Curriculum Vitae

Education

• Ph.D in Automation Engineering (DRIEI), Politecnico di Bari, Bari, Italy
  • 01/11/2023 - Current
• Master’s Degree in Automation Engineering, Politecnico di Bari, Bari, Italy
  • 02/2021 - 10/2023
  • Final grade: 110/110 with honors
  • Thesis: Aerial Image Stitching with UAV swarms
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer and Automation Engineering, Politecnico di Bari, Bari, Italy
  • 08/2016 - 02/2021
  • Final grade: 103/110
  • Thesis: “Drone Follow Me!” - Design and implementation of a control system for tracking moving objects using drones
• High School Diploma in Maintenance and Technical Assistance (Electrical Operator), IPSIA Galileo Ferraris di Ragusa, Ragusa, Italy
  • 2016
  • Final grade: 100/100

Work experience

• 01/11/2023 - Current: PhD Student in Automation Engineering
  • Politecnico di Bari, Bari, Italy
  • Duties included: Research on UAV Swarming, Robots communication, Mobile Robotics, and Embedded Control
• 07/02/2023 - Current: Hardware and Software Developer (Leonardo Drone Contest)
  • Team Politecnico di Bari, Bari, Italy
  • Duties included: Design and implementation of hardware/software UAV, Utilization of PX4 firmware, ROS2, Localization and mapping through Visual Inertial Odometry
• 09/2024 - 09/2025: Researcher / Developer (DIANE project)
  • QuavLive, Bari, Italy
  • Duties included: Implementation of a volumetric streaming and teleoperation application, Study of SOTA for point cloud compression, Benchmark on DRACO encoder, Implementation of custom filtering methodology, Coordination of a team of 4, Experiments on a distributed testbed
• 07/02/2022 - 31/07/2023: Scholarship and Research (AGREED AGRICULTURE Project)
  • Politecnico di Bari, Bari, Italy
  • Duties included: Design of a surveillance and mapping system based on a swarm of UAVs, Utilization of Flightmare simulator, ROS, stereo cameras, and Image Stitching
• 12/2017 - 09/2019: Software Developer, Division Leader, Electrical Operator
  • Poliba Corse, Formula SAE Team of the Polytechnic University of Bari, Bari, Italy
  • Duties included: Management and configuration of Embedded Linux system (Raspberry Pi), Development of Ad-hoc applications (DashController, MQTTVerboseReader, etc.), Design and execution of wiring, Training of new team members

Skills

• Robotics & Control
  • ROS (Robot Operating System) / ROS2
  • Mobile Robotics
  • UAV Swarming
  • Pixhawk/PX4 flight controllers
  • QGround Control
  • ArduPilot Mission Planner
  • A1-A3 Drone pilot
  • PID controllers
  • Model Predictive Control
• Programming & Software
  • Python
  • C
  • MATLAB
  • Latex
  • Git
• OS & Frameworks
  • Linux
  • Docker
  • Windows
  • MS Office (Word, Power Point)
• Hardware & Embedded
  • STM32
  • Nvidia Jetson
  • Raspberry
  • Arduino
  • PCB Design (Easy EDA)
  • Electronics
• Perception & Data
  • OpenCV (Computer Vision)
  • Point clouds
  • LIDAR Data
  • Stereolabs ZED
  • Aruco
  • Vicon Nexus
  • Event Cameras
• Machine Learning
  • Machine Learning
  • TensorFlow, NumPy, scikit-learn
  • Pythorch
  • RNN, LSTM, GRU for time series forecasting
  • Deep Reinforcement Learning
  • Multi Agent Reinforcement Learning
• Languages
  • Italian (Mother tongue)
  • Sicilian (Mother tongue)
  • English (B2)
  • French (A2/B1)
  • Chinese (A1)

Teaching

• 05/2025: External expert for PNRR course
  • Institution: Politecnico di Bari
  • Duties: Delivered 10 hours of laboratory lessons on Drone Control and Programming
• 02/2025 - 05/2025: University teaching assistant
  • Institution: Politecnico di Bari
  • Course: Mobile Robotics (Delivered ROS2 and Docker courses)
• 02/2025 - 07/2025: University teaching assistant
  • Institution: Politecnico di Bari
  • Course: “Fondamenti di Automatica” (Fundations Control Theory)
• 02/2024 - 07/2024: University teaching assistant
  • Institution: Politecnico di Bari
  • Course: “Fondamenti di Automatica” (Fundations Control Theory)
• 04/2024 - 05/2024: External expert for PNRR course
  • Institution: Liceo Scientifico Statale “Enrico Fermi”
  • Duties: Delivered 10 hours of laboratory lessons on Drone Control and Programming
• 05/2023: External expert for PNRR course
  • Institution: I.I.S.S. “Leonardo da Vinci” e I.I.S.S. “AMERIGO VESPUCCI”
  • Duties: Delivered 20 hours of laboratory lessons on Drone Control and Programming
• 05/2023: Intellectual work performance contract (ERGASTERIO Project)
  • Institution: Liceo Scientifico Salvemini Bari
  • Duties: Delivered laboratory sessions on Control, PID, Python, and ROS
• 10/2022 - 03/2023: External Expert for Nextland Project 2022
  • Institution: Politecnico di Bari
  • Duties: Delivered 32 hours of laboratory lessons to middle school students

Service and leadership

• Team Coordination: Coordinated a team of 4 to develop the software stack for the demo at EuroXR25 conference
• Division Leader: Served as Division Leader for the Poliba Corse, Formula SAE Team
• Mentorship & Training: Trained new team members for the Poliba Corse team
• Project Management: Acquired skills in Project Management and Task Division through work experience
• Teamwork: Acquired teamwork skills through work experience and university