dr. alessandro corbetta – university researcher and nwo veni...

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 [email protected].

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.

Eindhoven University of Technology, Department of Applied Physics5612 AK, Eindhoven – The Netherlands

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EducationDouble 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 Post-doctoral Researcher, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven. Department of

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

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

2012–2016 Ph.D. Candidate in Structural Engineering, Polytechnic university of Turin.Department of Structural Engineering, Construction and Soil Mechanics, Turin, IT.

Jan. 2014 Independent Consultant, Sintecna, s.r.l. Crowd traffic design of “New Holland”pavilion, at Milano Expo2015, Turin, IT.

2011 Visiting Student, Los Alamos National Laboratory. 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.









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









TeachingAt Eindhoven University of Technology

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

AA 2019- Co-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 course aboutsymmetry groups and machine learning, reinforcement learning, computational tools;tutoring on computational aspects; coaching for project-based learning componentsof the course.

AA 2019- Co-Lecturer, Chaos.Msc in Applied Physics, Elective, Q3 – Lecture based learningResponsibilities: Delivery of 3 of the 7 theoretical lectures; students’ tutoring.

AA 2016- Teaching assistant, Computational and Mathematical Physics.Chair: Prof. F.Toschi; Msc in Applied Physics, Compulsory, Q1Responsibilities: Tutoring; design of the summative assessment (50%-75%)

Universal Teaching Qualification/BKOSince early 2020, I am enrolled in a Universal Teaching Qualification programme(BKO). My final portfolio, based on my lecturing work on “Machine Learning forScience” and “Sociophysics” is in development with expected delivery during the2021 Summer.External teaching

2021- Organizer and lecturer, J.M. Burgerscentrum school on Machine Learning forFluid Mechanics, July.Responsibilities: Selection of candidates; Design of the course structure; delivery oflectures and exercises.

2018-(yearly)

Co-director and lecturer, Workshop on Collaborative Scientific Software Develop-ment – III level education in computational sciences - (two weeks).International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) Trieste/UNESCOResponsibilities: Selection of candidates; Design and delivery lectures on float-ing point arithmetic, code testing, (distributed) version control and continuousintegration. More information at http://indico.ictp.it/event/8346/




http://indico.ictp.it/event/8346/






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 the Nether-lands 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)Grants with Co-Pi or participant role

2020 NWO HTSM-MVI, granted from the Netherlands Organisation for ScientificResearch (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

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

Grant e6.9K

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

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 international academic eventsMay. 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

Invited talks(10) A. Corbetta. Topics: high statistics measurements of pedestrian dynamics,

pedestrian avoidance, body rotation (post-poned due to pandemic). Journées dela Matière Condensée - Keynote speaker Symposium: Human mobility through thelens of Physics - August, 2021

(9) A. Corbetta. Topic: TBA high statistics measurements of pedestrian dynamics.Lorentz Center workshop: Self-Organization under Confinement, 2021

(8) A. Corbetta. Active flow of low-density pedestrian crowds. ICTP - QuantitativeLife Science Seminar. ICTP Trieste. 7th May, 2019

(7) A. Corbetta. Deep learning of turbulence velocity signals. JMBC contact groupTurbulence - Colloquium day, 5th April., 2019

(6) A. Corbetta. High-statistics measurements of pedestrian dynamics, modelingand control. ICIAM 19 - Symposium: "Modeling and calibration in pedestriandynamics" - 16th July., 2019

(5) A. Corbetta. Learning turbulence from deep learning. California State UniversityLong Beach - Mathematics Colloquium, 19th November., 2019

(4) A. Corbetta. Illumination-driven crowd management. Invited seminar for theevent: Lighting Metropolis visits Eindhoven. Host: Intelligent Lighting Institute,TU/e. 13th Apr., 2018

(3) A. Corbetta. High statistics measurements of pedestrian dynamics and modeling.Invited seminar at Department of Physics. Tehran University. Host: dr. M. VaezAllaei. 7th May., 2018

(2) A. Corbetta. High statistics measurements of pedestrian dynamics and modeling.Invited panelist talk at "New approaches to evacuation modeling" (part of the 12thInternational Symposium on Fire Safety Science). Host: dr. E. Ronchi. 11th Jun.,2017

(1) A. Corbetta. High statistics measurements of pedestrian dynamics and modeling.Invited seminar at Juelich Forschungszentrum. Hosts: dr. M. Boltes, prof. A.Seyfried. 2nd Feb., 2017Presentations to international Conferences

Nov 2019 American Physical Society, Division of Fluid Mechanics - Seattle, WA, US




http://www.lorentzcenter.nl/lc/web/2018/1010/info.php3?wsid=1010&venue=Oort

http://www.lorentzcenter.nl/lc/web/2018/1010/info.php3?wsid=1010&venue=Oort






Sep 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, SEAug 2017 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal based Surveillance -

Lecce, ITJul 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 visitsNov 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









Scientific projects portfolio and main professional skillsBrief

summaryMy scientific interest focuses on providing a (statistical) mathematical descriptionof social phenomena. In particular, I am interested in the quantitative study ofcrowd dynamics by means of high-statistics, high-resolution, observations of real-lifehuman crowds. To this aim, since 2012, I worked at the interface between field-experimentation (including hardware and software development) and mathematicalmodelling (including statistical physics and automated vision). I designed about 20real-life crowd tracking experiments as well as the tools - from low-level hardwareinterfaces, to high-level software – to enable an unprecedented collection of severalmillions of real-life pedestrian trajectories. The innovative approaches, quantitativemodels and technological developments that I proposed brought to 9 acceptedpublications plus several in preparation. I have been also active in crowd dynamicsmodelling in connection with structural engineering. In particular, I tackled crowd-structure interaction issues occurring along walkways or footbridges. Crowd-structureinteraction phenomena, yielding vibrations and, ultimately, structural collapse, impacton users’ comfort, serviceability, and provoked several major accidents. I establishedmy multidisciplinary scientific perspective pursuing a double PhD program (yy. 2012-2016) in Applied Mathematics (TU/e, supervisors Prof. Toschi and Prof. Muntean)and Structural Engineering (Politecnico di Torino, supervisors Dr. Bruno and Dr.Tosin). Growing through my career, gaining technical know-how and multidisciplinaryvision, I am building a solid and wide collaboration network boasting several scientificand technological partnerships.Key achievements

Since 2014 Published 33 refereed scientific works on statistical physics, mathematical model-ing, engineering or machine learning venues with 400+ citations (Google scholarbibliometric data, see “Publications” section).

Since 2014 Established a new perspective in the measurement and analysis of the activeflow of pedestrian crowds, based on a rigorous statistical physics approach. Thisleverages on a unique, own-designed, state-of-the-art, high-accuracy, measurementtechnology hinged on machine learning-aided optical Lagrangian tracking. Overthe years, I realized numerous experimental campaigns all over The Netherlands(and in Italy), collecting pedestrian tracking data unprecedented for quality andstatistical resolution. These enabled the first models for the motion of humancrowds quantitative in statistical sense. Additionally, thanks to the co-operationwith numerous stakeholders, I established the first experiments to quantify ourcapability of nudging (controlling) the motion of crowds, for enhanced comfort andsafety. My work has received substantial national and international media coverage(including CNN, NRC, NOS, Wired, National radio and television). A semi-completeperspective is on my personal page W.

Since 2016 Among the first to establish machine learning techniques for the analysis of fun-damental aspects of non-linear and turbulent dynamics. Showed the capability ofmachine learning methods in inferring properties or controlling strongly intermittentsystems.




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2011 Developed the core component of the Los Alamos Plasma Simulation (LAPS) code:a high-performance distributed particle-in-cell (PIC) code. The core feature ofLAPS is its extreme modularity achieved without performance compromises via C++template metaprogramming (methods emerging during the 00’s). Employed LAPSto analyze the chaotic motion of charged particles in Field Reversed Configurations(FRC) and Tokamaks.

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

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

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

ReferencesProf.dr. Federico Toschi, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, [email protected]. Chung-min Lee, California State University Long Beach, Long Beach,CA, [email protected]. Adrian Muntean, Carlstad University, Carlstad, [email protected]. Ivan Girotto, International Center for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, [email protected]




https://stackoverflow.com/users/story/1714661

https://stackoverflow.com/users/story/1714661






Supervised students and fellowsPhD Students and Post-doctoral fellows supervision

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).

BSc and MSc Students2021-ongoing Jesse van den Tempel - TU/Eindhoven

Bsc in Applied Physics. Topic: Crowd management

2021-ongoing Tjerk Mathijssen - TU/EindhovenBsc in Applied Physics. Topic: Statistical mechanics for pedestrian dynamics

2021-ongoing Jesse van den Tempel - TU/EindhovenBsc in Applied Physics. Topic: Crowd management

2021-ongoing Bob Beunen - TU/EindhovenMsc in Applied Physics. Topic: Application of machine learning to diluted gasmodeling

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

2021-ongoing Luc Geurts - TU/EindhovenBsc in Applied Physics and Mathematics. Topic: Differential geometric aspects ofpedestrian modeling (with prof. W. Schilders)

2021-ongoing Joost Prins - TU/EindhovenMsc in Applied Physics. Topic: Application of machine learning to diluted gasmodeling

2021-ongoing Andrea di Benedetto - U Utrecht | TU/EindhovenMsc internship in Applied Physics. Topic: Analysing contagion probability inpedestrian dyanamics

2021-ongoing Frenk Cleven - TU/EindhovenMsc in Applied Physics. Topic: Statistical mechanics aspects of pedestrian modeling









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)

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

2020 Arco van Beek - TU/Eindhoven









Msc 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

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)









Scientific PublicationsSubmitted publications (0)

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 ONE 15(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. vdWijdeven, M. Hultermans, D. Sekulowski, F. vd Heijden, S. Mentink, F. Toschi. Alarge-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] 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, irrationality,herding: Three ambiguous terms in evacuation dynamics research. J. Adv.Transport., 9267643, 58pp, 2019 - W

[22] A. Corbetta, F. Toschi. Path-integral representation of diluted pedestrian dynamics.in ’Complexity Science. An introduction’. 329-345. Eds. M. Peletier, R. Van Santen,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




https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jocs.2021.101357

https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/7/12/eaba7281

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0240963

https://doi.org/10.1080/14685248.2020.1797059

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-68287-6

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-50450-2_3

https://collective-dynamics.eu/index.php/cod/article/view/A34



https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0379711218305526

https://www.hindawi.com/journals/jat/2019/9267643/

https://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/10973

https://www.imeko.org/publications/tc4-Archaeo-2019/IMEKO-TC4-METROARCHAEO-2019-83.pdf






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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

[19]•

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

[18]N•10+

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

[17]N20+

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 convolu-tional 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

[12]10+

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

[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

[10]10+

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




http://collective-dynamics.eu/index.php/cod/article/view/A19

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8803767

https://journals.aps.org/pre/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevE.98.062310

http://journals.aps.org/pre/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevE.95.032316


http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0141029617318138

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8078490/




http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10665-016-9852-z






[9]50+

F Venuti, V. Racic, A. Corbetta. Modelling framework for dynamic interactionbetween multiple pedestrians and vertical vibrations of footbridges. J. Sound Vibrat.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

[6]•20+

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

[5]30+

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

[4]N40+

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 footbridgecrowding. 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 footbridgecrowding. Part 1: Incoming pedestrian density. Proceedings of the 9th InternationalConference on Structural Dynamics, EURODYN 2014, 929-937, 2014 - W

[1]10+

F. Venuti, V. Racic, A. Corbetta. Pedestrian-structure interaction in the verticaldirection: 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

[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




http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022460X16302036

https://www.hindawi.com/journals/amp/2016/6902086/

http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-33482-0_7

https://collective-dynamics.eu/index.php/cod/article/view/A11/15

https://www.aimsciences.org/journals/displayArticlesnew.jsp?paperID=10700


http://paginas.fe.up.pt/~eurodyn2014/CD/papers/130_MS05_ABS_1387.pdf



https://doi.org/10.1155/2019/3457370

http://portal.research.lu.se/portal/files/34762689/New_approaches_to_evacuation_modelling.pdf

http://www.swi-wiskunde.nl/swi2013/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2016/05/Fytagoras_scproc_2013.pdf






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 applicationsto FRC and Tokamak. Msc. Thesis, Polytechnic University of Turin, Los AlamosNational 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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https://data.4tu.nl/articles/dataset/Crowdflow_diluted_pedestrian_dynamics_in_the_Metaforum_building_of_Eindhoven_University_of_Technology/12683114

https://research.tue.nl/files/13621142/20160201_Corbetta.pdf

https://assets.tue.nl/fileadmin/content/onderzoek/ILI/Magazines/7167%20TUE%5D%20ILI%20magazine%20GLOW%202016-wt_LR.pdf






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