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Basics

Name Raffaele Galliera
Label Ph.D. Student
Email rgalliera@ihmc.org
Phone +1 (541) 801-5090
Url https://RaffaeleGalliera.github.io/
Summary My Ph.D. research is exploring the optimization of communication tasks with (Multi-Agent) Reinforcement Learning (RL/MARL) in Point-to-Point and Group Communication (GC) networks. I'm investigating different aspects concerning the agents' communication and their learned strategies, designing new methods to improve cooperation. I am also interning as a Research Assistant at the NOMADS lab (IHMC) in close contact with researchers and developers of communication protocols for challenged networking environments, where we collaborate to deploy learned policies on real protocols and networks.

Work

  • 2021.08 - Present
    Research Assistant
    Institute for Human and Machine Cognition and The University of West Florida
    • Single and Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
    • Machine Learning
    • Computer Vision
    • Communication Networks
    • Distributed Systems
    • Presented at the AAAI 2023 Reinforcement Learning Ready for Production Workshop
    • Presented at the NeurIPS 2023 Machine Learning for Systems Workshop
    • Accepted at the 29th AAAI/SIGAI Doctoral Consortium at AAAI 2024
    • Appointed Member of the NATO IST-194 Research Group on Adaptive Network at the Tactical Edge
  • 2020.08 - 2021.08
    Graduate Assistant
    The University of West Florida
    • Workshops on memory optimization for undergraduate students and utilization of Jupiter Notebooks for AI projects
    • Teaching Assistant (grading and tutoring)
    • Achieved 3rd Place at the AI Tracks at Sea nationwide competition
  • 2018.03 - 2020.08
    Software Developer
    Enrian Partners
    • Full-stack Software Developer
    • Developed a web application for the management of complex IT companies infrastructures

Volunteer

  • 2023.01 - 2025.06
    Appointed Member
    North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) IST
    NATO IST-194: The main objective of this group is to develop a novel network architecture with methods and protocols that can adapt, manage, and control existing radio technologies in heterogeneous networks for increased robustness and optimized planning and use of the available network resources.
  • 2020.08 - 2022.08
    Vice-President and President
    Artificial Intelligence and Data Analysis (AIDA) at The University of West Florida

Education

  • 2021.08 - Present
    PhD
    University of West Florida, Pensacola, FL, USA
    Intelligent System and Robotics
    • Deep MARL for Communication Networks
    • Foundations of Intelligent Systems & Robotics
    • Research Methods
    • AI applications and NLP
    • Computer Vision
  • 2020.08 - 2021.08
    Master of Science
    University of West Florida, Pensacola, FL, USA
    Computer Science
    • Machine Learning in Distributed and Embedded Systems
    • Machine Learning
    • Intro to Artificial Intelligence
    • Parallel and Distributed Programming
    • Advanced Algorithms
    • Data Mining
  • 2014.09 - 2019.09
    Bachelor of Science
    University of Ferrara, Italy
    Electronics and Computer Science Engineering

Awards

Languages

Italian
Native speaker
English
Fluent