dr. Alessandro CorbettaUniversity Researcher and NWO Veni fellow

General InformationName, Surname Alessandro Corbetta

Nationality ItalianDate of birth 2nd November 1987Place of birth Torino, Italy

Academic PositionSince

Jan. 2019University researcher, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven. Department of AppliedPhysics. Group: Fluids & Flows, Eindhoven, NL.PI for the NWO-VENI project: “Understanding and controlling the flow of human crowds”.

Address 5612 AZ, Eindhoven, NL. Building: Cascade. Office: 2.23.Email a.corbetta@tue.nl.

Personal page http://corbetta.phys.tue.nl.Group page http://crowdflow.phys.tue.nl, Crowdflow research group.Research in

briefAlessandro Corbetta is a University Researcher at the Department of Applied Physicsat Eindhoven University of Technology. His research activity is at the interfacebetween complex flowing matter, physics for society and machine learning for non-linear physical systems. Since 2012, in the context of the "Crowdflow" topicalgroup, his goal is to advance our fundamental understanding of pedestrian crowdflows. He aims at quantitative models for the emergent physics of crowds to allowsafer and more efficient pedestrian environments. To this purpose, in collaborationwith national and international facility managers of, e.g., municipalities, museums,and festivals, he established numerous real-life crowd tracking experiments. He isfurthermore active in the application of recent machine and deep learning techniquesto the analysis of highly complex and non-linear physical systems and, in particular,fluid turbulence.

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Education2021 UTQ/BKO Universal Teaching Qualification/basiskwalificatie onderwijs,

TU/Eindhoven.Double Ph.D. Programme, TU/Eindhoven - Polytechnic university of Turin.

2016 Ph.D. Applied Mathematics, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven. Centre forAnalysis, Scientific Computing and Applications, Eindhoven, NL.

2016 Ph.D. Structural Engineering, Polytechnic university of Turin. Department ofStructural Engineering, Construction and Soil Mechanics, Turin, IT.Thesis: Multiscale Crowd Dynamics: Physical Analysis, Modeling and Applications.Supervisors: Eindhoven: Prof. F. Toschi, Prof. A. Muntean, Turin: Prof. A. Tosin, Prof. L.Bruno

2011 Msc. Applied Mathematics, Polytechnic university of Turin. Department ofMathematics., Turin, IT, 110/110 cum laude, GPA: 30/30.Thesis at Los Alamos National Laboratory (NM, US), T-5, Applied Mathematics andplasma physics (internship, 1y): A general purpose object oriented particle-in-cell code withapplications to FRC and TokamakSupervisors: Los Alamos: dr. Z.Guo, dr. S.Tang, dr. G.L.Delzanno, Turin: Prof. G.Coppa,Prof. N.Bellomo

2009 Bsc. Mathematics for Engineering Sciences, Polytechnic university of Turin.Department of Mathematics., Turin, IT, 110/110 cum laude, GPA: 29.8/30.Thesis: An introduction to the Hamiltonian and Lagrangian formulation of classical mechanicsSupervisor: Prof. J.Pejsachowitz

2006 "Scientific" High school (Liceo Scientifico), Giordano Bruno, Turin, IT, 100/100cum laude.

Previous Academic and non-Academic Positions2016–2018 Technische Universiteit Eindhoven.Post-doctoral Researcher, Department of

Applied Physics - Group: Turbulence and Vortex Dynamics - Topical group:“Crowdflow”, Eindhoven, NL.Position supported by the NWO-JSTP programme: “Vision driven visitor behaviour analysisand crowd management”.

2013–2016 Technische Universiteit Eindhoven. Ph.D. candidate, Applied Mathematics.Centre for Analysis, Scientific Computing and Applications, Eindhoven, NL.

2012–2016 Polytechnic university of Turin. Ph.D. candidate, Structural Engineering. De-partment of Structural Engineering, Construction and Soil Mechanics, Turin, IT.

Jan. 2014 Self-employed consultant, Sintecna, s.r.l. Crowd traffic design of “New Holland”pavilion, at Milano Expo2015, Turin, IT.

2011 Los Alamos National Laboratory. Visiting Student, Theoretical division T5 -Plasma physics and applied mathematics, Los Alamos, NM, USA.

2007–2010 Polytechnic University of Turin, Teaching Assistant, Department of Mathematics(classes: Calculus I/II), Turin, IT.

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Scientific ActivityResearch

Field Active flowing matter, Machine Learning for Fluid Mechanics and non-linearsystems, Pedestrian Dynamics

Keywords Modeling of complex flows and dynamical systemsMachine learning for vision and analysis of complex dynamicsPhysics-informed machine learningStatistical mechanics for big data analyticsLarge-scale high-accuracy measurements of human crowds, crowd managementScientific and High Performance Computing, Scientific Data ManagementSoftware design and Engineering

Teaching at Eindhoven University of TechnologyAA 2022- Responsible lecturer/course designer, Machine Learning for Fluid Mechanics.

Msc in Applied Physics, Msc in Mechanical Engineering(Ongoing design) Responsibilities: Overarching course design, delivery. The course,adopting a challenge-based perspective, aims primarily at physics and engineeringstudents with background in fluid mechanics and strong interest into computationalscience. It targets a deep comprehension of recent machine learning techniquesthat have proven clear applications to non-linear dynamics and flowing systems.In-depth machine learning theoretical and methodological know-how will be discussedadopting the language and perspective of mathematical physics.

AA 2019- Lecturer, Machine Learning for Science.Bsc in Applied Physics, Elective, Q4 – Lecture- and project-based learningResponsibilities: Design and delivery of the theoretical sections of the courseabout symmetry groups, reinforcement learning, computational tools; tutoring oncomputational aspects; coaching for project-based learning components of thecourse.

AA 2019- Lecturer, Chaos.Msc in Applied Physics, Elective, Q3 – Lecture based learningResponsibilities: Design and delivery of 3 of the 7 theoretical lectures, computationallecture, students’ tutoring.

AA 2020- Lecturer, Sociophysics 1, 2, 3.Bsc multidisciplinary; User, Society and Enterprise (USE) Learning Trajectory, Elective, Q1,Q2, Q3 – Challenge Based LearningResponsibilities: Design and delivery of seminal physics lectures on mathematicalmodeling and data analytics. Coaching students groups. Design of the frameworkto allow students to interact with pedestrian tracking data.

AA 2016- Lecturer (Tutorials), Computational and Mathematical Physics.Chair: Prof. F.Toschi; Msc in Applied Physics, Compulsory, Q1

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Responsibilities: Tutoring. Design of the summative assessment (50%-75%)

Universal Teaching Qualification/BKOAcquired at TU/e on September 2021.Professionalization courses attended: Teaching and Learning in Higher Education;Course design; Teaching skills; Assessment; Evaluation.Final portfolio based on my lecturing work on “Machine Learning for Science” and“Sociophysics”.

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Invited teaching appointments2021-

(yearly)J.M. Burgerscentrum – Organizer and lecturer, School on Machine Learningfor Fluid Mechanics.One-week long yearly event. Responsibilities: Overarching architecture of the course;selection of candidates; delivery of 3/5 of lectures and exercises; topics: neuralnetworks fundamentals, training algorithms, physics informed machine learning,computer vision.

2018-(yearly)

International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) Trieste/UNESCO – Co-director and lecturer, Workshop on Collaborative Scientific Software Development– III level education in computational sciences.Two-week long yearly event. Responsibilities: Selection of candidates; Design anddelivery lectures on floating point arithmetic, code testing, (distributed) versioncontrol and continuous integration. More information at http://indico.ictp.it/event/8346/

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GrantsPersonal grants, and grants as main applicant

2018 NWO VENI Applied sciences division, granted from the Netherlands Organisationfor Scientific Research (NWO).National competition (Dutch). Open to scientists within the 3rd year from their PhD.Success rate: ≈ 12%.Project title: Understanding and controlling the flow of human crowds

Role Principal InvestigatorGrant e327K (of which e250K from NWO and e77K from industrial stakeholders)

Stakeholders: Naturalis Leiden, Eindhoven municipality, DITTS, KPMG, Signify

2018 NWO Physical Sciences - Incidental financial support, granted from theNetherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO).Granted to support the Lorentz Center workshop: “Physics and Psychology of Human CrowdDynamics”.

Role Main applicantGrant e2.3K

2017 Lorentz Center Workshop, Title: “Physics and Psychology of Human CrowdDynamics”.Granted to support the Lorentz Center workshop: “Physics and Psychology of Human CrowdDynamics”. To be held in November 2018 in Leiden, NL.

Role Main applicant (co-applicants: Dr. J.Drury, Dr. E.Ronchi, Prof. A.Seyfried, Prof.F.Toschi)

Grant e6.9KGrants with Co-Pi or participant role

2020 NWO HTSM-MVI, granted from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Re-search (NWO).Project title: SRCrowd: a high-tech platform for human crowd flows monitoring, modelingand nudging

Role Co-Applicant (with prof. F. Toschi)

2019 NWO GROOT, granted from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research(NWO).Project title: Unraveling neural networks with structure preserving computing

Role Participant (leader: Prof. W. Schilders, TU/e)2 PhD students, in co-operation with SISSA, Trieste, IT

2019 NWO HTSM, granted from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research(NWO).Project title: HTCrowd: a high-tech platform for human crowd flows monitoring, modelingand nudging

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Role Co-Pi (with Prof. F.Toschi)Grant e543K (of which e368K from NWO and e175K from industrial stakeholders)

1 PhD, 1PD - Stakeholders: ProRail BV., Amsterdam Municipality, Royal Haskon-ingDHV, Siemens

2017 4TU Research Centre Fluid and Solid Mechanics Valorisation Grant, Title:“Developing smart sensors for quantitative crowd flow experiments”.Valorisation partner: Philips Lighting Research (Dr. Sjoerd Mentink)

Role Co-applicant (with Prof. F.Toschi)

2015 NWO-JSTP, Title: “Vision driven visitor behaviour analysis and crowdmanagement”.

Role Participant (with Prof. F.Toschi, Prof. Q.Yu (SIAT Shenzhen, CN))Scholarships

2012–2015 Italian PhD, Scholarship to fully sustain Italian PhD position at Polytechnic uni-versity of Turin.

Grant About e40K

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International academic activityEditorial Activity

EditorialBoard

Collective Dynamics (since 2019)

Guest Editor Journal of Advanced Transportation (Special Issue “Empirical Research on Pedes-trians’ Behavior and Crowd Dynamics”, with M. Haghani, N. Bode, M. Boltes, E.Cristiani).

Referee ActivityResearchproposals

NWA-Ideeëngenerator | Czech National Science Funding Agency | Israeli ScienceFundation

Journals Scientific Reports | Applied Mathematical Modeling | Fire Technology | IEEE Trans-actions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology | Journal of Statistical Physics:Theory and Experiment | Journal of Turbulence | Mathematics and Computers inSimulation | Physica A | Physical Review E | Procedia Engineering | TransportationResearch F | Soft Matter

Organization of national and international academic eventsOct. 2021 ICTP Workshop, 9th Workshop on Collaborative Scientific Software Development,

Trieste, IT and Online.Co-directors: I.Girotto, dr. D.Grellscheid

Oct. 2021 JB Burgerscentrum school, Machine Learning for Fluid Mechanics, Online.Leading organizer. Co-organizer: F. Toschi

May. 2020 ICTP Workshop, 8th Workshop on Collaborative Scientific Software Development,Trieste, IT.Co-directors: I.Girotto, dr. D.Grellscheid

May. 2019 ICTP Workshop, 7th Workshop on Collaborative Scientific Software Development,Trieste, IT.Co-directors: I.Girotto, dr. D.Grellscheid

Nov. 2018 Lorentz Center Workshop, Physics and Psychology of Human Crowd Dynamics,Leiden, NL.Co-organizers: Dr. J.Drury, Dr. E.Ronchi, Prof. A.Seyfried, Prof. F.Toschi.Themes: Pedestrian dynamics; Pedestrian tracking in real-life and in laboratory conditions; Crowdmanagement; Safety management of crowds; Crowd psychology; Crowd evacuation; Machine andDeep learning based data acquisition.website: http://www.lorentzcenter.nl/lc/web/2018/1010/info.php3?wsid=1010&venue=Oort

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Invited talks(13) Lorentz Center workshop "Self-Organization under Confinement". March 2022

(12) Colloquium of the Physics Institute of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Méx-ico. March 2022

(11) Public lecture Rijksmueum Boerhaave. Leiden, NL. February. 2022

(10) Journées de la Matière Condensée - Keynote speaker. Symposium: "Human mo-bility through the lens of Physics". August 2021 - W

(9) 27th Symposium on Traffic Flow and Self-Driven Particle Systems. Japanese TrafficFlow Mathematics Study Group (Online/Nagoya JP). December 2021

(8) ICTP. International Center for Theoretical Physics, Trieste. Quantitative Life Sci-ence Invited seminar. May 2019

(7) JMBC contact group Turbulence - Colloquium day. April 2019

(6) International Conference in Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM19) - Sym-posium: "Modeling and calibration in pedestrian dynamics". July 2019

(5) California State University Long Beach - Mathematics Colloquium. November 2019

(4) Intelligent Lighting Institute TU/e. Event: "Lighting Metropolis visits Eindhoven".Invited seminar. April 2018

(3) Tehran University, Department of Physics, Invited seminar. May 2018

(2) 12th International Symposium on Fire Safety Science. Invited panelist talk at "Newapproaches to evacuation modeling". June 2017

(1) Juelich Forschungszentrum. Invited seminar. February 2017

Presentations to international ConferencesNov 2021 American Physical Society, Division of Fluid Mechanics - Phoenix, WA, USNov 2021 Pedestrian and Evacuation Dynamics 2021 - Melbourne, AU and Online (7 contrib)Aug 2021 Journées de la Matière Condensée (Invited)Nov 2019 American Physical Society, Division of Fluid Mechanics - Seattle, WA, USSep 2019 European Turbulence Conference (2 contrib, session chair), Turin, ITJul 2019 International Conference of Applied and Industrial Mathematics 2019 (invited),

Valencia, SPJul 2019 Traffic and Granular Flows 2019 (3 contrib, session chair), Pamplona, SPMar 2019 American Physical Society, March meeting - Denver, CO, USNov 2018 American Physical Society, Division of Fluid Mechanics - Atlanta, GE, USAug 2018 Pedestrian and Evacuation Dynamics 2018 (3 contrib) - Lund, SE

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Aug 2017 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal based Surveillance -Lecce, IT

Jul 2017 Traffic and Granular Flows 2017 (2 contrib, session chair) - Washington, DC, USMar 2017 American Physical Society, March meeting - New Orleans, LA , USOct 2016 Pedestrian and Evacuation Dynamics 2016 - Hefei, CNMar 2016 American Physical Society, March meeting - Baltimore, MD, USOct 2015 Traffic and Granular Flows 2015 - Delft, NLOct 2014 Pedestrian and Evacuation Dynamics 2014 - Delft, NLJun 2014 EURODYN 2014 (9th International Conference on Structural Dynamics, 3 contrib)

- Porto, PTNov 2011 American Physical Society, Division of Plasma Physics - Salt Lake City, UT

Scientific visitsOct 2021 Juelich Supercomputing Center/Dusseldorf, DE – dr. M.ChraibiNov 2019 California State University Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, US – prof. C.LeeMay 2019 International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, IT – I.GirottoMar 2019 National Research Council of Italy, Rome, IT – dr. E.CristianiJun 2018 National Research Council of Italy, Rome, IT – Prof. R.BenziDec 2017 National Research Council of Italy, Rome, IT – dr. E.CristianiJul 2016 SIAT – Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Science,

Shenzhen CN – Prof. Q.YuJun 2016 University of Turin – Prof. G. Boffetta

Technical skillsActive software developer since infancy. 20+y of experience of which the last 10 in theacademic environment. I have advanced knowledge of several programming language,many of which are essential in my daily research activity. (Stackoverflow.com profile:1714661)

Fluent/dailyuser of

Python for HPC, machine learning, web and administration (scipy stack, pandas,numba, cython, ipython, scoop, tornado, django, pelican, jinja2, fabric, plotly andmany others) | Artificial Intelligence Libraries (Keras, TensorFlow, PyTorch) | C/C++(openmp, selected template metaprogramming), cmake, regex | Web (backend +scientists-level frontend. html(5), jquery, bootstrap, angularjs, websocket for realtimecommunication) | (postgre)SQL, Bash, Linux/server administation, scheduling andautomation, Docker, Matlab, Latex

Highlyexperienced

in

object-oriented design/UML, policy oriented design, scalable design, several pro-gramming patterns, (unit-)testing and continuous integration, version control (git- since 2015 administrator of gitlab server with 250+ Users and 1000+ projects,designed most of continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD)).

Occasionaluser

Julia, (Emacs) Lisp, C#, css, Java, VB, Powershell, Mathematica, many more

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Design of custom devices based on small single-board computers (e.g. Raspberrypi) and single-board microcontrollers (e.g. Arduino, ESP32).

LanguagesItalian NativeEnglish Full professional proficiency Living in English speaking countries (US, NL) since 2011.French Basic communication skills

Supervised studentsPhD Students and Post-doctoral fellows

2020-ongoing Cas Pouw, MSc - TU/EindhovenPhD candidate in Applied Physics, topic: “Pedestrian dynamics” (on NWO-HTSMgrant).

2020-ongoing dr. Alessandro Gabbana - TU/EindhovenPost-Doctoral researcher, topic: “Pedestrian dynamics” (on NWO-HTSM grant).

2020-ongoing Giulio Ortali, MSc - TU/EindhovenPhD candidate in Applied Physics, topic: “Machine Learning for Fluid Mechanics”(on NWO-GROOT grant).

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BSc and MSc Students2021-ongoing Elisa Bellantoni - U Ferrara | TU/Eindhoven

Msc in Physics. Topic: Turbulence on curved manifolds (with dr. A. Gabbana, prof.F. Toschi)

2021-ongoing Niek Groot - TU/EindhovenMsc in Physics. Topic: Statistical mechanics for pedestrian dynamics (with dr. A.Gabbana, prof. F. Toschi)

2021-ongoing Stijn van Hees - TU/EindhovenMsc in Physics. Topic: Inverse reinforcement learning and variational crowd modeling(with dr. A. Gabbana)

2021-ongoing Bob Beunen - TU/EindhovenMsc in Applied Physics. Topic: Application of machine learning to diluted gasmodeling (with dr. A. Gabbana, prof. F. Toschi, prof. H. v Brummelen)

2021-ongoing Tom Suelmann - TU/EindhovenBsc in Applied Physics. Topic: Reinforcement learning for drone navigation in fluidflows

2021-ongoing Joost Prins - TU/EindhovenMsc in Applied Physics. Topic: Application of machine learning to diluted gasmodeling (with dr. A. Gabbana, prof. F. Toschi, dr. V. Gyria, dr. D. Livescu)

2021-ongoing Nirvana Pecorari - U Ferrara | TU/EindhovenMsc in Physics. Topic: Application of machine learning pedestrian modeling (withdr. A. Gabbana)

2021 Tjerk Mathijssen - TU/EindhovenBsc in Applied Physics. Thesis: Approximation of pedestrian distribution on thetrain platform and the application of the Langevin equation on pedestrian data

2021 Jesse van den Tempel - TU/EindhovenBsc in Applied Physics. Thesis: Tuning pedestrians: Research preparation on theinfluence of sound on trajectories (with dr. T. Senan)

2021 Luc Geurts - TU/EindhovenBsc in Applied Physics and Mathematics. Thesis: Pedestrian Dynamics: modellingthe trajectory of a single pedestrian on a curved path with a constant speed in aforce-free environment (with prof. W. Schilders)

2021 Andrea di Benedetto - U Utrecht | TU/EindhovenMsc internship in Applied Physics. Thesis: Graph-based real time estimation ofsecondary infection probabilities

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2021 Frenk Cleven - TU/EindhovenMsc in Applied Physics. Thesis: Data-driven estimation of equilibrium distributionfunctions for pedestrian dynamics (with prof. F. Toschi)

2021 Tim de Jong - TU/EindhovenBsc Applied Physics. Thesis: Pointing a movinghead to pedestrians using trajectoryprediction (with dr. P. Ross)

2021 Teodora Lazar - TU/EindhovenBsc Applied Physics. Thesis: Modeling of the emergent behavior for a unidirectionalpedestrian flow at a bifurcation point (with dr. A. Gabbana)

2021 Geert vd Vleeuten - TU/EindhovenBsc in Applied Physics and Mathematics. Thesis: Modeling fluctuations of singlepedestrian dynamics on curved paths (with prof. W. Schilders)

2021 Thomas Wagenaar - TU/EindhovenBsc Applied Physics. Thesis: Measuring turbulence intensity by deep learning shortinertial measurements from quadcopters (with prof. F. Toschi)

2021 Daan Eskes - TU/EindhovenBsc in Applied Physics. Thesis: Towards optimal automated crowd managementvia Reinforcement Learning

2020 Joris Willems - TU/EindhovenMsc in Computer Science. Capita selecta. Thesis: Learning Dynamical SystemsWith A Deep Generative Model

2020 Cas Pouw - TU/EindhovenMsc in Applied Physics. Thesis: Efficient and scalable analytics frameworks forhigh-statistics crowd dynamics

2020 Joost Prins - TU/EindhovenApplied Physics External traineeship (at Sioux Lime Eindhoven). Thesis: Sub-geometry-wise data-driven RANS modeling of turbulence

2020 Danvy Vu - TU/EindhovenBsc in Applied Physics. Thesis: Towards automated crowd management via Rein-forcement Learning

2020 Victor Browers - TU/EindhovenBsc in Applied Physics. Thesis: Feature recognition in STM images: A conventionaltechnique vs. a machine learning approach (Machine Learning advisor role, with D.Tjeertes, P. Koenraad)

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2020 Jay van Erve - TU/EindhovenBsc in Applied Physics. Thesis: Do pedestrians walk to minimize their travel time?

2020 Arco van Beek - TU/EindhovenMsc internship in Applied Physics. Thesis: Influence of light settings on pedestriadynamics

2020 Arthur Groot Zevert - TU/EindhovenBsc in Applied Physics. Thesis: Modeling pedestrian dynamics on curved paths

2020 Roberto Mella - U Ferrara | TU/Eindhoven (Erasmus)Bsc Erasmus internship in Applied Physics. Thesis: Optical Flow in PedestrianTracking

2019 Stan vd Burg - TU/EindhovenBsc in Applied Physics. Thesis: Disentangling and Compressing usage patterns inCrowd Flows

2019 Niels Peters - TU/EindhovenBsc in Applied Physics. Thesis: Optical Flow in Pedestrian Tracking

2019 Dario Chinelli - U Ferrara | TU/Eindhoven (Erasmus)Bsc in Applied Physics. Thesis: Modeling pedestrian dynamics via path-integral

2019 Joost Visser - TU/EindhovenMsc in Computer Science.. Thesis: StampNet: Unsupervised Multi-Class ObjectDiscovery (with dr. V. Menkovski)

2018-2019 Gerben Beintema - TU/EindhovenMsc in Applied Physics. Thesis: Controlling Thermal Convection via ReinforcementLearning

2019 Rick de Kreij - TU/EindhovenBsc in Applied Physics. Thesis: A multi-scale model for real-life pedestrian arrivalprocesses

2019 Lars Raaijmakers - Fontys | TU/EindhovenInternship in Applied Physics. Thesis: Learning conditional probability distributionsfrom sampled data with application to kinetic simulations of fluids

2018 Joris Willems - TU/EindhovenBsc in Applied Physics. Thesis: Pedestrian Orientation: Accurate Measurementsand Dynamics

2018 Lars Schilders - TU/EindhovenBsc in Applied Physics. Thesis: Superposition of interactions in pedestrian dynamics

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2017-2018 Werner Kroneman - TU/EindhovenScientific software developer and research assistant. Thesis: Accurate pedestrianlocalization via height-augmented HOG

2017-2018 Joost Visser - TU/EindhovenMsc in Computer Science. Capita selecta. Thesis: Unsupervised deep learning (withdr. V. Menkovski)

2015-2016 Jasper A. Meeusen - TU/EindhovenMsc in Applied Physics. Thesis: Dense crowd dynamics

2016 Diana Gonzalez - TU/EindhovenMsc in Sustainable Energy Technology. Thesis: Anticipatory Lighting ControlSystems (with prof. E. van Loenen, prof. F. Toschi, ir. C. de Bakker)

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Scientific PublicationsSubmitted publications (3)

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C. Pouw, J. Willems, F. van Schadewijk, J. Thurau, F. Toschi, A. Corbetta. Bench-marking high-fidelity pedestrian tracking systems for research, real-time monitoringand crowd control. submitted, 2021 - W

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A. Gabbana, A. Corbetta, F. Toschi. Modeling routing choices in unidirectionalpedestrian flows. submitted, 2021

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E. Onofri, A. Corbetta. RSSi-based visitor tracking in museums via cascaded AIclassifiers and coloured graph representations. submitted, 2021 - W

Refereed publications (33)[33] P. Centorrino, A. Corbetta, E. Cristiani, E. Onofri. Managing Crowded Museums:

Visitors Flow Measurement, Analysis, Modeling, and Optimization. J. Comput.Sci. 101357, 2021 - W

[32] A. Corbetta, V. Menkovski, R. Benzi, F. Toschi. Deep learning velocity signalsallows to quantify turbulence intensity. Sci. Adv. 7: eaba7281, 2021 - W

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C. Pouw, F. Toschi, F. v. Schadewijk, A. Corbetta. Monitoring physical distancingfor crowd management: real-time trajectory and group analysis. PLoS ONE15(10): e0240963, 2020 - W

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G. Beintema, A. Corbetta, L. Biferale, F. Toschi. Controlling Rayleigh-Bénardconvection via Reinforcement Learning. J. Turbul. 1-21, 2020 - W

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J. Willems, A. Corbetta, V. Menkovski, F. Toschi. Pedestrian orientation dynamicsfrom high-fidelity measurements. Sci. Rep. 10, 11653, 2020 - W

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A. Corbetta, L. Schilders, F. Toschi. High-statistics modeling of complex pedestrianavoidance scenarios. Crowd Dynamics (vol. 2), L. Gibelli Editor, Modeling andSimulation in Science, Engineering and Technology. Birkhäuser, Cham., 2020 - W

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A. Corbetta, W. Kroneman, M. Donners, A. Haans, P. Ross, M. Trouwborst, S.vd Wijdeven, M. Hultermans, D. Sekulowski, F. vd Heijden, S. Mentink, F. Toschi.A large-scale real-life crowd steering experiment via arrow-like stimuli. Pedestrianand Evacuation Dynamics 2018. Collective Dynamics, 5, 61-68, 2020 - W

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W. Kroneman, A. Corbetta, F. Toschi. Accurate pedestrian localization via height-augmented HOG. Pedestrian and Evacuation Dynamics 2018. Collective Dynamics,5, 33-40, 2020 - W

[25] C. Balzotti, M. Briani, A. Corbetta, E. Cristiani, M. Minozzi, R. Natalini, S. Suriano,F. Toschi. Forecasting visitors’ behaviour in crowded museums. Pedestrian andEvacuation Dynamics 2018. Collective Dynamics, 5, pp. 499-501, 2020 - W

[24]10+

E. Ronchi, A. Corbetta, E. Galea, M. Kinateder, E. Kuligowski, D. McGrath, A. Pel,Y. Shiban, P. Thompson, F. Toschi. New approaches to evacuation modelling forfire safety engineering applications. Fire Saf. J. 106, 197-209, 2019 - W

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M. Haghani, N. Bode, M. Boltes, E. Cristiani, A. Corbetta. Panic, irrational-ity, herding: Three ambiguous terms in evacuation dynamics research. J. Adv.Transport., 9267643, 58pp, 2019 - W

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[22] A. Corbetta, F. Toschi. Path-integral representation of diluted pedestrian dynam-ics. in ’Complexity Science. An introduction’. 329-345. Eds. M. Peletier, R. VanSanten, E. Steur. World Scientific., 2019 - W

[21] P. Centorrino, A. Corbetta, E. Cristiani, E. Onofri. Measurement and analysisof visitors’ trajectories in crowded museums. 2019 IMEKO TC-4 InternationalConference on Metrology for Archaeology and Cultural Heritage, 2019 - W

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J. Adrian, N. Bode, M. Amos, M. Baratchi, M. Beermann, M. Boltes, A. Corbetta,G. Dezecache, J. Drury , Z. Fu, R. Geraerts, S. Gwynne, G. Hofinger, A. Hunt, T.Kanters, A. Kneidl, K. Konya, G. Köster, M. Küpper, G. Michalareas, F. Neville,E. Ntontis, S. Reicher, E. Ronchi, A. Schadschneider, A. Seyfried, A. Shipman, A.Sieben, M. Spearpoint, G. Sullivan, A. Templeton, F. Toschi, Z. Yücel, F. Zanlungo,I. Zuriguel, N. van der Wal, F. van Schadewijk, C. von Krüchten, N. Wijermans. AGlossary for Research on Human Crowd Dynamics. Collective Dynamics, 4, 1-13,2019 - W

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J. Visser, A. Corbetta, V. Menkovski, F. Toschi. StampNet: unsupervised multi-class object discovery. IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP2019), pp. 2951-2955, 2019 - W

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A. Corbetta, J.A. Meeusen, C. Lee, R. Benzi, F. Toschi. Physics-based modelingand data representation of pairwise interactions among pedestrians. Phys. Rev.E. 98, 062310, 2018 - W

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A. Corbetta, C. Lee, R. Benzi, A. Muntean, F. Toschi. Fluctuations around meanwalking behaviours in diluted pedestrian flows. Phys. Rev. E. 95, 032316, 2017 -W

[16] A. Corbetta, C. Lee, A. Muntean, F. Toschi. Frame vs. trajectory analyses ofpedestrian dynamics asymmetries in a staircase landing. Collective Dynamics, 1,1-26, 2017 - W

[15] L. Bruno, A. Corbetta. Uncertainties in crowd dynamic loading of footbridges: anovel multi-scale model of pedestrian traffic. Eng. Struct. 147C, 545-566, 2017 -W

[14] A. Corbetta, V. Menkovski, F. Toschi. Weakly supervised training of deep convo-lutional neural networks for overhead pedestrian localization in depth fields. IEEEInternational Conference on Advanced Video and Signal based Surveillance (AVSS2017 - 2nd Workshop on Signal Processing for Understanding Crowd Dynamics),2017 - W

[13] R. Benzi, L. Biferale, F. Bonaccorso, H. Clercx, A. Corbetta, W. Moebius, F. Toschi,F. Salvadore, C. Cacciari, G. Erbacci. TurBase: a software platform for researchin experimental and numerical fluid dynamics. International Conference on HighPerformance Computing & Simulation (HPCS 2017 - 4th International Symposiumon Big Data Principles, Architectures & Applications), 2017 - W

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D. Song, Q. Yu, A. Corbetta. Depth Driven People Counting Using Deep RegionProposal Network. IEEE International Conference on Information and Automation(ICIA 2017), 2017 - W

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[11] F. Venuti, V. Racic, A. Corbetta. Modelling framework of pedestrian-footbridgeinteraction in vertical direction. Procedia Engineering 199, 2901-2906. (10thInternational Conference on Structural Dynamics, EURODYN 2017), 2017 - W

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L. Bruno, A. Corbetta, A. Tosin. From individual behaviour to an evaluation of thecollective evolution of crowds along footbridges. J. Engrg. Math., 101(1):153-173,2016 - W

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F Venuti, V. Racic, A. Corbetta. Modelling framework for dynamic interactionbetween multiple pedestrians and vertical vibrations of footbridges. J. SoundVibrat. 379, 245-263, 2016 - W

[8] A. Corbetta, A. Tosin. Comparing first order microscopic and macroscopiccrowd models for an increasing number of massive agents. Adv. Math. Phys.,2016:6902086/1-17, 2016 - W

[7] A. Corbetta, C. Lee, A. Muntean, F. Toschi. Asymmetric pedestrian dynamics ona staircase landing from continuous measurements. In W. Daamen & V.L. Knoop(Eds.), Traffic and Granular Flow ’15 (pp. 49-56). Berlin: Springer, 2016 - W

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A. Corbetta, J.A. Meeusen, C. Lee, F. Toschi. Continuous measurements of real-life bidirectional pedestrian flows on a wide walkway. Proceedings of Pedestrianand Evacuation Dynamics 2016, 18-24 (Special Issue on Collective Dynamics), 2016- W

[5]40+

A. Corbetta, A. Muntean, K. Vafayi. Parameter estimation of social forces inpedestrian dynamics models via a probabilistic method. Math. Biosci. Eng., 12(2), 337-356, 2015 - W

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A. Corbetta, L. Bruno, A. Muntean, F. Toschi. High statistics measurements ofpedestrian dynamics. Transportation Research Procedia, 2, 96-104, 2014 - W

[3] L. Bruno, A. Corbetta. Multiscale probabilistic evaluation of the footbridge crowd-ing. Part 2: Crossing pedestrian position. Proceedings of the 9th InternationalConference on Structural Dynamics, EURODYN 2014, 937-944, 2014 - W

[2] L. Bruno, A. Corbetta. Multiscale probabilistic evaluation of the footbridge crowd-ing. Part 1: Incoming pedestrian density. Proceedings of the 9th InternationalConference on Structural Dynamics, EURODYN 2014, 929-937, 2014 - W

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F. Venuti, V. Racic, A. Corbetta. Pedestrian-structure interaction in the verti-cal direction: coupled oscillator-force model for vibration serviceability assessment.Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Structural Dynamics, EURODYN2014, 915-920, 2014 - W

Internal reports and non-refereed publications (4)[R4]

•J. Willems, A. Corbetta, F. Toschi. Quantifying the quality of pedestrian trajectorymeasurements: ProRail consultancy report. Internal Report, 2019

[R3] M. Haghani, N. Bode, M. Boltes, A. Corbetta, E. Cristiani. Empirical Researchon Pedestrians’ Behavior and Crowd Dynamics (Editorial). J. Adv. Transport.,3457370, 2p, 2019 - W

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[R2] A. Corbetta, F. Toschi. Overhead pedestrian tracking for large scale real-life crowddynamics analyses. New approaches to evacuation modelling, Lund University FireSafety Engineering Report, 40-51, E. Ronchi editor (as part of the 12th InternationalSymposium on Fire Safety Science - invited panelist contribution), 2017 - W

[R1] N. Budko, A. Corbetta, B. van Duijn, S. Hille, O. Krehel, V. Rottschafer, L. Wiegman,D. Zhelyazov. Oxygen transport and consumption in germinating seeds. 90thEuropean Study Group Mathematics with Industry, SWI 2013, At Leiden, Volume:Proceedings of the 90th European Study Group Mathematics with Industry, pp.5-30, 2013 - W

Datasets(1) A. Corbetta, F. Toschi. Crowdflow – diluted pedestrian dynamics in the Metaforum

building of Eindhoven University of Technology. 4TU.Centre for Research Data,2017 - W

Theses(3)10+

A. Corbetta. Multiscale crowd dynamics: physical analysis, modeling and applica-tions. Ph.D. Thesis, Eindhoven University of Technology, 2016 - W

(2) A. Corbetta. A general purpose object oriented particle-in-cell code with applica-tions to FRC and Tokamak. Msc. Thesis, Polytechnic University of Turin, LosAlamos National Lab., 2011

(1) A. Corbetta. An introduction to the Hamiltonian and Lagrangian formulation ofclassical mechanics. Bsc. Thesis, Polytechnic University of Turin (in Italian), 2009

Popular science(2) A. Corbetta, F. Toschi. Moving light: understanding and steering the flow of

pedestrian crowds. ILI Spring Magazine 2018 (Intelligent Lighting Institute TU/emagazine), 2018

(1) A. Haans, A.Corbetta, F.Toschi. INFLUX: a GLOW installation and large scalenaturalistic experiment. ILI GLOW Magazine 2016 (Intelligent Lighting InstituteTU/e magazine), 2016 - W

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