Resume

Education

Ph.D student, Imperial College London, 2015 - Present.

M.Res in Advanced Computing, Imperial College London, 2015.

M.Sc in Computer Science and Networking, University of Pisa, 2012.

B.Sc in Computer Science, University of Cagliari, 2009.

Work experience

Research Intern at Microsoft HoloLens, Microsoft, July 2018 - Present.

Research Intern, ARM, September 2016 - December 2016

Teaching assistant, Imperial College London, 2015 - Present.

Software Engineer, TFG Systems, April 2013 - September 2014.

Intern as Software Engineer, xorovo, October 2008 - April 2009.

Publications

E. Vespa, N. Nikolov, M. Grimm, L. Nardi, P. H. J. Kelly and S. Leutenegger. Efficient Octree-Based Volumetric SLAM Supporting Signed-Distance and Occupancy Mapping. In IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 1144-1151, April 2018.

B. Bodin, H. Wagstaff, S. Saeedi, L. Nardi, E. Vespa, J.H. Mayer, A. Nisbet, M. Luján, S. Furber, A.J. Davison, P. HJ Kelly and M. O'Boyle, SLAMBench2: Multi-Objective Head-to-Head Benchmarking for Visual SLAM. in Proc. of The International Conference in Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2018), Brisbane, Australia, May 2018.

M. Z. Zia, L. Nardi, A. Jack, E. Vespa, B. Bodin, P. H. J. Kelly and A. J. Davison. Comparative Design Space Exploration of Dense and Semi-Dense SLAM. In IEEE Intl. Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2016), Stockholm, Sweden, May 2016. (arxiv)

G. Mencagli, M. Vanneschi, and E. Vespa. 2014. A Cooperative Predictive Control Approach to Improve the Reconfiguration Stability of Adaptive Distributed Parallel Applications. ACM Trans. Auton. Adapt. Syst. 9, 1, Article 2 (March 2014), 27 pages.

G. Mencagli, M. Vanneschi, and E. Vespa. 2013. Reconfiguration stability of adaptive distributed parallel applications through a cooperative predictive control approach. In Proceedings of the 19th international conference on Parallel Processing (Euro-Par'13), Felix Wolf, Bernd Mohr, and Dieter Mey (Eds.). Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, 329-340.

G. Mencagli, M. Vanneschi, E. Vespa. "Control-theoretic adaptation strategies for autonomic reconfigurable parallel applications on cloud environments," in High Performance Computing and Simulation (HPCS), 2013 International Conference on , vol., no., pp.11-18, 1-5 July 2013