CASELLI Stefano

Stefano Caselli is full professor of Computer Engineering at the Department of Engineering and Architecture of the University of Parma. He received the Laurea degree cum laude in Electronic Engineering in 1982 and the Ph.D. degree in Computer and Electronic Engineering in 1987, both from the University of Bologna. From 1987 to 1989 he was a post-doc at Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informatica e Sistemistica of the University of Bologna. In 1989 and 1990 he was a Visiting Scholar at the Machine Intelligence Laboratory and the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Florida. Since 1990 he has been with the Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione (recently merged in the Department of Engineering and Architecture) of the University of Parma, initially as Research Associate, then as Associate Professor, and since year 2000 as Full Professor.

Academic service (selection):
* 2000-2006: Chairman of the Computer Engineering degrees (undergraduate and graduate) at the School of Engineering.
* 2000-2002: Chairman of Electronics and Communications Engineering degrees.
* Since 2006: coordinator of an international programme for Computer, Electronics, and Communications Engineering students supported by the Italian Ministry of University. This programme promotes extended student sojourns at one of several French universities and leads to the acquisition of double academic degrees from the hosting French University and from the University of Parma.
* From 2005/06 to 2009/10: lecturer of advanced courses on "Real-Time and Robotic Systems" at the Doctoral School in Computer Science and Engineering of the IMT Institute for Advanced Studies in Lucca.
* Since 2013: Director of the Scientific Committee of the Doctorate School in Engineering and Architecture, coordinating several Doctorate programs of the University of Parma.
* From 2016 to 2019: PI of the Erasmus+ ROMOR project, with partners University of Brighton, University of Glasgow, Technical University of Vienna and Palestinian universities Islamic University of Gaza, AlQuds Open University, Birzeit University, and Polytechnic University Kadoorie. The ROMOR project aims at developing and sharing best practices for management of research results and promoting open data and open science. The project organizes periodic workshops and mobility opportunities for professors, academic staff, and students of the partner universities.

Research:
Stefano Caselli established and is the current director of RIMLab, the Laboratory of Robotics and Intelligent Machines - RIMLab (http://rimlab.ce.unipr.it/) at the Department of Engineering and Architecture. His research focuses on robotics and real-time systems. He has published over 140 scientific papers, supervised 10 Ph.D. dissertations and guided over 100 theses leading to undergraduate or graduate degrees in Computer and Electronics Engineering. He has been principal investigator of a number of research projects carried out at RIMLab and funded by public institutions, research agencies, and private industries. Selected research projects as PI or co-PI for the University of Parma (2008-2018):
* EU FP7 STREP project VAALID (2009-2012) aiming at the development of tools and systems for assisting elderly people
using virtual and augmented reality techniques,
* Italian PRIN project MARIS "Marine Autonomous Robotics for InterventionS" (2013-2016) investigating techniques for underwater perception and cooperative underwater robotic manipulation,
* CNR-Factory of the Future project XDrone (2015-2017), which has led to the development of novel techiques (patented) for nuclear radiation hazard detection based on a sensor-equipped teleoperated aerial system,
* POR-FESR ALADIN funded by Regione Emilia-Romagna, wherein novel robotic and IT-based solutions have been demonstrated for automated precision irrigation (2016-2018),
* Several projects developing advanced robotic systems, in collaboration with industrial partners.