Team Past Team Members

Past Team Members

Post Doc Researchers

Dr. Luigi Bibbò

Dr. Michelangelo Guaitolini

Dr. Gianmaria Mancioppi

Dr. Olivia Nocentini

 

PhD Students

Carlo La Viola

Research Fellows

Muhammad Zain Bashir

Gabriele Buttari

Claudia Fini

Lorenzo Gori

Erica Li Calzi

Marica Sestito

Niccolò Vezzi

Visiting Researchers

Prof. J. Arthur Serrano - Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU, Norway)

Miguel Ángel Anguita Molina - Universidad de Granada (Spain)

Gustavo Assunçao - University of Coimbra (Portugal)

Bruno Ferreira - University of Coimbra (Portugal)

MSc Students

Elena Adelucci - Thesis: "Development and testing of algorithms for measuring mutual gaze to enhance human-robot interaction" (defended on December 2024 - Supervisors: F. Cavallo, L. Fiorini)

Niccolò Alunni - Thesis: "Design and implementation of a multi-device dexterous hand teleoperation system for gesture recognition in biomedical applications" (defended on December 2024 - Supervisors: F. Cavallo, A. Sorrentino)

Elisa Beccai - “Sviluppo e sperimentazione di metodi per l'identificazione di soggetti con demenza” (defended on April 2025 - Supervisors: F. Cavallo, E. Rovini)

Gabriele Buttari - “Analisi, sviluppo e integrazione di "emotional gestures" per il miglioramento dell'interazione uomo-robot” (defended on April 2025 - Supervisors: F. Cavallo, L. Fiorini)

Pietro Benvenuti - Thesis: "Design, Development and Test of a Novel Experimental Framework for Motor-Cognitive Assessment in Neurodegenerative Disease" (defended on September 2022 - Supervisor: F. Cavallo, L. Fiorini, E. Rovini)

Ludovica Evangelista - Thesis: “Progettazione e test di un approccio multimodale per la misurazione degli esercizi FMA-UE: uno studio di valutazione pre-clinica” (defended on July 2025 - Supervisors: F. Cavallo, L. Fiorini, E. Rovini, M. Falagiani)

Nicole Fiamingo - Thesis: "" (defended on February 2025)

Beatrice Francalanci - Thesis: "Studio e sviluppo di nuovi metodi sperimentali per la valutazione della rigidità nella malattia di Parkinson tramite l'utilizzo di sensori inerziali ed elettromiografici" (defended on July 2023 - Supervisors: F. Cavallo, E. Rovini)

Matilde Guidi - Thesis:" Development and evaluation of an LLM-based system for human-robot interaction with TIAGo++: integration of dialogue, context awareness, and object  pointing" (defended on July 2025 - Supervisors: F. Cavallo, L. Fiorini, A. Sorrentino)

Sofia Iacopini - Thesis: "Exploring human wrist movements in bio-cooperative objects handover scenario with robot manipulator" (defended on April 2025 - Supervisors: F. Cavallo, L. Fiorini, A. Sorrentino)

Erica Li Calzi - Thesis: "Assessing the Interplay Between Motor and Cognitive Aspects in Mild Cognitive Impairment Using Innovative Bioengineering Techniques and Statistical Parametric Mapping"  (defended on December 2023 - Supervisors: F. Cavallo, E. Rovini, G. Mancioppi)

Andrea Magnotta  - Thesis: "Design, development, and validation of an eye gazing framework integrated in an assistive robot for monitoring the conscious state of bedridden patients" (defended on February 2023 - Supervisors: F. Cavallo, L. Fiorini, A. Sorrentino)

Helene Musca - Thesis “Progettazione e sviluppo di soluzioni di social robotics per attività di stimolazione cognitiva in soggetti in età infantile” (defended on April 2025 - Supervisors: F. Cavallo, L. Fiorini, M. V. Maselli)

Vanessa Pagliacci- Thesis: "Exploring the Effects of Assistive Robots on Gait Kinematics in Rehabilitation"  (defended on October 2024 - Supervisors: F. Cavallo, L. Fiorini, A. Sorrentino)

Francesca Parrotta - Thesis: "Progettazione e implementazione di un sistema di raffreddamento per sonde trans-esofagee ecocardiografiche nella cardiochirurgia mini-invasiva” (defended on October 2024 - Supervisors: F. Cavallo, L. Fiorini, A. Menciassi, G. Faoro)

Lorenzo Pugi - Thesis:  "Robot co-speech gesture generation for enhancing social robot capabilities"  (defended on July 2023 - Supervisors: F. Cavallo, L. Fiorini, A. Sorrentino)

Niccolò Vezzi - Thesis "Development and evaluation of a follow-me robot for gait assessment using RGBD camera and Laser range finder"  (defended on September 2022 - Supervisors: F. Cavallo, L. Fiorini, A. Sorrentino)

 

Bachelor Students

Lapo Pramudya Grappolini - Thesis: "LiveNAO: integrated telepresence framework for NAO robot with Oculus Quest 2 VR device" (defended on July 2023)

Camilla Pacenti - Thesis: "Study and Investigation of Methods and technologies for evaluating prodromal symptoms of Parkinson's disease" (defended on July 2023)