Nicola Forti is currently a Research Scientist in the NATO Science & Technology Organization – Centre for Maritime Research and Experimentation (STO CMRE).
He received his Ph.D. (with highest honors) in Information Engineering from the University of Florence, Italy in 2016, under the supervision of Prof. Luigi Chisci and Prof. Giorgio Battistelli. He also completed his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering with a specialization in Robotics and Mechatronics and his M.S. (cum laude) in Electrical and Automation Engineering at the University of Florence, Italy in 2013. In 2010, he participated in a study abroad program for a period of 6 months at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU), Odense, Denmark, where he started his Master. In 2015 he has been a Visiting Research Scholar in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), Pittsburgh, PA, for one year, where we worked with Prof. Bruno Sinopoli on security of cyber-physical systems. In 2016-2017 he was a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Information Engineering (Systems and Control group) at the University of Florence, Italy.
Dr. Forti’s main research interests include artificial intelligence, statistical signal processing, applied mathematics, and statistics, with special emphasis on probabilistic modeling and machine learning (and the interplay between them), target tracking, data fusion, detection, and state estimation for radar and sonar systems, multi-sensor systems, networked control systems, and general dynamical systems governed by ordinary and partial differential equations.