Alberto Pretto
Associate Professor
Padua, Veneto, Italy
Summary
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Top SchoolAlberto Pretto is an associate professor and head of the Field Robotics Group at the University of Padua, blending academic research in autonomous robotics and perception with hands-on productization experience. He holds an M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Padua and has 12+ years of experience spanning academia, spin-offs, and startups—having co-founded IT+Robotics and FlexSight and served as CEO in both ventures. His work bridges embedded systems and computer vision, including practical contributions to IMU calibration and lightweight embedded tooling showcased on GitHub. A seasoned visitor to top labs in Germany and the US, he combines international research collaborations with leadership in applied R&D, making him equally comfortable designing algorithms and shipping embedded vision products.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Università degli Studi di Padova
Github Skills (9)
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
sensor-fusion10
eigen9
embedded8
sys8
data-visualizations6
data-visualization6
data-visualisation6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Kyle-ak/imu_tk
Dec 2014 - Feb 2016
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:17 commits in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Alberto primarily contributed to the project through code modifications focused on calibration and visualization aspects of the inertial measurement unit (IMU). This involved changes to calibration routines within the `calibration.cpp` and `calibration.h` files, suggesting improvements to the sensor data processing and error correction. Furthermore, the user removed dependencies on external libraries like `gnuplot_i` and `pcl`, indicating a focus on streamlining the codebase and potentially making the project more portable or lightweight for embedded applications.
albertopretto/team_desc_roma_pd
Sep 2015 - Feb 2017
Contributions:8 pushes in 1 year 4 months
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