• Lucia Pallottino. Lucia Pallottino is currently Associate Professor at the Centro di Ricerca "E. Piaggio" and the Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione at the University of Pisa. She received the "Laurea" degree in Mathematics and the Ph.D. in Robotics and Industrial Automation. She currently is deputy Director of Centro di Ricerca "E. Piaggio". She is Principal Investigator of the ILIAD European project for UNIPI and Scientific collaborator in the WALK-MAN European project. Her main research interests within Robotics are in motion planning and control of humanoid robots and of multiple nonholonomic vehicles, distributed coordination of multi–vehicles.
• Manolo Garabini. Manolo Garabini received the Laurea degree in mechanical engineering and the doctoral degree in robotics from the E. Piaggio Research Center at the University of Pisa where he is employed as Researcher. His main research interests are in the design, planning and control of soft and adaptive robots, from single actuators, to ened-effectors (hands, grippers, feet), to complex multi-dof systems. A part of his activity has been devoted to theoretically demonstrate the effectiveness of soft and adaptive robots in high performance, high efficiency and resilient tasks via analytical and numerical optimization tools. He contributed to the realization of modular Variable Stiffness Actuators one of the products of qbrobotics, a company he co-founded. He contributed in the design of the joints and the lower body of the humanoid robot WALK-MAN, took part at the DARPA Robotics Challenge and at a field test in Amatrice, Italy after a disastrous earthquake event. Recently he contributed to the development of an efficient and effective compliance planning algorithms for interaction under uncertainties.
• Danilo Caporale. Danilo Caporale received the Bachelor and Master of Science degrees in Automation and Control Engineering in 2009 and 2011, respectively, from the Politecnico di Milano. In 2015 he received the Ph.D. degree in Information Technology from the same institution, with a thesis on robust control devices for railway traction and braking. During his Ph.D. studies, he spent visiting periods at Imperial College, UK, at University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia, and at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA. Since 2015 he is a Post-Doc Researcher at Centro di Ricerca E. Piaggio, Universita' di Pisa, where he is working in the EU Projects Walk-Man and ILIAD on planning and control algorithms for applications to robotic systems. His research interests are robust and optimal control, with applications to vehicle, biological and humanoid robotic systems.
• Stefano Giordano. Danilo Caporale received the Bachelor and Master of Science degrees in Automation and Control Engineering in 2009 and 2011, respectively, from the Politecnico di Milano. In 2015 he received the Ph.D. degree in Information Technology from the same institution, with a thesis on robust control devices for railway traction and braking. During his Ph.D. studies, he spent visiting periods at Imperial College, UK, at University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia, and at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA. Since 2015 he is a Post-Doc Researcher at Centro di Ricerca E. Piaggio, Universita' di Pisa, where he is working in the EU Projects Walk-Man and ILIAD on planning and control algorithms for applications to robotic systems. His research interests are robust and optimal control, with applications to vehicle, biological and humanoid robotic systems.
• Vincenzo Ferrari. Vincenzo Ferrari is Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the Department of Information Engineering and technical and scientific coordinator of the EndoCAS Center for Computer Assisted of the University of Pisa. His research interests are algorithms, devices and systems for Image Guided Surgery and Surgical Simulation. Almost all of his research works are application and development of new Augmented Reality solutions both hardware and software. He works very close to the clinical needs and some of his inventions are patented
• Carmelo De Maria. Carmelo De Maria is an assistant professor of bioengineering in the Department of Ingegneria dell’Informazione at the University of Pisa, Italy, and affiliated with the Research Center “E. Piaggio.” He is a guest professor in bioengineering at Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia, and member of the African Biomedical Engineering Consortium secretariat. His research interests focus on additive manufacturing/rapid prototyping technologies, with particular focus in biofabrication. In parallel he is advocating the Open Source approach in the development of medical devices, for reducing the cost and increasing the quality in the healthcare field.
• Di Pietro Licia. Licia Di Pietro is currently a PhD Biomedical Engineering Student at Research Centre E. Piaggio of University of Pisa, Italy. She received the Bachelor and Master Degree in Biomedical Engineering from University of Pisa, Italy, in 2014 and 2017, respectively. In 2016 she has enrolled an Erasmus for Traineeship program at Hilditch Group at Malmesbury, England, working on her Master Thesis project entitled “Different approaches to improve healthcare in Africa through Biomedical Engineering”. During this period, she spent one month in Kampala, Uganda, working as volunteer with Amalthea Trust Foundation, to help provide for the sustainable maintenance of medical equipment through the provision of training programs for the recipients, including test equipment and workshop facilities. Her research interest includes Global Health with particular attention to developing countries. She is working on manufacturing of open-source and low cost medical devices, compliant with the International standards to assure the safety, quality and performance of medical devices.
• Giuseppe Caruso. Giuseppe Caruso is a Post Doc Researcher of Department of Ingegneria dell’Informazione at University of Pisa. His research is focused on applications of Tactile Internet, the next evolution of the Internet of Things (IoT), encompassing human-to-machine and machine-to-machine interaction, for enabling real-time interactive systems in several industrial, societal and business use cases.
• Ilias Seitanidis. Ilias Seitanidis has a bachelor in Information Technology, with experience in programming in Android, iOS and .NET frameworks. Currently is freelance web developer.
• Clara Amato. Clara Amato got her a degree in “Psicologia del lavoro e delle organizzazioni” in 2007, and a PhD in “Psicologia del lavoro e delle risorse umane” in 2017 at LUMSA University in Rome. Currently she is a post-doc researcher at the Department of Ingegneria dell’Informazione of University of Pisa working on innovative teaching approaches in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics).
• Giuseppe Portaluri. Giuseppe Portaluri is a last year Ph.D. student in Information Engineering at the University of Pisa. He got his Bachelor's degree at the University of Palermo in 2011, and successively he was jointly awarded the Master's degree in "Computer science and Networking" by the University of Pisa and Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna in 2014. He has collaborated with the University of Luxembourg and the ETH Zurich. He is currently researching on power-efficient resource allocation in Cloud Data Centers, congestion-less scheduling of MPI collectives on top of SDN networks, and energy-efficient and delay constrained scheduling for wireless sensor networks. He has been web and demo chair for IEEE CloudNet 2016 and TPC member for IEEE CloudNet 2017. He is author of several papers published in international conferences.