Cosimo Palazzo
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Italian(native),
Spanish(fluent),
English(intermediate)LANGUAGES
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Technical Institute Electronics and Telecommunications
Computer Engineering
Computer Engineering - automation curriculum studies
M.Sc. Management & Automation Engineering - robotics & management curriculum studies
Ph.D. Computer Science & Automation - Modelling Risk in Highly Interdependent Systems

Italian Company Foundation
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Italy
Sinfin (IT Company for Technological Innovation) provides engineering and consulting services with a high innovative, technical and technological level.
IoT Gataway-Based Home Automation software solution for Open-source hardware like Raspberry PI & Arduino.
Consulting service, IoT Sensors prototipation and IoT architecture design and development for an italian manufacturing electronics company (
Naples).
Consulting service with a Senior IoT Architect solution professional profile in a medium-size italian comany (
Rome).
Design and development of ACE³(Ace Cube) - A deterministic enginee Agent-Based Cascading Effects and Events Evolution.

Università degli Studi di RomaTre - M·CIP Lab (Models for Critical Infrastructure Protection Laboratory)
[~5 years & 6 month]
Italy
Via della Vasca Navale, 79, Rome, RM
Design and development of CISIApro: Software to design and modelling Highly Interdependent Complex Systems; Such a platform, through an evolutive simulation, is able to analyze faults propagation and performance degradation of systems composed by different heterogeneous and interdependent infrastructures taking into account different dimensions of reality like: Physical, Cyber, Geographical, Logical, Political, Economical and so on.
[2014-2015] European project FP7 - Cockpit CI (Cybersecurity on SCADA: risk prediction, analysis and reaction tools for Critical Infrastructures): Modeling critical infrastructures entities and interdependencies, Risk Analysis, Fault Analysis propagation, cascading effects, Risk-Informed Decision-Making and Risk Predictor design and development.
[2015-2016] European project CIPS - URANIUM (Unified Risk Assessment Negotiation via Interoperability Using Multi-sensor data): Case study desing, modeling Critical Infrastructures entities and interdependencies, Dynamic Risk Analysis, Fault Analysis propagation, Cascading Effects, Risk-Informed Decision-Making, design and development of Risk Predictor and Decision Support System for Civil Protection Emergency Management.
[2016-2019] European project Horizon 2020 - ATENA (Advanced Tools to assEss and mitigate the criticality of ICT compoNents and their dependencies over Critical InfrAstructures): Modeling Critical Infrastructures entities and interdependencies, Dynamic Risk Analysis, Fault Analysis propagation, Cascading Effects, Risk-Informed Decision-Making, design and development of Risk Predictor and Decision Support System for Electrical Grid reconfiguration.
[2018-2019] European project Horizon 2020 - RESISTO (RESIlience enhancement and risk control platform for communication infraSTructure Operators): Modeling Critical Infrastructures entities and interdependencies, Dynamic Risk Analysis, Fault Analysis propagation, Cascading Effects, Risk-Informed Decision-Making, design and development of Risk Predictor and Decision Support System for Electrical Grid reconfiguration.
Didactical support for the course "Large-Scale Distribuited Critical Infrastructures" of Prof.Stefano Panzieri
Didactical support for thesis in Computer Science and Mechanical Engineering degree. Projects Keywords: Critical Infrastructures, Internet of Things (IoT & IIoT), Embedded Systems, Industrial and Mobile Robotics, Finite-State Machine (FSM).

University Campus Bio-Medico of Rome
[1 month]
Italy
Via Alvaro del Portillo, 21, Rome, RM
Didactical support for the course "Automatic Controls" of Prof.Setola Roberto: realized and teaching the course.
Keywords: Microcontrollers, Actuators, Sensors, Electronic prototyping, Finite-State Machine (FSM).

University Campus Bio-Medico of Rome - Coserity Lab (Complex Systems & Security Lab)
[~6 months]
Italy
Via Alvaro del Portillo, 21, Rome, RM
Risk Prediction, Fault Detection and Isolation for water distribution systems.
European project CIPS - FACIES (Online identification of Failure and Attack on interdependent Critical InfrastructurES): Modeling Critical Infrastructures entities and interdependencies, Dynamic Risk Analysis, Fault Analysis propagation, Cascading Effects, design and development of Risk Predictor.
Technologies: SCADA system, PLC system, C/C++ & CISIA Framework, National Instruments software and hardware, HTML5, CSS3, PHP, SQL, javascript and jQuery.
Keywords: Control Theory, FDI (Fault Detection and Isolation), Neural Network, MHR approach (Mixed Holistic Reductionist) for critical infrastructures modeling, Graph search algorithms.

Semantica - CoFounder & Product Manager (Startup)
[~2 years]
Italy
Design, development and management of a web platform based on semantic algorithms able to analyze comments present on different social platforms by examining sentences structure. Furthermore, Semantica platform provides words frequency analysis, graphical reports, statistical analysis and influencers ranking based on positive and negative sentiment recongition.
Technologies: HTML5, CSS3, PHP, SQL, No-SQL(MongoDB), javascript and jQuery.
Keywords: Machine Learning, Data Mining, Sentiment Analysis, Web Usability 2.0., User Experience(UX).
End project reasons: Wrong market strategies; Team gone wrong.

UPM (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid) - DISAM (División de Ingeniería de Sistemas y Automática Departamento de Automática)
[~5 months]
Spain
Madrid, c/ José Gutiérrez Abascal, 2
Development of a simulator and an editor of 3D worlds (CAD) for Mobile Robotics.
Technologies: C/C++, OpenGL (Open Graphics Library) & GLUT (OpenGL Utility Toolkit).
Keywords: Object-oriented programming, Robots kinematics (matrix algebra), collision detection algorithms.

Rio de la Plata Kft (dulce del leche production company)
[~1 year]
Hungary
1067 – Budapest, Csengery u. 76
International company mediation in the import-export of food products from Italy to Hungary. Conduced market research and external relations. Mediation and resolution of problems inherent in deliveries of large quantities of food jars with the Italian company "Vetreria Etrusca".

Mexado - CoFounder (Web-Platform)
[~1 year 6 months]
Italy
Design, development and management of a web platform for sending personalized Bulk SMS messages for mobile advertising, events organization and commercial products promotion. International purchasing and relationship with TELCO and customers.
Technologies: HTML, PHP, CSS and javascript.
End project reasons: Emergence of facebook; Wrong market strategies; Platform sold to third parties.

Ve.Da Srl. (Real Estate Firm)
Italy
Worked in administrative management and customer relations.
University: Università degli Studi di RomaTre -
Italy, Rome
Research Group: M-CIP Lab. (Models for Critical Infrastructure Protection Laboratory).
Head: Prof. Stefano Panzieri.
University: Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma -
Italy, Rome
Research Group: Coserity Lab (Complex Systems & Security Lab).
Head: Prof. Roberto Setola.
University: Universidad Politécnica de Madrid -
Spain, Madrid
Research Group: Intelligent Control, UPM - DISAM.
Head: Prof. Diego Rodriguez-Losada.

IoT Gateway-Based architecture and Smart IoT Monitoring Box design and deploy.
Keywords: Sensor Fusion, Microcontrollers programming, Electronics & PCB prototyping, Cloud Data, Web Platform.

USB keystroke injection tool, disguised as a generic flash drive, able to recognize OS and automatically select tree injection strategies.
Keywords: Microcontrollers programming.

Desing and Development of a low-cost Stewart platform.
Keywords: Microcontrollers programming, Inverse and Direct Kinematics.

3D Printer [model:Prusa i3] - FDM (Fused Deposition Modeling) construction.
Keywords: 3D Printing, Microcontrollers programming, Thermoplastic filament (PLA, ABS, PET, TPU).

Desing and Development of a measuring instrument Laser Range Finder and Sonar for the detection of distance measures even in multi-agent environment through the signal Laser synchronization.
Keywords: Sensor Fusion, Kalman Filter, Curve Fitting.

Desing and Development of two Low-Cost mobile robots for testing localization algorithms. The robots were exposed to different events in the engineering department of Roma Tre and were exhibited at the first edition of the Maker Faire in Rome.
Keywords: Microcontrollers programming, Sensor Fusion, Electronics prototyping.

Water Distribution Low-Cost Testbed for Critical Infrastructures simulation and emulation.
Keywords: Sensor Fusion, Microcontrollers programming.

Desing and Development of two Low-Cost mobile robots for testing localization algorithms. The robots were exposed to different events in the engineering department of Roma Tre and were exhibited at the first edition of the Maker Faire in Rome.
Keywords: Sensor Fusion, Microcontrollers programming.

Simulation of Fuzzy Algorithms for Point-to-Point Navigation and Obstacle Avoidance for Mobile Robotics.
Keywords: Sensor Fusion, Microcontrollers programming, Fuzzy Techniques.

Simulation and Analysis of heuristics for the Job-Shop Problem.
Keywords: Operational research, Scheduling Techniques, C/C++ Programming.
CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE
Fault Propagation & Cascading Effects Modelling
Dependencies and interdependencies CI Modelling
Highly Interdependent Complex System Design & Modelling
Risk Predictor
MHR (Mixed Holistic Reductionist) modelling technics
Decision Support Systems Design & Deploy
MANAGEMENT
Project Management
Risk Analysis (Classic & Dynamic)
Risk-Informed Decision-Making
Decision-Making (Support Models and Methods)
Industrial Economics
Industrial Production Management
Economics and Business Organization
Operational Research
Combinatorial Optimization
Logistics Optimization and Scheduling
Change Managment
ROBOTICS & AUTOMATION
Automatic Controls
Industrial Automation
SCADA & PLC sistems (Allen-Bradley, Siemens, Schneider, Beckhoff)
Networks and Automation Systems
Models and methods for simulation
Electronics and Electrical
Fuzzy Control
Industrial Robotics
Control Systems Theory
Measurements and identification for dynamic systems
Autonomous Robotics and Sensor Fusion
Digital Control
Artificial Intelligence
Fault Detection and Isolation
Microcomputer Programming: Raspberry PI, Intel Galileo & Edison and others
Microcontrollers Programming: Arduino, Parallax, MR-C3024 and others
Wide knowledge of sensors and actuators
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Software Design
Object-Oriented Programming
Finite-State Machine (FSM)
Microcontrollers-Oriented Programming
C/C++
Java
HTML5 & CSS3
PHP
Python
Matlab
LabVIEW (NI CORE I, CORE II, REAL-TIME I certification)
SQL & No-SQL(MongoDB)
ActionScript 2.0
Ladder Logic (PLC programming)
Assembler
OS
Microsoft Windows
Linux Debian
WEB DEVELOPMENT| PHP | 85% |
| HTML5 & CSS3 | 80% |
| javascript & jQuery | 70% |
| SQL | 60% |
| No-SQL (MongoDB) | 50% |
| Graphic design & UX | 45% |
SPORTS: JuDo (2°Dan - obtained for sporting merits) | JuJitsu (2°Dan) | Philippine Kali Istukada | Ancient Fencing | SCUBA Diving (Advanced Open Water, Dive Medic patents) | Snowboard
HOBBIES: Old Books ('700,' 800, '900) Collection & Reading | Domotics, Home Automation & IoT | 3D Printing | Electronics Prototyping | Robotics Humanoid & Mobile | Gemology | Herbal Medicine | Travels & Foreign Cultures