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Davide Maltoni is a prominent researcher whose work centers on continual learning, robotic vision, and deep neural network training — fields at the intersection of machine learning and autonomous systems. He is perhaps best known for his foundational contributions to continual learning for robotics, including a widely influential 2019 framework paper that has accumulated nearly 500 citations, establishing key definitions, strategies, and challenges for learning systems that adapt dynamically over time without forgetting prior knowledge — a problem known as catastrophic forgetting. Maltoni's research has produced significant practical advances, including latent replay techniques that enable real-time continual learning on resource-constrained edge devices (138 citations), and the CORe50 benchmark dataset, which has become a standard evaluation tool for continuous object recognition tasks. His work on rehearsal-free continual learning and fine-grained recognition further demonstrates a commitment to making these methods viable in realistic robotic deployments. He also co-organized the IROS 2019 Lifelong Robotic Vision challenge, amplifying community engagement with these problems. More recently, his interests have expanded to synthetic data generation using game engines and efficient robot localization. Across his career, Maltoni's research has meaningfully shaped how the machine learning community approaches the challenge of building robots that learn continuously and reliably in dynamic environments.