Professional Activities
Event Organisation
- Novel Application Track Chair
Thirtieth International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS-20)
- General Chair
Third Summer School on Cognitive Robotics (July 2019)
- Workshop Chair
Twenty Ninth International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS-19)
- Publicity Chair
Twenty Eighth International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS-18)
- Journal Track Programme Chair
Twenty Seventh International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS-17)
- Programme Chair of the Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh and Twelfth International Scheduling and Planning Applications woRKshop (SPARK)
Twenty Sixth, Seventh, Eighth and Ninth International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS-16, ICAPS-17, ICAPS-18, ICAPS-19)
- Programme Chair of the First and Second Workshop on Integrated Planning, Acting, and Execution (IntEx)
Twenty Seventh and Eighth International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS-17, ICAPS-18)
- Senior Local Arrangements Chair
Twenty Sixth International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS-16)
- Remote Participation Chair
Twenty Forth International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS-14)
Roles of Responsability
- Director of MSc in Artificial Intelligence, Department of Computer Science, Royal Holloway University of London
(November 2017 - present)
- Equality and Diversity Champion, Department of Computer Science, Royal Holloway University of London
(September 2015 - present)
- Admission Team Member for the Masters in the Department of Computer Science,
Royal Holloway University of London
(September 2015 – present)
- Plagiarism Committee Member, Department of Computer Science, Royal Holloway University of London
(September 2015 – present)
- President of Early Career Researcher Forum, School of Natural and Mathematical Sciences, King's College London
(September 2013 - August 2015)
- Member of Early Career Researcher Representatives Committee, King's College London
(September 2013 - August 2015)
- Member of Faculty Research Committee, School of Natural and Mathematical Sciences, King's College London
(September 2013 - August 2015)
- Member of Departmental Research Committee, Department of Informatics, King's College London
(September 2013 - August 2015)
Invited Talks
- University of Toronto, Department of Computer Science, Toronto, Canada (December 2018)
Autonomous Target Search with Multiple Coordinated UAVs
- IBM Research, Cambridge, MA, USA (October 2018)
Large-Scale Autonomous Search-and-Tracking via AI Planning and Probabilistic Reasoning
- MIT, Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL), Cambridge, MA, USA (August 2018)
Large-Scale Autonomous Search-and-Tracking via AI Planning and Probabilistic Reasoning
- Callen-Lenz, Salisbury, UK (January 2018)
Probabilistic vs Deterministic Methods for Large-Scale Autonomous Search-and-Tracking
- ASV Global, Portchester, UK (January 2018)
Autonomy via AI Planning and Probabilistic Reasoning
- VTOL Technologies, Wokingham, U.K. (December 2017)
Autonomy via AI Planning and Probabilistic Reasoning
- Schlumberger, Cambridge, U.K. (October 2017)
Probabilistic vs Deterministic Methods for Large-Scale Autonomous Search-and-Tracking
- United Nations - International Telecommunication Union
ITU-Academia Partnership Meeting: Developing Skills for the Digital Era Budapest, Hungary (September 2017)
Developing Skills for the Digital Era: the Role of Academic Institutions
- Southampton University, Electronics and Computer Science Department, Southampton, UK (September 2017)
Autonomous Decision Making for Search and Tracking with Multiple Coordinated UAVs
- LAAS – CNRS, Toulouse, France (July 2017)
Probabilistic vs Deterministic Methods for Large-Scale Autonomous Search-and-Tracking
- Lockheed Martin, Havant, Hampshire, UK (January 2017)
Probabilistic vs Deterministic Methods for Large-Scale Autonomous Search-and-Tracking
- NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, USA (December 2015)
Autonomous Surveillance Missions via Temporal Planning
- Rescue Global, London, UK (April 2015)
Autonomous Surveillance Missions via Temporal Planning
- Model-Based Embedded and Robotics Systems Group, CSAIL, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA (January 2015)
Autonomous Search-and-Tracking via Temporal Planning
- King’s College London, Department of Informatics, London, UK (May 2012)
Automatic Synthesis of Temporal Invariants
- Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK (February 2012)
Constraint-based Temporal Planning: Domain Modelling and Search Control
- Palo Alto Research Center (Xerox PARC), Palo Alto, CA, USA (August 2011)
Translating PDDL2.2 into a Constraint-based Variable/Value Language
- NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, USA (August 2011)
Automatic Synthesis of Temporal Invariants
- Institute for Intelligent Systems and Robotics, CNRS, Paris, France (May 2009)
Scaffolding children’s social skills through embodied interactions in a 3D environment
- School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK (May 2009)
Constraint-based Temporal Planning: Domain Modelling and Search Control
- LAAS – CNRS, Toulouse, France (September 2008)
Constraint-based Temporal Planning: Domain Modelling and Search Control
Collaborations with Industry
Awards
Membership
- Invited member of the UNESCO Chair in ICT4D
10th top Global Think Tank in Science and Technology (University of Pennsylvania’s influential “Go To Think Tanks” Index Report)
(2015 – present)
- Licensed Engineer, Italian State Society of Professional Engineers
(2003 – present)
Award Committee Memberships
Programme Committee Memberships
- AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
2019 (Senior Program Committee member), 2018, 2017, 2016
- International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI)
2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2013
- European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI)
2016 (Senior Program Committee member), 2014
- International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS)
Main Track: 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2010, 2009
Novel Applications Track: 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015
Robotics Track: 2016, 2015
- International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS)
2019, 2018, 2017, 2016
- Fourteenth European Conference on Logics in Artificial Intelligence (JELIA-14)
- International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP)
2015, 2014
Reviewer
- AI Communications
- AI Magazine
- Information Science
- Journal of Robotics and Autonomous Systems
- Knowledge Engineering Review
- Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence
- Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
- IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing
- IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies
- IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems
Internships
- Summer Internship, NASA Ames Research Center, Intelligent Systems Division, Moffett Field, CA, USA, August 2011
- Internship, NASA Ames Research Center, Intelligent Systems Division, Moffett Field, CA, USA, October-December 2005