Competitive Research Projects

Feb. 2025 - Jan. 2029

SMARTTEST - European Doctoral Network for Resilient Remote Healthcare

EU Horizon MSCA Doctoral Network focused on intelligent sensing and communication technologies.

Role: Co-supervisor of Doctoral Candidate 5 on wireless sensing for human gesture recognition.

Oct. 2024 - Jun. 2026

Living Lab - Milano

Development and testing of cooperative ADAS and connected automated driving services in Milan.

Role: Scientific responsible for V2X communications and experimental validation.
Partners: Comune di Milano, VI-grade, Politecnico di Milano.

Oct. 2023 - Mar. 2024

PNRR MOST Spoke 7 - C-ITS Messages for Harmonized Asset and Operation Management

Remote telemetry and cooperative ITS services based on custom V2X messages and ITS-G5 technology.

Role: Technical coordinator for implementation activities.
Partners: Pirelli, Movyon, Politecnico di Milano.

May 2023 - Apr. 2027

TRUSTroke

Horizon Europe project on trustworthy AI for improving stroke outcomes.

Role: Supervision of federated learning algorithm development and simulation; representative member in communication and dissemination activities.

Jan. 2023 - Jun. 2025

P2CODE

Horizon Europe project on collaborative deployments over heterogeneous Edge-IoT environments.

Role: Supervision of technical activities on 5G private network implementation with software-defined radios in an industrial environment.

Sep. 2022 - Dec. 2025

PNRR MOST Spoke 6 - Connected and Autonomous Vehicles

Research under the National Centre for Sustainable Mobility on connected and autonomous mobility.

Role: Principal investigator for the telecommunication area. Funding included dedicated support for a PhD position.

Sep. 2022 - Dec. 2025

PNRR MOST Spoke 9 - Urban Mobility

Research on 5G network implementation with software-defined radios for joint communication and positioning.

Role: Supervision of technical activities in urban mobility experimentation.

Feb. 2022 - Feb. 2024

HYPER 5G

ESA NAVISP project on hybrid 5G and GNSS positioning.

Role: Work Package manager for 5G positioning algorithm implementation.
Partners: GReD, Politecnico di Milano, algoWatt.

Jan. 2020 - Jul. 2022

BASE 5G

Regione Lombardia project on smart environments enabled by 5G technologies.

Role: Participant in concept development for demonstrators on localization and vehicular 5G communications.

Oct. 2016 - Feb. 2020

Total Efficiency 4.0

Industrial research project on ultra-wide band positioning for smart factory applications.

Role: Supervision of technical activities on UWB industrial positioning.

Industrial Collaborations

Oct. 2025 - Sep. 2026

I2T2C - Localization Technology Market Potential Evaluation

Assessment of the market potential of a localization technology based on distributed connected sensors.

Role: Scientific responsible.

Aug. 2025 - Oct. 2026

Movyon - Smart Road C-V2X for Localization

Advanced localization solutions for connected road infrastructures.

Role: Scientific responsible.

Oct. 2024 - Oct. 2027

Thales - Localization Methodologies for Aerospace

Study and development of localization methodologies for aerospace applications.

Role: Scientific responsible; collaboration also funds a dedicated PhD position.

Oct. 2023 - Mar. 2024

Vodafone - Synchronization of 5G Base Stations

Analysis of 5G network synchronization in Milan.

Role: Participant.

Aug. 2023 - Dec. 2023

Cefriel - RTLS in Indoor Environments for Automotive Industry

Design and assessment of real-time locating systems in indoor settings.

Role: Scientific responsible.

May 2023 - Jul. 2023

Cefriel - RTLS for Automotive Industry

Research on indoor and outdoor positioning solutions for automotive applications.

Role: Scientific responsible.

Mar. 2023 - Dec. 2023

Movyon - Vehicular Localization in Smart Road Infrastructure

Localization support for autonomous driving through connected roadside infrastructures.

Role: Scientific responsible.

Jan. 2019 - Jan. 2024

Joint Research Lab on Urban Electric, Autonomous and Connected Mobility

Multi-partner joint research lab on urban mobility technologies.

Role: Scientific advisor. Partners: ATM, Brembo, Comune di Milano, Enel X, IBM, Pirelli, STMicroelectronics, Vodafone, and others.

Sep. 2022 - Aug. 2023

Sensoworks - Tiny Federated Anomaly Detection

Development of anomaly detection algorithms for tiny ML and resource-constrained IoT settings.

Role: Participant.

Mar. 2022 - Feb. 2023

Movyon - Vehicular Localization in Smart Road Infrastructure

Research on precise vehicular positioning in connected smart road scenarios.

Role: Scientific responsible.

Nov. 2021 - Oct. 2022

Tracking 4 Fun - UWB Technologies for High-Precision Localization and Tracking

High-accuracy localization and tracking with UWB technologies.

Role: Participant.

Mar. 2021 - Feb. 2022

Movyon - Smart Mobility Services and Enabling Technologies

Connected services and enabling technologies for road infrastructure operators.

Role: Participant.

Feb. 2021 - Jul. 2021

Europacable / Prysmian - Energy Efficiency of 4G and 5G Transport Networks

Comparison of fronthaul and backhaul transport technologies including fiber, microwave, satellite, and laser links.

Role: Scientific advisor.

Jul. 2020 - Jun. 2021

Huawei Joint Lab - 5G NR FR1/FR2 V2X Communications

Joint research on advanced V2X communications and sensor-assisted beam tracking.

Role: Technical coordinator of WP3.

Mar. 2019 - Sep. 2020

Tracking 4 Fun - UWB Localization for Sport Applications

Analysis and optimization of an UWB localization system for sport scenarios.

Role: Participant.