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Hello! I’m a postdoctoral fellow at the Scuola Superiore Meridionale. My research deals with the control of large ensembles of dynamical systems with applications in mobile robotics. I obtained a Ph.D. in Modeling and Engineering Risk and Complexity at Scuola Superiore Meridionale with a thesis titled “Controlling the collective dynamics of large-scale hybrid multi-agent systems”, under the supervision of prof. Mario di Bernardo (University of Naples Federico II) and prof. Maurizio Porfiri (New York University, Tandon School of Engineering). I received the “Best Ph.D. Thesis” award from the Italian society of professors and researchers in automatic control (SIDRA) in 2025. Previously, I graduated cum laude in Automation Engineering in October 2020 at the University of Naples Federico II, with a research thesis on pattern formation in large scale multi-agent systems.

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• February 2026: New paper out on Automatica! In this work, with Alain Boldini (NYIT), Maurizio Porfiri (NYU) and Mario di Bernardo (UNINA) we propose a bio-inspired leader-follower strategy for density control of multi-agent swarms. The key idea: rather than prescribing fixed roles, leaders and followers can plastically switch their roles over time, much as many natural systems do. Control objectives are defined at the collective level, and the agents’ population is modeled via nonlinear PDEs, sidestepping the curse of dimensionality. Check it out here !
• September 2025: I won the “Best Ph.D. Thesis” award from the Italian society of professors and researchers in automatic control (SIDRA)