Vitae

Fabio Ruggiero was born in Naples on December 16, 1983.

He attended the high school at "Liceo" specializing in scientific studies "N. Copernico" in Naples. He graduated with full marks.

He received the Laurea degree (B.Sc.) in Automation Engineering with honors on October 25, 2005 at Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II.
The B.Sc. thesis concerned "Robot programming in manufacturing field", in Italian, advisor Prof. B. Siciliano.
He received the Laurea Specialistica degree (M.Sc.) in Automation Engineering  with honors on October 30, 2007 at Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II.
The M.Sc. thesis concerned "Visual servoing based on Lie algebra", in Italian, advisor Prof. V. Lippiello.

Fabio Ruggiero ranked first at the competition for the Doctorate School in Computer and Automation Engineering on 7 November, 2007 at Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II.
Hence, from November 2007 to October 2010 he was a Ph.D. Student under the supervision of Prof. V. Lippiello.
He got the Research Doctorate degree in December 2010 with a dissertation entitled "Grasp and manipulation of objects with a multi-fingered hand in unstructured environments".

• From December 2016, Fabio Ruggiero is an Assistant Professor (fixed term) of Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology at University of Naples Federico II. 
• January 2016 - December 2016, Researcher for Create Consortium. Project: RoDyMan. 
• January 2015 - December 2015. Project Collaborator for Create Consortium, in scientific and technical supporto for the SHERPA project. 
• November 2014 - December 2014. Project Collaborator for Create Consortium, in scientific and technical supporto for the FP7 Ideas ERC RoDyMan project. 
• November 2012 - October 2014. Postdoc position at Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, with a fellowship in "Modeling and control (in free space and in contact with the environment) of flying robots equipped with a robotic arm". Project: ARCAS. 
• December 2010 - October 2012. Postdoc position at Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, with a fellowship in "Sensor data acquisition and fusion for the visual servoing of Micro Aerial Vehicles". Project: AiRobots.
• September 2009 - March 2010. Research scholar position at Department of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University, Illinois, under the supervision of Prof. K.M. Lynch.

• 20 Nov 2017 - today. Consultant for the realization of a feasibility study for innovative technical solutions about the aerial robotic domain, within the project IDEAS (ENI #654A3769-SPE- SYSD-001), commissioned by ENIProgetti SpA to the research consortium INSTM (ref. INSTM ID/DB 1460).

Fabio Ruggiero was an organizer co-chair of the 10th International Workshop on Human-Friendly Robotics, organized on November 6-7, 2017, in Naples, Italy.

Since February 2018, Fabio Ruggiero is Associate Editor for the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters.

Fabio Ruggiero has been Guest Editor for the following special issues

• Guest Editor for the special issue entitled “Aerial manipulation” on the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, proposed by V. Lippiello, F. RUGGIERO and A. Ollero. The special issue will appear on March 2018.
• Guest Editor for the special issue entitled “Control and motion planning for nonprehen- sile dynamic manipulation” on the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, proposed by F. RUGGIERO, V. Lippiello and B. Siciliano. The special issue will appear on January 2018.

Fabio Ruggiero has served the following conferences as Associated editor.

• 2018 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation
• 2017 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation
• 2016 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation
• 2015 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation
• 2014 International Conference on Computer Vision, Theory and Application

Fabio Ruggiero has served as chair for many international conferences.

He is also a reviewer for many international robotics and control conferences and journals.

• Fabio Ruggiero was among the recipients of the FFABR 2017, fund for the ordinary financing of Italian state universities.
• The paper "Design, implementation and experiments of a robust passivity-based controller for a rolling-balancing system", authored by M. Crespo, A. Donaire, F. RUGGIERO, V. Lippiello and B. Siciliano, has received the Best Paper Award at the 13th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics, held in Lisbon, July 2016.
• On September, 9th 2015 at Automatica.it 2015 in Bari, Italy, Fabio Ruggiero has received the 2015 I-RAS Young Author Best Paper Award for the paper entitled "Visual grasp planning for unknown objects using a multifingered robotic hand", co-authored with Vincenzo Lippiello, Luigi Villani and Bruno Siciliano, published in the IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, in June 2013.
• The paper "An optimal trajectory planner for a robotic batting task: The table tennis example", authored by D. Serra, A. Satici, F. RUGGIERO, V. Lippiello and B. Siciliano, has received the nomination for the Best Student Paper Award at the 13th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics, held in Lisbon, July 2016.
• The paper "Robotic ball catching with an eye-in-hand single-camera system", is currently candidate for the Outstanding Paper Award of the IEEE Transactions on Control System Technology Journal for the 2016. The procedure is still in due course.

Fabio Ruggiero has delivered the following seminars.

• July, 4th 2013. "Kalman filter: Theory and applications in robotics" (in Italian), delivered at Dipartimento di Ingengeria Elettrica e Tecnologie dell’Informazione, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, in range of the training course Corso di alta formazione per specialisti in sistemi e tecnologie di Driver Monitoring, 3 hours.
• May, 10th 2012. "On the catching of thrown balls and the use of redundancy in fine and aerial manipulation tasks", delivered at the Laboratory for Intelligent Mechanical Systems, Northwestern University. 1 hour.
• November, 3rd 2010. "Fast visual grasp of unknown objects with a multi-fingered hand", delivered at School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Manchester. 1 hour.