Mattia Neroni, Ph.D., Eng.
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Enthusiastic, reliable, friendly, and energetic research scientist with a Ph.D. in algorithms and artificial intelligence.
About
I'm a reliable, friendly, energetic and resourceful research scientist with a Ph.D. in algorithms and artificial intelligence applied to logistics and manufacturing.
I have over 5 years of experience in algorithms development, technical consulting, project management, logistics, supply chain, operations research, machine learning,
web applications development. I took part to more than 15 collaborations with different companies and approximately 25 scientific publications.
I have a high willingness to learn and desire to constantly prove myself carrying out more and more challenging tasks. I'm interested in working with people who are honest,
direct, and without fake goodness.
I curretly work as Senior Research Engineer in Spindox and I previously worked mainly in academics as Researcher
in several universities across Europe (i.e., University of Parma, Stuttgart Technology University
of Applied Sciences, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, University of Modena), and
Adjunct Professor at University of Parma.
I like living in big cities (even better if close to the sea) and during my life I lived in Reggio Emilia (vote 6/10),
London (vote 8/10), Barcelona (vote 9/10),
Stuttgart (vote 4/10). I'm always looking for new oppotunities to relocate, make new experiences, and find my place in the world.
My interests concern football, computer science, and many scienific topics which are able to keep my brain busy.
Experience
Working in Amazon Barcelona in the middle mile optimilation team as Applied Scientist II.
Worked on design, coordination, and development of several research projects, covering both the role of project manager or senior engineer.
- Actively worked on and coordinated EU funded Horizon projects --i.e., Darko, Rexasi Pro, Barcelona Smartcity
- Actively worked on several collaborations with partner companies (e.g., AEP, Grunhental, etc.).
- Actively coordinated EU funded Horizon projects.
Founder of a startup (www.kheperer.it) specialized in software development. Responsible for algorithms development and social media management activities.
- Obtained two sales in the first six months of activity.
- Obtained fund for innovative startups.
Responsible for the development of advanced research on logistics and operations improvement through algorithms and artificial intelligence.
- Actively worked on several collaborations with companies that involved the development of simulations and optimization algorithms for logistics environments.
- Actively worked on indicatively seven scientific publications on operations and processes improvement through algorithms and artificial intelligence techniques.
- Obtained great satisfaction from partner companies with a much higher productivity than other research scientists.
Part-time involved in a collaboration with Universitat Oberta de Catalunya on the application to last-mile logistics of simheuristic and learheuristic algorithms.
- Actively worked in the development of three algorithms and relative scientific publications.
- Actively worked in the collaborations with partner companies such as Spindox SpA and Cofarte Srl.
- Obtained great satisfaction of partner companies and demonstrated higher productivity than other colleagues.
Responsible for teaching Lean Management to Master’s Degree students in Management Engineering.
- Received great feedback from good major part of students.
- All students that asked for an internship have been accurately placed and actively participated in projects with partner companies.
Research scientist working on the design, development, validation, and implementation of algorithms and machine learning models to logistics, supply chain, and manufacturing environments.
- Actively worked in the development of several algorithms and relative scientific publications.
- Actively worked in the creation of the software-based shielding, an innovative technique for automated inventory counting through radio frequency identification.
- Actively worked with several partner companies such as Matter Srl, Elettric80 SpA, Max Mara, and many others.
- Obtained great satisfaction of partner companies and demonstrated higher productivity than other colleagues.
Worked as visiting researcher responsible for the development and validation of biased randomized algorithms for productivity improvement in automated storage and retrieval systems.
Worked as visiting researcher responsible for the development of algorithms for productivity improvement in automated storage and retrieval systems.
Projects
An algorithm to optimize pickers routing and pallets loading.
A new algorithm for the 3-Dimensional Case Picking Problem. A newly considered problem of operational research that combines the well-known case picking problem with the positioning of 3-dimensional items inside pallets (i.e., Pallet Loading Problem). The idea comes from a collaboration with the IN3 research group in Computer Science Dept. at Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (Barcelona, SPAIN).
A platform where users can upload their algorithms and developers can find the algorithms they need.
Server Side Algorithms (SSA) is a platform with the objective to cover the gap between applications developers and scientists. Through a standard API, the registered developers are allowed to send HTTP requests to the server by requiring the execution of a specific algorithm previously uploaded by a different user.
A mobile application for skin deseases detection.
Derma is a mobile application for Android and iOS for detection and recognition of skin deseases. It is able to detect from a picture 9 different kinds of skin desease, and the classification is carried out through a fine tuned EfficientNet model. The application is therefore making use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to identify an eventual skin illness.
Implementation and validation of several algorithms to optimise the collection of milk and its delivery to the production plant.
Implementation of an algorithm for solving the Multi-Source Team Orienteering Problem applied to car sharing.
On occasion of this research, we faced an extension of the original Team Orienteering Problem (TOP), in which the vehicles start from many different sources and visit a set of customers before reaching the destination. This problem finds several application especially in car sharing and ride sharing optimization. A real implementation to improve the ride sharing in Barcelona city has also been done.
A machine learning approach to automated inventorying in shop retails.
Development of a machine learning model able to distinguish through 1 minute RFID readings which items are in the current room and which not, with no need of any hardware instrument or additional support. The solution may lead to great time and money savings in any shop retail, and not just in the fashion industry where it has been tested on occasion of this work.
Simulation and optimization of an automated warehouse.
On occasion of the collaboration with Matter Srl, I developed the simulation of a complex automated warehouse widely used in the steel sector (i.e., Shuttle-Lift-Crane based AS/RS). I also developed a web application to customize the parameters of the simulation and save the results. A set of algorithms to improve the performance have then been developed (for privacy reasons is not possible to make them open-source).
A study concerning the refinement of the ant colony optimization algorithm.
Development of an algorithm for organizing shipments to pharmacies.
Development of an algorithm to organize the shipment of drugs to pharmacies. The algorithm is partially inspired by the Clarke & Wright Savings but it takes into account additional constraints, such as the time windows, the unpredictability of travel times due to traffic conditions, the importance of customers.
Inventory management and internal logistics reorganization in a partner comany's warehouse.
Redesign of inventory policies and stock placement for ProfilInox SpA (company part of group Acciai Vender SpA). The project also involved the deployment of a web application able to suggest a new reorganization according to the past transactions reported in the company's database.
A library to facilitate the implementation of the Clarke & Wright Savings algorithm.
An open-source library to facilitate and speed up the implementation of the Clarke & Wright Savings algorithm. The library also allows the incorporation of the heuristic procedure in a metaheuristic multi-start framework or an iterated local search to explore many possible solutions in a short computational time.
Design of a new assembly line according to lean production principles.
Design of an assembly line and its relative feeding policies for Extrema Srl. The line is dedicated to the assembly of a stair lift for the handicapped people. The design also involved the development of a simulation using Simul8 software in order to validate the decisions taken.
A mathematical model to calculate with an accuracy of 98% the kinematic performances of an AS/RS.
A mathematical model to calculate with an accuracy of 98% the kinematic performances of an automated warehouse widely spread in the steel industry known under the name of Shuttle-Lift-Crane based Automated Storage and Retrieval System. The functioning of the warehouse involves many agents and different machines moving in parallel and cooperating with each other.
A mathematical model to optimize the products portfolio.
A mathematical model of linear programming to optimize the portfolio of WAM SpA.
Skills
Programming Languages
Python
C++
Javascript
Java
Golang
Shell Scripting
Commercial Softwares
Anylogic
Simul8
iFix Scada
Microsoft Office
Microsoft Project
Other
Tensorflow
Pytorch
FastAPI
Postgresql
Git
Heroku
Spoken Languages
Italian (C2)
English (C1)
Spanish (A2)
German (A1)
Education
Ph.D. in Industrial Systems Engineering
University of Parma - Parma, ITALY
Topic: Artificial Intelligence and Algorithms for Logistics and Manufacturing
Level: 8
Grade: 4/4
Master's in Management Engineering
University of Parma - Parma, ITALY
Thesis' topic: Design, development, and validation of a technical and commercial configurator for automated warehouses
Level: 7
Grade: 106/110
Bachelor's in Management Engineering
University of Parma - Parma, ITALY
Thesis' topic: Investment evaluation for a machine to estract lycopene from tomato processing wastes with supercritical CO2
Level: 6
Grade: 98/110
Snake (Only for PC)
Contact
Publications
- Neroni, M., Herrera, E., Panadero, J., Juan, A. Batteries Sharing: A feasibility analysis through simulation. Mathematics.
- Neroni, M., Mezzogori, D., Romagnoli, G., Rosa, M., Rizzi, A. Software Based Shielding: Analysis of Transfer Learning Approach. International Journal of RF Technologies.
- Neroni, M., Rinaldi, M. Enhancing the milk logistics in the dairy sector. Flexible Services and Manufacturing Journal.
- Neroni, M., Juan, A. A simulation-based approach for the productivity improvement of Automated Storage and Retrieval Systems in the Steel Industry. European Journal of Industrial Engineering.
- Neroni, M., Juan, A. A Multi-Start Biased-Randomized Algorithm for Solving a 3-Dimensional Case Picking Problem with Real-Life Constraints. Interantional Transactions in Operations Research.
- Zammori, F., Neroni, M., Mezzogori, D. A specific particle swarm optimization to enhance order picking in manual warehouses. European Journal of Operational Research.
- Neroni, M., Panadero, J., Ghorbani, E., Ammouriova, M., Juan, A. (2023) An Agile Optimization Algorithm for the Multi-Source Team Orienteering Problem. European Journal of Industrial Engineering.
- Ammouriova, M., Herrera, E., Neroni, M., Faulin, J., Juan, A. (2022) Solving Vehicle Routing Problems under Uncertainty and Dynamic Scenarios: from Simheuristics to Agile Optimization. Applied Science.
- Castaneda, J., Neroni, M., Ammouriova, M., Panadero, J., & Juan, A. A. (2022). Biased-Randomized Discrete-Event Heuristics for Dynamic Optimization with Time Dependencies and Synchronization. Algorithms, 15(8), 289.
- Bertolini, M., Mezzogori, D., Neroni, M., & Zammori, F. (2022). A Dynamic operative framework for allocation in automated storage and retrieval systems. Expert Systems with Applications, 118940.
- Bertolini, M., Braglia, M., Marrazzini, L., Neroni, M. (2021) Project Time Deployment: A new lean tool for losses analysis in Engineer-to-Order production environments. International Journal of Production Research, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00207543.2021.1912428.
- Neroni, M. (2021). Ant Colony Optimization with Warm-Up. Algorithms, 14(10), 295, DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/a14100295.
- Bertolini, M., Mezzogori, D., Neroni, M., Zammori, F. (2021) Machine Learning for industrial applications: a comprehensive literature review, Expert Systems with Applications, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2021.114820.
- Ammouriova, M., Bertolini, M., Castaneda, J., Juan, A. A., & Neroni, M. (2022). A Heuristic-Based Simulation for an Education Process to Learn about Optimization Applications in Logistics and Transportation. Mathematics, 10(5), 830. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/math10050830.
- Neroni, M., Tebaldi, L. (2021) A hybrid heuristic algorithm for solving the Traveling Salesman Problem with Time Windows. Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Modeling & Applied Simulation (MAS 2021), pp. 1-8, DOI: https://doi.org/10.46354/i3m.2021.mas.001.
- Herrera, E., Neroni, M., Panadero, J., Bertolini, M., Juan, A. (2021) Last-mile delivery of pharmaceutical items to heterogenous centers with random travel times and unpunctuality fees, Winter Simulation Conference 2021. DOI: 10.1109/WSC52266.2021.9715531.
- Esposito, G., Mezzogori, D., Neroni, M., Rizzi, A., Romagnoli, G. (2021) Software-based shielding for real-time inventory count in different store areas: A feasibility analysis in fashion retail, International Journal of RF Technologies, DOI: 10.3233/RFT-210294.
- Neroni, M., Rizzi, A., Romagnoli, G., Rosa, M. (2022). RFID software-based shielding: Implementation of further approaches under varying surrounding conditions. International Journal of RF Technologies. DOI: 10.3233/RFT-220320.
- Esposito, G., Mezzogori, D., Neroni, M., Rizzi, A., & Romagnoli, G. (2021). Software-based shielding for real-time inventory count in different store areas: A feasibility analysis in fashion retail. International Journal of RF Technologies, 12(1), 53-68.
- Esposito, G., Mezzogori, D., Neroni, M., Rizzi, A., Romagnoli, G., Rosa, M. (2021) A review of RFID based solutions for indoor localization and location-based classification of tags, 26th Summer School Francesco Turco.
- Bertolini, M., Neroni, M., & Oliva, M. (2021). An operational framework for the definition of the supply chain strategies in ETO environments. In 26th Summer School Francesco Turco, 2021. DOI: 2-s2.0-85124674041.
- Mezzogori, D., Neroni, M., Zammori, F. (2021). Cycle-time calculation in Shuttle Lift Crane based Automated Storage and Retrieval Systems. IIE Transactions, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/24725854.2020.1861391.
- Bertolini, M., Neroni, M., Zammori, F. (2021). A flexible operating tool to provide an efficient project’ s staffing and resource allocation. International Journal of Project Organisation and Management.
- Bertolini, M., Neroni, M., Uckelmann, D. (In Press) A survey of literature on automated storage and retrieval systems from 2009 to 2019. International Journal of Logistics Systems and Management.
- Bertolini, M., Melloni, R., Neroni, M. (2020). Order picking: a comparison of heuristic and metaheuristic approaches. 25th Summer school Francesco Turco, link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SbF1pwCfHJKUdq4ohGfiE2azIvvxF8OO/view.
- Bertolini, M., Mezzogori, D., Neroni, M. (2019). Allocation of items considering unit loads balancing and joint retrieving. 24th Summer School Francesco Turco, DOI: http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?partnerID=3MLxHJVE&origin=inward&eid=2-s2.0-85081557195.
- Bertolini, M., Esposito, G., Neroni, M., Rizzi, A., Romagnoli, G. (2019). A meta-analysis of industry 4.0-related technologies that are suitable for lean manufacturing. 24th Summer School Francesco Turco, DOI: 2-s2.0-85081612481.
- Bertolini, M., Esposito, G., Mezzogori, D., Neroni, M. (2019). Optimizing Retrieving Performance of an Automated Warehouse for Unconventional Stock Keeping Units. Procedia Manufacturing, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.promfg.2020.01.272.
- Bertolini, M., Esposito, G., Neroni, M., Romagnoli, G. (2019). Maturity Models in Industrial Internet: a Review. Procedia Manufacturing, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.promfg.2020.01.253.
- Uckelmann, D., Mezzogori, D., Esposito, G., Neroni, M., Reverberi, D., Ustenko, M. (2020). Safety and Security in Federated Remote Labs–A Requirement Analysis. International Conference on Remote Engineering and Virtual Instrumentation.
- Bertolini, M., Neroni, M., Romagnoli, G. (2018). A new heuristic algorithm to improve the design of a vertical storage system. 23rd Summer School Francesco Turco, DOI: http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?partnerID=3MLxHJVE&origin=inward&eid=2-s2.0-85056254061.
- Uckelmann, D., Mezzogori, D., Esposito, G., Neroni, M., Reverberi, D., & Ustenko, M. (2021) Guideline to Safety and Security in Federated Remote Labs, International Journal of Online and Biomedical Engineering, DOI: 10.3991/ijoe.v17i04.18937.
- Neroni, M. (2021). Improvement of logistics automation: a focus on unconventional solutions.