Francesco Mondada Ch. de Dallaz 13 1030 Bussigny, Switzerland
PERSONAL INFORMATION Born in Locarno, Switzerland 17th March 1967 Married, three children.
EDUCATION Master in Microengineering at the EPF Lausanne 1991 Postgraduate course "Scientific visualisation and graphical simulation", EPF Lausanne 1991 Postgraduate course "Biological and artificial neural networks", EPF Lausanne 1992 Postgraduate course "New approaches for databases", EPF Lausanne 1993 Maitrise in computer science, EPF Lausanne 1993 PhD, EPF Lausanne 1997
LANGUAGES Italian and French (both mother tongue) French (very good knowledge) English (very good knowledge) German (good knowledge) Swiss german (good understanding)
WORK EXPERIENCE PhD Student at LAMI - DI - EPFL (100%) 1991 - 1995 PhD Student at LAMI - DI - EPFL (50%) 1995 - 1997 PostDoc at LAMI - DI - EPFL (50%) 1997 - 1999 President of the board of directors of K-Team SA 1995 - 2000 Marketing and administration director of K-Team SA (50% to 100%) 1995 - 2000 Senior scientist at ASL - I2S - STI - EPFL (100%) 2001 - 2006 Senior scientist at LSRO - IMT - STI - EPFL (100%) 2006 - 2013 Adjunct Professor at LSRO - IMT - STI - EPFL, then BIOROB, then MOBOTS (100%) 2013 - now
PRIZES PORTESCAP prize "of excellence in microtechnics" for the diploma project "juggling robot" 1991 Technologiestandort Schweiz, prize for one of the best technological projects of Switzerland for the Khepera robot 1993 BILANZ (main swiss economic magazine) mention for K-Team as one of the best 50 SME of Switzerland 2000 EPFL University Latsis Prize 2005 Credit Suisse Award for Best Teaching at EPFL, 2011 Polytechnik-preis, 2022
MAJOR PUBLICATIONS (see my professional WEB page to have an updated list)