The team
behind.

Robotics & intelligent systems

Luca studied Mechanical Engineering at ETH Zurich (BSc and MSc) before joining the Control of Networked Systems group at the University of Klagenfurt, where he is completing a PhD in Robotics under Prof. Stephan Weiss.

His research centres on autonomy for aerial and space robots: multi-agent systems, real-time perception and collaborative decision-making in GPS-denied environments. As a visiting researcher at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory he worked on autonomy frameworks for space exploration, presented at IEEE CASE 2025.

Luca led the HERMES team that won Stage 2 of SPRIN-D’s Fully Autonomous Flight 2.0 Challenge in 2026, developing its core autonomy and overall navigation architecture. He also leads the University of Klagenfurt’s SAPIENCE team, which builds cooperative search-and-rescue UAVs for GPS-denied environments and won the NATO SPS SAPIENCE competition in Huntsville, USA, in 2025.

At Vasco he leads the company and its overall technical direction.

Software engineering & security

Roman is a PhD candidate in the Software Engineering Group at the University of Bern, where he has worked since 2024. His research focuses on software variability, applied cryptography and decentralized systems.

For his master’s thesis, he worked as a student researcher in the Decentralized Trust team within IBM Research’s Security Research Department in Rüschlikon. His research addressed privacy-protecting and post-quantum secure digital asset protocols.

He brings more than a decade of experience across project management, software engineering and research, including industry roles at VZ VermögensZentrum and reByte. This experience informs his DevSecOps approach to integrating security throughout the software lifecycle. He holds an MSE in Computer Science with a focus on cybersecurity from OST and a BSc in Business Information Technology from FHNW. His studies included exchanges in Australia and Canada.

At Vasco, he oversees software architecture and lifecycle processes, contributes to secure communication, and leads company operations.

Navigation & sensor fusion

Giulio is an engineer with a background in mechatronics and control systems. He is completing a PhD in Robotics in the Control of Networked Systems group at the University of Klagenfurt under Prof. Stephan Weiss.

His research focuses on geometric methods and equivariant systems theory for state estimation, multi-sensor fusion and inertial navigation: the mathematics that keeps an aircraft’s estimate of where it is consistent when GPS is gone. His work includes UVIO, an UWB-aided visual-inertial odometry framework, equivariant IMU preintegration on the Galilean group, and equivariant filters for radar-inertial odometry.

Beyond the papers, he builds the C++ libraries behind this work: Lie group operations, IMU preintegration and sensor-fusion frameworks that fly on real research aircraft.

At Vasco he leads the technology: navigation, state estimation and the sensor-fusion core of the autonomy brain.