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