Eliseo Ferrante

Visiting Professor Affiliation: Visiting
Education: MSc, in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, Politecnico di Milano and University of Illinois at Chicago; PhD in Applied Sciences, Université Libre de Bruxelles

ef2698@nyu.edu

Research Areas: Swarm robotics, complex systems, machine learning, artificial intelligence, non-equilibrium statistical physics, evolutionary and theoretical biology

Eliseo Ferrante received one MSc degree from Politecnico di Milano and one from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2007, both in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence. He received his PhD degree in Applied Sciences from Université Libre de Bruxelles in 2013, with a thesis in swarm robotics and statistical physics.

Ferrante is Visiting Professor of Computer Science at New York University Abu Dhabi and Assistant Professor (tenured) at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He has worked in the fields of robotics, artificial intelligence, and swarm robotics, and he is at the interface between fundamental research and applied research. He co-authored more than 80 articles in different fields, including robotics, physics, and computer science. He actively contributes to the field through editorial activities and conference co-organizations (including IROS 2024 in Abu Dhabi).

In fundamental research, his goal is to develop a principled method for achieving full collective-level control of arbitrary large swarms of robots. He is interested in achieving a trade-off between scalability and emergent behavior, and controllability and complexity of the models employed. In applied research, he has worked on swarms of unmanned of aerial vehicles for several indoor and outdoor use cases, without relying on any man-made infrastructure or centralized paradigms.