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Cesare Stefanini is Professor of Robotics at the MBZUAI (Mohammed bin Zayed University), Abu Dhabi, UAE. Previously, he was the Director of the BioRobotics Institute of Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna (SSSA) in Pontedera, Italy, where he is also the Head of the Creative Engineering Design Lab.
He received the M.Sc. degree in mechanical engineering, robotics and automation track, and the Ph.D. degree in Industrial and Information Engineering, microengineering track, from SSSA, both with honors, in 1997 and 2002, respectively.
From 2018 to 2021 he has been the Director of the HEIC research Center of Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi.
His research activity is applied to different fields, including small scale robotics, bioinspired systems, mechatronics and robotics for environmental, medical and industrial applications. He received international recognitions for the development of novel actuators for microrobots and he has been visiting researcher at the University of Stanford, Center for Design Research.
Dr. Stefanini is currently the PI of four research projects, including two international projects on underwater swarm robotics. Dr. Stefanini has been the scientific advisor of a leading company in the field of robotic surgery (MMI - Medical Micro-instruments SpA) and the recipient of the "Intuitive Surgical Research Award". Dr. Stefanini is the author or co-author of more than 230 articles on refereed international journals and on international conferences proceedings. He is the inventor of 17 international patents, 10 of which industrially exploited by world-leading companies, including Amazon Inc., Magneti Marelli S.p.A., General Electric Co, and Pirelli & C. S.p.A.
He is a member of the Academy of Scientists of the UAE and of the IEEE Societies RAS (Robotics and Automation), EMBS (Engineering in Medicine and Biology) and PES (Power and Energy).
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