Nicola Bellotto
Associate Professor
Italy
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Top SchoolNicola Bellotto is an Associate Professor and head of the Machine Intelligence Group at the University of Padua, with a visiting professorship at the University of Lincoln and over a decade of academic experience in AI for robotics. He holds a PhD in Computer Science (Robotics) from the University of Essex and an electronic engineering degree from Padua, and his career includes postdoctoral work at Oxford and several years building embedded systems in industry. His research spans the full perception-to-reasoning stack—multisensor fusion, active vision, causal inference and qualitative spatial representation—applied to healthcare, industrial services and agri-food projects. As PI/Co-I on multiple funded projects, he combines theoretical methods with real-world deployments, often bridging low-level sensing constraints with high-level semantic reasoning. An underappreciated strength is his hands-on background in embedded systems, which grounds his lab’s AI advances in practical implementation challenges.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, Electronic Engineering, Control Systems, MSc, Electronic Engineering, Control Systems at Università degli Studi di PadovaPhD, Computer Science, Robotics, PhD, Computer Science, Robotics at University of Essex
Github Skills (12)
perceptron10
iot10
internet10
riot-os9
ros9
rtos9
robotics9
internet-of-things8
bayesian4
kernel2
c-library2
cpp2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
LCAS/FLOBOT
May 2015 - May 2021
EU funded Horizon 2020 project
Contributions:3 commits, 2 pushes in 6 years
rosroboticsperceptronhuman-detectionhuman-tracking
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