Luca Parolini

Specialist developer

BMW AG

Biography

Luca Parolini is a research engineer currently working for BMW A.G. in Munich, Germany. His current activities include the design, development, and testing of novel algorithms for autonomous driving applications with a special focus on safety. Previously he worked as Lead Research Engineer in the Embedded Control System group of GE Global Research in Munich, Germany. His research interests include the design, development, and testing of novel control and sensor-fusion algorithms for challenging engineering applications.

Luca Parolini obtained his Ph.D. at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA. His Ph.D. work focused in the area of model predictive control (MPC) for Data center management.

Interests

Control theory
Sensor fusion
Machine learning
Optimization
Artificial Intelligence
Formal methods
Lean product development
AGILE project management

Education

Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2012

Carnegie Mellon University, USA
M.Sc. in Control Theory, 2006

University of Padua, Italy
B.Sc. in Information Engineering, 2004

University of Padua, Italy

Experience

Specialist Software Developer

BMW AG

Dec 2016 – Present Munich, Germany

Design and development of S/W features for autonomous-driving vehicles with a special focus on automated driving level 3 and above.

As S/W developer I mostly work with the following programming languages: C++, Bash, and Python.

Lead Research Engineer

GE Global Research

Aug 2014 – Nov 2016 Munich, Germany

In GE Global Research I was responsible for: technical team leading; identification of new business opportunities and of novel technologies for GE business units; acquisition of funding and participation to international research projects (e.g., Horizon 2020).

Research Engineer

GE Global Research

Mar 2012 – Jul 2014 Munich, Germany

As research engineer I was mostly responsible for the design and development of S/W solutions for all GE business units, with a special focus on oil and gas application, avionic systems, and the power transmission network.

Engineer

M31 s.r.l.

Mar 2007 – Jul 2007 Padua, Italy

While working at the university of Padua, I had the honour to close collaborate with the start-up M31 a few weeks after it was created. For M31, I worked on different projects related with surveillance and detection of retina diseases. Most of my work dealt with the development of software libraries in Qt.

Graduate Research Assistant

University of Padua

Nov 2006 – Feb 2007 Padua, Italy

During my work at the university of Padua, I started implementing a robust version of the algorithms proposed in my master thesis for the localisation of mobile nodes in a wireless sensor network. Most of the work was done in C and C++.

Recent projects

Angelo Cendese, Umar Zakir Abdul Hamid, Luca Parolini, Christopher Plachetka, Sebastian Schneider, Qing Rao, Roberto G. Valenti, Jenny Yuan, Oliver Wasenmüller

Jul 11, 2021