Summary
Francesco Setti is an Associate Professor of Computer Engineering at the University of Verona with 11 years of research experience spanning computer vision, machine learning and robotics, applied to surgical robotics and Industry 4.0. He holds a PhD in Mechanical Measurements and a Mechatronics MSc, and has led EU- and Marie Curie–funded projects developing motion-capture and human-motion assessment systems. Author of over 50 peer-reviewed papers and an editorial board member for Cognitive Processing, he regularly reviews for top venues such as CVPR, ICCV and ICRA. Francesco combines academic leadership with entrepreneurship, co-founding three startups that translate robotics, sports instrumentation and AI-for-manufacturing research into commercial products. Notably, his work bridges symbolic knowledge representation (ontologies) with statistical vision methods to detect complex human behaviours in real-world scenarios.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Mechanical Measurements for Engineering and Space, PhD, Mechanical Measurements for Engineering and Space at Università degli Studi di Padova
Master of Science (MSc), Mechatronic Engineering, 106/110, Master of Science (MSc), Mechatronic Engineering, 106/110 at Università degli Studi di Trento
Italian, English