Stefano Nolfi is research director at the
Institute of Cognitive Science and Tecnology and head of the Laboratory
of Artificial Life and Robotics. Stefano coordinated the European project ECAgents (Embodied and Communicating Agents) and is team leader of the European Projects
I-TALK (Transfer of Action and Language Knowledge in Robots)
and Swarmanoid (Towards Humanoid Robotic Swarms Humanoids).
Stefano has been a fellow of the: Centre for Research in Language, University of
California, San Diego, USA; Laboratory of Microcomputing, Swiss Federal
Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland; SONY Computer Science
Laboratory, Tokyo, Japan; Institute of Advanced Studies of Berlin, Germany;
University of New South Wales,
Canberra, Australia.
Stefano's research activities focus on Adaptive Behaviours, Autonomous Robots, Embodied Cognition, Collective and Swarm Intelligence, Evolutionary Robotics, Artificial Life, Evolution of Language, Complex Systems.
The main themes underlying my work are: (a) that behavioural strategies and neural mechanisms are understood better when an organism (living or artificial) is caught in the act, that is when one considers situated and embodied agents in their interaction with the environment; (b) that to understand how natural agents behave and to build useful artificial agents one should study how living organisms change, phylogenetically and ontogenetically as they adapt to their environment.
I authored or co-authored more than 130 peer-reviewed articles and few books.
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Stefano Nolfi Institute of Cognitive Science and Technologies National Research Council (CNR) Via S. Martino della Battaglia 44, 00185, Roma, Italy Phone.: +39-06-44595233 Fax : +39-06-44595243
