Name
My given name is Gianni, and my family name is Di Caro. I also have Andrea as middle name. Altogether this makes Gianni A. Di Caro. Why am I writing this? Because I've been cited according to any possible (wrong) combination of the words composing my given name and family name!! For instance, G. D. Caro is unfortunately a very popular way to "cite" my works :-(
Roots
I am Italian, born in Pescara, in Abruzzo, a beautiful land gently kissed by the Adriatic sea and strongly protected by the big mountains of the Appennini. A land where cooking is an art, and eating is a fest, to enjoy all together.
Formation
I have an innate extreme curiosity and interest for science as well as human cultures and human relationships. This made me exploring the geographical, social, and scientific world quite a lot! I lived and worked in Italy, Belgium, Japan, and Switzerland, so far... who knows about the future years ;-)
I started my scientific course with a degree in Physics, obtained with full honors from the University of Bologna, in Italy, in 1992. My major was in experimental particle physics.
Under the supervision of Prof. Marco Dorigo, I obtained in 2001 an MSc. and in 2004 a Ph.D., with full honors, in Applied Sciences from the Universite' Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), in Belgium. My thesis was about the formalization of the Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) metaheuristic and the use of ACO for the design and implementation of AntNet and AntHocNet, for adaptive network routing in wired and mobile ad hoc networks, respectively.
Interdisciplinary expertise
The initial phase of my scientific career has been supported by several prestigious fellowships, including a total of 4 Marie Curie/TMR/JST fellowships awarded by the scientific institutions of the European Community. Through these fellowships and further opportunities, I had the privilege to work in several institutes and universities across the globe and build up in this way a truly inter- and multi-disciplinary expertise covering different domains such as: parallel and distributed computing, autonomous robotics, optimization, networking, bio-inspired computing, swarm intelligence, swarm/distributed robotics.
Name
My given name is Gianni, and my family name is Di Caro. I also have Andrea as middle name. Altogether this makes Gianni A. Di Caro. Why am I writing this? Because I've been cited according to any possible (wrong) combination of the words composing my given name and family name!! For instance, G. D. Caro is unfortunately a very popular way to "cite" my works :-(
Roots
I am Italian, born in Pescara, in Abruzzo, a beautiful land gently kissed by the Adriatic sea and strongly protected by the big mountains of the Appennini. A land where cooking is an art, and eating is a fest, to enjoy all together.
Formation
I have an innate extreme curiosity and interest for science as well as human cultures and human relationships. This made me exploring the geographical, social, and scientific world quite a lot! I lived and worked in Italy, Belgium, Japan, and Switzerland, so far... who knows about the future years ;-)
I started my scientific course with a degree in Physics, obtained with full honors from the University of Bologna, in Italy, in 1992. My major was in experimental particle physics.
Under the supervision of Prof. Marco Dorigo, I obtained in 2001 an MSc. and in 2004 a Ph.D., with full honors, in Applied Sciences from the Universite' Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), in Belgium. My thesis was about the formalization of the Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) metaheuristic and the use of ACO for the design and implementation of AntNet and AntHocNet, for adaptive network routing in wired and mobile ad hoc networks, respectively.
Interdisciplinary expertise
The initial phase of my scientific career has been supported by several prestigious fellowships, including a total of 4 Marie Curie/TMR/JST fellowships awarded by the scientific institutions of the European Community. Through these fellowships and further opportunities, I had the privilege to work in several institutes and universities across the globe and build up in this way a truly inter- and multi-disciplinary expertise covering different domains such as: parallel and distributed computing, autonomous robotics, optimization, networking, bio-inspired computing, swarm intelligence, swarm/distributed robotics.
Last work position (13 years)
From 2003 to August 2016 I've been at the Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence (IDSIA), in Lugano, Switzerland. I held a (permanent) Senior researcher position and coordinate the activities of the swarm/distributed/networked robotics group which includes 4 PhD students and one Post-doc. I also had teaching duties, holding full-semester courses in Operations research and Robotics at SUPSI and USI. I am the coordinator of the Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) project ALMA (Ageing without Losing Mobility and Autonomy) and I was co-PI for the three sub-projects that IDSIA contributes to the Swiss NCCR Robotics initiative. |
Current work position
From August 2016 I am Associate Teaching Professor at the Computer Science Department of the Carnegie Mellon University. I spent the autumn semester in Pittsburgh teaching 15-381 (Artificial Intelligence) and then I moved to the CMU campus in Qatar. |
Scientometrics
I co-authored more than 130 peer-reviewed international publications. According to Google Scholar my publications have received more than 23,100 citations, and my h-index is 32.
I co-authored more than 130 peer-reviewed international publications. According to Google Scholar my publications have received more than 23,100 citations, and my h-index is 32.