Perspective
The goal of my research is to use optimization tools to improve the control and design of robotic platforms. I focused on the topic of co-design during my PhD at LAAS/CNRS and postdoc at ETH under the supervision of Prof. Stelian Coros, Philippe Souères, Thomas Flayols and Andrea Del Prete. I've also been working along with other researchers of the Gepetto team in particular Nicolas Mansard. During the summer 2022 I was visiting researcher at DFKI - Bremen under the supervision of Dr. Shivesh Kumar for a project involving hardware co-optimization.
Education
Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, University of Udine, Italy, 2017
Master's degree in Mechatronics Engineering, University of Trento, Italy, 2019
PhD in Robotics at LAAS-CNRS, Paul Sabatier University, Toulouse, France, 2023
Experience
Teaching assistant for the course, "Linear Algebra" at ETHZ, Zurich, Switzerland - fall 2024
Post-doc researcher at ETHZ CRL, Zurich, Switzerland, 01/2024 - now
Teaching assistant for the course "Foundations of Reinforcement Learning" at ETHZ, Zurich, Switzerland - spring 2024
Post-doc researcher at LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse, France, 11-12/2023
Visiting PhD student at DFKI Bremen, Germany, 06-08/2022
Teaching assistant for the course "Numerical methods for ODE" at Paul Sabatier University, Toulouse, France - AA 2020/2021 - 2021/2022
Teaching assistant for the course "Ensembles 2" (discrete maths) at Paul Sabatier University, Toulouse, France - AA 2022/2023
Teaching assistant for the course "Introduction à l’analyse réelle" (calculus) at Paul Sabatier University, Toulouse, France - AA 2022/2023
Internship trainee at LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse, France
Research engineer at LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse, France
General tutor at the University of Trento, Italy
Student internship at Catas Spa, San Giovanni al Natisone, Italy
Invited talks and workshops
Workshop, "Morphology-Aware Policy and Design Learning Workshop (MAPoDeL)" at CoRL 2024, Munich, Germany
Invited talk, "Differentiable simulation for learning, optimization and beyond", Robotics and perception group, November 2024
Vignette talk, "Co-design in Robotics: Theory, Practice, and Challenges" at ICRA 2024, Yokohama, Japan
Workshop, "Advancements in Trajectory Optimization and Model Predictive Control for Legged Systems" at ICRA 2024, Yokohama, Japan
Invited talk, R4 regional network involving 12 robotic research entities in the region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France, video, 2024
Invited talk, IIT - AMI group, Genova, Italy, video, 2023
Service
Reviewer of IEEE international robotic venues, ICRA, IROS, RAL