Associate Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, School of Design, Politecnico di Milano, since December 2018
Assistant Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, School of Design, Politecnico di Milano, since December 2008
PhD degree in Virtual Prototyping and Real Products at Politecnico di Milano with the thesis: “Industrial product development using Mixed Prototyping”, in 2009
Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering with the thesis: “Procedures development for the integration of 3D input devices in Unigraphics NX3 CAD System”, in 2005
Participation in research projects
- Involvement in the research and coordination activities of the local project BASE5G link
- Involvement in the research and coordination activities of the local project TEINVEIN link
- Involvement in the research and coordination activities of the local project PERVIVAL link
- Involvement in the research and coordination activities of the European project H2020-ICT-19-2015-688417 SPARK Project link
- Involvement in the research and development activities of the National project FIRB2006 – PROGIMM link
- Involvement in the research and development activities of the National project PRIN2006 – PUODARSI link
- Involvement in the research activities of the European project FP6-IST-5-034525 SATIN link
- Involvement in the research activities of the European project FP6-IST-2002-001996 Touch and Design link
Laboratories
- Member of the AXD Lab – Advanced Experience Design
- Member of the i.Drive Lab – Interaction between Driver Road-Infrastructure Vehicles and Environment link
Organization of scientific events
- Involvement in the organisation of ICCHP-AAATE 2022 link
- Involvement in the organisation of DCC 2018 link
- Involvement in the organization of ICED 2015 link
- Involvement in the organization of ASME WINVR2011 link
Awards
- Best Paper Award 2023 CAD’23 – the 20th annual International CAD Conference, with the paper: “A Method for the Automatic Generation of 3D Models based on Artificial Intelligence”
- Special Mention 2020 European Transport Conference, with the paper: “A method of processing eye-tracking data to study driver’s visual perception in simulated driving scenarios“
- Best Paper Award 2017 ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (IDETC/CIE), with the paper: “Driving Simulator System To Evaluate Driver’s Workload Using ADAS In Different Driving Contexts”
- Distinguished Paper ICoRD 2017, with the paper: “ICT technology for innovating the garment design process in fashion industry”
- Best Paper Award 2016 International Conference on Innovative Design and Manufacturing (ICIDM), with the paper: “Reverse Engineering and Augmented Reality Haptic Interface for Shape Design”
- RTT Emerging Technology Contest 2009, with the project: “Haptic Devices in Mixed-Reality Environment for Interior Car Design Evaluation”