Advisory Board

The Advisory Board performs advisory functions aimed at identifying research lines that ensure the intensification of relations with the business world. The advisory role is exercised by members designated by relevance and contiguity with the department's research topics. The activities of the Advisory Board are promoted by the coordinator in close cooperation with the technology transfer commission and the research commission.

Commission (DET members)

Advisory Board (company members) 2022-2024

Luca BAGATIN - Roj S.r.l.

R&D Manager

• Coordinate the various teams of Roj R&D, defining project portfolios, objectives, priorities and resourses allocation for each team.
• Interact with R&D departments of VDW group, participating to common project definitions.
• Coordination of the project teams of the ROJ Mechatronics division.
• Product manager for a range of precision agriculture related products (ROJ Agri-motion)

Alessandro BALOSSINO  - Argotec S.r.l.

R&D Manager

Alessandro Balossino è il responsabile dell'unità di ricerca e sviluppo di Argotec, PMI torinese attiva nello sviluppo di microsatelliti ad alte prestazioni e nei servizi per il volo umano spaziale.
In qualità del suo ruolo coordina lo sviluppo di sistemi avionici e nuove tecnologie spaziali a basso TRL, la definizione della roadmap tecnologica dell'azienda, l'identificazione dei partner tecnologici e delle opportunità per la ricerca finanziata.
Prima del ruolo corrente in Argotec, Alessandro si è occupato di sistemi di sistemi per Entry, Descent and Landing, robotica mobile e sensoristica per applicazioni in ambito spazio e difesa.
Alessandro ha ottenuto la laurea magistrale in meccatronica presso il Politecnico di Torino nel 2013.

Mauro BANDINELLI - Ingegneria dei Sistemi S.p.A.

Mauro Bandinelli was born in Florence, Italy, in 1959.
He received the Electrical Engineering degree (summa cum laude) from the University of Florence, in 1986.
Since 1986, he has been a Researcher at IDS Ingegneria Dei Sistemi S.p.A, working in the field of electromagnetism, especially on antenna and EMC problems.
He has been involved in research activities on asymptotic and numerical techniques.
Currently he is manager of the “Computational Electromagnetic Laboratory” and of “Space Laboratory” in IDS.

Andrea BERTAIA SEGATO - ALBA Robot S.r.l.

CEO and co-founder of ALBA Robot S.r.l.

ALBA Robot provides a modular and configurable platform to integrate autonomous driving, voice assistants and robotic technologies into personal vehicles (wheelchairs, mobility scooters,). Thanks to the great experience on safety critical applications for transport industries, ALBA Robot is developing fleets of connected autonomous vehicles, able to safely move people and goods, satisfying the needs from facilities and private users to realize new, advanced, autonomous and cost effective mobility services, reducing the need of caregivers. ALBA Robot technologies can be used to realize new mobility fleets or retrofitting existing ones, transforming them into autonomous and smart. They can also be used to simply localize existing vehicles, one of the most expensive issues facilities have to face.

Gianluca BIANCO - IVECO S.p.A.

Head of manufactoring Engineering at IVECO group

Executive with a great combination of expertise in strategy/business development/operations/finance, outstanding organizational and leadership abilities and excellent interpersonal and public speaking skills.
Gianluca Bianco has more than 27 years international experience in building innovative engineering solutions covering strategic commercial and operational positions within the complex and challenging Automotive Industry, managing multi-cultural teams in complex and high demanding environments.

Piero COSTA - Polo BioPmed

Ingegnere Biomedico laureato presso il Politecnico di Torino. Inizia la sua carriera nel 2005 come Direttore Tecnico/Operations e Rappresentante della Direzione in un’azienda produttrice di Dispositivi Medici per Ortopedia e Traumatologia e i diversi anni trascorsi nel settore gli hanno permesso di maturare esperienza e conoscenza nella gestione del ciclo di vita dei dispositivi medici e dei requisiti regolamentari applicabili.

Dal 2018 Piero è B.S.I. Tutor e Part Time Lecturer presso il Politecnico di Torino, dove eroga formazione in ambito Dispositivi Medici.

Piero ha gestito e gestisce come coordinatore diversi Progetti di R&S su Dispositivi Medici, collaborando in consorzi con imprese ed enti di ricerca.
Attualmente Vice-Presidente, è stato nel periodo 2018-2021 Presidente del Cluster BioPmed.

• Sviluppo di Documentazione Tecnica per dispositivi medici di Classe I, Classe IIa, Classe IIb and Classe III in accordo a M.D.D. & M.D.R.
• Sviluppo di Sistemi di Gestione Qualità in ambito Dispositivi Medici
• R&D Project Management in ambito Dispositivi Medici
• Tutoring and Educational Expertise nel settore Dispositivi Medici
• Management di Siti Produttivi Dispositivi Medici

Davide CUDA - Google

Davide Cuda graduated from the Politecnico di Torino with 110/110 summa cum laude degree in Telecommunication Engineering in November 2005. In January 2009 he obtained his Ph.D. degree at Politecnico di Torino on resource allocation and fairness schemes in all optical networks and switching architectures. During his Ph. D., he spent an extensive stay at University of California, Davis.
From January 2010 to March 2011 he held a Post Doc position at the Italian National Research Council focusing his research on energy-efficient design of backbone networks and high-capacity switching architectures.
From March 2011 until March 2012 he worked as research engineer at Orange Labs R&D designing all future core networks and datacenter architectures. Davide Cuda is currently a research engineer at Telecom PariTech working on high-capacity scheduling algorithms. He was actively involved and managed several National and European research projects.
In November 2012, he joined Cisco System in Switzerland to work on as a software engineer on IOS platform. He actively contributed on the Medianet Cisco feature and actively proposed new network solutions exploiting SDN technologies (OpenFlow, OnePK, opendaylight controller).
Davide Cuda is currently at Google working as a software reliability engineer.

Fulvio FARACI - Metroconsult

Felice Fulvio Faraci è Presidente e Amministratore Delegato di Metroconsult dal 2018.
Prima di tale incarico, ha ricoperto il ruolo di Amministratore Delegato di Sisvel Technology, società tecnologica e di ricerca del Gruppo Sisvel e sino al 2015 di Direttore della Ricerca & Open Innovation in Telecom Italia.
E’ membro dell’Advisory Board di Piccola Industria e del consiglio ICT presso l’Unione Industriale di Torino; inoltre partecipa attivamente all’associazione Reseau Entreprendre Piemonte, che supporta la crescita delle start-up e dell’imprenditorialità.

Franco FILIPPI - EPF Automation

Since 1995, CEO of EPF Automation, 'ALL IN'. Turnkey Solutions for Automation, Plastic and Energy plant.
EPF was founded in 1961 in Carrù and specialises in the fields of industrial automation, plastic injection molding and renewable energy on national and international scale as well. The desire to build a future of technological progress, combined with the ability to remain faithfully linked to its history and values, has allowed EPF to grow while maintaining balance between experience and innovation. Today, as in the past, the developing of innovative, reliable and sustainable solutions is EPF’s main goal.

Marina GEYMONAT - SISAL

Leader with a sound cultural background, excellent soft skills and strong technical expertise in Innovation and particularly in defining and delivering AI solutions to improve company's performance. Hands-on experience in Telecommunications, ranging from Network Management, through New Service Design and Prototyping, to Artificial Intelligence and Big Data Analytics with a special attention to designing for Humans and strong interest in Information Visualization. A working life spent in bringing innovation and fostering Digital Transformation throughout the Company. Problem solver with a systemic approach, able to deliver in short term while maintaining an overall vision. Especially good in building bridges between departments, disciplines, siloes, ending up in fruitful long term collaborations. Talented in driving and motivating groups (especially multicultural and cross-disciplinary teams) to work together with energy and passion, delivering great results even in complex, everchanging organisational contexts. Last experience while leading TIM AI Center of Excellence and operating a collaboration network with major Italian universities, acting as facilitator for collaboration both across Academic Institutions and between University and Industry. With AI becoming key for any company digital transition, we have worked with an incredible team to deliver enhanced customer experience, improving quality, while gaining efficiency throughout the company, contributing to its transformation. Current role SISAL includes creating from scratch the Innovation Lab, with the aim of promoting responsible gaming, with the use of cutting-edge technologies and an Open Innovation approach, involving Universities, research centers and start-ups

Enrico GHILLINO - Synopsys

Manager R&D

Enrico Ghillino is the technical lead on photonic circuit modeling and simulation. He helps identifying preferable technical solutions to high profile development tasks across teams, and gives technical advice and helps defining roadmaps.
He participates to external projects with high-profile customers and assist driving Synopsys perspective. He is also a member of the architecture team for the OptoCompiler Design Platform, focused on the developments include electro-optical (EO) co-simulation of mixed electrical and photonic circuits.

Stefano GOLLINUCCI - Vodafone

Head of Steering, Transformation & Excellence for the Vodafone Networks Fixed & Mobile Access Operation
My area of expertise is telco networks: convergent transmission networks, from legacy to full-IP technologies in my current role, but I am familiar with Access, Core infrastructure as well. I have been managing teams of engineers and I am familiar with labour organization, people management, budget management, cost analysis, etc. I am quite an expert on maintenance contracts.
Due to my present and past roles I have been growing a network of contacts in other Countries and I am very comfortable to work in international teams.

Luca Maria LACHELLO - COMAU

In COMAU SpA since 1989, he spent 26 years in the Robotics Business Unit where the main achievement was the conception of the 5th Generation of Comau Robot Control Unit, a new RT Operating System, a new Robot Trajectory Planner and an innovative Inverse Kinematics Algorithm developed in collaboration with POLITO were the most remarkable milestones.
He is currently leading the COMAU Digital Factory, an international team of more than 30 engineers that develops according the AGILE methodology the COMAU IIoT platform. In addition, the Digital Factory contribute with its expertise to other Business Segments, such as for Batteries, where the cells formation process and the assembly sequences have to be digitally managed.

Antonio MAGAZZÙ - Maxim

Executive Design Director presso Analog Devices, Data Center Equipment Solutions BU.
Laureato nel 1992 al Politecnico di Torino.

Cesare MANGONE - Progetti S.r.l.

CEO e Presidente di Progetti s.r.l. la maggior azienda italiana di defibrillatori, ventilatori e monitor pazienti.
L'azienda è a Trofarello. Il dottor Mangone è laureato in chimica all'università di Torino e ha ottenuto un MBA congiunto tra Politecnico di Torino e Boston University.
Ha collaborato con il DET finanziando borse di dottorato in apprendistato.

Luca MARTINO - Tekfer

CEO presso Tekfer, Neohm Componenti e Aerospace Power Group.
Da oltre un decennio, mi occupo della direzione e dell’amministrazione di un gruppo di aziende impegnate nella progettazione e nella produzione di componenti, prodotti e sistemi nel settore ferroviario ed aerospaziale.
La mia sfida è quella di consolidare valide realtà italiane ed accompagnarle sul palcoscenico internazionale con obiettivi di crescita concreti.
Terminati gli studi in Ingegneria Elettronica, dopo un breve periodo in ST Microelectronics, sono entrato nel mondo del lavoro come progettista elettronico presso la IRCI (International Rectifier Corporation Italiana), cimentandomi nello sviluppo di azionamenti ibridi con elettronica integrata, una proposta decisamente innovativa per l’inizio degli anni 2000.
Nel 2003 approdato alla SIA (Società Italiana Avionica), parte di Finmeccanica, entro nel mondo del segnalamento ferroviario per occuparmi di verifica e validazione. Questi anni di intenso lavoro sono stati fondamentali per una crescita sia professionale che individuale che ha rafforzato l’ambizione di spingermi verso un’attività più indipendente in un panorama più internazionale.
Nel 2005, all’ente di certificazione TUV SUD, con sede a Monaco di Baviera, ottengo questa opportunità attraverso un’attività di consulenza in un ambiente stimolante che mi ha permesso di conquistare maggiore autonomia e competenza.
Nel 2007, il mio percorso professionale ha incrociato quello di Tekfer, realtà affermata nell’ambito ferroviario, prima nel ruolo di Direttore Tecnico per poi assumere, dal 2017, il ruolo di CEO.
Nel 2018 ho il piacere di assumere anche la carica di CEO della Neohm Componenti e ritornare al mondo dei semiconduttori e dei circuiti ibridi.
Dal 2020 affronto una nuova promettente esperienza nel mondo aerospaziale, insieme alla giovane e brillante Arc Power, nella Joint Venture Aerospace Power Group.

Luca MASSOTTI - ESA

Earth Observation System Engineer staff – EOP-SFP; Future Studies Payload and Spacecraft Design Engineer

Andrea MERLO - Thales Alenia Space Italia S.p.A.

Head of Robotics & Mechatronics Group
Robotic expert (main areas: Autonomy, Mobility, Manipulation) with relevant experience on Martian Rovers (Sample Fetch Rover, Exomars).
Significant experience in international projects, people and subco management maturated as Manager, Robotic Expert and Functional Engineer.

Rosalba MUGNO - Accredia

She received the M.S. degree in Electronic Engineering and the Ph.D. degree in Metrology: Science and Technique of Measurement.
From 1999 to 2006 she was head of metrology, chief of Manufacturing of CMM Industry and head of the accredited Calibration Laboratory No. 138.
In 2007 she joined the National Calibration System until 2013.
In 2014 she becomes an employee of ACCREDIA.
Since 2015 she has been Director of the Calibration Laboratories Department at ACCREDIA.
She has skills in metrology and management systems.
Since 2019 she has been Vice President of the Technical Commission “Metrology” of the National Standardization Organization

Antonio NAPOLI - Infinera

Senior expert in optical communication systems and DSP algorithms with 15+ years of industrial experience in designing cutting-edge products for ultra-high capacity optical systems.
Excellent scientific track record in obtaining grants and publishing journals and articles.
Excellent global industry and academic wide reputation and network of contacts.

Davide PANDINI - ST Microelectronics

Advanced CMOS Technology Technical Director and a Fellow of ST Technical Staff
Davide Pandini holds a Laurea Degree (summa cum laude) in Electronics Engineering from the University of Bologna, a PhD in Electronics and Telecommunications from the University of Padova, and a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA.
He was a research intern at Philips Research Labs. in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, and at Digital Equipment Corp., Western Research Labs. in Palo Alto, CA. He joined STMicroelectronics in Agrate Brianza, Italy, in 1995, where he is an Advanced CMOS Technology Technical Director and a Fellow of ST Technical Staff.
His current research interests include advanced CMOS technologies in 28nm FDSOI and FinFET, power optimization and integrity, reliability, innovative design methodologies for ASIC design, RF design for 5G applications. He was a work-package manager in several funded European Projects. Dr. Pandini has authored and coauthored more than fifty papers in international journals and conference proceedings, and during the academic years from 1998 to 2000, he was a Visiting Professor at the University of Brescia. He served on the program committee of several premiere international conferences, among which DAC, DATE, ICCD, ESSDERC, and EMC-COMPO, and he is a TPC co-chair of ESSDERC/ESSCIR 2022. Dr. Pandini received the ST Corporate STAR 2008 Gold Award for leading the excellence team in EMC-aware design, and the STAR 2020 Gold Award for an innovative design in 7nm FinFET.
Since June 2015, Dr. Pandini is the Chairman of the ST Italy Technical Staff Steering Committee.
Among his other interests, Dr. Pandini is a Certified Financial Technician of IFTA (International Federation of Technical Analysts), holds the Chartered Market Technician (CMT) designation from the CMT Association, and he is a Professional Member of SIAT (Societa’ Italiana Analisi Tecnica). In 2021 Dr. Pandini was the recipient of the prestigious XII SIAT Technical Analyst Award in the Open category.
He served as Volunteer at Universal Exhibition Expo2015 – Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life - in Milano, Italy.

Roberto PAOLETTI - Prima Electro S.p.A.

Senior manager

I graduated in Electronic Engineering, summa cum laude at University of Genoa in 1991, with a thesis on LiNbO3 laser modeling. I got the Doctorate in Electronics (PhD) at Politecnico of Turin, in 1994, dealing with design, simulation and characterization of semiconductor lasers for advanced telecommunication systems. In 1995 I Joined CSELT, Centro Studi E Laboratori in Telecomunicazioni (the corporate research center of Telecom Italia): I was responsible for the semiconductor laser characterization lab, and I continued working in design, modeling and high frequency characterizations of semiconductor lasers. In 2000 the Torino team joined the Agilent Technologies Semiconductor Product Group (Spin Off of Hewlett Packard). In the new position I was the project leader of some R&D projects for high speed uncooled laser (enabling also the first in the market Agilent Xenpak 10Gb/s Ethernet transceiver) and medium and wide tunable lasers for metro networks. In 2005 SPG became an independent company named Avago Technologies. In the new Torino organization I became manager of an optoelectronic team, owning responsibility of a global team for volume testing, reliability and R&D development of III-V edge emitter lasers. Starting from R&D background, from the Agilent days to the Avago organization I progressively developed new production skills, focusing on the design for manufacturing, device engineering and long term reliability.
I am now responsible for the Laser Diode Fab of Convergent Photonics in the Prima Electro Organization, development and manufacturing site of high power diode laser for industrial applications.
I am author and co-author of more than 50 publications on Journals and International Conference Proceedings, I am co-author of a semiconductor laser book, and I currently hold 12 active patents. I am a member of the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) since 1996.

Marco PAVONE - Nvidia

Director of Autonomous Vehicle Research at NVIDIA.

His main research interests are in the development of methodologies for the analysis, design, and control of autonomous systems, with an emphasis on self-driving cars, autonomous aerospace vehicles, and future mobility systems.
He is currently on partial leave from Stanford University, where he is an Associate Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics. At Stanford, he is also the Director of the Autonomous Systems Laboratory and Co-Director of the Center for Automotive Research at Stanford.
He received a Ph.D. degree in Aeronautics and Astronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2010. He is a recipient of a number of awards, including a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers from President Barack Obama, an Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award, a National Science Foundation Early Career (CAREER) Award, a NASA Early Career Faculty Award, and an Early-Career Spotlight Award from the Robotics Science and Systems Foundation. He was identified by the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) as one of America's 20 most highly promising investigators under the age of 40.
He is currently serving as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Control Systems Magazine.

Federico PERRERO - Bitron Electronics

Quality and Business Processes Digitalization Director

Oversee Quality: System Engineering and Customer Satisfaction, IT, and Analytics activities for Electronic Division encompassing four manufacturing plants and three R&D sites.
Refine and transform business operations to mitigate risks to company and advance customer satisfaction.
Drive global service analytics with focus on assisting users achieve excellent performances though data optimisation.

Dario ROSSI - Huawei

I am a Chief Expert at Huawei, leading a team of researchers using machine learning and artificial intelligence to solve hard networking problems.
I received my Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (HDR) from UPMC (2010), my PhD (2005) and MSc (2001) degrees from Politecnico di Torino.
Before joining Huawei in 2018, I occupied a Chair Professor (2016-2018), Full Professor (2012-2016) and Associate Professor (2006-2012) positions at the Computer Science and Networking department of Telecom ParisTech as well as a Full Professor (2012-2019) position at the LIX department of Ecole Polytechnique.
Prior to that, I worked with the Telecommunication Network Group of the Electrical Engineering department at Politecnico di Torino (2001-2006). Between september 2003 and august 2004, I held a Visiting Researcher position in the Computer Science division at University of California, Berkeley.
I am very passionate in my work and always open for new challenges. Currently I put my passion at work on research interests such as Machine learning, Internet traffic measurement, and high speed all-sofware networking. Formerly I also worked on congestion control, Information centric networks, green networking, peer-2-peer networks, traffic engineering vehicular networks. To summarize my achievements in these last few years, I have coauthored 15+ patents and 200+ papers in leading conferences (including IEEE INFOCOM, ACM SIGCOMM, ACM CoNEXT and ACM IMC) and journals (including IEEE JSAC, ACM/IEEE TON, ACM CCR, IEEE TMM).

Roberto Sannino - ST Microelectronics

Senior Manager experienced in leading the growth of strategic know-how on innovative system applications. Relevant expertise in technology development and marketing acquired in U.S. and Italy.
I consider the customers, partners and colleagues I work with as the most valuable asset in my professional life.
Specialties: Embedded platforms development in robotics (Vision, Inertial, Audio and acoustics, control), telecom and consumer, strategy, partnerships, standardization, software development, real-time, forward and reverse engineering, signal processing.

Paola SUNNA - EBU Technology & Innovation

Paola Sunna joined the Centre for Research & Technology  Innovation of RAI, the Italian public broadcaster, in 1997 after getting her degree in Electronic Engineering at Politecnico of Torino.
She has worked on a wide variety of video projects over the years spent at RAI, including: image processing, video coding, next generation video formats, multimodal user-interfaces,
hybrid broadcast and broadband middleware, second screens apps, standards (DVB, MPEG, etc.) and 3D computer graphics. She got an MBA in 2005. In March 2017, she moved to the EBU Technology and Innovation Department (tech.ebu.ch) as Senior Project Manager. At the EBU  she was involved in activities related to VR (Virtual reality)/AR (Augmented Reality) and NGA (Next Generation Audio) for personalized sound experiences. Currently she is focusing on virtual productions, newsroom workflows, CG (Computer Graphics) animation pipelines and 5G for professional content production. She is also involved in different standardization activities.

William TOMASELLI - TIM

Testing indirizzato a valutare la robustezza e l’affidabilità delle piattaforme di core network mobile 4G e 5G distribuite basate su User Data Management (UDM) quali CUDB, HLR-FE, virtual SLF/HSS Front End ed architetture HLR Layered, soluzioni che stanno alla base dei servizi end-to-end di tipo multimedia e voce su tecnologie LTE-IMS-VoLTE
Conoscenze mirate dell’ambiente Google Cloud Computing conseguite attraverso certificati ottenuti recentemente grazie ad una partnership tecnico commerciale tra TIM e Google.
Conoscenze solide dell’ambiente di testing delle tecnologie (nodi di rete virtuali e relative funzionalità software) basate su ambiente virtuale, principalmente delle soluzioni VNF Red Hot-RHOSP brandizzate Dell ed HP
Conoscenza mirata della tecnologia 5G basate su entrambe le architetture Stand-Alone e Not Stand-Alone principalmente focalizzata e finalizzata sullo sviluppo di nuove metodologie di testing che dovranno essere adottate per le soluzioni di Core Network Mobile e delle relative funzionalità principalmente basate su Application Programming Interface (API).

Andrea Vitali - ST Microelectronics

Prototyping, test and industrialization of reference designs and sensor platforms. Sensor DSP and algorithm design, software models and hardware implementation, for key customers in the Bay Area (FAANG). Coordinating development activities with product divisions (MEMS, Microcontrollers, Power), central labs (Development, R&D), and regional organization (America region, Support and Marketing). Andrea Vitali joined STMicroelectronics in 2000 as part of the system R&D team.
Currently, Vitali is driving marketing and support local customers in the field of MEMS sensors and Internet of Things. From 2008 to 2012 he worked in the field of bioelectronics/biomedical field, exploiting micro-electro-mechanical-silicon sensors, designing wearable electronics to detect biologic signals and developing algorithms to extract significant biological parameters. Prior to that, he worked on image compression, video coding, robust source and joint source/channel coding, adaptive multimedia play-out, metadata for multimedia signals, graphical interfaces.
Training and teaching has been important for Vitali. From 2004-2012 he was professor at Bergamo University, teaching MicroElectronics and from 2007-2010 he was also a professor at the University of Milan teaching MultiMedia Information Coding.
Mr. Vitali holds a Masters in Electronics Engineering at Polytechnic of Milan in 1998. He has published several papers and holds several patents granted in Europe and the United States.

Luca ZAI - Eldor Corporation S.p.A.

Luca Zai is Chief Technology Officer at ELDOR Corporation.
His area of responsibility encompasses the portfolio of E-Mobility solutions from early stage ideation, from business and technical perspective, to the start of development for mass production. In his capacity Luca oversees R&D Centers, internal and collaborative innovation initiatives, product and technology strategy, advanced systems engineering and development of archetypes for novel e-powertrain systems.
He is co-author of several patent families in the field. In his career in the automotive industry Luca held various positions in consulting and manufacturing companies, working on a range of vehicle systems and components in liaison with OEMs and first-tier suppliers worldwide.
His expertise developed particularly in the areas of systems engineering, electric-hybrid vehicles and technology & strategic management. Luca holds an MSc in Automotive Engineering from Politecnico di Torino and an MBA from Alliance Manchester Business School.

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