Luca Maria Gambardella

Biography

since 2016 Member of the BRIDGE Discovery Evaluation Panel since 2016 Director of the Artificial Intelligence Master, Informatics Faculty, USI, University of Lugano 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 since 2012 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 Adjunct Professor, Informatics Faculty, USI, University of Lugano since 2006 Lecture of Artificial Intelligence, Informatics Faculty, 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 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

Research Interest

Research interest in 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.