Marco Caccamo

Marco Caccamo is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) and holds a courtesy appointment in the Coordinated Science Lab and Department of Aerospace Engineering. He earned a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna (Italy) in 2002. His research focuses on embedded systems, real-time computing, and cyber-physical systems, with applications in avionics, automotive systems, and UAVs. He is a recipient of the IEEE Fellow (2018) and Alexander von Humboldt Professorship (2018).

He has chaired major conferences such as RTSS and RTAS and served as General Chair of CPSWeek 2011. His work includes contributions to real-time scheduling, multicore resource management, and reinforcement learning for autonomous systems. Current research highlights include sandboxing AI-based controllers and 6D pose estimation for robotic systems. He leads the Real-Time and Embedded System Laboratory and collaborates with industries to develop innovative software architectures for embedded systems.