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Prof. Dr. Luca Maria GambardellaVice Rector for Innovation and Corporate Relations, USI,
Università della Svizzera italiana NEW Master in
Artificial
Intelligence@USI
AI Artistic Production: My NFT Production, lucagambardella.ch, Neuralrope#1, Meet the Guru Swiss Edition - Milano april 26th 2022 SHORT_CV LONG_CV |
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Biography: | |
since 2020 | Vice Rector for
Innovation and Corporate Relations, Innovation
and Corporate Relations at USI Transfer, USI, Università
della Svizzera italiana |
since 2020 | Co-founder and CTO at Artificialy sa in Lugano |
since 2020 | Full Professor, Facoltà di scienze informatiche, USI, Università della Svizzera italiana |
since 2016 | Member of the BRIDGE Discovery Evaluation Panel |
since 2016 | Director of the Artificial Intelligence Master, Facoltà di scienze informatiche, USI, Università della Svizzera italiana |
2015 | President of the EURO Excellence in Practice Award EEPA 2015 |
since 2015 | Phd in Engineering Sciences and Technology, ULB, École Polytechnique de Bruxelles, BE |
2012-2013 | Jury member of the EURO Excellence in Practice Award EEPA 2012-2013 |
since 2012 | Responsible of the SUPSI Master MSE Research Unit in Intelligent Systems, Manno |
2012 2020 | Director of IDSIA, Manno |
since 2011 | President of the Swiss Operations Research Society (SVOR/ASRO) |
2007-2011 | Director of the Intelligent System Master, USI, University of Lugano |
2006-2020 | Adjunct Professor, Informatics Faculty, USI, University of Lugano |
since 2006 | Lecture of Artificial Intelligence, Faculty of Informatics, USI, University of Lugano |
since 2006 | Technology consultant for TicinoTransfer and Fondazione Agire, Lugano. Interface between academic institutions and industrial partners to introduce and promote innovation |
2003-2020 | Professor SUPSI, University of Applied Science of Southern Switzerland, Manno |
since 2001 | Chief Scientific Officer of AntOptima sa, a spin-off of IDSIA, Lugano |
since 1998 | Lecture of Advanced Algorithms, SUPSI Dep. of Technology and Innovation, Manno |
1995-2012 | co-Director of IDSIA, Lugano-Manno |
1992 | Visiting Senior Scientist at the International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley, CA, USA |
1988-1995 | Research Director at IDSIA, Lugano |
1986-1988 | CEO of Archimede sas. Expert Systems, Artificial Intelligence, Lisp, Italy |
1985 | Master in Computer Science, University of Pisa, Italy |
Current Research Topics: |
Artificial Intelligence with focus on meta-heuristics algorithms, machine learning and swarm intelligence. |
Operational Research and IT with focus on scheduling, vehicle routing and robust optimization. |
Autonomous Devices/Robotics with focus on Robotics Swarms, mobile robots and drones. |
Management Experiences: |
He has been awarded more than 16.0 millions CHF in research funding for his research lab, (including other labs and partners the total amounts to more than 61 millions CHF). |
He has been awarded 26 Swiss National Science Foundation projects (20 as principal investigator), 7 European Projects, 15 CTI Projects (13 as principal investigator), 1 Hasler Foundation Project, 8 Industrial projects (6 as principal investigator). |
Supervisor of 14 PhD theses (four in progress). |
Responsible SUPSI Master MSE Research Unit in Intelligent System. |
Responsible USI Master in Artificial Intelligence. |
Citations: |
He has proposed and published several state of the art bio-inspired optimization algorithms for the travelling salesman problem, the vehicle routing problem with time windows, the quadratic assignment problem, the sequential ordering problems, and the flexible job shop problem. |
He has published 300 papers . |
The total number of citations to his papers is more than 50’000 (source: Google scholar). His h-number is 77. |
His paper on Ant Colony
Optimization (IEEE 1997) received more than 10'000
citations and it is the second most cited paper ever
published by the IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary
Computation. |
His paper on Ant Colony Optimization (Artificial Life 1999) received more than 3,200 citations and it is the most cited paper ever published by the Artificial Life journal. |
Patents: |
European Patent Office. Designation as inventor. Patent n.: 13181909.6 – 1806. Date: 13.11.2013. Title: Method for recharging an accumulator of an electric vehicle. |
Swiss Patent. Sistema di guida di un drone. Patent PAR006BCH, 0082/15. |
Pending International Patent Application on Boiler application. |
Pending European Patent Application on "Surface Interpreter”. |
Recent Awards: |
in 2021 he was ranked by Stanford University in the top 2% of scientists in the world in all disciplines. |
Special Swiss ICT Award 2016: "Istituto Dalle Molle di Studi sull’Intelligenza Artificiale" it represents one of the best research institutes at the international level in the field of bio-inspired artificial intelligence. (with Juergen Schmidhuber). |
"Watt d'Or", Swiss award for best energy projects 2015, category "Energy technologies", Scuola universitaria professionale della Svizzera italiana & Alpiq InTec Gruppe with project GridSense. |
Artistic Production: |
My NFT Production |
lucagambardella.ch,
my digital artistic production |
"Neuralrope#1,
Inside an Artifical Brain", 2019, Lugano-Besso
pedestrian tunnel. A permanent interactive urban
installation of 100 meters reproducing an artificial neural
networks. |
"Sei Vite", Novel, Zerounoundici Edizioni, 2013. |
"Il
suono dell'alba", Novel, La Feluca Edizioni, 2019. |
International Publications