Francesco StellacciFrancesco Stellacci graduated in Materials Engineering at the Politecnico di Milano in 1998 with a thesis on photochromic polymers with Prof. Giuseppe Zerbi and Mariacarla Gallazzi. In 1999 he moved to the Chemistry Department of the University of Arizona for as a post-doc in the group of Joe Perry in close collaboration with the group of Seth Marder. In 2002 he moved to the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as an assistant professor. He was then promoted to associate without (2006) and with tenure (2009). In 2010 he moved to the Institute of Materials at EPFL as a full Professor. He holds the Alcan EP Chair. Francesco was one of the recipients of the Technology Review TR35 "35 Innovator under 35" award in 2005, and the Popular Science Magazine "Brilliant 10" award in 2007. He has been a Packard Fellow starting 2005.
Dario FloreanoProf. Dario Floreano is director of the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL). Since 2010, he is the founding director of the Swiss National Center of Competence in Robotics, a research program that brings together more than 20 labs across Switzerland. Prof. Floreano holds an M.A. in Vision, an M.S. in Neural Computation, and a PhD in Robotics. He has held research positions at Sony Computer Science Laboratory, at Caltech/JPL, and at Harvard University. His main research interests are Robotics and A.I. at the convergence of biology and engineering. Prof. Floreano made pioneering contributions to the fields of evolutionary robotics, aerial robotics, and soft robotics. He served in numerous advisory boards and committees, including the Future and Emerging Technologies division of the European Commission, the World Economic Forum Agenda Council, the International Society of Artificial Life, the International Neural Network Society, and in the editorial committee of several scientific journals. In addition, he helped spinning off two drone companies (senseFly.com and Flyability.com) and a non-for-profit portal on robotics and A.I. (RoboHub.org). Books
Manuale sulle Reti Neurali, il Mulino (in Italian), 1996 (first edition), 2006 (second edition)Evolutionary Robotics, MIT Press, 2000
Bio-Inspired Artificial Intelligence, MIT Press, 2008
Flying Insects and Robots, Springer Verlag, 2010
Philippe WieserPhilippe Wieser a obtenu son diplôme dingénieur mécanicien de lEPFL en 1977 et son doctorat en 1981. Après avoir travaillé dans un bureau dingénieurs conseils (Motor-Columbus, Baden), il rejoint lEPFL.
Ses domaines de recherche et denseignement sont liés au management de projet, à la logistique/Supply Chain management et aux systèmes dinformation associés à la logistique intégrée dentreprises ou dorganisations, en particulier les systèmes de santé.
En mai 2000, Philippe Wieser a été nommé directeur exécutif de lIML (Institut international de Management pour la Logistique de lEPFL) et 2008 Professeur titulaire à lEPFL.
Philippe Wieser enseigne à lEPFL (programme Mineur, Master et Executive Master), à lIML (Lausanne et Paris), ainsi quà lEcole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées à Paris et dans différentes universités européennes et africaines.
Il est lauteur ou le co-auteur de quelque 90 publications et conférences.
