PAST RESEARCH PROJECT INVOLVEMENT
UNICORN: Sustainable, Peaceful and Efficient Robotic Refuse Handling
Funding: Vinnova. | Project duration: 2017 – 2020.
My role: I have supervised the Robotics students at MDH during the development of the
robot for refuse handling.
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DPAC: Dependable Platforms for Autonomous Systems and Control
Funding: KK-stiftelsen. | Project duration: 2015 – 2023
My role: I was invited to bring knowledge on autonomous agents and adaptive autonomy.
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SWARMS: Smart and Networking Underwater Robots in Cooperation Meshes
Funding: EU funding. | Project duration: 2015 – 2018.
My role: I was a software engineer in charge of the integration of the underwater robot
developed at MDH with the software components provided by the other partners.
SELECTED EXPERIENCES &MERITS
| Recipient of the AAMAS 2020 scholarship. (2020) |
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| Invited speaker at the DPAC fall summit. (2019) |
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| 2-month research exchange at the robotics lab of Malaga University. (2019) |
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| Invited seminar: “Adaptive Autonomous Agents”, at Riga Technical University. (2018) |
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| Invited seminar: “Adaptive Autonomous Agents” at Örebro University, AASS lab. (2018) |
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| Served as session chair at the Embedded Conference Scandinavia. (2017) |
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| Served as panel chair at the LASER summer school, Software for Robotics. (2017) |
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| Invited talk: “Intelligent Agents”, at Volvo CE, Eskilstuna, Sweden. (2016) |
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| Won the 3rd edition of the ICT Albania competition for best master thesis of the year. (2015) |
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| 2-month internship at I-kub software company, Tirana, Albania. (2014) |
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| 6-month Erasmus Exchange at La Sapienza University, Rome, Italy (Computer Engineering Department). (2013) |
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TEACHING
| Supervised students for the Project Course in Robotics at MDH in 2018 and 2019. |
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| Supervised Msc thesis: “Using Autonomous Agents for Software Testing based on JADE” |
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LANGUAGES
Albanian | (mother tongue) |
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English | (fluent, 7.5 IELTS score), |
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Italian | (proficient) |
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German | (basic knowledge), |
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Swedish | (basic knowledge) |
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EDUCATION
DOCTOR’S DEGREE IN COMPUTER SCIENCE (2020)
From Mälardalen University (MDH), Västerås, Sweden.
Thesis Title: Modelling and Control of Collaborative Adaptive Autonomous Agents.
LICENTIATE DEGREE IN COMPUTER SCIENCE (2018)
From Mälardalen University (MDH), Västerås, Sweden.
Thesis Title: Collaborative Adaptive Autonomous Agents
MASTER OF SCIENCE DEGREE IN COMPUTER ENGINEERING (2014)
From the Polytechnic University of Tirana, Albania.
Thesis Title: Application of the Ising Model for Financial Market Solutions.
REFERENCES
FREDRIK EKSTRAND
Head of Division for IFT (Intelligent Future
Technologies), at MDH.
Email: fredrik.ekstrand@mdh.se
Tel: +46 (0)21-101573
ALESSANDRO V. PAPADOPOULOS
Associate Professor in Computer Science,
Systems, andControl, at MDH.
Email: alessandro.papadopoulos@mdh.se
Tel: +46(0)73-6620 877