Edoardo Franzi
EDUCATION
- Born in Lumino, South of
Switzerland, the 19th October 1958.
- Electronic engineer diploma at the EINEV in December 1980.
- Electronic engineer REG A (ETH equivalence) in December 1991.
- Postgraduate course "Scientific Visualisation and Simulation",
EPFL 1991.
- Postgraduate course "Biological and Artificial neural
network", EPFL 1992.
- Postgraduate course "New approaches in Data Bases", EPFL 1993.
- Certificate of master in computer science, EPFL 1993.
INDUSTRIAL AND TEACHING ACTIVITIES
- Electronic engineer in R&D at PANEL/GARDY,
Préverenges, 1980 to 1986.
- Electronic engineer in R&D at HERMES/OLIVETTI, Yverdon,
1986.
- Electronic engineer in R&D at COSTRONIC,
Préverenges, 1986 to 1989.
- Electronic engineer in R&D and teaching assistant at the
LAMI-EPFL, Lausanne, 1989
to 1997.
- Part time teaching for an electronic analogue pratical course
at EINEV Yverdon, 1994 to 1998.
- Consulting for different industries for the design of DSP and
32-bit micro-controller industrial boards.
- Co-founder of the K-Team S.A., Préverenges, 1995.
- Part time technical manager at the
K-Team, Préverenges
1995 to 1999.
- Member of the board of directors of the K-Team S.A..
- Since 1997: employed at the
CSEM as R&D engineer at the
bio-inspired division.
LANGUAGES
- Bilingual Italian-French.
- English (second work tongue).
- Dialett dee Lumin.
FIELD OF INTEREST & MAIN REALISATIONS
- Mobile robotics.
- Digital and analogic hardware design.
- Neural network applications.
- Real-time µKernels
- Designer of the architecture, the hardware & the software
of the mobile robots
Khepera
and Koala.
IMPORTANT COLLABORATIONS
An important part of my work has been done in collaboration with:
Edoardo Franzi