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Paolo Rocco |
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Bio Sketch Education Paolo Rocco was born in Busto Arsizio (Italy) in 1966.
He received the 'Laurea' degree cum laude in Electronics
Engineering and the Doctorate degree in Computer Science and Automation in
1991 and 1995, respectively, both from Politecnico
di Milano, Italy. From Spring to Fall 1995 he was a visiting scholar at
the School of Mechanical Engineering of Georgia Tech, Atlanta, USA, working
with Prof. Wayne J. Book on control of flexible manipulators. Current position Since 1996 Dr. Rocco has been with the Department of
Electronics, Information and Bioengineering (DEIB) of Politecnico
di Milano, where he is currently Full Professor in Systems and Control. He
teaches Automatic Control to Aerospace engineering students, Fundamentals of
Robotics and Control of Industrial Robots to Automation engineering students,
and Industrial Automation and Robotics to Management engineering students. From 2013 to 2018 he served as Chair of the BSc and MSc
Programs in Automation and Control Engineering at Politecnico
di Milano. At present he sits in the Board of Governors of Politecnico di Milano, for the triennium 2022-24. Since
2023 he has been serving as Head of the Systems and Control research area at
DEIB. Dr. Rocco served in the executive board of SIDRA, the
national society of Italian Professors in Automatic Control, and of ANIPLA,
the Italian National Association for the Automation. He also served in the
Board of Directors of MADE, the Industry 4.0 Competence Center based in Milano,
where he is currently scientific responsible for the technology transfer
projects. At present, he sits in the Board of Directors in euRobotics, the association of all stakeholders in
robotics in Europe and of I-RIM, the association of robotics and intelligent
machines in Italy. He is also a member of the Advisory Board of the CLC-South
of EIT-Manufacturing. He is co-founder of Smart Robots, a spin-off company of
Politecnico di Milano. Editorial duties Dr. Rocco served as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions
on Robotics from 2004 to 2008. He has also served in the International
Program Committee of the IEEE/ASME Conference on Advanced Intelligent
Mechatronics for several editions. Paolo Rocco has been a member of the Conference
Editorial Board (CEB) of the Robotics and Automation Society of the IEEE,
serving as an Associate Editor for ICRA (2007-2013) and IROS (2009-2011). He has also served as a member (2010-2016) of the
EURON, later EuRobotics, Education and Training
Board, in charge of the evaluation of candidates for the PhD Thesis award. A Senior Member of IEEE, Paolo Rocco served as a
Founding Senior Editor for the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters and is
currently serving as a Senior Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Automation
Science and Engineering, as well as an Associate Editor for the IFAC journal
Mechatronics and the International Journal of Robotics Research. Projects Paolo Rocco has been in charge of several research
projects with industrial partners and public bodies (the Lombardy Region, the
Italian Ministry for Research and University, the European Commission). In particular he was the person in charge for Politecnico di Milano in the FP7 four years long European
Integrating Project ROSETTA (ICT - 230902) on robotics. Scientific
qualification Dr.
Rocco's research interests include industrial robotics, physical human-robot
interaction, redundant manipulators, use of computer vision in robotics,
control of servomechanisms, and mechatronics in general.
He is the author of about 200 papers in international journals, book chapters
and both international and national conferences. He
serves as an expert for the European Commission and for the Italian Ministry
of University and Research for the evaluation of proposals and ongoing projects. |
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