Daniel Pappalardo
Software Engineering Student
Education
Technical University of Vienna
MSc in Software Engineering with coursework focusing on Machine Learning, Visual Computing and Robotics.
National University of Singapore
Exchange program at the faculties of Business and Computing Sciences as part of the BSc at Bocconi.
Bocconi University
BSc in Economics and Computer Science. Coursework focusing on Statistics and Business Analytics.
Realgymnasium Bozen | Liceo Scientifico
Scientific-based high school - spent one year abroad in Atlanta, Georgia at Midtown High School.
Experience
Robotics Engineering Intern
Fraunhofer Institute
Built an API gateway orchestrating control of an autonomous solar panel inspection robot to support the implementation of the perception and navigation stack using Behavior Trees.
Bolzano, Italy
Teaching Assistant | Tutor
Technical University of Vienna
Tutor at Masters level in "Machine Learning" and "Advanced Database Systems", providing support to students, helping professors with assignment creation and exam evaluations.
Vienna, Austria
Data and AI Consulting Intern
PwC Germany
GenAI projects with Microsoft Azure and Graph Database Management with Neo4J for finan- cial services institutions and company internal use cases
Munich, Germany
Research
UPCOMING Master Thesis
Precise Topic: TBD. Autonomous systems research (VLAs on a Unitree G1) with publication target at robotics/computer vision conference (supervised by Prof. Dongheui Lee)
Autonomous Systems Lab TU Wien
Bachelor Thesis
Beyond Hallucination: Enhancing AI Content Creation with Verifiable Sources Using Retrieval- Augmented Generation (supervised by Prof. E. Borgonovo
Bocconi University
Extracurriculars and Interests
TU Wien Racing
Driverless Software Engineer, with focus on perception and system checks.
Vienna, Austria
ICRA 2026 - RoboRacer
Participated in the Autonomous Racing Challenge at ICRA in Vienna, coming in 8th place.
Vienna, Austria
Todos Irmãos Initiative
Children Healthcare and Sports Volunteering at a Capuchin Friars mission near Maputo.
Boane, Mozambique
Bocconi Students for Machine Learning
Participated in Google Developer Students Club 2024 AI Hackathon, coming in first place.
Milan, Italy
Skills
Languages
Native German, Native Italian (Bilingual), Proficient English (Cambridge C2)
Coding Languages, Frameworks and Tools
Python, C++, Java, Kotlin, TypeScript, Docker, Git, React, PyTorch, ROS2, OpenCV