Francesco Ciccone is a research fellow at the Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Bologna, in the field of Aerospace Science and Technology. His research focuses on the application of artificial intelligence models to aerial environmental monitoring, with specific interests in search and rescue, automated landslide segmentation, and wildfire detection. He collaborated with the German Aerospace Center (DLR) on real-time georeferencing systems for autonomous drones and is the author of several publications in AI, computer vision, and additive manufacturing.