CURRICULUM VITAE Prof. Ing. Alfredo Liverani University of Bologna v.le Risorgimento, 2 40136 BOLOGNA Italy e - mail: alfredo.liverani@unibo.it Web page: http://diem1.ing.unibo.it/personale/liverani born in Faenza (RA) il 30/10/1968, living in via Baccelli, 23-41100 Modena Italy. 12/10/1994: Bachelor Degree in Mechanical Engineering at University of Bologna. The final thesis discussion was about surface reconstruction from digital images. 13/01/1995: abilitation at Engineering indipendent activity. from 10/09/96 to 09/03/97 contractor as specilized technician at Aerospace Engineering Department University of Bologna, site of Forlì. from 10/03/97 to 24/09/99 PhD attendant at Dottorato di Ricerca in Disegno e Metodi dell Ingegneria Industriale (I09X)(ING- IND/15), at University of Bologna (XII ciclo). from 12/12/98 to 12/02/99 attends the CIPIC, Computer Science Department, University of California, Davis, under the supervision of Prof. Bernd Hamann. f rom 28/02/2000 receives PhD degree in Disegno e Metodi dell Ingegneria Industriale at University of Bologna. The final PhD thesis discussion regarded the study and implementation of a Virtual Reality device for engineering design. 16/05/2000: evaluation winner for Researcher position in the field of Disegno e Metodi dell Ingegneria Industriale at University of Bologna. 01/07/2000 got the Researcher position at DIEM (Dipartimento di Ingegneria delle Costruzioni Meccaniche, Nucleari, Aeronautiche e di Metallurgia), 1 st Engineering Faculty University of Bologna. 20/12/2001: evaluation winner for Associate Professor position in the field of Disegno e Metodi dell Ingegneria Industriale ( C OD. RIF. BO3-309- A ) at III Facoltà di Architettura Politechnic of Milan (Bovina), SSD I09X- Disegno e Metodi dell Ingegneria Industriale (ING- IND 15);
01/10/2002 got the present position of Associate Professor at 1 st Engineering Faculty University of Bologna (SSD ING- IND/15 - Disegno e Metodi dell'ingegneria Industriale). Affiliation M ember of Collegio dei Docenti (Tutors) of PhD corse in Disegno e Metodi dell'ingegneria Industriale. ADM (Associazione Disegno di Macchine)(Engineering Design Association) Member. Didactical activity 1) Disegno CAD (CdL Ambiente e Territorio - I Facoltà di Ingegneria - Bologna); 2) Disegno Tecnico Industriale (CdL Meccanica - I Facoltà di Ingegneria - Bologna); 3) Progetto (CdL Aerospaziale Territorio - II Facoltà di Ingegneria - Forlì); Furthermore he actively collaborates at Disegno di Macchine (CdL Meccanica - I Facoltà di Ingegneria - Bologna) and he is tutor of the course of Disegno Tecnico Industriale (Diploma Teledidattico di Ingegneria Logistica e della Produzione)(Consorzio Nettuno). Reviewing activity Included in reviewer list of IIEC (International Industrial Engineering Conference), Jordan University ad Amman (23-27/09/2001). Reviewer for Precision Engineering: Journal of the International Societies for Precision Engineering and Nanotechnologies, paper titled Direct integration of reverse engineering and rapid prototyping based on the properties of NURBS or B- Spline (28/04/03). Other consultant and teaching activity
Consultant and teacher of Computer Graphics and Virtual Reality at Elasis (FIAT Research Group, Pomigliano d Arco) for design and installation of a Virtual Reality and Enhanced Visualization Laboratory for automotive studies. In 1999-2000, teacher of advanced CAD at Scuola Superiore of Industrial Design Industrial Design Master (Università di Bologna). Present research activity Prof. Alfredo Liverani is a member of CbEM (Computer- based Engineering Methodologies) research group and he is involved in several activities related to Computer Aided Design (CAD), Computer Graphics, Virtual and Augmented Reality. In detail he focuses on realtime visualization and interaction with particular attention to mechanical, aeronautical applications and also Industrial Design. Surface modelling, reverse engineering, mesh generation (FEM) and manipulation, virtual prototyping and live simulations are fields investigated in the following list of publications: Papers Persiani, F., Piancastelli, L., Liverani, A., Individuazione del modello 1) matematico di superfici da immagini digitalizzate, Pixel, Ed. Il Rostro, Anno 18 - N. 5/6-1996, pagg. 33-39. 2) Piancastelli, L., Liverani, A., Un tool di interfaccia CAD per una macchina di rapid prototyping, Pixel, Ed. Il Rostro, Anno 18 n. 7/8 1997, pagg. 5-12. Persiani, F., Piancastelli, L., Liverani, A., Virtual Flight Simulator, Proceedings 3) of the 10th ADM International Conference on Design Tools and Methods in Industrial Engineering, 17-19 September 1997, Florence (Italy), pagg. 693-701. Piancastelli, L., Liverani, A., Software solutions for low cost scenery 4) visualization, Proceedings of the 10th ADM International Conference on Design Tools and Methods in Industrial Engineering, 17-19 September 1997, Florence (Italy), pagg. 703-711.
Persiani, F., Liverani, A., A Virtual Reality CAD Interface, Proceedings of the 5) 10th ADM International Conference on Design Tools and Methods in Industrial Engineering, 17-19 September 1997, Florence (Italy), pagg. 777-784. Persiani, F., Piancastelli, L., Liverani, A., Design and optimization of a load 6) control system for flight simulation, Atti del XIV Congresso Nazionale AIDAA 1997, Napoli, 20-24 October 1997, pagg. 803-812. Piancastelli, L., Liverani, A., Faccani, R., A Fuzzy- Genetic Modeller for Car Air- 7) Conditioner Supports Optimisation, Italo- Spagnolo Sorrento, Proceedings of II Seminario Italo- Espanol, 24-26 Jun 1998, Vico Equense (Napoli), pagg. 77-88. Liverani, A., Virtual Reality tools for quick reverse Engineering and modeling, 8) Proceedings of 18 IASTED International Conference, Modelling, Identification and Control - MIC 99, 15-18 Feb 1999, Innsbruck, Austria, pagg. 351-354. Bombardi, T., Liverani, A., Modellazione di superfici complesse (titolo originale: 9) Un algoritmo per la scomposizione di curve B- Spline in unità geometriche elementari), Progettare, giugno 1999, pagg. 90-94. Liverani, A., Kuester, F., Hamann, B., Towards Interactive VR based Finite 10) Elements Analysis of Shell Elements, Proceedings of 1999 IEEE International Conference on Information Visualization (IV '99), 14-16 July, London, England, pagg. 340-346. Persiani, F., Liverani, A., Cockpit Instrumentation Virtual Prototyping, Atti del 11) XV Congresso Nazionale AIDAA, Associazione Italiana di Aeronautica e Astronautica, Torino, 15-19 Novembre 1999, pagg. 435-442. Liverani, A., Marchetti, L., Un sistema di selezione dei poligoni visibili nella 12) visualizzazione 3d real- time, Proceedings of XI International Conference on "Design Tools and Methods in Industrial Engineering" ADM 99, Palermo 8-12 Dec. 1999, Sess. B - pagg.119-129. Monno, G., Persiani, F., Uva, A., Liverani, A., La Realtà Virtuale: uno strumento 13) per la progettazione, Proceedings of XI International Conference on "Design Tools and Methods in Industrial Engineering" ADM 99, Palermo 8-12 Dec. 1999, Sess. D - pagg.135-148. Persiani, F., Liverani, A., A Virtual Reality based visualization and interaction 14) tool for Air Traffic Control,, Proceedings of XI International Conference on "Design Tools and Methods in Industrial Engineering" ADM 99, Palermo 8-12 Dec. 1999, Sess. C - pagg.131-137. Donnarumma, A., Liverani, A., Persiani, F., Podda, G., Applicazione della 15) trasformata wavelet alla determinazione di punti corrispondenti nella visione binoculare, Proceedings of XI International Conference on "Design Tools and
Methods in Industrial Engineering" ADM 99, Palermo 8-12 Dec. 1999, Sess. B - pagg.173-180. Persiani, F., Liverani, A., De Crescenzio, F., 3D positioning issues in virtual 16) reality environments, Proceedings of XI International Conference on "Design Tools and Methods in Industrial Engineering" ADM 99, Palermo 8-12 Dec. 1999, Sess. C - pagg.123-130. 17) 18) Liverani, A., Orazi, L., Per ottimizzare il packaging automatico, Progettare, n 235, Giugno 2000, pagg. 68-72. Saggiani, G.,M., Liverani, A., Sviluppo e realizzazione di un simulatore di volo per la ricerca, DIEM department internal publication, n 109, 2000 19) Persiani, F., Liverani, A., Semi- immersive synthetic environment for cooperative air traffic control, in ICAS 2000 CD- Rom Proceedings of 22nd International Congress of Aeronautical Sciences, Harrogate, UK, 27/08-1/09/2000. 20) Liverani, A., Cucchi, A., A Finite- Element Pre- processing Interface with Interactive Meshing Capabilities, in Proceedings of 13th International Conference on Engineering Design - ICED 01 Glasgow, August 21-23, 2001, pagg.. 21) Al- Tahat, M., Liverani, A., Persiani. F., Design of a Marketing Decision Support Method for Price Quotation In a multi- Stage Single- product Kanban- Based Manufacturing Environment, in Proceedings of XII ADM International Conference on Design Tools and Methods in Industrial Engineering, Rimini, September 5-7, 2001, pagg.. 22) Liverani, A., Persiani, F., De Crescenzio, F., An Immersive Reconfigurable Room (I.R.R.) for Virtual Reality Simulation, in Proceedings of XII ADM International Conference on Design Tools and Methods in Industrial Engineering, Rimini, September 5-7, 2001, pagg.. 23) Liverani, A., Piraccini, G., Full- Scale Surface Modeling in Virtual Reality, in Proceedings of XII ADM International Conference on Design Tools and Methods in Industrial Engineering, Rimini, September 5-7, 2001, pagg.. 24) Persiani, F., Liverani, A., De Crescenzio, F., A Combined Hardware- Software Virtual Reality Environment for A/C Cockpit Design, in Proceedings of XII ADM International Conference on Design Tools and Methods in Industrial Engineering, Rimini, September 5-7, 2001, pagg.. 25) Liverani, A., Tappi, M., Spring- mass model application to engineering NURBS s urface reconstruction, in Proceedings of XII ADM International Conference on Design Tools and Methods in Industrial Engineering, Rimini, September 5-7, 2001,
pagg.. 26) Liverani, A., Piraccini, G., A Collision Detection Algorithm for Curve- Surface contact in free- form Surface Modelling, in Proceeding of First International Industrial Engineering Conference (IIEC 2001), September 23-27, 2001, Amman, Jordan, pagg. 449-456. 27) Persiani, F., Liverani, A., De Crescenzio, F., Augmented Reality approach to Vehicle Prototyping, in Proceeding of First International Industrial Engineering Conference (IIEC 2001), September 23-27, 2001, Amman, Jordan, pagg. 457-462. 28) Al- Tahat, M., Liverani, A., Persiani, F., Computer Supported Design of Flexible Kanban System for Multi- Stage Multi- product Manufacturing Lines, in Proceeding of First International Industrial Engineering Conference (IIEC 2001), September 23-27, 2001, Amman, Jordan, pagg. 295-304. 29) Persiani, F., Liverani, A., Saggiani, G. M., Applicazione di tecniche di pattern recognition per un sistema di atterraggio automatico, in Atti del XVI Congresso Nazionale AIDAA, 24-28 settembre 2001, Palermo, Italy. 30) Al- Tahat, M., Liverani, A., Persiani, F., Caligiana, G., Using Genetic Algorithms To Optimise Kanban- Based Production System, in Proceedings of The European Applied Business Research Conference, June 17-21, 2002, Rothenburg, Germany. 31) Liverani, A., Persiani, F., Piraccini, G., Tappi, M., Semi- automatic 3D Flight Simulator Scenarios Reconstruction from Georeferenced Aerial Photos and Terrestrial Maps, in CD- Rom Proceedings of 23th International Congress of Aeronautical Sciences, ICAS 2002, 8-13 September, 2002, Toronto, Canada, ISBN 0-9533991- 3-3. 32) Caligiana, G., Cesari, F., Liverani, A., Shape and tailoring optimization of an aircraft air intake ramp by genetic algorithm, in Proceedings of 5th World Congress on Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization (WCSMO5), May 19-23, 2003, Lido di Jesolo, Venice, Italy. Patents 1) Alfredo Liverani, Andrea Bonini, Giacomo Lacchini, Periferica per calcolatore elettronico (Guanto per un sistema di tracciamento in 3D), Domanda n. TO2001A01210 depositata il 21.12.2001 a Bologna per Brevetto Nazionale (Italy). Assegnatari: Università degli Studi di Bologna.
2) Franco Persiani, Alfredo Liverani, Parastrappi elettroreologico, Domanda n. BO2001A00442 depositata il 13.07.2001 a Bologna per Brevetto Nazionale (Italy). Assegnatari: Università degli Studi di Bologna.