BELLOTTO NICOLA

Nicola Bellotto

CONTACTS

Department of Information Engineering, University of Padua
via Gradenigo 6/a, Padova, 35131
Italy
+39-049-887-7650
nicola.bellotto@unipd.it
https://www.dei.unipd.it/~nbellotto


RESEARCH INTERESTS

Machine perception, mobile robotics, intelligent systems.


ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT

2021-present
Associate Professor
Department of Information Engineering, University of Padua, Italy

2009-2021
Associate Professor (2015), Senior Lecturer (2010), Lecturer (2009)
School of Computer Science, University of Lincoln, UK

2008-2009
Postdoc Research Assistant
Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, UK


NONACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT

2004-2006
R&D Assistant (part-time)
RoboCity Ltd, London Aquarium, UK

2001-2003
Embedded Systems Developer (part-time)
Padova Ricerche Scpa, Italy

1995-2001
Embedded Systems Developer
Vicar Srl, Italy

1994-1995
CNC Software Developer
Itaca Srl, Italy


EDUCATION

2008
PhD in Computer Science (Robotics), University of Essex, UK
Thesis: "Multisensor Data Fusion for Simultaneous People Tracking and Recognition with a Service Robot".

2004
Master in Electronic Engineering (Control Systems), University of Padova, Italy
Thesis: "Image-based Localization for Mobile Robots in Dynamic Environments".


MAIN FUNDED PROJECTS

- DARKO: Dynamic Agile Production Robots That Learn and Optimise Knowledge and Operations (PI, €490k; total budget €7M), EU Horizon 2020, 2021-2024.

- ActiVis: Active Vision with Human-in-the-Loop for the Visually Impaired (PI, $55k),
Google Faculty Research Award, 2016-2020

- ENRICHME: Enabling Robot and Assisted Living Environment for Independent Care and Health Monitoring of the Elderly (PI and Technical Manager, €545k; total budget €4M), EU Horizon 2020, 2015-2018

- FLOBOT: Floor Washing Robot for Professional Users (PI, €305k; total budget €3.2M), EU Horizon 2020, 2015-2018.


MAIN HONOURS

- Best Paper Award, Journal of Intelligent Service Robotics (ISR), 2021.
- Best Paper Award, IEEE Int. Conf. on Image Processing, Applications and Systems (IPAS), Genoa, 2020.
- Best Paper Award, Int. Conf. on Interactive Digital Media (ICIDM), Liverpool, 2018.
- Best Paper Presentation Award, AAAI Spring Symposium on “Wellbeing AI: From
- Machine Learning to Subjectivity Oriented Computing”, Stanford University, 2017.


SCHOLARLY ACTIVITIES

Editorial boards

- Cognitive Computation and Systems, IET Journals, 2021-present
- Experimental Results, Cambridge University Press, 2019-present
- Robotics, MDPI, 2012-present

Special issues

- "Understanding Images in Biological and Computer Vision", Interface Focus, Royal Society Publishing, 2018
- "Seventh European Conference on Mobile Robots (ECMR’15)", Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Elsevier, 2017
- "Representations and Reasoning for Robotics", Robotics, MDPI, 2015

Scientific events

- IEEE/RSJ Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2022 (associate editor)
- IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2022 (associate editor)
- British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), 2020 (area chair)
- British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), 2019 (area chair)
- BMVA Computer Vision Summer School, 2019 (co-chair)
- IEEE/RSJ Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2018 (session co-chair)
- BMVA Computer Vision Summer School, 2018 (co-chair)
- IAS Workshop on “Robot Perception of Humans”, 2018 (co-chair)
- Royal Society “Understanding images in biology and computer vision”, 2018 (co-chair)
- BMVA Meeting on “Human Activity Recognition and Monitoring”, 2017 (co-chair)
- IEEE/RSJ Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2017 (associate editor, session chair)
- BMVA Computer Vision Summer School, 2017 (general chair)
- IEEE/RSJ Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2016 (associate editor)
- European Conf. on Mobile Robots (ECMR), 2015 (publication chair)
- IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2015 (associate editor)
- IEEE/RSJ Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2015 (associate editor)
- Int. Conf. on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics, 2015 (session chair)
- EPSRC ViiHM Mini-Workshop on “Vision for movement”, 2015 (co-chair)
- IEEE/RSJ Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2014 (associate editor)
- AAAI Spring Symposium on “Qualitative Representations for Robots”, 2014 (co-chair)
- IEEE/RSJ Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2013 (associate editor)
- IEEE ICRA Workshops on “HRI for Assistance and Industrial Robots”, 2013 (co-chair)
- IEEE/RSJ Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2012 (associate editor)


TEACHING

Qualifications

- Associate Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy (2014)

Modules

- Intelligenza Artificiale (BSc, 2021-present)
- Sistemi Operativi (BSc, 2021-present)
- Advanced Artificial Intelligence (MSc, 2014-2021)
- Computer Vision (MSc, 2014-2021)
- Operating Systems (BSc, 2009-2021)
- Foundations of Robotics (MSc, 2018-2020)
- Project Preparation (BSc, 2013-2014)
- Computer Vision and Robotics (BSc, 2010-2013)
- Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (BSc, 2009-2011)
- Software Engineering and Advanced Software Development (BSc, 2009-2010)


PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

2020-2021
Member of the Lincoln Institute of Technology Research and Innovation Committee

2015-2021
Member of the College Ethics Committee

2012-2020
Member of the College Research Committee

2016-2019
Member of the Lincoln Institute for Health (LIH)


PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP

- Senior Member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
- Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
- ACM Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
- British Machine Vision Association (BMVA)