Curriculum Vitae(not yet available for download)

Education

• Postgraduate Degree Course in Management Engineering, Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Naples Federico II
• Research Assistant under the J1 Visa Program at Interaction Lab > Viterbi School of Engineering > University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
• Ph.D. in Computer Science and Automation Engineering, Department of Computer and Systems Engineering, University of Naples Federico II.
  Thesis title: "Human Gesture Recognition and Robot Attentional Regulation for Human-Robot Interaction".
• M.Sc. degree in Computer Science (cum laude), Department of Physics, Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Natural Sciences, University of Naples Federico II.
  Thesis title: "Interazione Uomo-Robot mediante gesti" (Human-Robot interaction through gestures).
• B.Sc. degree in Computer Science (cum laude), Department of Physics, Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Natural Sciences, University of Naples Federico II.
  Thesis title: "Sisma: applicazione di controllo e monitoraggio di una Server Farm" (Server Farm monitoring and control application).

Research Interests with some demos

• Human-Robot Interaction
  * Gestures based interaction
• Probabilistic (Mobile) Robotics
  * SLAM problem: EKF on Pioneer P3DX robot using Sick LMS200 range finder
  * Light-follower Lego NXT robots (behavior based)
  * Ball finder LINABOT (LINABOT Is Not Another Blind roBOT)
• Computer vision
  * SIFT (SURF) based visual landmark extraction, for 6D pose estimation tasks using Microsoft Kinect device
• Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning
  
• Operating Systems
  * aiorOS, 32bit operating system.

Teachings

• 2012 - Teaching assistant for "Programmazione II" (in italian), Computer Science Programme, University of Naples Federico II
• 2011 - Teaching assistant for "Mobile Robots Lab", Master RIS, University of Naples Federico II
• 2011 - Teaching assistant for "Sistemi per il Governo dei Robot I/II" (in italian), Computer Science Programme, University of Naples Federico II

Publications

• Salvatore Iengo, Silvia Rossi, Mariacarla Staffa, Alberto Finzi. 2014. Continuous Gesture Recognition for Flexible Human-Robot Interaction. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2014), Hong Kong, China
• Francesco Cutugno, Alberto Finzi, Salvatore Iengo, Silvia Rossi, Mariacarla Staffa. Multimodal Interaction and Attentional Regulation in HRI, In proceeding of the 6th International Workshop on Human-Friendly Robotics (HFR 2013), Rome (Italy), October 2013
• Haris Balta, Salvatore Iengo, Silvia Rossi, Bruno Siciliano, Alberto Finzi, Geert De Cubber. 2013. "Adaptive behavior-based control for robot navigation: a multi-robot case study". XXIV International Conference on Information Communication & Automation Technologies, 2013; Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina
• Salvatore Iengo, Antonio Origlia, Mariacarla Staffa and Alberto Finzi. 2012. "Attentional and Emotional Regulation in Human-Robot Interaction". Ro-Man, 2012; Paris, France [best paper nomination]
• Alessandra Doria, Gianpaolo Carlino, Salvatore Iengo, Leonardo Merola, Sergio Ricciardi and Mariacarla Staffa. 2010. "Powerfarm: A power and emergency management thread-based software tool for the ATLAS Napoli Tier2". 2010 J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 219 052018

Other Informations and Extracurricular Activities

• Sport: FIN (Federazione Italiana Nuoto) Master Swimmer. Competitor in 200m freestyle, 800m freestyle, 1500m freestyle and Open Water.
  Last competition: on June 17, 2012 "International Swimming Crossing Race Capri-Napoli" - (36 km open water), FINA certificate of merit
  47th edition Capri-Napoli participation certificate
  
• Volunteer: AVIS (Associazione Volontari Italiani Sangue) blood donor.