Published 'A Novel Vision Transformer for Camera-LiDAR Fusion based Traffic Object Segmentation' (Best student paper award at ICAART 2025); Published 'Glass-box Automated Driving: Insights and Future Trends (2025)'; Published 'CLFT: Camera-LiDAR Fusion Transformer for Semantic Segmentation in Autonomous Driving (2024)'.
Research Experience
Visited the Space Robotics Lab at Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan in 2009; worked as a visiting researcher at the University of Almería from 2013-2014, focusing on new advanced navigation techniques for mobile robotics and autonomous driving; worked with the applied artificial intelligence research group at Chalmers University of Technology from 2015 to 2020, contributing to several autonomous driving projects; appointed as an adjunct professor at Tallinn University of Technology in 2021, supporting the FinEst center and the autonomous vehicle lab in smart transportation systems.
Education
Received the M.S. degree in Automation Engineering from the University of Salento, Lecce, Italy; Ph.D. in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering in 2014 from the same university.
Background
Research interests span across several areas including artificial intelligence, mobile robotics, autonomous vehicles, energy, computer vision, and control systems. His research focuses on advanced sensory perception for mobile robotics and computer vision.