Scholar
Carmelo Sferrazza
Google Scholar ID: x0_lwNYAAAAJ
UC Berkeley
Citations & Impact
Citations
1,122
H-index
17
i10-index
22
Publications
20
Co-authors
17
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Ph.D. thesis awarded the ETH Medal; Selected as a Robotics Science and Systems Pioneer in 2022; Recipient of an SNSF Postdoctoral Fellowship, a Rising Star Award, Best Paper Award at IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics, and the ETEL Award; Multiple papers accepted at NeurIPS, ICRA, ICLR, etc.; MuJoCo Playground won the Best Demo Paper Award at RSS 2025.
Research Experience
- Postdoctoral researcher at UC Berkeley, working with Prof. Pieter Abbeel; During Ph.D. research at ETH Zurich, focused on the design of vision-based, data-driven tactile sensors and their applications to robot control and dexterous manipulation.
Education
- Ph.D. from ETH Zurich in 2021, supervised by Prof. Raffaello D'Andrea; M.Sc. in Robotics, Systems and Control from ETH Zurich in 2016; B.Sc. in Automation Engineering from Politecnico di Milano, and a Double Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology Engineering from Tongji University in Shanghai (2016).
Background
- Research Interests: humanoid robotics, dexterous manipulation, tactile sensing, and robot learning. Background: Incoming assistant professor at UT Austin, currently with Amazon Frontiers AI and Robotics (FAR).
Miscellany
- Personal interests not mentioned
