Augusto Luis Ballardini was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1984. He received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the University of Milano - Bicocca, Italy in 2012 and 2017, respectively. After two years of post-doctoral activities in IRALAB research group, in 2019 he joined the INVETT Research Group of the Universidad de Alcalá, Spain, where he was awarded with a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions research grant within the GOT ENERGY TALENT (GET-COFUND) fellowship programme. Here he is currently developing his reliable localization algorithms for autonomous driving car project. Since 2015, he has been an IEEE and ITS Society Member. His research focuses on autonomous vehicles localization and data-fusion systems, leveraging heterogeneous data sources, such as digital maps, LiDAR, and images data, together with computer vision and machine learning algorithms.