Davide Perico was born in Bergamo in 1998. In February 2023, he joined the DART Lab as an Aerospace Engineering PhD student of the XXXVIII cycle. He holds a Master of Science in Space Engineering obtained at Politecnico di Milano in December 2022, with a thesis on Processor-In-the-Loop implementation of an image processing pipeline for autonomous deep-space navigation. Since April 2020, he has also been part of the AOCS Team of the student-made 6S CubeSat inside the PoliSpace student association, participating in its design from phase 0/A to B. His research focuses on algorithms and software development targeting Hardware-In-the-Loop testing of autonomous GNC in the framework of the ERC-funded EXTREMA project. His research interests are software design for fully-autonomous deep-space probes, ADCS algorithms integration with autonomous GNC, Reconfigurable Computing, and Processor-In-the-Loop.