Emanuele Galardo

Work Experience

• Lead Teaching Assistant “Programming” and “Tutor Coordinator” - DeMaCS, University of Calabria (June - July 2026).
• Teaching Assistant “Programming” - DeMaCS, University of Calabria (November - December 2025).

Other Experience

• Student Representative Department Council, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science (DeMaCS), University of Calabria (2-year term 2024-2026).
• Student Council Member University of Calabria (2-year term 2024-2026).

Education and Training

• Master’s Degree in Computer Science University of Calabria

  • Curriculum: “Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science” - Data Science.
  • Period: September 2024 - Present.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science University of Calabria.

  • Curriculum: Artificial Intelligence
  • Period: September 2021 - July 2024.
  • Final Grade: 110/110 cum laude (with Honors).
  • Thesis: “Implementation of Autonomous Robots with Automatic Reasoning Modules”
  • Advisors: Prof. G. Ianni, Dr. D. Angilica.

• High School Diploma I.T.I. Guido Donegani - Crotone

  • Curriculum: Computer Science
  • Period: 2016-2021
  • Final Grade: 100/100.

Certificates and Language Proficiency

• CLA - B2 Upper University of Calabria Language Center (June 2022).
• Cambridge FCE Level B2 — University of Cambridge (March 2021, Score: 169/190).
• Cambridge PET Level B1 — University of Cambridge (June 2020, Score: 157/170).

Training Programs and Internships

• Excellence Track 2025 DeMaCS (Unical).
• CyberChallenge 2023 Cyber Security National Lab.

Awards and Achievements

• INPS University Scholarship 2026 Academic merit for the A.Y. 2023/2024.
• Best Master Student Award (class 2024-2025) DeMaCS (Unical) and Master’s Degree Course in Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science.
• Best Graduate Award (class 2021-2022) DeMaCS (Unical) and Bachelor’s Degree Course in Computer Science.
• Merit-Based Tuition Waiver 2025/2026 Partial university tuition exemption (A.Y. 2025/2026).
• INPS University Scholarship 2025 Academic merit for the A.Y. 2022/2023.
• Merit-Based Tuition Waiver 2024/2025 Full university tuition exemption (A.Y. 2024/2025).
• INPS University Scholarship 2024 Academic merit for the A.Y. 2021/2022.
• Merit-Based Tuition Waiver 2023/2024 Partial university tuition exemption (A.Y. 2023/2024).
• Best Student Award (2nd yr, class 2021-2022) DeMaCS (Unical) and Bachelor’s Degree Course in Computer Science.
• Merit-Based Tuition Waiver 2022/2023 Partial university tuition exemption (A.Y. 2022/2023).
• Best Student Award (1st yr, class 2021-2022) DeMaCS (Unical) and Bachelor’s Degree Course in Computer Science.

Publications

1. Denise Angilica, Tayyab Ateeq, Pierangela Bruno, Emanuele Galardo, and Giovambattista Ianni. “From Pixels to Predicates: A Robust Perception Front-end for ASP-based Game Reasoning”. In: 18th International Conference on Logic Programming and Non-monotonic Reasoning (LPNMR2026). Accepted for publication. 2026.
2. Denise Angilica, Emanuele Galardo, and Giovambattista Ianni. “Dual-Stage Label-Isomorphic State Validation in Grid Logic Games”. In: IEEE Conference on Games (CoG 2026). Accepted for publication. 2026.

Conferences and Seminars

• Intelligence and Gaming MENSA Italia (December 26, 2025, Diamante).

  • Speaker: “BrainyBot: The mechanical mind that plays but does not think”.

• Linux Day 2025 - Cosenza HackLab Cosenza and Italian Linux Society (October 25, 2025).

  • Speaker: “BrainyBot: Build a robot that plays on your smartphone”.

• European Researchers’ Night 2024 - Unical University of Calabria (September 27, 2024).

  • Exhibitor, Bachelor’s Thesis project.

• Video Games and Artificial Intelligence University of Calabria (May 2, 2024).

  • Speaker: “Robots and Games on Mobile Devices”.

• Pensa tu - Science Festival 2024 Orizzonte degli Eventi (March 25-26, 2024).

  • Exhibitor representing the Bachelor’s Degree Course in Computer Science.

• European Researchers’ Night 2023 - Unical University of Calabria (September 29, 2023).

  • Exhibitor, Bachelor’s degree projects.

Licenses

• Driving License B (Cars)
• Driving License AM (Mopeds)

Organizations and Associations

• AIA - Italian Referees Association 2018 - Present.
• CICAP - Italian Committee for the Investigation of Claims of the Pseudosciences 2024 - Present.