Agostino De Santis
short curriculum and current activities
for an extended curriculum please contact: agodesa ( at ) unina.it
Dr. Agostino De Santis was born on October 12, 1979. He lives in Italy, near Salerno. He is a research assistant (assegnista di ricerca) in the Department of Computer and Systems Engineering of the University of Napoli Federico II.
EDUCATION
He has attended the high school at
Liceo–Ginnasio T. Tasso (Classic Lyceum) in Salerno, Italy, and he has graduated with full
marks (60/60).
He has received the Laurea (B.Sc.) degree
and the Laurea Specialistica (M.Sc.) degree in
Electronic Engineering, both con lode (with first class honours), on September 2001 and
February 2004, respectively, from
the University of Salerno, Italy. He has been awarded by the
University of Salerno for getting the Laurea degree with
first class
honours in the officially scheduled time. He has got a professional engineer
certificate in 2004 and a certificate as "innovation manager for technology
transfer" after a one-year course, including research activity, from the Regional
Authority of Campania in 2005. In 2007 he has obtained the Research Doctorate
degree in Computer and Systems Engineering from the University of Napoli Federico II.
He has been ranked first at the
admission exam to the Doctorate School in 2004.
Moreover, he has
been a student representative
at high school and university too; he has worked part-time for the educational
division of the Italian national television RAI; he has participated to the final
round of the National Mathematics Contest for high school students in 1998.
RESEARCH
His research interests include: human―robot interaction (HRI), cognitive
and Artificial Intelligence issues in
robotics, control of redundant manipulators, service robotics.
He is also interested in technology transfer to industry. For
additional details please refer to
this page. Since November 2005, until April 2006, he
has been a visiting researcher at the
Institute of
Robotics and Mechatronics of the
German Aerospace Center (DLR), Wessling,
D.
Here is a list
of his
publications, related to the cited
research topics. For further details, please
visit also this page.
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Agostino De Santis
is a student member of the
IEEE and the
IEEE–RAS;
he is the IEEE–RAS Society coordinator in
the
IEEE Graduates of
the Last Decade (GOLD) Committee.
He has been a co-chair of the Student Activities Board and he is
currently serving as a co-chair in the Chapter and International Affairs Committee of the
IEEE–RAS.
Agostino is
a reviewer for the main international journals and conferences on Robotics. He has chaired
a session on Human-machine interaction at the 2007 IEEE–ASME
International Conference
on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics.
AWARDS AND HONOURS
In June 2005 he
has been
awarded by the International Society of Motor Control for the best graduate
student paper presentation in the field of Motor Control at the 12th Conference of the International
Graphonomics Society.
In September 2005 he has obtained an IEEE–RAS scholarship for the attendance of the
2005 IEEE–RAS/IFRR International School of
Robotics Science on Robot Design, in July 2006 an Onassis Foundation
Scholarship for the attendance of the 2006 Onassis Science Lecture
Series in Computer Science on Robots Intelligently Interacting with
People, and, in September 2007, an IEEE–RAS scholarship for the 2007 IEEE–RAS/IFRR International School of
Robotics Science on Learning.
He has been invited to the following events: in September 2005, from the Italian Embassy in Tokyo, to the 2005
Italy–Japan workshop on "The Man and the Robot: Italian and Japanese Approaches";
then, in May 2008, to the 6th IARP workshop
on Dependable Robots for Anthropic Environments. Moreover, he has been admitted,
in March 2008, to the
Frontier Science Conference for Young Researchers on "Robotics: Experimental
Cognitive Robotics", promoted by the European Science Foundation (ESF), and the
Japanese Society for the Promotion of Sciences (JSPS), and, in May 2008, to the
ICRA'08–NEWHRI
workshop on research in HRI.