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Konica Minolta - Video Solution Service Business Unit AI Solutions Director Europe & Forxai Mirror Business Owner
Apr. 2024Roma, Lazio, ItaliaWithin Konica Minolta Video Solution Services Business Unit, I cover a dual role: as AI Solutions Director Europe, I’m in charge of leading the development and business cases creation of new AI Solutions and Products and evolutions of the current ones for the VSS Business Unit. Define AI Strategy and business strategy to fulfill the short, medium and long term KM goals. Manage the relative budgets. As Forxai Mirror Business Owner, I’m responsible to drive the business success of the first AI Product Lanuched by KM, conceived and developed from the division I lead.
The main resposabilities were and are:
- Lead AI development teams Development in creating new AI solutions and products
that make sense for company internal and external business.
- Determine AI Strategy for KM VSS Europe to fulfill the short, medium and long
term KM goals.
- Manage the relative budgets to achieve objectives effi�ciently.
- Lead Forxai Mirror business success, taking in consideration KM imperatives, other business
stakeholders and market needs.
Konica Minolta - DX Solutions Development CentreHead of AI Solution dev and Strategic Business Support
Oct. 2023 - Apr. 2024Roma, Lazio, ItaliaWithin Konica Minolta Video Solution Services Business Unit, I cover a dual role: as a Head of AI Solution Development, I’m responsible for Konica Minolta Video Solution Service division in Rome under VSS BU, from line and functional managment point of view; Fully responsible for the evolution and development of AI solutions and products. As Forxai Mirror Business Owner, I’m responsible to drive the business success of the first AI Product Lanuched by KM and coincived and developed from the division I lead.
The main resposabilities were and are:
- Development and evolution of AI solutions and products based on technical capabil-
ities that fits KM business imperatives, determine relative AI strategy.
- constant interaction with different Business Units, Business developers, product managers, and other business stakeholders in order to carry out or propose innovations on current products or proposal of new possible business streams based on technological potential.
Lead Forxai Mirror business success, taking in consideration KM imperatives, business
stakeholders and market needs.
Konica Minolta - Video Solution Services Business UnitForxai Mirror Business Owner
Oct. 2023 - Apr. 2024Roma, Lazio, ItaliaWithin Konica Minolta Video Solution Services Business Unit, I cover a dual role: as a Head of AI Solution Development, I’m responsible for Konica Minolta Video Solution Service division in Rome under VSS BU, from line and functional managment point of view; Fully responsible for the evolution and development of AI solutions and products. As Forxai Mirror Business Owner, I’m responsible to drive the business success of the first AI Product Lanuched by KM and coincived and developed from the division I lead.
The main resposabilities were and are:
- Development and evolution of AI solutions and products based on technical capabil-
ities that fits KM business imperatives, determine relative AI strategy.
- constant interaction with different Business Units, Business developers, product managers, and other business stakeholders in order to carry out or propose innovations on current products or proposal of new possible business streams based on technological potential.
Lead Forxai Mirror business success, taking in consideration KM imperatives, business
stakeholders and market needs.
Konica Minolta - DX Solution Development CenterStrategy Manager & Research Technology Manager
Feb. 2022 - Oct. 2023Roma, Lazio, ItaliaAs Strategy Manager of the Co-Creation Labs Program, I am in charge of defining the strategy of the program which has the aims of bringing together and effectively co-creating the world of innovative R&D solutions, with the reality and needs of customers and partners.
Konica Minolta - DX Solution Development CenterStrategy Manager & Research Technology Manager
Apr. 2019 - Oct. 2023Roma, ItaliaWithin Konica Minolta Global R&D Europe, as Research Technology Manager, Im responsible to define the strategy and roadmap for the Research and Development sector and the related team, which includes the areas of Computer Vision, Robotics, Collaborative Robotics & Automation, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, IoT, Audio and Speech Analytics, Edge Computing. Leading the Research Team in the study and development of cutting-edge technology in this different technological macro-areas and their synergistic work, creating horizontal solutions with verticalization capabilities for complex problems that require a multi-disciplinary approach.
It is my responsibility to have an active role of interfacing with customers, to understand needs and potential solutions using our technologies and solutions, expanding the current business or opening new business streams. I’m the final responsible for delivery of R&D solution at customer. It is also my responsibility to ensure that the strategy reflects a path of technological innovation, aligned with today’s business and the creation of new business opportunities, with a short, medium and long term time progression.
Furthermore, prepare and maintain an appropriate external partner organizations and alliances (academia, startup, spin-off, institutes and industry) that can support and augment Konica Minolta Global R&D Europe to deliver to its strategic imperatives.
Konica Minolta Laboratory EuropeResearch Leader - AI & Distributed Robotics Area
Apr. 2018 - Mar. 2019Roma, ItaliaWithin Konica Minolta Laboratory Europe, as Research Leader of Distributed Robotics area, I was responsible for defining and executing R&D robotics and AI projects from ‘Feasibility’ through to the handover to ‘Commercialization’, providing scientific and technical know-how and expertise to support the development strategy for KMLE.
This goes through the concept definition, the design and guidance of development of a distributed robotics platform for service-orientated solutions and how these can be deployed into future distributed AI platforms, evaluating new offerings and technologies in the fields of distributed robotics and stay up-to-date with current and evolving state-of-the-art in this area, giving guidance and decision input on the future alignment for KMLE roadmap.
Furthermore, together with the R&D Partners Manager, prepare and maintain an appropriate external partner organizations and alliances (academia, institutes and industry) that can support and augment KMLE to deliver to its strategic imperatives.
Department of Computer Control and Management Engineering - Sapienza University of RomeTeaching Assistant
Sep. 2016 - Apr. 2018Roma, ItaliaCourse of Quantitative Methods for Computer Science My work concerned the development and accomplishment of the practical part of the course, which consisted of drawing practical lessons, homework and projects related to machine learning and deep learning. During the course, matlab, python, tensor flow and several tools of probability and statistics were explained and used.
AutoAgent Laboratory for Cognitive Robotics (ALCOR) - DIAG - Sapienza University of RomeResearch Fellow
Aug. 2016 - Apr. 2018Roma, ItaliaThe main activities and responsibilities fall in the areas of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Deep Leaning, Data Analysis, Knowledge representation, reasoning and Computer Vision. My work is a part of H2020 SecondHands (643950) European Project, in which we try to give new planning and monitoring capability to the humanoid robot Armar.
Ales s.r.l. - Advanced Laboratory on Embedded Systems - UTC - United Technologies CorporationResearch Engineer
May. 2015 - Dec. 2015Roma, ItaliaI worked as a researcher and software developer within different projects (all the projects are subject to US Export Control)
GoogleSoftware Developer
May. 2014 - Aug. 2014I worked as a software developer within the Google Summer of Code 2014 (http://goo.gl/qpWK2r). My proposal has been accepted and I designed and developed a Saliency Module for OpenCV. My work was merged in the official OpenCV contrib repository (http://goo.gl/cWXuuA) and will be present in the new release of OpenCV 3.0 (http://goo.gl/rJ3wIv). The principal purpose of this API is to give a unique framework for use and plug several saliency algorithms, also with very different nature and methodology, but sharing the same purpose. Presently, the following methods have been implemented: - Spectral Residual approach (Hou, Xiaodi, and Liqing Zhang. “Saliency detection: A spectral residual approach.” Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2007. CVPR‘07. IEEE Conference on. IEEE, 2007.) for Static Saliency category.
- Binarized normed gradients algorithm (Cheng, Ming-Ming, et al. “BING: Binarized normed gradients for objectness estimation at 300fps.” IEEE CVPR. 2014.) for Objectness category.
- Bin Wang Apr 2014 (B. Wang and P. Dudek "A Fast Self-tuning Background Subtraction Algorithm", in proc of IEEE Workshop on Change Detection, 2014) for Motion Saliency category.
Consorzio Roma Ricerche (CRR)Researcher and Software Developer
Oct. 2013 - Mar. 2015Roma, ItaliaI worked as a researcher and software developer within of two main project: 1) Saliency Improvments for tracking purposes: • Design and implementation of on-line cooperative learning system (Machine Learning techniques + Computer Vision techniques ) for tracking .
• Design and implementation of saliency algorithm to reinforce Multiple Istance Learning (MIL) algorithm for tracking.
• Design and implementation of saliency-based automatic tracker initializer.
• Design and implementation of a saliency-based automatic scale detection for tracking purposes. 2) Zonal Emergency management with micro-Unmanned aerial System (ZEUS): The project ZEUS (Zonal Emergency management with micro- unmanned aerial system) led to the creation of a system of command and control remote fleet of drones or aircraft automatic UAS (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles class MICRO).
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