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Curriculum Vitae et Studiorum Gabriele Valentini December 17, 2015 Gabriele Valentini (May 20, 1985, Italy) Universit´ e Libre de Bruxelles 50, Av. F. Roosevelt – CP 194/6 1050, Brussels, Belgium +32 0 2650 2712, [email protected] http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/ ~ gvalentini/ Highlights Ph.D. Student in Applied Sciences, Universit´ e Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium. Prof. Marco Dorigo (supervisor), Prof. Heiko Hamann (co-supervisor) B.Sc. and M.Sc. (magna cum laude ) in Engineering of Computing Systems, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy 4 international journal articles, 9 international conference articles (of which 3 during the M.Sc.), 3 international workshop articles, 1 international conference video, 3 invited talks, 54 citations, and an h-index of 5 (see Google schoolar) Winner of the AAAI Best Student Video Award (2015); nominated for the ANTS Best Paper Award (2014) and for the AAMAS Best Paper Award (2015) Interdisciplinary research background: robotics, swarm intelligence, multi-agent systems, sta- tistical physics, machine learning, and evolutionary computation Scientific methods: modeling (ODEs, master equations, chemical reactions, Markov chains); multi-agent simulations (Gillespie algorithm, self-propelled particles); real robots (Kilobots) Research statement: I investigate collective decision making as a paradigm to understand and design large-scale, self-organizing systems (both bottom-up and top-down)
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Curriculum Vitae et Studiorum

Gabriele ValentiniDecember 17, 2015

Gabriele Valentini (May 20, 1985, Italy)Universite Libre de Bruxelles

50, Av. F. Roosevelt – CP 194/61050, Brussels, Belgium

+32 0 2650 2712, [email protected]://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~gvalentini/

Highlights

� Ph.D. Student in Applied Sciences, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium.Prof. Marco Dorigo (supervisor), Prof. Heiko Hamann (co-supervisor)

� B.Sc. and M.Sc. (magna cum laude) in Engineering of Computing Systems, Politecnico diMilano, Milan, Italy

� 4 international journal articles, 9 international conference articles (of which 3 during the M.Sc.),3 international workshop articles, 1 international conference video, 3 invited talks, 54 citations,and an h-index of 5 (see Google schoolar)

� Winner of the AAAI Best Student Video Award (2015); nominated for the ANTS BestPaper Award (2014) and for the AAMAS Best Paper Award (2015)

� Interdisciplinary research background: robotics, swarm intelligence, multi-agent systems, sta-tistical physics, machine learning, and evolutionary computation

� Scientific methods: modeling (ODEs, master equations, chemical reactions, Markov chains);multi-agent simulations (Gillespie algorithm, self-propelled particles); real robots (Kilobots)

� Research statement: I investigate collective decision making as a paradigm to understand anddesign large-scale, self-organizing systems (both bottom-up and top-down)

Education

2013–Now Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Ph.D. Student, Applied Sciences, Brussels, Belgium.Self-Organized Collective Decision Making in Robot Swarms.Prof. Marco Dorigo (supervisor), Prof. Heiko Hamann (co-supervisor)

2011–2013 Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Master of Advanced Studies, Applied Sciences, Brus-sels, Belgium. Modeling Swarm Intelligence Systems with Markov Chains.Prof. Marco Dorigo (supervisor), Prof. Mauro Birattari (co-supervisor)

2008–2011 Politecnico di Milano, M.Sc., Engineering of Computing Systems, Milan, Italy. ANovel Approach to Model Selection in Distribution Estimation Using Markov Networks(110/110, magna cum laude). Prof. Matteo Matteucci (supervisor)

2004–2008 Politecnico di Milano, B.Sc., Engineering of Computing Systems, Milan, Italy. Poly-Glove: a Body-Based Haptic Interface (94/110). Prof. Giuseppina Gini (supervisor)

Scientific Activities

Association Memberships

2015 Member of AAAI, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence

Since 2013 Member of MCAA, Marie Curie Alumni Association

Since 2012 Member of CSS, Complex Systems Society

Scientific Committee

i. Organizing committee of the International Conference on Medical Imaging using Bio-Inspired and Soft Computing, MIBISOC 2013, 15-17 May 2013. Brussels, Belgium

Review Activities

i. International Journals:Swarm Intelligence, IF: 2.160IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, IF: 6.769New Journal of Physics, IF: 3.558

ii. International Conferences:IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2014, ICRA 2016)International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems (DARS 2014)15th Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems (TAROS 2014, TAROS 2015)IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2015)9th EAI International Conference on Bio-inspired Information and Communications Tech-nologies (BICT 2015)

Short Visits

2014 Universitat Paderborn, Visiting researcher (9–29 November, 2014), Paderborn, Ger-many. Design and Analysis of Collective Decision-Making Systems—Prof. Heiko Hamann

2014 Universitat Paderborn, Visiting researcher (4–14 March, 2014), Paderborn, Germany.Modeling the Emergence of Oriented Motion in Locust Swarms—Prof. Heiko Hamann,Dr. Yara Khaluf

2013 Universitat Paderborn, Visiting researcher (26–29 May, 2013), Paderborn, Germany.Site selection by Collective Decision Making—Prof. Heiko Hamann

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Invited Talks

i. June 17, 2015, Efficient Decision-Making in a Self-Organizing Robot Swarm: On theSpeed Versus Accuracy Trade-Off, Lab of Socioecology & Social Evolution, KatholiekeUniversiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

ii. May 27, 2013, Modeling Swarm Intelligence Systems with Markov Chains, UniversitatPaderborn, Paderborn, Germany

iii. June 7, 2011, A Novel Approach to Model Selection in Distribution Estimation UsingMarkov Networks, IRIDIA, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium

School Participation

i. 22nd Jyvaskyla Summer School, Markov Chain Stability and Applications (MATS576) byProf. Eric Moulines, Jyvaskyla, Finland, 8th-24th August 2012

Other Activities

i. Responsible for plagiarism detection using the iThenticate software for the Swarm In-telligence journal (since January 2012) and for the International Conference on SwarmIntelligence (ANTS 2012, ANTS 2014)

Awards/Grants/Nominations

Fellowships

i. 4 months fellowship (November 2015–February 2016) funded by the HealthCompass grant,Region Bruxelles-Capitale

ii. 29 months fellowship (April 2013–August 2015) funded by the E-SWARM ERC AdvancedGrant (n◦ 246939)

iii. 9 months fellowship (July 2012–March 2013) funded by the MIBISOC Marie Curie Inter-national Training Network grant (FP7 PEOPLE-ITN-2008)

iv. 10 months fellowship (August 2011–June 2012) funded by the E-SWARM ERC AdvancedGrant (n◦ 246939)

Awards & Nominations

i. Nominated for the Best Paper Award at the 14th International Conference on Au-tonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS 2015, Istanbul, Turkey

ii. Winner of the AAAI Best Student Video Award at the 9th AAAI Video Competition,29th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2015, Austin, Texas

iii. Nominated for the Best Paper Award at the Ninth International Conference on SwarmIntelligence, ANTS 2014, Brussels, Belgium

Travel Grants

i. Travel grant supporting the participation to the 14th International Conference on Au-tonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS 2015, Istanbul, Turkey

ii. Travel grant supporting the participation to the 13th International Conference on Au-tonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS 2014, Paris, France

iii. F.R.S-FNRS bursary of Belgium French Community covering registration fees at theEuropean Congress on Complex Systems, ECCS 2012, Brussels, Belgium

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Teaching Experience

Student Supervision

2015 Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Project supervisor, Brussels, Belgium.Anthony Antoun (Ph.D. student), Universite Libre de Bruxelles, A Smart Arena for theKilobot Robot: Development and Robot Experiments

2015 Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Master thesis supervisor, Brussels, Belgium.Davide Brambilla (M.Sc. student), Politecnico di Milano, An Empirical Robot Compari-son of Different Collective Decision-Making Methods for Environment Classification

2014 Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Stage supervisor, Brussels, Belgium.Etienne Hocquard (M.Sc. student), Universite de Nantes, A Smart Arena for the KilobotRobotic Platform

Courses

2014 Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Project supervision and evaluation, Brussels, Belgium.PROJ-H-402 Software Engineering Project (4 ECTS)—Prof. Mauro Birattari

2012 Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Project supervision and evaluation, Brussels, Belgium.PROJ-H-402 Software Engineering Project (4 ECTS)—Prof. Mauro Birattari

2009 Politecnico di Milano, Laboratory tutor, Milan, Italy. Software Engineering (10 ECTS)—Prof. Carlo Ghezzi

Additional Experience

Languages

Italian Mother tongue

English Full professional proficiency

French Good

Skills

Methods Mathematical modeling (ODEs, master equations, chemical reaction networks, Markovchains); multi-agent simulations (Gillespie algorithm, self-propelled particles, urnmodels, Monte Carlo methods); statistics & machine learning (generalized linear andmixed models, Markov Random Fields, Bayesian Networks, Gibbs/Metropolis sam-pling, `1-regularized regression methods); robotics (experiments with 100 Kilobotsand 10 foot-bots)

Programming R, C, C++, Perl, Bash, Java

Software Mathematica, Latex, svn, Final Cut, Photoshop

Working Experience

Mar 2006 JIL SANDER spa, fashion house, Milan, Italy. Customer service and data-entry

2000–2003 Indal srl, slaughterhouse, Montichiari, Italy. Summer period, logistics

1999 EdilGatti di Gatti Ivano, construction company, Calcinato, Italy. Summer period,construction worker

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Publication List

International Journals

J1. N. Mathews, G. Valentini, A.L. Christensen, R. O’Grady, A. Brutschy, and M. Dorigo.Spatially Targeted Communication in Decentralized Multirobot Systems. AutonomousRobots, 38 (4), pp. 439–457, 2015. IF: 2.066

J2. G. Valentini, and H. Hamann. Time-Variant Feedback Processes in Collective Decision-Making Systems: Influence and Effect of Dynamic Neighborhood Sizes. Swarm Intelli-gence, 8 (2–3), pp. 153–176, 2015. IF: 2.160

J3. A. Reina, G. Valentini, C. Fernandez-Oto, M. Dorigo, and V. Trianni. A Design Patternfor Decentralized Decision Making. PLoS ONE, 10 (10), e0140950, 2015. IF: 3.234

J4. G. Valentini, E. Ferrante, H. Hamann, and M. Dorigo. Collective Decision with 100Kilobots: Speed vs Accuracy in Binary Discrimination Problems. Autonomous Agentsand Multi-Agent Systems, 2015. (in press) IF: 1.254

Proceedings of International Conferences

C1. G. Valentini, L. Malago, and M. Matteucci. Evoptool: an Extensible Toolkit for Evo-lutionary Optimization Algorithms Comparison. In Proceedings of the IEEE WorldCongress on Computational Intelligence, WCCI, Congress on Evolutionary Computation,CEC-2010, pp. 1–8, IEEE Press, 2010

C2. L. Malago, M. Matteucci, and G. Valentini. Introducing `1-regularized Logistic Regressionin Markov Networks based EDAs. In Proceedings of the IEEE Congress on EvolutionaryComputation, CEC-2011, pp. 1581–1588, IEEE Press, 2011

C3. G. Valentini, L. Malago, and M. Matteucci. Optimization by `1-constrained Markov Fit-ness Modelling. In Proceedings of the Learning and Intelligent OptimizatioN Conference,LION6, pp. 250–264, LNCS, Springer, 2012

C4. G. Valentini, M. Birattari, and M. Dorigo. Majority Rule with Differential Latency: AnAbsorbing Markov Chain to Model Consensus. In Proceedings of the European Confer-ence on Complex Systems, ECCS’12, pp. 651–658, Springer Proceedings in Complexity,Springer, 2013

C5. G. Valentini, H. Hamann, and M. Dorigo. Self-Organized Collective Decision-Making:The Weighted Voter Model. In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference onAutonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS 2014, pp. 45–52, InternationalFoundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, IFAAMAS, 2014

C6. H. Hamann, and G. Valentini. Swarm in a Fly Bottle: Feedback-Based Analysis of Self-Organizing Temporary Lock-Ins. In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference onSwarm Intelligence, ANTS 2014, pp. 170–181, LNCS, Springer, 2014. Nominated forthe Best Paper Award

C7. H. Hamann, G. Valentini, Y. Khaluf, and M. Dorigo. Derivation of a Micro-Macro Link forCollective Decision-Making Systems: Uncover Network Features based on Drift Measure-ments. In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solvingfrom Nature, PPSN XIII, pp. 181–190, LNCS, Springer, 2014

C8. G. Valentini, H. Hamann, and M. Dorigo. Self-Organized Collective Decision-Making in a100-Robot Swarm. In Proceedings of the 29th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence,Student paper, AAAI 2015, pp. 4216–4217, AAAI Press, 2015

C9. G. Valentini, H. Hamann, and M. Dorigo. Efficient Decision-Making in a Self-OrganizingRobot Swarm: On the Speed Versus Accuracy Trade-Off. In Proceedings of the 14th In-ternational Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS 2015,pp. 1305–1314, International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Sys-tems, IFAAMAS, 2015. Nominated for the Best Paper Award

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International Workshops

W1. G. Valentini. Self-Organized Collective Decision-Making in Swarms of Autonomous Robots.In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multia-gent Systems, Doctoral Consortium, AAMAS 2014, pp.1703–1704, International Founda-tion for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, IFAAMAS, 2014

W2. H. Hamann, and G. Valentini. Micro-Macro Links for Self-Organizing Collective Sys-tems: From Local State Transition Rules to Global Transition Probabilities and Back. InSeventh International Workshop on Guided Self-Organization, GSO 2014, 2014, (withoutarchival publication)

W2. A. Reina, G. Valentini, C. Fernandez-Oto, M. Dorigo, and V. Trianni. A design patternfor best-of-n collective decisions. In 3rd Workshop on Biological Distributed Algorithms,BDA 2015, 2015, (without archival publication)

Scientific Videos at International Conferences

V1. G. Valentini, H. Hamann, and M. Dorigo. Self-Organized Collective Decisions in a RobotSwarm. In Video Proceedings of the 9th AAAI Video Competition, AAAI 2015, AAAIPress, 2015. Winner of the AAAI Best Student Video Award

Theses

T1. G. Valentini. PolyGlove: a Body-Based Haptic Interface. Bachelor thesis, Dipartimentodi Elettronica e Informazione, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy, September 2008

T2. G. Valentini. A Novel Approach to Model Selection in Distribution Estimation UsingMarkov Networks. Master thesis, Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione, Politecnicodi Milano, Milan, Italy, March 2011

T3. G. Valentini. Modeling Swarm Intelligence Systems with Markov Chains. Master ofAdvanced Studies in Applied Sciences thesis, Faculte de Sciences Appliquees, UniversiteLibre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium, June 2013

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