Mario Selvaggio

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Current position
Post doc
Aug. 2020 - Present
University of Naples Federico II, Napoli (Italy)

Work topic: shared control teleoperation for non-prehesile dynamic manipulation

Co-founder
Nov. 2019 - Present
BeyondShape

Work topic: design and development of advanced 3D scanning systems

Co-founder
Aug. 2021 - Present
Herobots

Work topic: design and development of soft robotic solutions

Past experiences
Visiting student
June 2019 - Nov. 2019
University of California Santa Barbara (US)

Member of the Hawkes group
Work topic: vine robot teleoperation

Visiting student
Oct. 2018 - Dec. 2018
IRISA, INRIA, Rennes (France)

Member of the Rainbow team
Work topic: shared control teleoperation with haptic feedback of a robotic system

Visiting student
Nov. 2017 - Dec. 2017
IRISA, INRIA, Rennes (France)

Member of the Lagadic team
Work topic: shared control teleoperation with haptic feedback of a dual arm robotic system

Intern
Oct. 2015 - Sep. 2016
Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genova (Italy)

Member of the AutoMAP team working on the EuRoC project
Work topic: haptic feedback teleoperation for robotic mobile manipulation

Master thesis student
Apr. 2014 - Sep. 2014
Fraunhofer IGD, Darmstadt (Germany)

Thesis topic: modelling and simulation of kinematic chains for deformable bodies' animation

Education
Ph.D. in Information Technology and Electrical Engineering
Feb. 2017 - Feb. 2020
University of Naples Federico II, Napoli (Italy)

Dissertation: Shared control telerobotic methods for industrial and surgical robotic systems

MSc in Mechanical Engineering
Jan. 2013 - Apr. 2015
University of Naples Federico II, Napoli (Italy)

Dissertation: Interactive simulation of kinematic and dynamic chains and their coupling with deformable bodies

BSc in Mechanical Engineering
Sep. 2009 - Jan. 2013
University of Naples Federico II, Napoli (Italy)

Dissertation: L'espressione dell'incertezza nella misura

Scholarships

COINOR - STAR L2 program
Scholarship promoted by University of Naples Federico II
June 2019 - Nov. 2019

to spend a 6-months research period in the US at UCSB

Erasmus+ "Universities for EU projects"
Oct. 2018 - Dec. 2018
Scholarship promoted by SEND consortium

to spend a 2-months research period in France

Erasmus LLP placement
May 2014 - Sept. 2014
Scholarship promoted by University of Naples Federico II

to spend a 5-months master thesis period in Germany

Grants

Innovation in haptics by young researchers
Dec. 2018 - Jan. 2020
Grant promoted by IEEE RAS Technical Committee on Haptics

for the project "Haptic guidance methods for robotic surgery"

Awards

Finalist of the I-RAS "Fabrizio Flacco" Young Author Best Paper Award
Sept. 2021
Promoted by the Italian chapter of the Robotics and Automation Society

for the paper "A Shared-control Teleoperation Architecture for Nonprehensile Object Transportation"
published in the IEEE Transactions on Robotics

Switch 2 Product - Innovation in Bioengineering
June 2018
Awarded at the Sixth National Congress of Bioengineering

Second prize

IEEE-RAS 1st "Robotics Made in Italy" video contest
Sept. 2017
Award promoted by Italian chapter of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society

Second prize

Media coverage

IEEE Automaton Blog
June 2021
Weekly selection of the coolest robotics videos
IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine
Mar. 2018
Featured in the Volume 25 Issue 1 for the IEEE I-RAS video contest