Andrea Ghezzi
PhD Candidate
Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
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Top SchoolAndrea Ghezzi is a PhD candidate at the SYSCOP Laboratory, University of Freiburg, and a Marie-Curie fellow in the ELO-X network, specializing in numerical optimization for estimation and control. With four years of research experience spanning academia and industry, he has worked as a visiting scholar at Argonne, interned at Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs, and collaborated with industrial partners on virtual sensing and dual control. His background blends rigorous control theory (MS cum laude from Politecnico di Milano) with hands-on data science applications, including a published IMU-based terrain recognition project. Andrea’s work often focuses on bringing optimization methods into practical embedded and industrial settings, and he has a track record of short-term research placements that accelerate technology transfer.
4 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Liceo Scientifico Statale "Lorenzo Mascheroni"Master of Science - MS, Automation and Control Engineering, 110/110 cum laude, Master of Science - MS, Automation and Control Engineering, 110/110 cum laude at Politecnico di Milano
Italian, English, German
Github Skills (35)
constrained-optimization10
nonlinear10
robotics10
solver10
octave10
constraint-programming10
casadi10
robustness10
pybullet10
nonlinear-optimization10
optimization10
symbolic-manipulation9
reinforcement-learning9
mixed-integer-programming9
self-contained9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
minlp-toolbox/CAMINO
Mar 2024 - Feb 2025
Python-CasADi-based package containing several algorithms for solving mixed-integer nonlinear programs (MINLPs)
Contributions:2 releases, 1 review, 6 PRs in 10 months
aghezz1/acados
May 2022 - Dec 2024
Fast and embedded solvers for nonlinear optimal control
Contributions:14 pushes, 9 branches in 2 years 7 months
nonlinearsolversoptimizationoptimal-controlembedded
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