsibilities spanned different fields, including overviewing the design of new products in the field of casing gas compressors, interacting with suppliers, and supporting some of the management duties.

Aspen Tech

, Intern
August 2016 - October 2016
Houston, Texas

In conjunction with the newest branch of Aspen Technology, named Aspen Fidelis Reliability, I worked on the development of end user customized demos of the offered software solutions, for complex systems predictive maintenance, mainly for the oil&gas market.

Publications