Augusto Luis Ballardini

Augusto Luis Ballardini is a Researcher at the Department of Automatic Control, Universidad de Alcalá (UAlcalá), Spain, within the INVETT Research Group focusing on Intelligent Vehicles and Traffic Technologies. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Milano-Bicocca (2017) and an MSc from the same institution (2012). His work integrates machine learning, computer vision, and sensor fusion for autonomous vehicle localization and decision-making systems. Key awards include a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions grant (GET-COFUND fellowship) and a Spanish Ministry grant under Maria Zambrano/NextGenerationEU. His research spans LiDAR-based localization, intersection classification, and uncertainty-aware neural networks.

Education:

• PhD in Computer Science, University of Milano-Bicocca, 2017
• MSc in Computer Science, University of Milano-Bicocca, 2012

Research Interests: Autonomous vehicles, sensor fusion, LiDAR and vision-based systems, machine learning for localization, traffic modeling, and safety-critical decision-making. His work emphasizes practical applications such as fail-aware odometry, knowledge graph-driven prediction, and urban scene understanding.

Awards & Grants:

• Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions research grant (2019)
• Maria Zambrano/NextGenerationEU project grant (2022)

Lab & Collaborations: His research is conducted within the INVETT group at UAlcalá, focusing on interdisciplinary projects that bridge robotics, computer vision, and transportation engineering. Recent work includes benchmarking point cloud registration algorithms and developing explainable AI for autonomous driving.