Quick recap
Hello. My name is Tommaso Urli and I am a Ph.D. student in Industrial and Information Engineering at University of Udine, Dept. of Electrical, Business and Mechanical Engineering. To be more specific, I am the newest member of the research group in Scheduling and Time-Tabling, whose main research interest is local-search solutions to combinatorial optimization problems.
I attained my Master's degree in Computer Science in March 2010. Since then, and until December 2010, I have been a research fellow at the Laboratory of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI Lab), working on two research projects about virtual camera control in 3D environments. At that time I started up, together with my former supervisor, Roberto Ranon, and several other researchers, Cameracontrol.org a website to gather information about virtual camera control research in academia and industry.
During my period as a research fellow I had an exposure to particle swarm optimization (PSO), which left me fascinated with optimization. On January 2011, I finally started my new position as a Ph.D. student and I am now working on meta-heuristic combinatorial optimization techniques based on machine learning techniques (reinforcement learning, artificial neural networks), together with my current supervisor, Luca Di Gaspero.
Research
I have recently participated in the Cross-domain Heuristic Search Challenge 2011 (CHeSC 2011) with a hyper-heuristics based on reinforcement learning. My hyper-heuristic is ranked 16th. A research paper on this subject has been recently published at the MIC 2011: IX Metaheuristics International Conference; I gave a talk on the topic.
Here is an updated list of my publications, organized per research field and sorted by year (desc).
Meta-heuristics and hyper-heuristics
- Di Gaspero, L. & Urli, T. (2011). A Reinforcement Learning approach for the Cross-Domain Heuristic Search Challenge. In Proceedings of MIC 2011: The IX Metaheuristics International Conference | PDF | Slides.
- Di Gaspero, L. & Urli, T. (2012). Evaluation of a family of Reinforcement Learning cross-domain heuristics for optimization. In Proceedings of LION 6: Learning and Intelligent Optimization. | PDF.
Virtual camera control
Even if, strictly speaking, it has never been published anywhere, my M.Sc. thesis (English) is about virtual camera control. I also authored a paper on the topic
- Ranon, R., Christie, M. & Urli, T. (2010). Accurately Measuring the Satisfaction of Visual Properties in Virtual Camera Control. In R. Taylor, P. Boulanger, A. Krüger & P. Olivier (Eds.), Proceedings of Smart Graphics 2010 (Vol. 6133, pp. 91-102). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg. | PDF.
Teaching
Every now and then I give some extra lectures (e.g. laboratory hours) for courses at the Faculty of Engineering. Here are some slides about practical network and system attacks I gave in 2011 for the Computer security course by Prof. Pier Luca Montessoro.
Note: all the slides are in Italian.
Contacts
In case you need to contact me you can either:
- dial +39 0432 558272,
- drop me a line at tommaso.urli@uniud.it, or
- come meet me in my office (room L106NE in Via Delle Scienze 206, 33100 Udine, bring coffee!).
Links
Here are some links related to my current work or my side projects.
Side projects
