Prof. Dario Floreano Professor, Laboratory of Intelligent Systems, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)

Dario Floreano is professor of Intelligent Systems at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland, where he has also been the founding director of the Swiss National Center of Competence in Robotics from 2010 to 2022. Prof. Floreano is interested in understanding and reproducing principles of embodied intelligence with robotic models and made pioneering contributions to the fields of evolutionary robotics, aerial robotics, and soft robotics. He has a multi-disciplinary training in visual psychophysics, neural computation, and robotics. He held visiting research positions at Sony Computer Science Laboratory, Caltech/JPL, Harvard University, and Osaka University. He co-authored more than 500 publications and 5 books, spun off 3 robotics companies, and is on the editorial board of several journals, including Science Robotics. He received numerous awards and is a Fellow of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, of the European Labs for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS), and of the European Center for Living Technologies. He is, or has been, on the Advisory Board of the International Neural Network Society, the International Artificial Life Society, the World Economic Forum General Agenda Council, the Future and Emerging Technologies Program of the European Commission, and the Max-Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems.