Prof. Dr. Paolo Fiorini
Paolo Fiorini (Life Fellow, IEEE) received the Laurea degree in electronic engineering from the University of Padova, Padua, Italy, the M.S.E.E. degree from the University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA, and the Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering from the University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA.,He is currently a Full Professor with the University of Verona, Verona, Italy.
From 1977 to 1985, he was with companies in Italy and in the USA, developing microprocessor-based controllers. From 1985 to 2000, he was with NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA, where he worked on autonomous and teleoperated systems. In 2001, he returned to the University of Verona. In 2001, he founded the ALTAIR robotics laboratory and is involved in the European Framework programs FP6, FP7, H2020, and ERC.,Dr. Fiorini’ was a recipient of the IEEE Fellow (2009) and NASA Technical Awards.
