| Luca Maria Gambardella is director at IDSIA, a research
institute affiliated to SUPSI
(University of Applied Science of Southern Switzerland,
DTI Department of
Technology and Innovation) and to USI (University of
Lugano). He is Professor at SUPSI
and Adjunct Professor at the Informatics Faculty at
USI. He teaches the
Algorithms course at DTI-SUPSI
(see here for the Algorithmic
CUP), he teaches the Artificial Intelligence module in
the Information and Knowledge Management course (see here
for the Artificial
Intelligence CUP) at the Informatics Faculty at
USI and he taught Application
of Discrete Optimization (see here for the ADO
course
page) at the Department
of Electronics and Informatics of Politecnico di Milano.
He is Chief Scientific Officer of AntOptima, the
spin-off company of IDSIA and Technology Consultant for Ticino Transfer.
He is currently president of SVOR/ASRO
the Swiss Operations Research Society. His major research
interests and publications are
in the area of optimization, simulation, swarm robotics,
multi-agent learning, applied to academic and real-world
problems (CV in pdf).
He has invented and developed several
Ant Colony Optimization algorithms able to compute
best-known solutions for many benchmark instances: Sequential ordering problems
(SOP), Vehicle routing
problems (VRP), Travelling
salesman problems (TSP), Quadratic assignment problems
(QAP).
He leads several research and
applied projects, funded among other by the Swiss
National Science Foundation, the European Commission, the
Swiss Technology and Innovation Commission, the Swiss
Hasler Foundation and private companies on topics such as:
On-line Fleet
Management, Resource
Allocation and Scheduling in Flexible Manufacturing
Systems, Simulation
and Optimization for intermodal transport, Theory and practice
of Metaheuristics, Ad-Hoc Networks,
Swarm Intelligence
and Cooperative Robotics.
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Publications (Luca Maria Gambardella)