Federico Rossi

Dr. Federico Rossi is a Robotics Technologist in the Maritime and Multi-Agent Autonomy Group within the Robotics section at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He earned his Ph.D. in Aeronautics and Astronautics from Stanford University in 2018, under the mentorship of Prof. Marco Pavone. His doctoral thesis, titled "On the Interaction between Autonomous Mobility-on-Demand Systems and the Built Environment: Models and Large Scale Coordination Algorithms," focused on the large-scale coordination of autonomous systems. Prior to his Ph.D., Federico completed a dual M.Sc. in Space Engineering from Politecnico di Milano and Politecnico di Torino in 2013, and he is an alumnus of the prestigious Alta Scuola Politecnica.

Federico's research centers on optimal control and sequential decision-making under uncertainty in multi-agent robotic systems. His work has broad applications, including autonomous multi-robot lunar exploration, coordinating aerobots for atmospheric exploration on Venus, and guiding autonomous under-ice buoyant vehicles to study the melting of Antarctic glaciers. He has also collaborated with Universidad San Francisco de Quito and the Galapagos Marine Reserve on using multi-UAV systems to patrol and protect Galapagos sharks from illegal poaching.

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