Alessandro De Luca

Alessandro De Luca is Professor of Robotics at the Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. His research interests cover modeling, motion planning, and control of robotic systems (flexible manipulators, kinematically redundant arms, underactuated robots, wheeled mobile robots),  as well as physical human-robot interaction. He was the scientific coordinator of the FP7 project SAPHARI – Safe and Autonomous Physical Human-Aware Robot Interaction (2011-15). He has been the first Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Robotics (2004-08), RAS Vice-President for Publication Activities in 2012-13,  General Chair of ICRA 2007, Program Chair of ICRA 2016, and General Chair of the first Italian conference on Robotics and Intelligent Machines (I-RIM) in 2019. He received three conference awards (Best paper at ICRA 1998 and BioRob 2012, Best application paper at IROS 2008) and a journal excellence award (Mechanism and Machine Theory, in 2017), the Helmholtz Humboldt Research Award in 2005, the IEEE-RAS Distinguished Service Award in 2009, and the IEEE George Saridis Leadership Award in Robotics and Automation in 2019. He is an IEEE Life Fellow. More info at www.diag.uniroma1.it/deluca.