Vito Trianni is a research director at the Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies of the Italian National Research Council (ISTC-CNR). VT received the Ph.D. in Applied Sciences at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium) in 2006, and the M.Sc. in Computer Science Engineering at the Politecnico di Milano (Italy) in 2000.
VT’s research mainly involves collective intelligence and swarm robotics. VT pioneered the domain of Evolutionary Swarm Robotics, that is, the synthesis of collective behaviours for robotic swarms through artificial evolution. VT is also conducting research on the analysis and design of large-scale decentralised systems, not limited to robot swarms (e.g., cyber-physical and socio-technical systems). Finally, VT is pursuing the development of hybrid collective intelligence, where humans and machines interact to collectively solve complex problems (e.g., decision support to medical diagnostics and policy making).