Projects
My research is carried out through competitive projects, cross-institutional collaborations, and industry-connected initiatives. These projects show how software engineering can support innovation where trustworthiness, complexity, and operational impact matter.
Current projects
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A strategic GSSI development program focused on pattern analysis and engineering across mathematics and computer science, including software-intensive systems, machine learning, networks, and intelligent technologies.
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European Digital Innovation Hub Abruzzo e Molise, an initiative bringing together regional stakeholders to provide digital services to companies and public administrations, with particular attention to AI and HPC.
The initiative supports digital transformation through test-before-invest services, innovation support, training, and skills development.
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Model-based engineering of digital twins for early verification and validation of industrial systems, with a focus on improving productivity, quality, and engineering confidence.
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An Italian space consortium funded by ASI and MUR and focused on innovation in human and robotic space exploration, Earth observation, and planetary protection. Within this context, we work on space robotics.
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A centre for research-based innovation hosted by the University of Bergen, developing a smart and wireless underwater sensor network for science and industry, including software and systems for autonomous sensing, data platforms, and the Internet of Underwater Things.
Selected past projects
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Architectures of future satellite systems to enable onboard AI, continuous integration and deployment, DevSecOps-oriented evolution, continuous compliance, digital twins, and safe space software ecosystems.
Partners include GSSI, INAF, the University of Perugia, FBK, and Thales Alenia Space.
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Ethical-aware adjustable autonomous systems that enable users to express moral preferences and influence the distribution of autonomy and control.
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Robot choreography and coordination for multiple distributed service robots collaborating with each other and with humans under ethical constraints.
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Advanced methods and technologies for cultural heritage diagnostics and sustainable intervention through innovative scientific instruments and predictive models.
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DREAM, Democratization of Robot Engineering for Advanced Manufacturing, is a Rome Technopole project focused on high-level languages that help domain experts program and coordinate robots and human-robot interaction in advanced manufacturing.
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Participation in Sweden’s flagship program in AI, autonomous systems, and software, including supervision of successful PhD projects.
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EU research on decentralized control and coordination of interacting robots, including architecture and user-friendly mission specification.
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Research with Volvo Cars on next-generation electrical and software architectures and the transition toward agile engineering at scale.
Humanitarian work
During 2020, in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, I participated in a project to mass-produce low-cost, easy-to-use, open-source mechanical ventilators. The project, Mechanical Ventilator Milano (MVM), involved an international team including Cristiano Galbiati from GSSI and Princeton University and Nobel Laureate Arthur B. McDonald.
Within the initiative, I contributed to software certification, with particular attention to software architecture, design, and unit and integration testing. The project is an important example of software engineering applied under emergency conditions and with immediate societal impact.
Vexos received Health Canada authorization for manufacturing in the USA and Canada, while the European manufacturer Elemaster obtained CE marking in May 2021.