Antonio Frisoli, PhD

Assistant Professor of Applied Mechanics

Head of Human Robot Interaction Area , PERCRO Lab

Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Haptics
Associate Editor of MIT Press Presence
IEEE CEB (Conference Editorial Board) Associate Editor 2008-2010
Associate Editor of IEEE IROS International Conference on Intelligent Robots & Systems (2007-2010)
Associate Editor of IEEE ICRA International Conference of Robotics & Automation (2008-2010)
Associate Editor of Worldhaptics (2009) and Eurohaptics (2010) conference
Member of the Programme Committee of IEEE VR (2007-2008)

Mail Address: Polo Sant' Anna Valdera
Viale Rinaldo Piaggio, 34
Pontedera (Pisa) - Italy

Curriculum Vitae

Italian (last update 30.1.2009)
English (last update 31.7.2008)

Brief CV

Since 2003 Antonio Frisoli (Eng., PhD) is Assistant Professor of Applied Mechanics at SSSA, where he is head of the "Human Robot Interaction" research area, and former head of the research division “Virtual Reality and Telerobotic Systems” of the PERCRO laboratory.
He received the MS “summa cum laude” in Mechanical Engineering, specialization in Robotics, from the University of Pisa, Italy, and the Graduate Diploma in Engineering from Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna (SSSA) in Pisa, Italy, in 1998. In 2002 he received the PhD in robotics and teleoperation in Virtual Environments from SSSA.

His research interests are in the field of haptic interfaces, multimodal perception, modeling and control of robotic systems, robotic assisted neurorehabilitation, kinematics, cognitive robotics. He is author of more than 90 publications in the area of robotics and virtual reality.

He is Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Haptics and MIT Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments, he has been appointed as IEEE CEB Associate Editor and he is the current vice-chair for info and dissemination of the Haptic Technical Committee, and acts as reviewer of several scientific international journals and conferences of robotics and virtual reality. He is currently involved in several international and national research projects. He is scientific responsible for SSSA of the "Presenccia" FET EU project and "Decision in Motion" Strep project in the area of Cognitive Systems, and he is currently responsible of a national funded RTD project for the application of robotics and virtual reality technologies in neuro-rehabilitation.

Since 2004 he has been appointed as lecturer of the course of "Mechanics of Robots" at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of University of Pisa, and since 2002 he is responsible of several undergraduate courses in the area of Mechanical Engineering and Robotics at SSSA.
Since 2007 he has been appointed at the Faculty of Medicine of University of Udine as lecturer for the course of “Properties, biofunctionality and technology of prostheses” in the graduate course of studies on “Medical Biotechnologies” and at the Faculty of Medicine of Pisa as lectures for the course of “Robotics and virtual environments for rehabilitation” in the undergraduate course of Physiotherapy.

For the list of scientific publications follow this link.

Education

2002 PhD in robotics with honors in the area of "Teleoperation in Virtual Environments"at Scuola Superiore S. Anna - Italy with a thesis entitled ''Design and Modeling of Haptic Interfaces: an integrated approach"

AUGUST-SEPTEMPBER 1998 Summer Guest Research Fellow at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia-IL on design, mechanical testing and analysis of the mechanics of high-field superconducting magnets, including LHC quadrupoles and/or new designs.

1998 Diploma of Sant' Anna School of University Studies and Doctoral Research (SSSUP), Faculty of Experimental Sciences, Engineering, with full marks and a dissertation on "Kinematic analysis and design of the haptic interface subsystem of the TREMOR project''.

1998 Laurea degree in Mechanical Engineering with honors, specialization in Industrial Automation and Robotics, University of Pisa, with a dissertation on "Design and optimizazion of a six degree of freedom pen-based haptic device for dextrous manipulation in virtual environments''.

1987-1992 High School specialized in scientific studies, Scientific Lycee ``A. Volta'', Foggia (Italy) with full marks (60/60).

Awards

1994: Winner of the national engineering examination for 5 places (ranking second over about 300 participants from all over Italy) for admission to the Scuola Superiore di Studi Universitari Sant’Anna in Pisa. The Sant’Anna School of University Studies and Doctoral Research is a public institution whose aims are to promote and advance scientific knowledge both through university programs and doctoral research, and to train gifted young scholars for scientific research and the teaching profession. The students are rewarded five year scholarships.

Foreign Language Knowledge

Spoken english, fair knowledge of french and chinese.