Sergio M. Savaresi was born in Manerbio, Italy, on September 21st, 1968. He received the M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering (Politecnico di Milano, 1992), the Ph.D. in Systems and Control Engineering (Politecnico di Milano, 1996), and the M.Sc. in Applied Mathematics (Catholic University, Brescia, 2000). After the Ph.D. he worked as management consultant at McKinsey&Co, Milan Office. He is Full Professor in Automatic Control, at Politecnico di Milano.He was visiting researcher at Lund University, Sweden, University of Twente, TheNetherlans, Canberra National University, Australia, Stanford University, USA, Minnesota University at Minneapolis, USA, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria.He is Associate Editor of the European Journal of Control and IET Transactions on Control Theory and Applications, and Member of the Editorial Board of the IEEE CSS. He is Director of the Milan-Singapore Executive master “ICT and Design for Innovation”.Sergio M. Savaresi is the Deputy Director and the Chair of the Systems & Control Section at the Department of Electronics, Computer Science and Bioengineering.His main interests are in the areas of vehicles control, automotive systems, data analysis and system identification, non-linear control theory, and control applications.Sergio M. Savaresi is one on the main co-founders of e-Novia S.p.A (he is also co-founder of e-Shock, Zheus, Astra-Yacht, BluBrake, Yape).
Mara Tanelli was born in Lodi, Italy, on 25 September 1978. She received the Master degree in Computer Engineering in 2003 from the Politecnico di Milano and the Master of science in Computer Science in 2003 from the University of Illinois at Chicago.
She earned the Ph.D. in Information Engineering in 2007 (thesis “Active Braking Control Systems Design for Road Vehicles”, supervisor Prof. Sergio M. Savaresi), from the Politecnico di Milano (Milano, Italy).
She was Visiting scholar (June-September 2005) at the Electrical and Electronic Engineering Department, Imperial College, London, UK. Under the supervision of Prof. A. Astolfi. She presently is an Assistant Professor at the Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione of the Politecnico di Milano.
Her current research interests include Control of road-vehicles, Control of agricultural-tractors, Markov-Jump Linear Systems and Identification and Control of web-service systems.
Matteo Corno jointly received the Master of Science in Computer and Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Chicago and the “Laurea” Degree cum laude from the Politecnico di Milano in 2005. In 2006, he joined the Ph.D. program in Control Engineering at Politecnico di Milano where he graduated in 2009 cum laude. From 2009 to 2011 he was Assistant Professor at the Delft University of Technology. In 2011 he joined the Politecnico di Milano as an Assistant professor. Since 2015, he is an associate professor in the same university.
He held several visiting positions among others at: Johannes Kepler University in Linz, University of Minnesota and Thales Alenia Space.
During his career he won 2 Honda Initiation Grants, the IFAC Congress Interactive Paper Prize at the 19th IFAC World Congress in Cape Town and an award for the best paper published in Control Engineering Practice and the Guglielmo Marconi Prize for Industrial Innovation by the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. Starting from 2015, he is the Principal Investigator of the Scientific Independence of young Researchers project: Online Accurate Battery State Estimation via Electrochemical Modelling
His research interests include automotive control systems, nonlinear estimation techniques applied to Battery Management Systems and haptic interfaces.
Silvia Strada was born in Milano, Italy, on 22 November 1965. She received the M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering in 1990 and the Ph.D. in Information and Automation Engineering in 1993, both from Politecnico di Milano, Italy. To her M.Sc. thesis (‘’Active Control of vibrations in helicopters’’) was conferred the “Premio Quazza” prize for the best thesis in Control developed at the Politecnico di Milano in that year.
She is currently a Senior Assistant Professor of Automatic Control at the Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria of the Politecnico di Milano, Italy, where her main interests address advanced automatic control methods for linear and non-linear systems, recently focused on sliding mode control strategies for time-varying uncertain systems, data-mining on motor vehicle insurance data to predict crash risk and to profile driver behavior.
She is co-author of peer-reviewed scientific publications and of a workbook to support her teaching activity in Automatic Control.
Filippo Parravicini was born in Carate Brianza, Italy, on July 16th 1993. He received the BSc on February 2016 and the Msc on December 2017 in Automation and Control engineering from Politecnico di Milano. He defended a thesis concerning the model identification and control of a wheeled inverted pendulum vehicle, designed for autonomous delivery of parcels in urban environment. From January to September 2018 he was a visiting scholar at the Clemson University International Center for Automotive Research (CU-ICAR), South Carolina (USA), were he partecipated in the Deep Orange 10 project, and worked on developing and implementing control algorithms for a level 5 autonomus vehicle. He is currently a PhD candidate in System and Control at Politecnico di Milano and member of the mOve group.
Giorgio Riva was born in Lecco, Italy, in 1994. He received his B. Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Automation and Control Engineering from Politecnico di Milano, Italy, in Information Technology from Politecnico di Milano, discussing a thesis about estimation and control of tire-road interaction forces for vehicle dynamics control. After that, he has been a post-doctoral researcher at Politecnico di Milano in collaboration with Brembo S.p.a., working on optimal control strategies for hybrid energy storage systems in a racing scenario. Starting from May 2023, he is a Junior Assistant Professor at Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria of Politecnico di Milano. His research interests include artificial intelligence for control and estimation, especially on automotive applications.
Luca Franceschetti was born in Reggio Emilia (Italy) on September, 2nd 1994. He received his B.Sc. degree in Computer Engineering from University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (Italy) on July 2016. He received his M.Sc. degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Politecnico di Milano in 2018, discussing a thesis about the analysis and development of a Head-Up Display (HUD) for racing applications in collaboration with Ferrari. From February 2019 he joined the MOVE research group at Politecnico di Milano as Research Assistant. He is currently a PhD candidate in System and Control at Politecnico di Milano and member of the MOVE group.
Stefano Carnier was born in Milan, Italy, on February 8th 1994. He received his B.Sc degree and M.Sc degree cum Laude in Automation and Control Engineering from Politecnico di Milano, Italy, in 2016 and 2018, respectively. His M.Sc thesis addressed the problem of the analysis and development of a robust sideslip angle estimator for supercars. From January to September 2019 he was a visiting scholar at the Clemson University International Center for Automotive Research (CU-ICAR), South Carolina (USA). There, he was involved in some autonomous cars research projects with focus on interconnected vehicles and cybersecurity issues. He is currently a PhD candidate in Systems and Control at Politecnico di Milano and member of the mOve group.
Jessica Leoni was born in Treviglio, Italy, on November 24th 1995. She received her Bachelor degree (cum laude) in Biomedical Engineering from Politecnico di Milano and his Master of Science (cum laude) in Biomedical Engineering from Politecnico di Milano and in Bioengineering from University of Illinois at Chicago, defending a thesis on the time-series processing and classification for the automatic assessment of wild animals activities. She is starting her doctoral research in Data Analytics and Decision Science at Politecnico di Milano from November 2019.
Stefano Radrizzani was born in Como (CO) on September 29th, 1995. He received from Politecnico di Milano a Bachelor’s Degree in Automation Engineering in 2017 and a Master’s Degree cum laude in 2019, discussing a thesis about the braking pressure control design of a brake‑by‑wire actuator for a Formula E.
In July 2019, he was selected to take part in a summer camp for elite students by the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). In November 2019, he joined the mOve research group as a PhD candidate in Systems and Control at Politecnico di Milano, discussing his thesis on the energy management for non‑standard hybrid electric powertrain, in January 2023. Since 2021, he is a teaching assistant for Automatic Control courses.
In November 2022, he became a Postdoctoral Research Assistant at mOve and spent the Spring semester at The University of Alabama, in The Center for Advanced Vehicle Technologies, as a Postdoc Visiting Scientist and Lecturer of Fundamentals of Hybrid Electric Vehicles.
In May 2023, he became a Junior Assistant Professor at Politecnico di Milano. His research interests are in the control and energy management of different classes of vehicles and powertrain architectures.
Alberto Lucchini was born in Milano, Italy, on February 8th, 1995. He received his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees cum laude in Automation and Control Engineering from Politecnico di Milano. The topic of his Master’s thesis was the development of a torque vectoring controller for high-performance electric vehicles, in collaboration with Maserati. Since November 2019, he is a Ph.D. student in Systems and Control Engineering and a member of the mOve research group.
Federico Dettù was born in Galatina, Italy, on September 14th 1995. He received his BSc on Sep. 2017 and his MSc cum laude on Oct. 2020 in Automation and Control Engineering from Politecnico di Milano. From January to September 2020, he was a Visiting Researcher at Stanford University, USA, working on the definition of models for three-way catalysts and ground vehicles. His MSc thesis concerned the development of models and estimation algorithms in the vehicular field.
Starting from Nov. 2020, he joined the mOve research group as a PhD student in Information Technology, Systems and Control area, at Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria of Politecnico di Milano.
Andrea Ticozzi was born in Verona, Italy, in 1996. After completing high-school studies in Verona, he moved to Milan and enrolled at Politecnico di Milano. In July 2018, he received the BSc degree cum laude in Automation Engineering. During his MSc in Automation and Control Engineering at Politecnico di Milano, he spent one semester as an exchange student in Switzerland at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, where he deepened his studies in the fields of robotics and machine learning. Back in Milan, he graduated cum laude in October 2020; his master thesis concerned the development of automatic braking assistance systems for e-bikes. In November 2020, he joined the mOve research group and enrolled in the PhD course in Information Technology, Systems and Control area, at Politecnico di Milano.
Andrea Sassella was born in Sondalo, Italy, on 18th April 1996. He received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. Degree cum laude in “Automation and Control Engineering”, respectively in July 2018 and in October 2020. During the M.Sc. he was also a student of Alta Scuola Politecnica and he spent five months at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Lausanne, Switzerland, as part of the Extra EU Exchange programme. His M.Sc. thesis concerned a new data-driven method for designing hybrid controllers for constrained systems, developed in the context of the Honours Programme. From November 2020 he is a PhD student in Information Techniology, Systems and Control area, at Politecnico di Milano.
Edoardo Catenaro was born in Roma, Italy, on December 17th 1995. He received his BSc on July 2016 and his MSc cum laude on December 2018 in Automation and Control Engineering at Politecnico di Milano. The modeling and experimental analysis of a bicycle equipped with an in-wheel suspension system has been tackled during MSc thesis. From June 2019 to August 2020, he was a Visiting Researcher at Stanford University, USA, working on energy storage system modeling, control and design for hybrid and electric vehicle applications. From November 2020, he joined the mOve research group as a PhD student in Information Technology, Systems and Control area at Politecnico di Milano.
Chiara Martellosio was born in Milano (Italy) on October 7th, 1996. She received her B. Sc. in Semptember 2018 and her M. Sc. in December 2020 in Automation and Control Engineering, from Politecnico di Milano. The topic of her Master thesis concerned the development of control and estimation techniques for a semi-active suspension system in a SUV, in collaboration with Tsinghua University (Beijing). Since February 2021 she joined the MOVE research group as a Ph.D. student at Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria of Politecnico di Milano.
Luca Mozzarelli was born in Garbagnate Milanese (MI), Italy, on September 12th 1996. He received the Bachelor Degree on July 2018 and the Master of Science cum laude on December 2020, both in Automation and Control Engineering from Politecnico di Milano (Italy). His Master’s thesis analysed direct tire force feedback in a lateral dynamics controller for autonomous vehicles. From February 2021 he is a PhD candidate in System and Control at Politecnico di Milano and member of the mOve group.
Eugenia Villa was born in Monza (Italy) on November 3rd 1996. She received her Bachelor’s Degree in Mathematical Engineering in July 2018 from Politecnico di Milano. She continued her studies focusing on modelling and data analysis and during her Master’s Degree she joined the Erasmus+ program, spending six months at Linköping University (Sweden). In December 2020 she graduated cum laude in Mathematical Engineering at Politecnico di Milano discussing a thesis concerning statistical analysis and modelling of pedestrian-robot interactions. Since March 2021 she joined the MOVE research group as a Research assistant. From 2022 she is a PhD Student.
Gabriele Marini was born in Penne (PE), Italy, on April 21st, 1996. He received the B.Sc. degree cum laude in Computer and Automation Engineering from Università Politecnica delle Marche in July 2018. He later enrolled to Politecnico di Milano and in December 2020 obtained a M.Sc. degree cum laude in Automation and Control Engineering, discussing a master’s thesis on the design of comfort-oriented control techniques for multichamber suspensions. In February 2021 he joined the mOve research group as Junior Research Assistant. From 2022 he is a PhD Student.
Rodrigo Senofieni was born in Macerata (Italy) on march 5th, 1996. He received the Bachelor Degree on July 2018 and the Master of Science cum laude on December 2020, both in Automation and control engineering at Politecnico di Milano (Italy). His M.Sc. thesis concerned the development of an innovative comfort-oriented active suspension system for road vehicle. Starting from February 2021 he joined the MOVE group as a Junior Research Assistant and worked for the poliMove Autonomous Racing team. From November 2021, he is a PhD student in Information Techniology, Systems and Control area, at Politecnico di Milano.
Raffaele Giuseppe Cestari è nato a Milano il 20 Dicembre 1996. Ha conseguito la laurea di primo livello in Ingegneria Meccanica presso il Politecnico di Milano nel Marzo 2019. In seguito, ha conseguito la laurea magistrale con lode in Ingegneria dell’Automazione presso il Politecnico di Milano nel Luglio 2021. Nel trimestre Agosto-Settembre-Ottobre 2021 ha maturato una prima esperienza lavorativa nel settore della Data Engineering presso Exacon s.r.l., società di consulenza in ambito IT. Attualmente è dottorando in Ingegneria dell’Informazione, area Systems and Control. Ora è impegnato in un progetto di controllo predittivo ottimo di risorse idriche guidato dai dati, per fronteggiare i cambiamenti climatici. Si occupa di progetti nel settore Automotive.
Riccardo Pieroni was born in Castiglion Fiorentino (AR) on January 24th 1996. He received the BSc on September 2018 in Mechanical engineering and the MSc on December 2020 in Mechanical engineering - mechatronic and robotics cum laude from Politecnico di Milano. He defended a thesis concerning the autonomous street crossing of a small two wheeled vehicle for goods delivery in urban areas. From March to September 2021 he was in Turin, working for a company in the automotive sector. His main tasks were to develop and implement perception and navigation algorithms for a level 5 autonomus vehicle. He is currently a PhD candidate in System and Control at Politecnico di Milano and member of the mOve group.
Luca Taglione was born in Domodossola (VB) on September 9th 1996. He received his Bachelor’s Degree in 2019 and his Master’s Degree cum laude in 2021 in Automation and Control Engineering at Politecnico di Milano. His M.Sc. thesis concerned the analysis and development of a braking assistance system for e-bikes. Since February 2022, he joined the Move research group as a Ph.D. candidate in Information Technology, Systems and Control area at Politecnico di Milano.
José Joaquín Mendoza was born in Santiago, Chile, on December 5th 1996. He received his B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile in 2019. He later continued his studies in a double degree program, receiving his Professional Electrical Engineering degree from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and his M.Sc. in Automation and Control Engineering from Politecnico di Milano, both in December 2021. His M.Sc. thesis concerned the development of an active health monitoring system of landing gear components in aircraft. From February 2022 he joined the MOVE group as a Research Fellow.
Sabrina Milani was born in Cremona, Italy on May 22nd 1997. She received the BSc degree in Automation Engineering from Politecnico di Milano in July 2019. She carried on her studies in Automation and Control Engineering in Politecnico di Milano obtaining the MSc degree in December 2021. Her MSc thesis concerned the modeling and experimental validation of a multichamber suspension. From February 2022 she is a Junior Research Assistant, joining the mOve group.
Marcello Cellina was born in Milano, Italy, in 1997. In 2015, he moved to Torino, where he enrolled at Politecnico di Torino. In 2018, He received the BSc degree in Automotive Engineering. He then moved back to Milano, to enroll in the MSc in Automation and Control Engineering at the Politecnico di Milano. During his MSc, he spent one semester as an Erasmus exchange student in Belgium, at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, deepening his studies in computer science and reinforcement learning. Back in Milano, he graduated from his MSc in December 2021 with a master thesis concerning the development of a LiDAR-based target detection and tracking algorithm for autonomous racecars. In February 2022, he joined the mOve research group as Junior Research Assistant.
Riccardo Busetto was born in Treviso (TV) Italy. He received his M.Sc. in Automation and Control Engineering from Politecnico di Milano in 2020. After the M.Sc. he worked as a Consultant in Robotics at Reply, Milan Office. He joined the mOve research group in May 2021 and from November 2021 he is a PhD Student in Systems and Control. His main research interests include meta learning for data-driven control, with applications in robotics and mechatronic systems.
Simone Specchia was born in Poggiardo (LE) on November 8th 1997. He received the BSc degree in 2019 and the MSc degree cum laude in 2021 in Automation and Control Engineering at Politecnico di Milano.
His MSc thesis concerned the development of SLAM algorithms for an autonomous ground drone operating in urban environments.
Starting from February 2022, he joined the mOve research group as a PhD candidate in Information Technology, Systems and Control area at Politecnico di Milano.
Luca Gambarotto was born in Borgomanero (NO), Italy, on February 17th, 1996. He received the Bachelor Degree on March 2019 and the Master of Science cum laude on December 2021, both in Computer Science at Politecnico di Milano (Italy). During the M.Sc. thesis worked on the development of estimation algorithms in collaboration with Lamborghini.
From February 2021 he joined the mOve group as a Junior Research Assistant, working on the development of Head-Mounted Displays and Augmented Reality applications, mainly for the racing field.
From November 2022 he is a PhD candidate in System and Control at Politecnico di Milano
Giacomo Delcaro was born in Portogruaro, Italy, in 1998. After awarding his high school diploma, he moved to Milan and enroll at Politecnico di Milano in Automation and Control Engineering. He received his bachelor’s degree in July 2020 and his master’s in October 2022. During his MSc he worked for the mOve research group for the IndyAutonomousChallenge, a competition for autonomous racing vehicles. He spent four months in Indianapolis (US) as ROS2 software developer and hardware maintainer for the above-mentioned competition. The topic of his master’s thesis concerned the development of a data-driven dimensionality reduction algorithm for a high-dimensional optimization problem, regarding the tuning of an advanced vehicle-state observer. In November 2022 he joined the mOve research group and started his PhD in Information Technology, System and Control area at Politecnico di Milano.
Andrea Trivella was born in Milano, Italy, on March 26th, 1997. He received the BSc degree in July 2019 and the MSc degree in Automation and Control Engineering in April 2022, both from Politecnico di Milano. He defeated his MSc thesis concerning the experimental identification of advanced models for lithium-ion batteries. Andrea joined the mOve research group in June 2022 as a Junior Research Assistant, and since november 2022 he is a PhD candidate in Information Technology. His main research interests include modeling of li-ion cells and battery packs, control and energy management for electric vehicles and aircrafts.
Aurelio Raffa Ugolini was born in Milan on July 16th, 1996. He received his Bachelor’s Degree in Mathematical Engineering (Ingegneria Matematica) in September 2018 from Politecnico di Milano. He continued with a Master’s Degree in Mathematical Engineering (Applied Statistics major) at Politecnico di Milano, from which he graduated Cum Laude in April 2021 with a thesis on real-time blackout forecasting via graph representation learning. Starting from November 2nd, 2022, he is a PhD student in Data Analytics and Decision Sciences at Politecnico di Milano and a member of the MOVE research group.
Paolo Fusco was born in Bari, Italy, on November 19th, 1998. He received his Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Automation and Control Engineering in 2020 and 2022 respectively. His M.Sc thesis dealt with the global planning and trajectory tracking of a high-performance vehicle to achieve the optimal lap-time on a race track. Since July 2022 he has been a member of the PoliMOVE racing team and participated to the IndyAutonomousChallenge@TMS in November 2022 and IndyAutonomousChallenge@CES in January 2023. In December 2022 he joined the mOve research group and started his PhD in Information Technology, System and Control area in Politecnico di Milano.
Oriana Guagliardi was born in Milan, Italy, on March 23rd, 1998. She received her Bachelor's Degree in Automation and Control Engineering (Ingegneria dell'Automazione) in September 2020 at Politecnico di Milano. She continued her studies in Automation and Control Engineering at Politecnico di Milano and she received her Master of Science Degree in May 2023 with an M.Sc. thesis concerning the policy design for fostering sustainable and just mobility habits.
Starting in June 2023, she joined the mOve research group as a PhD student in Data Analytics and Decision Sciences at Politecnico di Milano.
Alessandro Colombo was born in Busto Arsizio (VA), Italy, on January 29th, 1998. He received his B. Sc degree in 2020 and his M. Sc. degree cum laude in 2022, both in Automation and Control Engineering at Politecnico di Milano. His Master thesis concerned the development of a robotic solution for flattening a dough of Pinsa Romana. In December 2022 he joined the mOve research group as a PhD student. His main interests revolve around collaborative robotics.
Marco Centurioni was born in Verona (VR), Italy, on January 6th 1996. He jointly received a M.Sc. degree cum laude in Automation & Control Engineering at Politecnico di Milano and the Alta Scuola Politecnica (ASP) degree in 2019. Between 2017 and 2020 he worked as independent consultant. Starting from March 2020 he is a research fellow at Politecnico di Milano within the mOve research group. In the last 3 years he has been involved as coordinator in different R&D areas and 3 technology companies were born from the projects he was involved in. Since 2021 he has been committed to the HMDrive project, focused on enabling AR as a vehicle-driver interface. HMDrive was established in May 2022 and it is a spinoff of the Politecnico di Milano.
Giovanni Rizzetto was born in Milan, Italy, on October 18th, 1996. He completed his Bachelor’s degree at Politecnico di Milano in Automation Engineering in July 2018. During his Master's Degree in Automation and Control Engineering at Politecnico di Milano, he joined the Erasmus+ program, spending six months at the Universität Stuttgart. He graduated cum laude in December 2020 presenting a thesis regarding an autonomous guiding system for a tractor working in a vineyard. From February 2021 he joined the mOve group as a Junior Research Fellow.
Alberto Lucchini was born in Bergamo (Italy) on June 6th 1996. He received the BSc in September 2018 and the Msc in December 2020 in Automation and Control engineering from Politecnico di Milano. He defended a thesis concerning the automation level upgrade for a three-wheeled motorcycle. From February 2021 he is a Junior Research Assistant, joining the mOve group.
Stefano Solazzo was born in Monza (Italy) on November 9th, 1996. He received his Bachelor’s Degree cum Laude in Mechanical Engineering from Politecnico di Milano in 2018. During his Master of Science, he focused his studies on mechatronic and automation systems. He graduated cum Laude in April 2021 in Mechanical Engineering defending a master thesis on the analysis of data-driven control strategies for lap time optimization of a scaled race car. From October 2021 he joined the mOve research group as Junior Research Assistant.
Giacomo De Marchi was born in Milan, Italy, on May 2nd, 1997. He received the Bachelor’s Degree in Automation Engineering on July 2019 and the Master’s Degree in Automation and Control Engineering in December 2021 from Politecnico di Milano. His Master thesis was related to lateral-longitudinal vehicle dynamics control at the limit of handling, applied to autonomous vehicles of the Roborace competition. He joined the mOve group in April 2022, as Junior Research Assistant.
Luca Cattaneo was born in Rho(MI), Italy, on February 16th 1997. He received the Bachelor Degree on September 2019 and the Master of Science on April 2022, both in Automation and Control Engineering from Politecnico di Milano (Italy). He defended a thesis concerning the development of autonomous driving software for vineyard navigation of an tracked vehicle. In June 2022, he joined the mOve research group as Junior Research Assistant and his research interests are robotics and autonomous driving.
Romee Melendez was born in Lima, Peru, on 25th August 1995. In December 2021 she received her Master’s degree cum laude in Automation and Control Engineering from Politecnico di Milano (Italy). The focus of her M.Sc thesis was the development of advanced control algorithms for longitudinal and lateral dynamics for racing vehicles. In April 2022 Romee became a Junior Research Assistant and member of the MOVE group.
Nicolas Martinelli was born in Bergamo, Italy, in 1998. After enrolling into Politecnico di Milano, in 2020 he received the BSc degree in Automation and Control Engineering, during which he also took part in student activities. During his MSc, he gained international experience by spending a semester as an Erasmus exchange student in Trondheim, Norway, at the Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet. He graduated from his MSc in December 2022 with a master thesis regarding the analysis and development of a traction controller for motorcycles with a reduced sensor set, off-road oriented. In February 2022, he joined the mOve research group as a research fellow.
Lorenzo Morandi was born in Modena, Italy in 1998. He received his B.Sc. Degree cum laude in Automation Engineering from Università di Bologna in 2020 and his M.Sc. Degree cum laude in Automation and Control Engineering from Politecnico di Milano in 2022. In the same year, he was an exchange student at Chalmers University of Technology for a semester. He developed his Master thesis as a member of PoliMove Autonomous Racing Team, focusing on detection and pose estimation of opponent vehicles in racing applications through the use of camera images. In January 2023, he joined the mOve Research Team as a Junior Research Assistant.
Samuele was born in Bergamo (Italy) on December 8th, 1998. He received his bachelor’s degree in Automation Engineering in July 2020 and his master’s degree cum laude in Automation and Control Engineering in December 2022, both from Politecnico di Milano. His master’s thesis concerned the development of innovative handling-oriented control techniques for multichamber air suspensions, in collaboration with Hyundai Motor Group. From January 2023 he joined the MOVE group as a Junior Research Assistant.
Lisa Takemori was born in Gavardo, Italy, on February 20th, 1997. She received her B.Sc. degree in Mechanical Engineering and M.Sc. degree cum Laude in Automation and Control Engineering from Politecnico di Milano, Italy, in 2020 and 2022, respectively. During her B.Sc. she joined Polimi Motorcycle Factory, a university student team developing a racing motorbike prototype for Motostudent, an international competition. During her M.Sc. she joined the Erasmus+ program, spending six months in Sevilla (Spain) at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería. Her M.Sc. thesis addressed the problem of the analysis and development of a road-tyre friction observer for autonomous evasive manoeuvres. In January 2023 she joined the mOve research group as a Junior Research Assistant.
Francesco Giagnoni was born in Mantova, Italy, on June 26th 1998. He received his Bachelor's degree and Master's degree cum laude in Automation and Control Engineering, both from Politecnico di Milano, in 2020 and 2022 respectively.
He developed his master thesis on coordinated vehicle dynamics control and speed planning for autonomous racing applications, working as a member of the PoliMove Autonomous Racing Team in the IAC competition. Since January 2023 he joined the mOve Research group as a Junior Research Assistant.
Maria Elena Perrone was born in Lecce, Italy, on September 27th 1998. She received her bachelor's degree in Automation Engineering in July 2020 and her master's degree cum laude in Automation and Control Engineering in December 2022, both from Politecnico di Milano. Her master thesis concerned the development of overtaking algorithms for autonomous racing vehicles. In January 2023 she joined the mOve research group as a Junior Research Assistant.
Samuele Portanti was born in Cremona, Italy, on June 12th 1998. He received his Bachelor's degree and Master's degree cum laude in Computer Science and Engineering from Politecnico di Milano, in 2020 and 2022 respectively. His Master thesis concerned the autonomous navigation of a Two-Wheeled Inverted Pendulum robot in crowded scenarios. Since January 2023 he joined the mOve Research group as a Junior Research Assistant.
Filippo Tallon was born in San Donà di Piave (Italy) on June 26th, 1998. He received his bachelor’s degree in Automation Engineering in July 2020 and his master’s degree cum laude in Automation and Control Engineering in December 2022, both from Politecnico di Milano.
His master’s thesis concerned the development of a Hardware-In-the-Loop Simulator for autonomous racing applications. He was a member of the PoliMOVE racing team and participated to the IndyAutonomousChallenge@TMS in November 2022 and IndyAutonomousChallenge@CES in January 2023.
From January 2023 he joined the MOVE group as a Junior Research Assistant.
Pietro Ghilotti was born in Como (Italy) on January 11th 1995.
After a work experience in a plastic mold manufacturing, in 2017 he resumed the studies. On July 2020 he received the Bachelor Degree in Automation Engineering and on December 2022 he received the Master Degree cum laude in Automation and Control Engineering both at Politecnico di Milano (Italy). He defended his Master thesis concerning the development of an active rear wheel steering and camber control system for high performance sports cars.
From January 2023 Pietro joined the mOve research group as Junior Research Assistant.
Mario Malizia was born on September 6th, 1999, in Cosenza (CS). He obtained his Bachelor's degree in 2020 and graduated with honors in 2023 from Politecnico di Milano, specializing in Automation and Control Engineering.
During his Master's studies, he focused on developing a Simulator-in-the-Loop for validating autonomous navigation stacks. Alongside his Master's thesis, he contributed to the development of an autonomous vehicle that took part in the 1000Miglia 2023 race.
In May 2023, he joined the mOve research group as a research assistant, where he concentrates on autonomous driving applications and simulations.
Francesco Mariotti was born on March 16th, 1998 in Florence (FI). He achieved his Bachelor's degree in 2020 and he completed his studies at Politecnico in 2023, graduating in Electronics Engineering.
His master thesis focused on the development and integration of an autonomous driving conversion kit for supercars; he actively participated in the 1000 MAD Project while working on this project.
As of May 2023, he has become a Junior Research Assistant, joining the mOve research group.
Federico Polenta was born in Senigallia (AN), Italy, on May 23rd, 1997. He obtained his B.Sc. degree in Computer and Automation Engineering from Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy, in 2020. During his undergraduate studies, he had the opportunity to gain international experience by conducting research at the Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology in Tokyo, Japan, for a duration of three months.
In May 2023 he joined the mOve research group as a Junior Research Assistant.
Emanuele Frizzi was born in Orvieto (TR), Italy, on March 31st, 1998. In October 2020 he received his Bachelor’s degree cum laude from Università degli Studi di Siena in Information Engineering (Ingegneria Informatica e dell’Informazione), with curriculum in Systems and Automation. The university awarded him a Certificate of Merit as the best graduate of that academic year.
In May 2023 he graduated cum laude in the MSc. in Automation and Control Engineering from Politecnico di Milano. His thesis concerned the development of a mathematical model for the retro-propulsive vertical landing phase of a liquid-propellant reusable space launch vehicle.
In May 2023 he joined the mOve research group, at Politecnico di Milano, as a research fellow.
Chiara Marchesi was born in Bergamo, Italy, on December 16th, 1997. She received the BSc degree in September 2020 and the Msc degree in May 2023 in Automation and Control Engineering, both from Politecnico di Milano. She defended his Msc thesis concerning the Project Management of the project 1000 Miglia Autonomous Drive. From May 2023 she joined the mOve research group as Junior Research Assistant.
Antonio Pagliaroli was born in Teramo, Italy, on November 1998. He received his Bachelor's degree and Master's degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Politecnico di Milano, in 2021 and 2023 respectively. His Master thesis focused on leveraging mobility big data to evaluate and analyze eco driving behavior in vehicles. As of June 2023, he has joined the mOve Research group as Junior Research Assistant.
Davide Sfameli was born on September 14th, 1998 in Salerno (SA).
He achieved his Bachelor's degree in 2020 and he completed his studies at Politecnico in 2023, graduating in Computer Science and Engineering. His master thesis focused on the development of a LiDAR based perception system for an autonomous vehicle in public roads; he actively participated in the 1000 MAD Project while working on this project. As of May 2023, he has become a Junior Research Assistant, joining the mOve research group.
Luca Venturini was born in Manerbio, Italy, on October 26th 1998. He received his Bachelor's degree in September 2020 and the Master's degree cum laude in Computer Science and Engineering from Politecnico di Milano in 2023. His Master thesis focused on an Augmented Reality application on vehicles. Since May 2023 he joined the mOve Research group as a Junior Research Assistant.
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