Riccardo Spica
Head Of GCN Future Products And Technologies at MBDA
Italy
Summary
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Top SchoolRiccardo Spica is a robotics and control engineering leader with a PhD and 12 years of experience translating advanced academic research into operational guidance and control systems for aerospace applications. As Head of GCN Future Products and Technologies at MBDA, he leads development of guidance, navigation and control algorithms for sea‑skimming missiles while bridging research rigor with product delivery. His background spans vision‑based control, trajectory planning, human‑in‑the‑loop haptic interfaces and multi‑agent coordination—work that includes postdoctoral projects at Stanford and INRIA and real‑time depth estimation techniques inspired by computational fluid dynamics. Comfortable in multicultural teams, he combines hands‑on algorithm design and avionics implementation with strategic product thinking, and often applies cross‑disciplinary methods to squeeze real‑time performance from constrained systems.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Signal Processing and Robotics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Signal Processing and Robotics at Université de Rennes IMaster's degree Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Master's degree Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Sapienza Università di Roma
Italian, English, French
Github Skills (54)
rep10
computer-vision9
gazebosim9
ignition9
webots9
simulink9
mouse9
yarp9
pybullet8
python8
ros8
keyboard8
robotics8
mujoco8
simulation8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
lagadic/matlab_ros_bridge
Dec 2014 - Mar 2017
Set of simulink s-functions to communicate with ROS
Contributions:23 commits, 20 PRs, 18 pushes in 2 years 3 months
communicatesimulinkros
ricsp/matlab_ros_bridge
Sep 2015 - Jan 2018
Contributions:28 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
communicatesimulinkros
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