Curriculum Vitae et Studiorum

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Curriculum Vitae et Studiorum

Alberto Quattrini Li

March 21, 2015

Personal Data

Name: Alberto

Family name: Quattrini Li

Date of birth: July 4th

, 1987

Place of birth: Pistoia, Italy

Citizenship: Italian (US Green Card Holder)

e-mail: [email protected]

homepage: http://home.dei.polimi.it/quattrini.li

Position and Education

Education

01/2012 – 03/2015 Ph.D. in Information Technology, Politecnico di Milano (Milan, Italy).

Thesis title: Study, design, and evaluation of exploration strategies for autonomous mobile robots, Advisor: Prof.Francesco Amigoni

09/2009 – 10/2011 M.Sc. in Computer Science Engineering, Politecnico di Milano (Milan, Italy) and Politecnico di Torino (Double degree) [final grade 110/110 cum laude].

Thesis title: Development of a framework for evaluating performance of exploration strategies of autonomous robots, Advisor: Prof.Francesco Amigoni

09/2009 – 12/2011 Alta Scuola Politecnica (ASP).

09/2006 – 07/2009: B.Sc. in Computer Science Engineering, Universit`a di Pisa (Pisa, Italy) [final grade 109/110].

09/2001 – 07/2006: “Diploma di Liceo Scientifico – indirizzo P.N.I.”, Liceo Scientifico N. Copernico (Prato, Italy) [final grade 87/100].

Academic Positions and Affiliations

02/2014 – 08/2014 Visiting Ph.D. student at Robotic Sensor Networks Lab, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota (Minneapolis MN, USA).

Supervisor: Prof. Volkan Isler

01/2012 – 12/2014 Ph.D. fellow in Information Technology, Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria, Politecnico di Milano (Milan, Italy).

01/2012 – 06/2012 Research assistant, Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria, Politecnico di Milano (Milan, Italy).

Project: “PoliSpell: An Adaptive Spellchecker and Predictor for People with Dyslexia” Supervisor: Prof. Licia Sbattella

Scholarships, Honors, and Awards

2013 – 2014 Scuola Interpolitecnica: complementary Ph.D. program for few top Ph.D. students among

those of Politecnico di Milano, Politecnico di Torino, and Politecnico di Bari.

2012 – 2014 Scholarship from the Italian Ministry of Education, University, and Research, given to the top 10-15% of admitted Ph.D. students.

2009 – 2011 Alta Scuola Politecnica: complementary M.Sc. program for the top 150 M.Sc. students among Politecnico di Milano and Politecnico di Torino.

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Teaching Activities

Courses as Teaching Assistant

2014 – 2015 Teaching Assistant of “Architetture degli Elaboratori I” (Computer Architectures I), held by Prof. Alberto Borghese and Prof. Federico Pedersini, B.Sc. in Computer Science, Universit`a di Milano (Milan, Italy).

2013 – 2014 Teaching Assistant of “Fondamenti di Informatica” (Fundamentals of Computer Science), held by Prof. Lorenzo Mezzalira, B.Sc. in Electronical Engineering, Politecnico di Milano (Milan, Italy).

2012 – 2013 Lab. Supervisor of “Fondamenti di Informatica” (Fundamentals of Computer Science), held by Prof. Lorenzo Mezzalira, B.Sc. in Electronical Engineering, Politecnico di Milano (Milan, Italy).

Co-advised Students and Laurea Theses

• Riccardo Cipolleschi, Michele Giusto, “Analysis of semantic information role in multi-robot

explo-ration in search and rescue”, Politecnico di Milano (Milan, Italy), 2012.

• Matteo Luperto, “The concept of building typology for semantic labeling of rooms in autonomous

mobile robotics”, Politecnico di Milano (Milan, Italy), 2012.

• Giuseppe Andrea Ferraro, Federico Marini, Alessandro Maria Rizzi, Sajjad Salehi, “PoAReT 2013

Team”, Virtual Robot competition of the RoboCup 2013 Rescue Simulation League (Eindhoven, The Netherlands), 2013.

• Alessandro Riva, “Online exploration of graphs with an autonomous robot: a theoretical analysis”,

Politecnico di Milano (Milan, Italy), 2014.

Scientific Activities

Referee Services

• IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2012 (IROS2012), 2014

(IROS2014), 2015 (IROS2015).

• IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2013 (ICRA2013). • Advanced Robotics.

• Journal of Experimental & Theoretical Artificial Intelligence. • Language Resource and Evaluation.

Associations Membership

• IEEE, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. • AAAI, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence.

Research Interests

My research belongs to the area of Artificial Intelligence and mainly focuses on the study and the development of techniques for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems in Robotics applications. In particular, I deal with the study, development, and experimental assessment of methods for autonomous decision-making in the exploration problem, where one or more robots are employed to discover features of environments. The achieved scientific contributions can be classified along the following topics.

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Autonomous Exploration

An important task, where autonomous mobile robots could be fruitfully employed, is the exploration problem. Specifically, one or more robots move to acquire data of the environment to build its map. There are several applications that benefit from this task, e.g., planetary exploration and search and rescue. One of the most important aspects that affects autonomous mobile robots performance is the set of techniques that allow robots to decide where to go (exploration strategies) and who goes where (coordination methods) for autonomously exploring the environment. This aspect is different from clas-sical path planning, because no destination point is specified [IB1]. One of my contributions develops a multirobot exploration system that exploits semantic information to decide the assignments of the next candidate locations to robots [IC7]. Also, given the online nature of the exploration problem and the fact that most of the exploration strategies are usually compared in a relative way, I propose an approach to find the optimal exploration paths for covering arbitrary environments for a robot with time-discrete and limited visibility [IC2]. Other contributions stand on the experimental analysis of the impact on the exploration process of some of the robotic systems controllable factors by roboticists (exploration strategies vs. coordination methods [IC3] and different perception/decision timings [IC8]).

Semantic Maps

Semantic maps associate semantic labels (e.g., ‘corridor’ or ‘room’) to portion of the underlying metric map. Exploiting a priori knowledge about the type of the building in which robots are operating can make a semantic mapping system more accurate [IC6].

Assistive Technologies

University students with learning or sensorial disability often face huge difficulties in accessing campus facilities and, specifically, lectures. Technological solutions of CATS project directed towards a better support to accessible lectures are presented in [IC1]. One of the tools that support people with dyslexia in writing text is presented in [IC4] and [TR1].

Publications

Papers on International Books

[IB1] Francesco Amigoni, Nicola Basilico, and Alberto Quattrini Li. Moving from ‘how to go there?’ to ‘where to go?’: Towards increased autonomy of mobile robots. In Aleksandar Rodi`c, Doina Pisla, and Hannes Bleuler, editors,New Trends in Medical and Service Robots, volume 20 ofMechanisms and Machine Science, pages 345–356. Springer, 2014.

Papers on Proceedings of International Conferences and Workshops

[IC1] Licia Sbattella, Roberto Tedesco, Alberto Quattrini Li, Elisabetta Genovese, Matteo Corradini, Giacomo Guaraldi, Roberta Garbo, Andrea Mangiatordi, and Silvia Negri. The CATS project. In Khine Soe Thaung, editor, Advanced Information Technology in Education, volume 126 of

Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing, pages 265–272. Springer, 2012.

[IC2] Alberto Quattrini Li, Nicola Basilico, and Francesco Amigoni. Searching for optimal off-line exploration paths in grid environments. InProceedings of the 26th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), pages 2060–2066, 2012.

[IC3] Francesco Amigoni, Nicola Basilico, and Alberto Quattrini Li. How much worth is coordination of mobile robots for exploration in search and rescue? InProceedings of the 16th annual RoboCup International Symposium, pages 106–117, 2012.

[IC4] Alberto Quattrini Li, Licia Sbattella, and Roberto Tedesco. PoliSpell: An adaptive spellchecker and predictor for people with dyslexia. InProceedings of the 21st Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP), pages 302–309, 2013.

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[IC5] Alberto Quattrini Li. An adaptive spellchecker and predictor for people with dyslexia. In Pro-ceedings of Doctoral Consortium in the 21st Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Per-sonalization (UMAP), pages 409–413, 2013.

[IC6] Matteo Luperto, Alberto Quattrini Li, and Francesco Amigoni. A system for building semantic maps of indoor environments exploiting the concept of building typology. In Proceedings of the 17th annual RoboCup International Symposium, pages 504–515, 2013.

[IC7] Riccardo Cipolleschi, Michele Giusto, Alberto Quattrini Li, and Francesco Amigoni. Semantically-informed coordinated multirobot exploration of relevant areas in search and rescue settings. In

Proceedings of the 6th European Conference on Mobile Robots (ECMR), pages 216–221, 2013. [IC8] Francesco Amigoni, Alberto Quattrini Li, and Dirk Holz. Evaluating the impact of perception

and decision timing on autonomous robotic exploration. In Proceedings of the 6th European Conference on Mobile Robots (ECMR), pages 68–73, 2013.

[IC9] Alessandro Riva, Alberto Quattrini Li, and Francesco Amigoni. Some performance bounds of strategies for graph exploration. InProceedings of the International Conference on Autonomous & Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), 2015. (accepted).

Papers Presented at International Conferences and Workshops

[WS1] Francesco Amigoni, Alberto Quattrini Li, Giuseppe Andrea Ferraro, Federico Marini, Alessan-dro Maria Rizzi, and Sajjad Salehi. PoAReT team description paper. In RoboCup2013 CD, 2013.

[WS2] Francesco Amigoni, Matteo Luperto, and Alberto Quattrini Li. Towards more realistic indoor environments for the virtual robot competition. In RoboCup2014 CD, 2014.

[WS3] Alberto Quattrini Li. Study, design, and evaluation of exploration strategies for autonomous mobile robots. InSIGAI Career Network Conference (CNC), 2015.

[WS4] Alessandro Riva, Alberto Quattrini Li, and Francesco Amigoni. Some performance bounds of strategies for graph exploration. In AAMAS2015 (International Conference on Autonomous Agents & Multiagent Systems) Workshop on “Autonomous Robots and Multirobot Systems (ARMS)”, 2015.

[WS5] Mattia Ornaghi, Alberto Quattrini Li, Jacopo Banfi, Nicola Basilico, and Francesco Amigoni. Multirobot exploration with communication constraints: An experimental comparison. In AA-MAS2015 (International Conference on Autonomous Agents & Multiagent Systems) Workshop on “Autonomous Robots and Multirobot Systems (ARMS)”, 2015.

Technical Reports

[TR1] Alberto Quattrini Li. PoliSpell: An adaptive spellchecker and predictor for people with dyslexia. Technical Report 2013.31, Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informatione e Bioingegneria, Politecnico di Milano, 2013.

Curriculum Vitae et Studiorum