Simone Benatti
Senior ADAS AD Simulation Software Developer
Casalmaggiore, Lombardy, Italy
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Top SchoolSimone Benatti is a Senior ADAS/AD Simulation Software Developer with eight years of experience specializing in vehicle dynamics, controls, and virtual testing toolchains. He has driven simulation development for Hexagon's Virtual Test Drive at MSC Software and Cadence, bridging research-grade modeling from his PhD with production-grade simulation features. His work spans multibody dynamics, control integration, and Python/C++ bindings—evidenced by contributions to the widely used Project Chrono where he extended motor models and Python interfaces. Comfortable moving between academia and industry, he held research positions at UW–Madison before returning to industrial simulation, bringing rigorous validation practices to product code. Based in Lombardy, Italy, Simone blends deep mechanical engineering expertise with practical software craftsmanship to accelerate AD/ADAS validation. An understated strength is his track record of adding extendable simulation primitives (e.g., new motor types) that make complex vehicle models easier to reuse and script.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Mechanical Engineering, PhD, Mechanical Engineering at Università degli Studi di Parma
Italian, English
Github Skills (5)
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
python10
dynamics10
robotics8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
projectchrono/chrono
May 2018 - Dec 2021
High-performance C++ library for multiphysics and multibody dynamics simulations
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:219 commits, 48 PRs, 425 pushes in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Simone's commits focused on adding and modifying the functionality of various motor types within the Chrono::Engine library, specifically the Chrono::Vehicle module. They enhanced Python bindings by incorporating new motor types such as ChLinkMotor and its derivatives within ChronoPython. They also modified the existing C++ code for ChLinkMotor to add new methods, reflecting an effort to expand the library's capabilities related to motors.
c-plus-plussimulationroboticssimulationsmultibody
projectchrono/gym-chrono
Sep 2019 - Nov 2021
Custom OpenAI Gym environments based on PyChrono
Contributions:2 PRs, 10 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 1 month
gym-environmentsreinforcement-learningpychronoopenaiopenai-gym-environments
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