Current Position
01/10/2019 – now | Team Leader of the Robocup team Bold Hearts, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, UK |
| 01/12/2016 – now | Visiting Lecturer, University of Hertfordshire, UK |
| 01/02/2016 – now | Marie Sklodowska-Curie ITN project SECURE (Safety Enables Cooperation in Uncertain Robotic Environments) PhD fellow, School of Engineering and Computer Science, University of Hertfordshire, UK |
Professional Experiences
| 01/11/2015- 30/11/2015 | Researcher, University of Naples Federico II PRIN 2010-2011, Security Horizons Project. Study of existing technologies for creating, managing and allowing the communication between Web Services. Design a graphical interface to allow users to interact with agent to create and manage personalized contracts, specifying their preferences, and to request an auction service. Design and develop an extension for WS– Agreement to allow the creation of SLA contracts between agents according their own preferences. |
| 01/07/2015- 31/10/2015 | Researcher, University of Naples Federico II |
| 01/04/2015- 30/06/2015 | Researcher, University of Naples Federico II ORganization of Cultural HEritage for Smart Tourism and Real-time Accessibility (OR.C.HE.S.T.R.A) project. Testing support and user evaluation. |
| 01/03/2015- 31/03/2015 | Researcher, University of Naples Federico II |
| 2002 – 2012 | Web Software Engineer, Developer and DB Architect freelancer, Self Employed, Naples. |
| 2000 – 2011 | Tutor, Self Employed, Naples Topics: Microsoft Office Package, Technologies and standards for web development, Mathematics, Windows and Linux operating system administration, Programming and scripting languages (C, C++, PHP, Pascal, HTML, CSS, bash). |
| 01/05/2010- 31/07/2010 | Researcher, ICAR-CNR, Naples with Professor G. Schmid, Project “MIPHA: A Middleware Infrastructure for Pervasive HealtCare Applications”. The purpose of the project – in an enterprise cloud view – was to define a security infrastructure, implementing an experimental prototype, an administration management, to allow members of a virtual community to access to any computer’s applications, services and/or systems, regardless the location used and the based, preserving stability and security of system and data. |
| 01/11/2007- 31/03/2008 | Apprenticeship, ICAR-CNR, Naples with Professor G. Schmid, Study of (Open)Solaris authentication and authorization mechanisms. Design and development of a test–bed framework to integrate a new access control mechanism into the system. Publication of results to the international conference LISA’09 |
Education
01/02/2016- | Marie Sklodowska-Curie ITN project SECURE (Safety Enables Cooperation in Uncertain Robotic Environments) PhD fellow and Early-Stage Researcher, School of Engineering and Computer Science, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, UK Thesis title: Investigating human perceptions of trust and social cues in robots for safe HRI in human-oriented environments Principal Supervisor: Professor Kerstin Dautenhahn |
| 24/07/2019 | Fellows of the Higher Education Academy, Postgraduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, UK |
| 08/07/2017 | Associate Fellows of the Higher Education Academy, Postgraduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, UK |
| 16/03/2015 | MSc, Computer Science, University of Naples Federico II, Grade – 100/110. Thesis title: Human Multirobot Interaction in Robot and Group Selection Tasks |
| 31/07/2009 | S3WEB – Expert in Systems Management and Web/Software Development, University of Naples Parthenope and SAI – Sun Academic Initiative Principal subjects and occupational skills covered: Web platform, Unix OS Administration, Web and operating system security, PHP, JAVA, SQL, PL/SQL, training for SUN Certificate Administrator for Solaris 10 and SUN Certificate JAVA Programmer, Information Systems Theory. |
| 05/02/2009 | BSc, Computer Science, University of Naples Federico II, Grade – 95/110. Thesis: Attributes Certificates-Based User Profiles in Unix–Like Systems: Setting Up User Environment |
| 1995-1998 | English Language, Californian University, La Verne, in NATO’s Offices in Naples I studied English from level III to level V (the levels are VII + a master) |