Collective Intelligence: from biological and social to robotic systems

Speaker/s

Giulia De Masi is currently Principal Scientist at Autonomous and Robotic Research Center at Technology Innovation Institute in Abu Dhabi, UAE. She got her PhD at University of Rome La Sapienza, within a collaboration with Max Planck Institute in Dresden and City University in London. She was Post-doctoral Researcher in the Polytechnic University of Marche and Visiting Researcher at Hitachi Research Laboratory, in Nara, Japan. In 2008, she started working in the R&D field for the private sector (Snamprogetti Center of Excellence, Italy), joining the Department of Advanced Engineering Services and Technology Innovation Projects. She worked in several academic institutions in UAE, before joining the Technology Innovation Institute in Abu Dhabi as Principal Scientist. She has more than sixty peer-reviewed publications (including journals and conferences) and more than forty reports for Industry. She is also IEEE Senior Member. She has been recently awarded as Women in Engineering (WIE) Propel laureate by IEEE. Her main fields of expertise are Collective Intelligence, Swarm Robotics, Statistical Physics, Machine Learning, Optimization, mainly for applications to multi-robot systems.