Michele Welponer

Curriculum vitae


+39 0461 314167

welponer@fbk.eu

Education

2009 M.S., Computer Science, Università degli Studi di Trento. “Development and Measurement of One-Way Delay in Time-Driven Testbed” – Supervisor Dr. Yoram Ofek

2004 B.S., Engineering, Università degli Studi di Trento. “Integrazione di una Periferica Tattile in un Sistema di Augmented Reality multi-utente multimodale” – Supervisor Dr. Valter Cavecchia

Experience

Software developer, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento. Working for the 3D Optical Metrology (3DOM) group at the Fondazione Bruno Kessler on the development of metrology software and methodologies based on terrestrial, UAV, aerial and satellite photogrammetry, triangulation and time-of-flight optical active sensors, as well as optimization and development of methods and tools for virtual reconstruction and visualization of natural and man-made sites or objects.

Research study grant (2016-2017), Università degli Studi di Trento. Worked for the Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science – University of Trento on the development of computing and analysis architectures for high speed telecommunication networks, including the application to specific analysis case studies.

Web Application Developer and Unix-based System Engineer (2014-2016), Università degli studi di Trento. Worked for the Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science – University of Trento for the development of computing and analysis architectures for high speed telecommunication networks, including the application to specific analysis case studies.

System Administrator and Unix-based System Engineer (2013-2014), Università degli studi di Trento. Worked for the Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science – University of Trento as System Administrator in charge of the installation (hardware & software), troubleshooting, support and maintenance of Unix-based systems and services.

Software Analyst Java (2013), Università degli studi di Trento. Worked, for the Software Engineering Group at the Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science – University of Trento as Java Software Analyst for the extension of the Socio Technical Security modeling language used for the specification of security and trustworthiness requirements of cross-organizational environment systems. (http://www.sts-tool.eu/)

Research study grant (2008-2012), Università degli Studi di Trento. Worked, on the PRIN 2008/BESOS (Bandwidth efficiency and Energy Saving by sub-lambda Optical Switching) project, in collaboration with the Netgroup at the Department of Control and Computer Engineering – Politechnic of Turin and the Telecommunication Group at the Department of Electronic and Information – Politechnic of Milan. Developed Real Time Linux kernel-space (FreeBSD and Debian) code and bash automation scripts to measure the O.S. latencies within a Time Driven Priority (TDP) and the Time Driven Switching (TDS) testbed. Studied and verified various techniques to reduce the O.S. latencies.

Developer Java (2007-2008), Belarus State University, Minsk. Cooperated with Dr. Vladimir A. Polikarpov, PhD in psychology, associate professor of Psychology Department of Belarus State University, chief of Practical Time Philosophy Laboratory at the Institute for Time Nature Explorations – Moscow State University. Developed the software VIPSI, aimed at the investigation of possible evidence for anomalous retroactive influences on cognition and affect.

Developer Lingo (2007), Edizioni Erickson, Trento. Wrote the Lingo authoring code for a multimedia CD-ROM in support of people affected by epilepsy.

Developer Java (2004-2006), Fondazione Graphitech, Trento. Worked on the ProVotE project aimed at testing of e-voting systems for local elections in Trentino. Designed and wrote the code of the entire e-voting software framework.

Developer C++ (2003-2004), Fondazione Graphitech, Trento. Wrote OpenGL/C++ code to integrate a general purpose virtual reality glove into the augmented reality software framework Studierstube, developed at the Institute for Computer Graphics and Vision – Graz University of Technology.

Web Developer (2002), Ixorateam S.r.l., Pergine Valsugana. Worked for the development of a proprietary CMS and few enterprise web portals in ASP/VBasic language.

Languages

Italian (mother tongue), English (fluent), Spanish (good), German (basic)

IT Skills and Technologies

Systems: Unix/Linux (mainly Ubuntu and Debian), OSX, Windows, VMWare, Proxmox, Hyper-V

Languages: Java, C/C++, C#, Ruby, Python

Front-end: HTML, CSS, Javascript, JQuery, Bootstrap, Foundation

Back-end: Apache, Nginx, Tomcat, SQL, MySQL, Postgresql, MongoDB, Ruby on Rails,

Django, PHP, JSP, Tcpdump, bash, Saltstack, Ansible, Drupal, Wordpress, Git,

SVN, Docker, Singularity

Franmeworks: PureMVC, Rails, Spring-Boot, Django, Keras, TensorFlow

Other: TcpDump, OpenGL, UML, LaTeX, Deep Learning, Machine Learning

Publications

I. Toschi, E.M. Farella, M. Welponer, e F. Remondino. Quality-based registration refinement of airborne lidar and photogrammetric point clouds. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 172:160 – 170, 2021.

Ellie Stathopoulou, M. Welponer, e Fabio Remondino. Open-source image-based 3d reconstruction pipelines: Review, comparison and evaluation. ISPRS - International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, XLII-2/W17:331–338, 11 2019.

V. Pant, R. Passerone, M. Welponer, L. Rizzon, e R. Lavagnolo. Efficient Neural Computation on Network Processors for IoT Protocol Classification. New Generation of CAS (NGCAS), 2017.

Kier Selinsky, Libby Duncan Selinsky, e Various Photographers. f/D Book of Pinhole. Subjective Press, 1st edition, https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/537638366/the-f-d-book-of-pinhole, 2017.

M. Welponer, L. Abeni, G. Marchetto, e R. L. Cigno. Measuring and reducing the impact of the operating system kernel on end-to-end latencies in synchronous packet switched networks. Software: Practice and Experience. doi: 10.1002/spe.1134, 2011.

Activities and Interests

Active traveler, hiking and calisthenics enthusiastic, dedicated black&white pinhole photographer, pizza lover

C.S.E.N. Pilates Trainer Qualification, 2017.
C.S.E.N. Personal Trainer Qualification, 2016.
C.S.E.N. Fitness Trainer Qualification, 2016.
STC: TRX Suspension Training Trainer Qualification, 2015.
Italian Red Cross Volunteer since 2013.