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Federico Ciccozzi is a prominent researcher specializing in Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) and its application to mobile robotic systems, an interdisciplinary field bridging software engineering and robotics. His work addresses a fundamental challenge in modern robotics: the lack of systematic, reusable software engineering methodologies for developing complex robotic systems that operate across diverse environments — aerial, aquatic, and terrestrial. Ciccozzi's most influential contribution, a 2021 systematic mapping study on MDE for mobile robotics (41 citations), provides the research community with a comprehensive landscape of existing approaches and open challenges. His 2016 work on specifying and executing civilian missions for multi-robot systems (34 citations) demonstrated the practical power of MDE in real-world deployment scenarios, including environmental monitoring and public security applications. Together with his 2017 work on software engineering practices for robotics (17 citations), these contributions establish a coherent body of research advocating for principled, model-based approaches to robotic software development. With a consistent focus on making robotic systems more reliably engineered and deployable, Ciccozzi has meaningfully shaped how the robotics and software engineering communities think about scalable, mission-driven system design.