Giovanni Reina
Research Group Leader, Centre For The Advanced Study Of Collective Behaviour at ULB
Brussels, Belgium
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Top SchoolGiovanni Reina is a research leader with a decade of experience advancing collective decision-making, swarm robotics and distributed cognition, currently heading a group at the Max Planck Institute for Animal Behavior and holding visiting roles in Brussels and Sheffield. His career blends deep academic research—from a PhD supervised by Marco Dorigo and EU-funded swarm projects—to applied software engineering earlier in his career on multimedia search and web technologies. Giovanni has led projects on distributed algorithms for optimal decision-making and engineered decentralised control and path-planning systems for robot swarms, bridging theory and real-world robotic platforms. Based in Brussels, he pairs rigorous computational methods with practical experimentation, and his trajectory shows a consistent focus on how simple local rules scale to robust collective behaviours. An understated strength is his ability to translate swarm intelligence principles into engineered systems, having moved between academia and industry since his Master’s at Politecnico di Milano.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
110/110 cum laude, Master of Science in Computer Engineering held in English language, 110/110 cum laude, Master of Science in Computer Engineering held in English language at Politecnico di Milano
English, Italian, Spanish
Github Skills (32)
statistical-mechanics8
nonlinear-dynamics8
sicp8
jupyterlab-extension8
maths7
mathematical7
nim-language6
cox-regression6
jupyterlab6
widgets6
cli5
jupyter-notebook5
storage5
survival-analysis5
python5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
DiODeProject/KilobotArena
Jan 2017 - Nov 2020
Contributions:23 commits, 18 pushes, 9 comments in 3 years 9 months
DiODeProject/MultiAlternativeDecisions
Jun 2020 - Jul 2022
Code for Tajima et al. (2019). Optimal policy for multi-alternative decisions. Nature Neuroscience.
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
policydecisionsneurosciencenatureoptimal
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