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Stefano Carpin is a Professor in the department of Computer Science and Engineering and Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Programs in the School of Engineering. He received his “Laurea” (MSc) and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of Padova (Italy) in 1999 and 2003. From 2003 to 2006 he held faculty positions with Jacobs University Bremen, Germany. Since 2007 he has been with the School of Engineering at UC Merced, where he established and leads the UC Merced robotics laboratory. From July 2018 to June 2021 he served as founding chair of the newly established department of Computer Science and Engineering. 

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His research interests include mobile and cooperative robotics for service tasks, and robot algorithms. He published more than 150 papers in international journals, conferences, and workshops, and he is a Senior Member of the IEEE. He was an associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO) from 2010 to 2014,  an associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (T-ASE) from 2015 to 2018, and an associate editor for the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L). He also regularly served as associate editor or program committee member for the major international conferences in robotics and automation (ICRA, IROS, CASE). From 2006 to 2009 he was an elected executive member of the RoboCup federation. Under his supervision, teams participating in the RoboCupRescue Virtual Robots competition won second place in 2006 and 2008, and first place in 2009. In 2018, he also won the Best Conference Paper Award at the yearly IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE).

Since he joined UC Merced his research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, DARPA, USDA, the Office of Naval Research, the Army Research Lab, the Department of Commerce (NIST), the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS), Microsoft Research, and General Motors.

Curriculum Vitae  (updated Dec 2024)