David Cohen

Robotics simulation, autonomous systems and developer tooling, in Scala and Python.

M.Sc. student in Computer Science and Engineering · University of Bologna · Expected March 2027

Peer-reviewed publication · Neural Networks, 2026

Projects

2025Python

S-Parking

7 / 24simulated parks, 0 collisions

S-Parking: A modular Carla Simulator project for simulating parking scenarios with sensor fusion and state machine control.

    2026argos / footbot

    ARGoS swarm robotics

    81parameter sets swept

    Behaviour-based and swarm robotics in ARGoS/Lua: reactive control, subsumption, motor schemas and 50-robot aggregation. University of Bologna IRS course, 2024.

    v1.1.0 · 19 Sep 2026checks passing

    2026argos-translate / asr

    lecturize

    7× / 20×faster than real time, CPU / GPU

    Turn lecture recordings into notes offline: resumable faster-whisper CLI, markdown chapters/SRT/docx, local translation to 50 languages, no PyTorch

    v1.1.0 · 21 Sep 2026checks passinglecturize 1.1.0 on PyPI · 203 installs a month

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    Publication

    2026Peer-reviewed publication

    Abstractive summarization through the prism of decoding strategies

    First page · Frisoni et al.CC BY 4.0University of Bologna archive

    Neural NetworksVolume 196 · 108249 · open access

    Giacomo Frisoni, Luca Ragazzi, David Cohen, Gianluca Moro, Antonella Carbonaro, Claudio Sartori

    In natural language generation, abstractive summarization (AS) is advancing rapidly due to transformer-based language models (LMs). Although decoding strategies significantly influence generated summaries, their significance is often overlooked.

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