Jonathan Cacace was born in Naples, Italy, on December 13, 1987. He received has a bachelor's and master's degree in computer science from the University of Naples Federico II. Currently, he is attending a PhD Scholar Course in Information and Automation Engineering at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology (DIETI) in the same institution. His research is focused on autonomous action planning and execution by mobile robots, high-level and low-level control of UAV platforms, and human-robot interaction with humanoid robots in service task execution. He is the author and coauthor of several scientific publications in the robotics field, published at international conferences and scientific journals.
Jonathan is a member of the PRISMA Laboratory (http://prisma.dieti.unina.it/) of the University of Naples Federico II. With his research group, he is involved in different EU-funded collaborative research projects focused on several topics, such as the use of unmanned aerial vehicles for search and rescue operations or service task execution (http://www.sherpa-project.eu/sherpa/ and http://www.arcas-project.eu/) and the dynamic manipulation of elastic objects using humanoid robotic platforms (http://www.rodyman.eu/).
Ruixiang Du is currently a PhD student studying Robotics at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI). He received his bachelor's degree in Automation from North China Electric Power University in 2011 and a master's degree in Robotics Engineering from WPI in 2013.
Ruixiang has worked on various robotic projects with robot platforms ranging from medical robots, UAV/UGV, to humanoid robots. He was an active member of Team WPI-CMU for the DARPA Robotics Challenge.
Ruixiang has general interests in robotics and in real-time and embedded systems. His research focus is on the control and motion planning of mobile robots in cluttered and dynamic environments.
