- Published over 10 articles in high-impact robotics journals and conferences.
- Finalist as best thesis in robotics at the Georges Giralt PhD Award 2022.
Research Experience
- Postdoctoral Researcher, Human-Robot Interfaces and physical Interaction (HRI²), Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genova, Italy, April 2021 - April 2023. Research on topics spanning HRC, AI, robot control and learning, and machine vision.
- Publication of more than 10 articles in high-impact robotics journals and conferences.
- Participation in 3 EU-funded projects as WP leader (SOPHIA, CONCERT, Ergo-Lean).
- Experience in writing of 6 national and EU-funded projects as Co-PI.
- Supervision of students (2 PhD and 3 MSc).
Education
- Ph.D. in Information Engineering, University of Pisa, November 2017 - June 2021. Advisors: Dr. Arash Ajoudani, Dr. Manuel G. Catalano. Thesis Title: Ergonomic and Worker-Centric Human-Robot Collaboration: Strategies, Interfaces and Controllers. Degree: Excellent Cum Laude, finalist as best thesis in robotics at the Georges Giralt PhD Award 2022.
- MSc in Control Systems Engineering, University of Padua, October 2014 – September 2017. Advisors: Prof. Ruggero Carli, Prof. Ville Kyrki. Thesis Title: Enhancing the Generalization Capabilities of Motor Primitives.
- BSc in Information Engineering, University of Padua, October 2011 – September 2014. Advisor: Prof. Alessandro Beghi. Thesis Title: Design in MatLab/Simulink of the Pitch Control System of an Aircraft.
Background
Research interests include adaptive behavior, artificial intelligence, augmented reality, decision-making, human-computer interaction (HCI), industrial robotics, intelligent manufacturing, knowledge representation and reasoning, machine learning, machine vision, mobile robotics, optimal control theory, and optimization.