Alcherio Martinoli is a roboticist and a full professor at the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in the School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering where he heads the Distributed Systems and Algorithms Laboratory.
Martinoli received his PhD degree in computer science in 1999 at the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) working under Jean-Daniel Nicoud.
Martinoli did a post-doc with Rodney M. Goodman at Caltech, where he headed the Collective Robotics Group.
He has moved to School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering in 2008 as an associate professor.
[1] He is the recipient of a Swiss National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award[2] as well as the 2001 KiTi prize for young Swiss-Italian researchers who have distinguished themselves in the field of science, art, or humanities, as well as a "Best Paper Award" at the 2006 Conference on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems (DARS)[3] Martinoli's research interests are in swarm robotics, swarm Intelligence, and self-organization with applications to transportation systems and large-scale networks of sensors and actuators.