Paolo Dario. Brief Curriculum Vitae

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1 Paolo Dario Brief Curriculum Vitae Paolo Dario is Full Professor of Biomedical Robotics and Director of The BioRobotics Institute of the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna (SSSA), Pisa, Italy. He is the Coordinator of the PhD Program in BioRobotics at SSSA, enrolling 90 PhD students. He has been Founding Coordinator of the Center of of the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT). He has been Visiting Professor at Brown University, Providence, RI, USA; at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland; at the École Normale Superieure de Cachan, France; at the College de France, Paris, France; at the Polytechnic University of Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain; at Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan; at Zhejiang University, Hangzhou and at Tianjin University, China. He is currently Visiting Chief Researcher, Robotics and Biomedical Engineering at Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, UAE. His main research interests are in the fields of medical robotics, bio-robotics, bio-mechatronics, and robot companions for assisted living. He has been and is the coordinator of many national and European projects, the editor of two books on the subject of robotics, and the author of more than 500 scientific papers (300+ on ISI journals). His H-index (ISI Web of Science) is 48 (so he is in the list of Top Italian Scientists). Prof. Dario has been and is Editorin-Chief, Associate Editor and member of the Editorial Board of many international journals and book series. He has been Program Chair and plenary invited speaker in many international conferences (including IEEE ICRA, IROS and EMBC). He has been also the General Chair of the 1st IEEE RAS/EMBS Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (BioRob 2006), and of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2007). Prof. Dario has served as President of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society in the years , and as Chair of many Technical Committees of the same Society. He is serving as Chair of the Technical Committee of BioRobotics of the IEEE EMBS.

2 Prof. Dario is an IEEE Fellow, a Fellow of the European Society on Medical and Biological Engineering, and a recipient of many honours and awards, such as the Joseph Engelberger Award for Pioneer Research in Biomedical Robotics and the IEEE RAS George Saridis Leadership Award in Robotics and Automation for He is also a member of the Board of the International Foundation of Robotics Research (IFRR) and a Fellow of the School of Engineering, University of Tokyo. He has served and serves in many Boards and Committees, including the IST Advisory Group (ISTAG) of the European Commission (two terms), the Technology Council of ST Microelectronics, the International Scientific Committee of the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC), the Global Agenda Council on Robotics and Smart Devices of the World Economic Forum, the Horizon2020 Advisory Group on Societal Challenge 1 (Health, Demographic Change and Wellbeing), the Board of Directors of the eurobotics AISBL, the entity promoting the creation of SPARC, the Public Private Partnership in Robotics in Europe. Since 1995 Paolo Dario has served as Chief Delegate for Italy at the World MicroMachine Summit. He has also promoted the creation of more than 20 start-up companies active in the market of biomedical devices and services, and he is/has been a partner of 5 of these start-up companies. CURRENT POSITION Professor of Biomedical Robotics Scuola Superiore Sant Anna Piazza Martiri della Libertà, Pisa, Italy Director, The BioRobotics Institute Viale Rinaldo Piaggio, Pontedera, Pisa, Italy [email protected] Phone: /102 Fax: Skype: paolodario2707

3 RESEARCH INTERESTS Paolo Dario s main field of interest is biorobotics, a frontier research area that combines bio-inspiration and bio-application. Paolo Dario has been and is working on theoretical models, design methods, precision technologies (including micro, nano and bio) for the fabrication of novel components and integrated systems, machines and robots, and on the application of such systems to different fields, including (micro) endoscopic and endoluminal surgery, rehabilitation and assistance to disabled and elderly people, and humanoid robotics. Paolo Dario has contributed to the foundation of such new fields as micro and biomechatronics, and to the fields of biorobotics and neuro-robotics, frontier research areas whose ultimate goals are to integrate biology and neuroscience with robotics, and to educate the kernel of a new generation of biomedical and robotics engineers, possessing the ability to incorporate in their engineering skills interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary knowledge. Paolo Dario is very active in the emerging field of Companion Robots for Assisted Living. TEACHING ACTIVITIES Scuola Superiore Sant Anna, Course on BioRobotics; Scuola Superiore Sant Anna, Course on Fundamentals of BioRobotics, PhD Programme in BioRobotics; University of Pisa, School of Biomedical Engineering, Course on Medical Robotics, credits: 12 ACADEMIC RESPONSIBILITIES AT SCUOLA SUPERIORE SANT ANNA Director of the BioRobotics Institute; Member of the Senate; Coordinator, PhD Programme in BioRobotics; Member of academic committees for evaluation of candidates

4 and graduations NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH PROJECTS Coordinator of many scientific projects, funded by National and International Agencies, and by private companies (currently coordinator or partner of more than 20 European Research Projects) EDITORIAL ACTIVITIES Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Micro-Nano Mechatronics; Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering Member of the Editorial Board of Autonomous Robots; Member of the Editorial Board of Biomedical Devices; Member of the Editorial Board of Applied Bionics and Biomechanics; Member of the Editorial Board of Bioinspiration and Biomimetics; Member of the Advisory Board of Advanced Robotics; Member of the Honorary Editorial Board of International Journal of Information Acquisition; Member of the Editorial Board of Journal of Micro BioRobotics; Member of the Editorial Board of the Springer Handbook of Robotics. MAIN AWARDS AND HONORS 1996: Engelberger Robotics Award, for merits in Biomedical Robotics. Annual award assigned by Robotic Industries Association (RIA), Ann Arbor, MI, USA 2002: Ufficiale della Repubblica Italiana awarded by the President of the Republic of Italy ; 2003: IEEE Fellow for scientific contributions to biomedical

5 robotics; 2003: Recipient of the Gonfalone d Argento awarded by the Board of the Regione Toscana ; 2009: Fellow, School of Engineering, University of Tokyo; 2014: IEEE RAS George Saridis Leadership Award in Robotics and Automation. ORGANIZATION OF SCIENTIFIC EVENTS General Chair, International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR 1991), Pisa, Italy; Program Chair for Europe, IROS 1995, Pittsburgh, USA; Program Chair, IEEE ICRA 1999, Leuven, Belgium; Co-Chair, International Symposium on Robotics Research (ISRR 2003) Siena, Italy); General Co-Chair, IEEE ICRA 2007, Rome, Italy; General Chair, 13 th World Micromachine Summit (MMS 07), Venice, Italy; General Co-Chair, First National Congress on Biomedical Engineering, 2008, Pisa, Italy; General Chair: VI Conference of the International Society for Gerontechnology, 2008, Pisa, Italy