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Eduardo Castelló Ferrer
Dr. Eduardo Castelló is an Assistant Professor at IE and is an affiliated researcher at MIT (USA). For over a decade, he has specialized in robotics systems and their interconnections with network technology. He has worked on a wide variety of international projects in Japan, Europe, and the United States, together with world-renowned academics such as Prof. Alex ('Sandy') Pentland and Prof. Hiroshi Ishiguro. Dr. Castelló received his B.Sc. in intelligent systems from the University of Portsmouth (UK) and his M.Eng. and Ph.D. in robotics engineering from Osaka University (Japan). He has been affiliated with MIT (USA) since 2016 and was previously a Marie Curie Fellow at the MIT Media Lab, exploring the combination of autonomous systems and blockchain-based technology. His current research focuses on implementing new security, behavior, and economic models for networked groups of autonomous agents using novel cryptographic methods. Dr. Castelló has also written for leading general-audience publications (El País and El Mundo) and has published his robotics research in leading scientific journals (Science Robotics and IEEE Transactions on Robotics) and high-impact robotics conferences (IROS, ICRA, and AAMAS).
Academic Experience
• Assistant Professor of Robotics, IE University, Spain, 2023 - Present
• Affiliated Researcher, Connection Science, MIT, USA, 2019 - Present
• Postdoctoral Fellow (Marie Curie), MIT Media Lab, MIT, USA, 2016 - 2019
• Research Assistant and Doctoral Fellow, Osaka University, Japan, 2009 - 2016
Academic Background
• Ph.D. in Robotics Engineering, Osaka University, Japan, 2016
• M.Eng. in Robotics Engineering, Osaka University, Japan, 2011
• B.Sc. (Hons.) in Intelligent Systems, Portsmouth University, UK, 2007
• HND in Software Engineering, ESAT, Spain, 2006
Corporate Experience
• Senior Expert, Indra Digital Labs, Spain, 2023
Selected Publications
• E. Castelló Ferrer, I. Berman, A. Kapitonov, V. Manaenko, M. Chernyaev, and P. Tarasov. Gaka-chu: A self-employed autonomous robot artist (2023). IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA).11583 – 11589. Video
• E. Castelló Ferrer, E. Jiménez, J. L. Lopez-Presa, and J. Martín-Rueda. Following leaders in byzantine multirobot systems by using blockchain technology. IEEE Transactions on Robotics .38(2):1101 – 1117, 2021. Video
• E. Castelló Ferrer, T. Hardjono, A. S. Pentland, and M. Dorigo. Secure and secret cooperation in robot swarms. Science Robotics .6(56), 2021. Video
• E. Castelló Ferrer. “The blockchain: A new framework for robotic swarm systems” (2018). K. Arai, R. Bhatia, and S. Kapoor (eds), Proceedings of the Future Technologies Conference (FTC) 1037 – 1058. Springer International Publishing. Video
