SPEAKER'S PROFILES
Giulio Sandini
Director of
Research at the Italian Institute of Technology and full professor of
bioengineering at the University of Genoa. Main research activities are in the
fields of computational and cognitive neuroscience and robotics with the
objective of understanding the neural mechanisms of human sensory-motor
coordination and cognitive development. After graduating in Electronic
Engineering (Bioengineering) he was research fellow and assistant professor at
the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa and at the Laboratorio di Neurofisiologia
of the CNR where he investigated aspects of visual processing at the level of
single neurons as well as aspects of visual perception in human adults and
children. He has been Visiting Research Associate at the Department of
Neurology of the Harvard Medical School and Visiting Scientist at the Artificial
Intelligence Lab of MIT. Since July 2006 he has been appointed Director of
Research at the Italian Institute of Technology where he has established and is
currently directing the department of Robotics, Brain and Cognitive Sciences.
