Giuseppe Riccardo Leone

GIUSEPPE RICCARDO LEONE received the M.Sc. degree in Computer Engineering from La Sapienza - University of Rome, in 2002, and the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science and Automation from the University of Florence. He is with the National Research Council of Italy since 2003, involved into several research projects: he worked with mobile robots, multiple vision systems and virtual avatars for human-computer interaction. He has been visiting researcher in 2004 at the International Rescue System Institute in Kobe, Japan. In 2006 he was team leader of the Robocare Team which scored third place in the Robocup@Home competion for autonomous service robots. He was contract professor of Computer Science with La Sapienza - University of Rome from 2007 to 2011. He is currently a research fellow of the Institute for Information Science and Technologies of Pisa.