Raffaele Galliera

Ph.D. Student in the Intelligent Systems and Robotics joint program between the University of West Florida and the Institute for Human and Machine Cognition (IHMC).

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NOMADS Lab

40 S Alcaniz St

Pensacola, Florida, USA, 32501

I am a passionate researcher with a focus on Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for optimizing communication networks and learning communication protocols.

While focusing on my Ph.D. I also intern as a Research Assistant at the NOMADS Lab (IHMC), where communication protocols and engineering solutions are designed for challenged networking environments. During my master’s degree, in 2021, I served as vice president of the Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics group (AIDA) at UWF. We placed 3rd at the nationwide AI Tracks at Sea competition organized by the NIWC Pacific.

In 2023, I first-authored publications on Single and Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning and presented at the AAAI 2023 Reinforcement Learning Ready for Production Workshop and at the NeurIPS 2023 Workshop on Machine Learning for Systems. I have also been accepted at the 29th AAAI/SIGAI Doctoral Consortium at AAAI 2024, where I will present my research on Deep Reinforcement Learning for Communication Networks.

My academic journey began at the University of Ferrara, where I earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Electronics and Computer Science Engineering. A double degree program in Computer Science between the University of Ferrara and the University of West Florida led me to complete my Master of Science in Computer Science at UWF. After my Master’s Degree, I embarked on my Ph.D. in Intelligent Systems and Robotics, a joint program between IHMC and UWF, under the advice of Dr. Niranjan Suri and Dr. Kristen Brent Venable.

news

Nov 16, 2023 Our paper “Learning Collaborative Information Dissemination with Graph-based Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning” has been accepted at the NeurIPS 2023 Workshop on Machine Learning for Systems!
Oct 9, 2023 I have been accepted into the 29th AAAI/SIGAI Doctoral Consortium at AAAI 2024!
Aug 25, 2023 Our pre-print “Learning Collaborative Information Dissemination with Graph-based Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning” is available on arXiv.
Aug 7, 2023 Our paper “Learning to Sail Dynamic Networks: The MARLIN Reinforcement Learning Framework for Congestion Control in Tactical Environments” has been accepted at MILCOM 2023!
Dec 24, 2022 Our paper “MARLIN: Soft Actor-Critic based Reinforcement Learning for Congestion Control in Real Networks” has been accepted at the 36th IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS 2023)!
Nov 19, 2022 Our paper “MARLIN: Soft Actor-Critic based Reinforcement Learning for Congestion Control in Real Networks” has been accepted at the AAAI 2023 Reinforcement Learning Ready for Production Workshop!

selected publications

2024

  1. Collaborative Information Dissemination with Graph-based Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
    Raffaele Galliera, Kristen Brent Venable, Matteo Bassani, and 1 more author
    Feb 2024
    Earlier version on static network presented at the NeurIPS 2023 Workshop on Machine Learning for Systems (poster attached below).
  2. Deep Reinforcement Learning for Communication Networks
    Raffaele Galliera
    Feb 2024
    Research abstract published at the 29th AAAI/SIGAI Doctoral Consortium.

2023

  1. MARLIN: Soft Actor-Critic based Reinforcement Learning for Congestion Control in Real Networks
    Raffaele Galliera, Alessandro Morelli, Roberto Fronteddu, and 1 more author
    In NOMS 2023-2023 IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium, May 2023
    Presented at the AAAI 2023 Workshop on Reinforcement Learning Ready for Production
  2. Learning to Sail Dynamic Networks: The MARLIN Reinforcement Learning Framework for Congestion Control in Tactical Environments
    Raffaele Galliera, Mattia Zaccarini, Alessandro Morelli, and 4 more authors
    In MILCOM 2023 - 2023 IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM), May 2023

2022

  1. Object Detection at the Edge: Off-the-shelf Deep Learning Capable Devices and Accelerators
    Raffaele Galliera, and Niranjan Suri
    Procedia Computer Science, Sep 2022
    2022 International Conference on Military Communication and Information Systems (ICMCIS)

2021

  1. Marine Vessel Tracking using a Monocular Camera
    Tobias Jacob., Raffaele Galliera., Muddasar Ali., and 1 more author
    In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Deep Learning Theory and Applications - DeLTA, Jun 2021