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Academic CV and research profile.
General Information
| Full Name | Gagan Narang, PhD |
| g.narang@pm.univpm.it | |
| Affiliation | Postdoctoral Researcher, Vision Robotics and Artificial Intelligence (VRAI) Lab, Università Politecnica delle Marche |
| Research Interests | Artificial Intelligence, Public Policy Analysis, Policy Impact Evaluation, Innovation-Policy Co-Evolution, AI for Ageing Societies, AI Governance, Low-code Environments |
| Research Groups | VRAI Lab; Technologies Change Informatics and Forecasting Lab; UnivPM Contamination Lab (cLab); EUAbout, Brussels |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9053-0758 |
| Languages | English, Hindi, Punjabi (native); German (A2) |
Experience
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2025 – 2027 Postdoctoral Researcher
Vision Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Lab, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy - Research Group of Prof. Adriano Mancini (since December 2025)
- Research fellowship on AI and GenAI for the EU projects iStream and FOLOU
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Aug 2025 Doctoral Erasmus+ Research Mobility
EUAbout, Brussels, Belgium - Research on the intersection of AI and public policy, including an educational visit to European Union institutions
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2025 Visiting PhD Student
KU Leuven, Belgium - Advisor: Prof. Geert Deconinck
- Funded by MSCA RICE under the TRUST-RISE project
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May 2024 Academic Intern
Jef Digital Innovation S.r.l., Italy - AI-driven strategic forecasting
- Integration of patent and publication pipelines
Education
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2022 – 2025 Ph.D. Artificial Intelligence Systems
Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy - Result: Excellent, with European Doctorate Certificate
- Thesis: Artificial Intelligence for Spatiotemporal Data and Remote Sensing Applications in Monitoring Systems
- Advisor: Prof. Adriano Mancini; Co-Advisor: Prof. Primo Zingaretti
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2020 – 2022 M.Sc. Informatics
University of Delhi, India - CGPA: 7.896 / 10 (First Division with Distinction)
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Mar 2022 Visiting Master's Student
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China - Advisor: Dr. Usharani Hareesh Govindarajan
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2018 – 2020 Master's in Physics (enrolled)
Universität Bonn, Germany -
2015 – 2018 B.Sc. (Hons.) Physics
Lovely Professional University, India - CGPA: 9.29 / 10 (First Division with Distinction)
Teaching Experience
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Winter 2026 Advanced Python Programming (PhD course)
Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy - Doctoral-level course on core Python concepts and practical coding, with hands-on exercises and a written assessment
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Summer 2024 Deep Learning for Climate Change (MOOC)
EU Horizon Smart4ENV Project - Enabling technologies (IoT, cloud computing, networking, remote sensing) and deep learning-based time series analysis
- Recorded as a MOOC, available online for everyone
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Summer 2023 Teaching Assistant – AI & Citizen Development for International Business
Summer School - Data management, AI, NLP and digital transformation through the Microsoft Power Platform
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Spring 2022 Head Teaching Assistant – Data Structures using Python
Nanjing Audit University, China - Course design and delivery with Prof. Shenglei Chen
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Winter 2022 Teaching Assistant – Fundamentals of Information Systems
emlyon business school, France - Troubleshooting and mentorship for students of the bachelor's course
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Fall 2021 Teaching Assistant – Artificial Intelligence for International Business
SKEMA Business School, France - Teaching effectiveness evaluation of 4.2/5; prepared troubleshooting videos during the pandemic
Awards and Funding
- Research Fellowship on AI and GenAI for the EU projects iStream and FOLOU, Università Politecnica delle Marche (2025 – 2027)
- Erasmus+ Research Mobility Grant (1 month) for research on AI and public policy with EUAbout, Brussels
- Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) RICE travel grant (6 months) to Belgium under the TRUST-RISE project
- Silver Award, 2024 Internet+ competition, Shanghai Regional Government
- National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR) PhD Scholarship, Università Politecnica delle Marche
- International PhD Scholarship in Service Science, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan (declined)
- Regular PhD Scholarship in Operations Research, IIM Mumbai (declined)
- Alumni Mentorship Award 2023, Lovely Professional University
- Funded research internship at Shanghai Jiao Tong University for the Master's thesis
Publications
- 13 journal articles (11 in Q1 journals), 14 conference papers and 2 book chapters. See the publications page or Google Scholar for the full list.
Selected Projects
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2026 InfinityRobotics – Italian National Project
- Computer vision models with few-shot anomaly detection for early defect detection in manufacturing
- Reduced material waste and energy per unit produced through real-time quality control
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2026 iStream – Multinational EU Research Collaboration
- Coordinated research partnerships between institutions in Italy, Poland, France and Croatia
- Led work packages and supported partnership building between principal investigators
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2025 Co-founder, Affinexus Canada Inc.
- Data-driven marketing venture applying analytics to growth strategy (affinexus.ca)
- Partner onboarding, campaign optimisation and EU operations
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2024 Contamination Lab XVIII Edition
Università Politecnica delle Marche - Business plan, funding pitch and startup development in an interdisciplinary team, selected from several hundred applicants
Academic Service
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2027 - Lead Co-chair, Special Session "Collaborative Robotics and Societies", 27th IEEE CSCWD 2027, Brisbane, Australia
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2026 - Co-chair, Special Session "Collaborative Technologies for Ageing Societies", 26th IEEE CSCWD 2026
- Master thesis advisor for 2 students, Department of Information Engineering, Università Politecnica delle Marche
- External Master thesis advisor, Business School, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, China
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2025 - Special Session organizer, "Remote Sensing and Multimodal Data Fusion for Marine Applications Management", IEEE MetroSea 2025, Genoa, Italy
- Co-chair, Special Session "Collaborative Business Information and Technology", 25th IEEE CSCWD 2025
- Reviewer for Technological Forecasting and Social Change
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2024 - Reviewer for ICIAP 2022, ICRA 2024, IROS 2024, ICRA 2025
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2023 - Technical Committee Member, International Conference on AI, Big Data Computing and Data Communication Systems, South Africa
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2022 - Youth Committee Member, International Conclave on Materials, Energy & Climate (ICMEC), Noida, India
- Committee Member and Session Chair Assistant, IEEE CSCWD 2022, Hangzhou, China
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2021 - Committee Member, International Conference on AI and its Applications (iCARTI), Mauritius
Engagements
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2026 - Member, IEEE European Public Policy Committee, ICT Working Group
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2025 - Vice-chair of the newsletter committee and newsletter graphic designer, United Nations Groundwater Youth Network
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2024 - Time Series Analysis Summer School, Denmark
- XR&AI Summer School, Italy
- Summer School on climate change adaptation and mitigation in agriculture, Spain
- Smart4ENV EU Project Executive Board Meeting, Barcelona, Spain
- European Robotics Forum 2024
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2023 - Social work and technology support for We Are Us (Comune di Ancona)
- Invited guest lecture: AI and water resource management
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2022 - Invited guest lecture: Healthcare management using emerging technologies




