Biographie
Dr. Federico Renda is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering at Khalifa University in Abu Dhabi, UAE. Before joining Khalifa University, he was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the BioRobotics Institute of Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, where he received his Ph.D. degree in 2014. Dr. Renda has been a visiting professor at the National University of Singapore (NUS), the National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology (INRIA, Lille), and others. He has been appointed as an Editor and Program Committee Member of prominent robotics journals and conferences, including the International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR) and the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), among others. Dr. Renda’s research interests encompass the study of multibody flexible systems, with an emphasis on the modeling and control of soft and underwater robots.