Daniele Cattaneo
Junior Research Group Leader at University of Freiburg
Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Summary
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Top expert inMacOS and iOS Development and Applications
Daniele Cattaneo is a lead autonomy engineer and researcher with 13 years' experience applying deep learning to robotic perception, state estimation, sensor fusion and domain generalization for autonomous driving. He holds an M.Sc. and Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Milano‑Bicocca and led a junior research group at the University of Freiburg, where he managed a team of 10 PhD students on human‑interpretable end‑to‑end AI. Daniele has transitioned research into industry roles, most recently leading autonomy at Veluto Mobility after a short lead scientist stint at SafeAD. He combines rigorous academic background with practical software craftsmanship, exemplified by open‑source UI and feature improvements to the well‑known OpenEmu macOS emulator. Colleagues describe him as a teacher, scientist and engineer who blends programming discipline with an atypical streak of amateur artistry. His work favors interpretable models and cross‑modal solutions that improve robustness across domains — a practical focus that helps bridge lab results and real‑world autonomous systems.
13 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Summa cum laude, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Summa cum laude at Università degli Studi di Milano-BicoccaI.T.I.S. "Pietro Paleocapa"
Italian, English
Github Skills (7)
uid10
objective-c10
macos10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
emulation8
localization7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
OpenEmu/OpenEmu
Jul 2015 - Jun 2021
🕹 Retro video game emulation for macOS
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:350 commits, 16 PRs, 132 pushes in 5 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Daniele primarily focused on improving the OpenEmu macOS retro video game emulation project's user interface and functionality. Their contributions include fixing bugs and improving the appearance of UI elements, such as the search field, library, and blank slate views. The user also implemented new features, such as opening quick look previews for screenshots, adding a setting for changing the app's appearance and updating the text for localized play time.
game-boyobjective-cemulatorretrovideo-game
shysaur/Tricky68k
Dec 2014 - Aug 2021
Contributions:15 releases, 598 commits, 251 pushes in 6 years 8 months
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