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Chiara Bartolozzi

Senior Researcher Tenured - Principal Investigator
Event-Driven Perception for Robotics
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Chiara Bartolozzi is Researcher at the Italian Institute of Technology. She earned a degree in Engineering at University of Genova (Italy) and a Ph.D. in Neuroinformatics at ETH Zurich, developing analog subthreshold circuits for emulating biophysical neuronal properties onto silicon and modelling selective attention on hierarchical multi-chip systems.

She is currently leading the Event-Driven Perception for Robotics group, with the aim of applying the "neuromorphic" engineering approach to the design of robotic platforms as enabling technology towards the design of autonomous machines.

This goal is pursued by inducing a paradigm shift in robotics, based on the emerging concept of Event-Driven (ED) sensing and processing. Similarly to their biological counterpart, and differently from traditional robotic sensors, ED sensory systems sample their input signal at fixed (and relative) amplitude changes, intrinsically adapting to the dynamics of the sensory signal: temporal resolution is extremely high for fast transitory signals and decreases for slower inputs.

This approach naturally leads to better robots that acquire, transmit and process information only when needed, optimising the use of resources, leading to real-time, low-cost, operation.

Chiara has participated to a number of EU funded projects, she is currently coordinating the European Training Network "NeuTouch", where 15 PhD students are studying how touch perception works in humans and animals, in order to develop artificial touch perception systems for robots and hand prosthesis. As leader of the educational activities of the coordination and support action NEUROTECH, she is co-organising the Neuromorphic Colloquium, a series of online events to build up educational material for the next generation of neuromorphic researchers.

She is an IEEE member, actively supporting the CAS and RAS societies. In 2020, she has co-chaired "AICAS2020", on Circuits and systems for efficient embedded AI.

Education

Title: PhD
Institute: Institute of Neurinformatics - UZH|ETHZ
Location: Zurich
Country: Switzerland
From: 2002 To: 2007

Title: Laurea (summa cum laude)
Institute: University of Genova
Location: Genova
Country: Italy
From: 1996 To: 2001

Top Publications
2022
Bartolozzi C., Indiveri G., Donati E.
Embodied neuromorphic intelligence
Nature Communications, vol. 13, (no. 1)
2022
Gallego G., Delbruck T., Orchard G., Bartolozzi C., Taba B., Censi A., Leutenegger S., Davison A.J., Conradt J., Daniilidis K., Scaramuzza D.
Event-Based Vision: A Survey
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 44, (no. 1), pp. 154-180
2022
Ghosh S., D'Angelo G., Glover A., Iacono M., Niebur E., Bartolozzi C.
Event-driven proto-object based saliency in 3D space to attract a robot’s attention
Scientific Reports, vol. 12, (no. 1)
2021
Dabbous A., Mastella M., Natarajan A., Chicca E., Valle M., Bartolozzi C.
Artificial bio-inspired tactile receptive fields for edge orientation classification
Proceedings - IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, vol. 2021-May
Conference Paper Conference
2021
Glover A., Dinale A., De Souza Rosa L., Bamford S., Bartolozzi C.
luvHarris: A Practical Corner Detector for Event-cameras
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
Dissemination
2024
Bartolozzi C.
Neuromorphic engineering for microelectronic design
Malaysia's Semiconductor Industry: Growth and Economic Potential - Ambasciata della Malesia
Public Event
2023
Bartolozzi C., Greco G.
IA, robotica e sostenibilità
Condiviso - AI: L’INTELLIGENZA ALL’EPOCA DELLA SUA RIPRODUCIBILITÀ
Public Event
2023
Bartolozzi C.
Sustainability of AI
AI & Robotics Conference - Pavia Capitale della cultura d'impresa
Public Event
2020
Bartolozzi C.
AI. per una Società diversamente intelligente
IAGOVES2020 (Universita' Pntificia)
Public Event
2020
Bartolozzi C.
Biologia e robotica insieme per realizzare il tatto artificiale
National Geographic Science Festival
Public Event
Scientific Talks
2024
Bartolozzi C.
Applications of neuromorphic technologies to robotics: from vision to touch
Workshop on Unconventional Computing (Ettore Majorana INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF SOLID STATE PHYSICS))
Workshop/Symposium
2024
Bartolozzi C.
Embodied neuromorphic intelligence
Philosophy of Neuromorphic AI
Workshop/Symposium
2024
Bartolozzi C.
Neuromorphic Perception and Neuroscience
2024 NIH BRAIN NeuroAI Workshop
Workshop/Symposium
2024
Bartolozzi C.
Neuromorphic perception and robotics
Spiking Neural networks as Universal Function Approximators
Workshop/Symposium
2023
Bartolozzi C.
Embodied neuromorphic intelligence
2023 Geneva Science and Diplomacy Anticipation Summit
Conference
Awards and Achievements
2023
Bartolozzi C.
Visiting Professor
2022
Bartolozzi C.
Scientific and Technological Program Committee member
2020
Natale L., Bartolozzi C., Pattacini U., Tikhanoff V., Pucci D.
VVV20
Editorships
2024-2025
Bartolozzi C.
IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems
2024-2025
Bartolozzi C.
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I
2022-2025
Bartolozzi C.
npj Robotics
2020
Bartolozzi C.
Neuromorphic Computing and Engineering
2014
Bartolozzi C.
Frontiers in Neuroscience - Neuromorphic Engineering
Organized Events
2024
Indiveri G., Douglas R., Bartolozzi C., Engert F., Van Shaick A., Soldado-Magraner S.
Capocaccia Workshop on Neuromorphic Intelligence
2023
Janotte E., Corniani G., Dahiya R., Bartolozzi C.
Neuromorphic Haptics - Transitioning From Touch Sensors to Perception
2023
Corninani G., Janotte E., Bartolozzi C.
Neuromorphic Haptics - Transitioning From Touch Sensors to Perception
2023
Muller-Cleve S., Bamford S., Bartolozzi C.
Printable, Flexible Artificial 3D Spiking Neural Networks
2022
Indiveri G., Douglas R., Bartolozzi C., Payvand M., Engert F., Soldado-Magraner S.
CCNE 2022