Andreagiovanni Reina, Research Group Leader —
GIO Lab —
Group Intelligence and self-Organisation
Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour, Universität Konstanz & Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, Germany
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Andreagiovanni Reina
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Born on the 7th of December 1985 in Erba (Co), Italy. |
Education and Research
| Since 2023 | Research Group Leader, Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour University of Konstanz and Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, Konstanz, Germany. |
| 2020 - 2023 | Research Fellow of the Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research—FNRS Chargé de Recherches IRIDIA, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. Hosted by Prof. Marco Dorigo. Project: HECOROS — Heterogeneity for Cost-Effective Robot Swarms. |
| 2015 - 2020 | Research Fellow in Collective Robotics Sheffield Robotics - University of Sheffield, UK. Project leader: Prof. James Marshall ERC Project: DiODe - Distributed Algorithms for Optimal Decision-Making. |
| 2015 - 2020 | Research Fellow in Collective Robotics Sheffield Robotics - University of Sheffield, UK. Project leader: Prof. James Marshall ERC Project: DiODe - Distributed Algorithms for Optimal Decision-Making. |
| 2011 - 2015 | Ph.D. Student IRIDIA, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. Supervisor: Prof. Marco Dorigo. Co-supervisor: Dr. Vito Trianni Topic: Engineering distributed cognition. |
| 2008 - 2010 | Master of Science in Computer Engineering held in English language (110/110 cum laude). Politecnico di Milano - Faculty of Computer Engineering, Como campus, Italy. Web technologies, artificial intelligence and robotics. |
| 2004 - 2007 | Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering (106/110) Politecnico di Milano - Faculty of Computer Engineering, Como campus, Italy. Computer technology, programming languages and automatic control. |
Supervision and Teaching
| 2024 | Supervisor of Postdoc : Alexandre from Universität Konstanz Thesis : Blockchain-based swarm robotics |
Finished
| 2022 - 2024 | Co-supervisor of Postdoc : Thierry-Sainclair from Université de Namur, Belgium Thesis : Impact of the network connectivity in best-of-n collective decision making. |
| 2019 - 2021 | Co-supervisor of Postdoc : Arindam from University of Sheffield, UK Thesis : Swarm Awareness. |
| 2021 | Co-supervisor of Phd : Raina from Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium Thesis : Swarm resiliency in collective decision making |
| 2020 | Co-supervisor of Phd : Swadhin from IISER Bhopal, India Thesis : Collective decision making via heterogeneous response thresholds |
| 2024 | Supervisor of Phd : Sindiso from Universität Konstanz Thesis : Spatio-temporal computation in robot swarms |
| 2024 | Supervisor of Phd : Simay from Universität Konstanz Thesis : Large-scale swarm robotics |
Finished
| 2016 - 2021 | Co-supervisor of Phd : Aldo E. from University of Sheffield, UK Thesis : Cellular decision-making models in yeast |
| 2016 - 2021 | Co-supervisor of Phd : Mohamed Salah from University of Sheffield, UK Thesis : Simple individual behavioural rules for improving the collective behaviours of robot swarms |
| 2025 | Supervisor of Master : Abdelrahman from Universität Konstanz Thesis : Neuro-inspired swarm robotics |
| 2024 | Supervisor of Master : Mohammad Nomaan from Universität Konstanz Thesis : Collective decision-making in swarm robotics |
Finished
| 2022 - 2023 | Supervisor of Master : Sébastien from Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium Thesis : Federated learning in swarm robotics using blockchain smart contracts |
| 2021 - 2022 | Supervisor of Master : Ludéric from Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium Thesis : An Information Market for Social Navigation in Robots |
| 2021 - 2022 | Supervisor of Master : Antoine from Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium Thesis : Swarm resiliency against non-cooperative agents in collective decision-making |
| 2014 - 2015 | Co-supervisor of Master : Anthony from Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium Thesis : Human-Swarm Interaction: An Escorting Robot Swarm that Diverts a Human away from Dangers one cannot perceive |
| 2013 - 2014 | Co-supervisor of Master : Bernard from Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium Thesis : A tool for automatic robot placement in swarm robotics experiments (in French) |
| 2012 - 2013 | Co-supervisor of Master : Jacopo from Université Libre de Bruxelles and Politecnico di Milano (Project TIME for double degree) Thesis : Spatial Allocation in Swarm Robotics |
| 2025 | Supervisor of Bachelor : Donatien from Universität Konstanz Thesis : Blockchain-based swarm robotics |
| 2025 | 1 of hello At Como | |
| 2016 - 2019 | Mentor of PhD’s Theses Mentoring Programme, mentoring final year PhD students to help them go forward with their thesis. At University of Sheffield, UK. | |
| 2016 | Teacher of “Swarm Robotics” for the course “Building a Future with Robots” (online lesson) At University of Sheffield, UK. | |
| 2015 | Teaching assistant of Swarm Intelligence course (Course INFO-H-414, 5 ECTS) At Université Libre de Bruxelles | |
| 2011 - 2015 | Principal supervisor of computer programming project (5 ECTS) of several master students enrolled in the first year of the “Master en sciences informatique” At Université Libre de Bruxelles | |
| 2011 - 2015 | Principal supervisor of Computer programming project (5 ECTS) of several master students enrolled in the first year of the “Master en sciences informatique” At Université Libre de Bruxelles | |
| 2008 - 2003 | Software developer of Designing websites, programming in HTML and CSS languages. Use of CMS. Part time job. Como (Italy) At Alexander Technological Educational Institute, Thessaloniki, Greece |
Work
| 2009 - 2011 | Internship - junior researcher of European project (6th Framework Programme): Swarmanoid. Research activity. Analysis, design and implementation of specific robot controllers. Writing and publishing scientific papers. Master thesis project [Nov.09 – July.10]: "Swarms of flying robots performing distributed path planning for objects on the ground" Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence Studies (IDSIA) - Lugano (Switzerland). | |
| 2009 | Software developer of European project (6th Framework Programme): PHAROS (Platform for searcHing of Audiovisual Resources across Online Spaces). Analysis, design and implementation of specific processes and functionalities within a multimedia information retrieval system (the PHAROS platform). FAST Search and Transfer (A Microsoft Subsidiary) - Oslo (Norway). | |
| 2008 - 2009 | Software developer of European project (6th Framework Programme): PHAROS (Platform for searcHing of Audiovisual Resources across Online Spaces). Analysis, design and implementation of wrappers for the integration of a face recognition and identification technology into a multimedia search engine platform. Web Models S.r.l. - Milano (Italy). | |
| 2006 - 2007 | Web designer, HTML programmer. of Designing web sites, programming in HTML and CSS languages. Use of CMS. Part-time job. Webjobs.it - Como (Italy). | |
| 2004 - 2009 | Teaching assistant of European project (6th Framework Programme): PHAROS (Platform for searcHing of Audiovisual Resources across Online Spaces). Analysis, design and implementation of wrappers for the integration of a face recognition and identification technology into a multimedia search engine platform. Web Models S.r.l. - Milano (Italy) |
Awards
| 2019 | Selected among the top 3 projects for the Research Software Competition for HPC@Sheffield2019 (awarded £1,000 as development fund). | |
| 2019 | Best Poster Award for the 2019 Sheffield Robotics Showcase, University of Sheffield. | |
| 2018 | Best Paper Award of ANTS 2018 for the 11th International Conference on Swarm Intelligence. | |
| 2018 | Recognised as Fellow for Higher Education Academy (FHEA). | |
| 2016 | Dedicated Outstanding Thesis Mentor for the 2016 PhD Theses Mentoring Programme of the University of Sheffield. | |
| 2011 | Best Poster Award for the 12th International Conference Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems (TAROS), Sheffield, UK, August 31 - September 2, 2011. |
Grants
| 2021 | Support of international cooperation for Tomas Bata University in Zlín, Czech Republic. | |
| 2020 | Three-year Fellowship for project "Heterogeneity for Cost-Effective Robot Swarms". Belgian-Walloon National Fund for Scientific Research (Chargé de Recherches) by FNRS. | |
| 2018 | Proof of concept for Proposal rejected with a Seal of Excellence by the EU Commission. I was a named investigator on the project with a major role in writing the grant proposal titled: “ExODUS – Extreme and Offworld Decentralised Unanimous Swarms”. | |
| 2018 | Grant (£1000) OnCampUS Placements for the University of Sheffield to hire a MSc student for a 100-hours job on the project "A Robot Swarm Orchestra". | |
| 2018 | Basic research grant ($205,266) for Swarm Awareness from the Office of Naval Research Global (ONR-G) for 2.5 years. PIs: James Marshall and Andreagiovanni Reina. | |
| 2017 | Grant (£1000) OnCampUS Placements for the University of Sheffield to hire a MSc student for a 100-hours job on the project "Robot Art". | |
| 2011 | Four Years Scholarship for Advanced Grants program of the European Union. Funded by the European Research Council. | |
| 2010 | Master Thesis's Grant for Zeno Karl Schindler Foundation (Genève – Switzerland) | |
| 2009 | Scholarship for the International Traineeship for the LLP-Erasmus Placement Programme |
Languages
| Italian | mother tongue |
| English | fluent written and verbal skills |
| French | good written and verbal skills (CEFR Level B1) |
| Spanish | good understanding, basic written and verbal skills |
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