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Computer Science
Switzerland
2025

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Computer Science

D-Index
59
Citations
16103
World Ranking
3390
National Ranking
77

Electronics and Electrical Engineering

D-Index
59
Citations
15828
World Ranking
1716
National Ranking
42

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  • 2025 - Research.com Computer Science in Switzerland Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Computer Science in Switzerland Leader Award

Overview

Francesco Mondada is affiliated with the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland. Their research primarily centers on the field of Computer Science, with a significant focus on Computer Science Applications, Education, Artificial Intelligence, Software, and Information Systems.

The scientist's work spans several main topics, notably Teaching and Learning Programming, Online Learning and Analytics, Software Testing and Debugging Techniques, Gender and Technology in Education, Child Development and Digital Technology, Fish Ecology and Management Studies, and Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior.

Among recent scholarly publications are:

  • Fostering computational thinking through educational robotics: a model for creative computational problem solving (2020), International Journal of STEM Education
  • The role of feedback and guidance as intervention methods to foster computational thinking in educational robotics learning activities for primary school (2022), Computers & Education
  • A computer science and robotics integration model for primary school: evaluation of a large-scale in-service K-4 teacher-training program (2020), Education and Information Technologies
  • A data-driven method for reconstructing and modelling social interactions in moving animal groups (2020), Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • The Competent Computational Thinking Test: Development and Validation of an Unplugged Computational Thinking Test for Upper Primary School (2022), Journal of Educational Computing Research

Frequent coauthors associated with Francesco Mondada include Laila El-Hamamsy, Jessica Dehler Zufferey, Barbara Bruno, Vaios Papaspyros, and Frédérique Chessel-Lazzarotto.

Typical publication venues for their work feature Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), arXiv (Cornell University), Education and Information Technologies, International Journal of STEM Education, and IEEE Access.

Francesco Mondada has contributed book publications through the BiblioBoard Library Catalog (Open Research Library).

Best Publications

  • The e-puck, a Robot Designed for Education in Engineering

    Francesco Mondada;Michael Bonani;Xavier Raemy;James Pugh

  • Mobile Robot Miniaturisation: A Tool for Investigation in Control Algorithms

    Francesco Mondada;Edoardo Franzi;Paolo Ienne

  • Evolution of homing navigation in a real mobile robot

    D. Floreano;F. Mondada

  • Social Integration of Robots into Groups of Cockroaches to Control Self-Organized Choices

    José Halloy;Grégory Sempo;Gilles Caprari;Colette Rivault

  • Swarmanoid: A Novel Concept for the Study of Heterogeneous Robotic Swarms

    Marco Dorigo;Dario Floreano;Luca Maria Gambardella;Francesco Mondada

  • Automatic creation of an autonomous agent: genetic evolution of a neural-network driven robot

    Dario Floreano;Francesco Mondada

  • Autonomous Self-Assembly in Swarm-Bots

    R. Gross;M. Bonani;F. Mondada;M. Dorigo

  • Swarm-Bot: A New Distributed Robotic Concept

    Francesco Mondada;Giovanni C. Pettinaro;Andre Guignard;Ivo W. Kwee

  • Evolving Self-Organizing Behaviors for a Swarm-Bot

    Marco Dorigo;Vito Trianni;Erol Şahin;Roderich Groß

  • Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence

    Marco Dorigo;Mauro Birattari;Christian Blum;Luca Maria Gambardella

  • Autonomous Self-Assembly in a Swarm-Bot

    Roderich Groß;Michael Bonani;Francesco Mondada;Marco Dorigo

  • How to Evolve Autonomous Robots: Different Approaches in Evolutionary Robotics

    Stefano Nolfi;Dario Floreano;Orazio Miglino;Francesco Mondada

  • Evolutionary neurocontrollers for autonomous mobile robots

    D. Floreano;F. Mondada

  • The cooperation of swarm-bots: physical interactions in collective robotics

    F. Mondada;L.M. Gambardella;D. Floreano;S. Nolfi

  • What do people expect from robots

    C. Ray;F. Mondada;R. Siegwart

  • The marXbot, a miniature mobile robot opening new perspectives for the collective-robotic research

    Michael Bonani;Valentin Longchamp;Stephane Magnenat;Philippe Retornaz

  • KhepOnTheWeb: open access to a mobile robot on the Internet

    P. Saucy;F. Mondada

  • Understanding collective aggregation mechanisms: From probabilistic modelling to experiments with real robots

    Alcherio Martinoli;Auke Jan Ijspeert;Francesco Mondada

  • A review: Can robots reshape K-12 STEM education?

    Mohammad Ehsanul Karim;Severin Lemaignan;Francesco Mondada

  • Teamwork in Self-Organized Robot Colonies

    S. Nouyan;R. Gross;M. Bonani;F. Mondada

  • Magnebike: A magnetic wheeled robot with high mobility for inspecting complex-shaped structures

    Fabien Tâche;Wolfgang Fischer;Gilles Caprari;Roland Siegwart

Frequent Co-Authors

Marco Dorigo
Marco Dorigo Université Libre de Bruxelles
Luca Maria Gambardella
Luca Maria Gambardella Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence Research
Stefano Nolfi
Stefano Nolfi National Research Council (CNR)
Hannes Bleuler
Hannes Bleuler École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Vito Trianni
Vito Trianni National Research Council (CNR)
Pierre Dillenbourg
Pierre Dillenbourg École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Alcherio Martinoli
Alcherio Martinoli École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Mordechai Ben-Ari
Mordechai Ben-Ari Weizmann Institute of Science
Mauro Birattari
Mauro Birattari Université Libre de Bruxelles

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