People

Michele worked with us at AISLAB from 2019 to 2025. He is currentyl a postdoctoral researcher at KTH (Stockholm, Sweden) working on the project “Seamless Indoor–Outdoor Mobile Robot Semantic Perception and Navigation with Domain Adaptation”, in Patric Jensfelt’s group. Michele obtained his PhD in Computer Science in 2025 from the University of Milan, under the supervision of Prof. Nicola Balisico and Dr. Matteo Luperto. In his work, he addressed domain shift in real-world robotic vision. His research proposed novel domain adaptation methodologies for scalability and privacy preservation in cloud-based robotic perception, as well as unsupervised adaptation approaches for removing human supervision. During this period, He did a research visiting at the Robotics Lab of the Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence (IDSIA), led by Prof. Alessandro Giusti, working on domain adaptation for nano-drones.

Nicola Basilico received the M.Sc. degree in computer science and engineering and the Ph.D. degree in information technology from the Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy, in 2007 and 2011, respectively.

He has held research positions as a Postdoctoral Scholar with the Robotics Laboratory, University of California, Merced, Merced, CA, USA, and as a Research Assistant with the Swiss AI Lab IDSIA, Lugano, Switzerland. From 2014 to 2019, he was an Assistant Professor, and from 2020 to 2025, he has been an Associate Professor with the Department of Computer Science, University of Milan, Milan, Italy, where he is now a Full Professor. His research interests include artificial intelligence, with a particular focus on multiagent systems and autonomous robotics.

Alex Bassot worked with us, contributing to the lab’s research on multi-robot systems and robotic vision from 2024 to 2026. He is currently a PhD student at the Cognitive Robot System Group at the University of Edinburgh.

I received my B.Sc. in Computer Science from the Università degli Studi di Milano in 2024, and I am currently pursuing my M.Sc. in Computer Science at the same institution, collaborating with AISLab in the Department of Computer Science. My main research interests are multi-robot systems and computer vision.

N. Alberto Borghese graduated with honors in Electronic Engineering in 1986 from the Politecnico di Milano. He worked as a tenured researcher at the National Research Council (CNR) from 1987 to 2000. He then became Associate Professor and subsequently Full Professor at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Milan (UNIMI), where he currently directs the Applied Intelligent Systems Laboratory.

His research focuses on the development and testing of computational intelligence methods and algorithms on real-world problems, with particular emphasis on limited execution time. He has developed innovative predictive methods based on multi-scale hierarchical neural networks, adaptive clustering, and statistical data processing techniques.

In recent years, he has applied his expertise to the development of innovative e-Health and e-Welfare platforms that integrate exergames, Artificial Intelligence, service robots, virtual communities, and smart objects.

He is co-author of more than 80 journal publications (h-index = 39), over 140 peer-reviewed conference papers, and 16 international patents. He was a partner in the projects Robocare and SI_Robotics (MIUR); coordinator of the European projects FITREHAB (InterReg IVC), REWIRE (FP7), and MOVECARE (H2020); and a partner in the project ESSENCE (H2020).

Eleonora Chitti worked at AISLAB from 2019 to 2025. She is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Milan. Her research focuses on human-computer interaction and serious games for rehabilitation. She earned her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Milan from AISLAB, and earlier degrees from Polytechnic of Milan. Awarded by the “Economy of Francesco” for a sustainability-focused video-game.

Jacopo Essenziale worked at AISLab as a research fellow from 2015 to 2019, focusing on game development, virtual reality, serious games, and rehabilitation.

Research assistant working on accessibility focused projects for e-learning. In collaboration with Politecnico di Milano

Matteo Luperto received the Ph.D. degree in information technology from the Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy, in 2017. He is currently an Assistant Professor with the Dipartimento di Informatica Giovanni Degli Antoni, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milano. His main research interests lie within the field of semantic mapping for autonomous mobile robots in indoor environments, with a particular attention on the analysis of the structural properties of buildings, and long-term autonomy for social assistive mobile robots. He was a visiting researcher at the IAS - Intelligent Autonomous System Group at TU Darmstadt, in 2024. He is an ellis - European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems member.

Renato Mainetti was a member of AISLab from 2010 to 2020 — first as a research assistant, then as a PhD student, and finally as a postdoctoral researcher. He is now a system administrator at the University of Milan.

I’m an MSc student at the University of Milan, contributing to AISLab while learning as much as I can along the way.

Matteo Princisgh received his B.Sc. degree in Computer Science from the Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy, in 2023. He is currently pursuing his M.Sc. degree in Computer Science at the same institution. His master’s thesis, developed during a research stay at Technische Universität Darmstadt, focuses on deep reinforcement learning for autonomous indoor navigation of quadruped robots. His research interests include computer vision, robotic perception, autonomous navigation, and high-performance, massively parallel simulation for robotics using NVIDIA Omniverse ecosystem.

I received my Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Università degli Studi di Milano in 2023. My Bachelor’s thesis focused on the implementation of an occupancy grid structure extraction algorithm using ROS. I then earned my Master’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Freiburg in 2026, where my thesis investigated efficient object search in indoor environments by leveraging object co-occurrences in feature space.

In 2026, I joined a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Joint Doctoral programme as a PhD student in agri-robotics. My doctoral research is jointly supervised by Claude Bernard Lyon 1 University and Università degli Studi di Milano and is expected to run from 2026 to 2029.

My main research interests involve enabling robots and autonomous systems to understand their environment and make informed decisions grounded in its semantics and dynamics.

Mauro Tellaroli received his B.Sc. in Computer Science in 2023 from the University of Milan. He collaborates with AISLab at the Department of Computer Science. His research focuses on multi-robot systems. He will start a PhD within the MSCA GreenFieldData doctoral consortium in September 2026.

Alessandro Vuono worked at AISLab as a full-stack developer for various research projects from 2017 to 2022.