Organizers
Adrià Colomé is a postdoctoral researcher at the Perception and Manipulation group, Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial (CSIC-UPC), Barcelona. His research includes robot motion learning, manipulation of deformable objects and robot compliant and optimal control.
Fares Abu-dakka is a senior scientist and robot learning group leader at the Munich Institute of Robotics and Machine Intelligence, Technische Universität München, Germany. His research lies in combining robot learning and control with Riemannian geometry in order to enhance robot manipulation performance and safety.
Matteo Saveriano is an assistant professor at the Department of Computer Science and at the Digital Science Center of the University of Innsbruck. His research is at the intersection between learning and control and attempts to integrate cognitive robots into smart factories and social environments through the embodiment of AI solutions, inspired by human behavior, into robotic devices.
Virginia Ruiz
Virginia Ruiz is an Associate Professor in Assistive Robotics at the University of the West of England (UWE) . She is the Robotics Programme Cluster Coordinator for Open day, Offer holder day & Induction, as well as EDM (Engineering, Design and Mathematics department) representative for the Faculty of Environment, Technology RKE (Research and Knowledge Exchange) Research Culture Working Group, and the FET Business liaison associate with NHS.
Her research is developed within the Bristol Robotics Laboratory (BRL), the most comprehensive academic centre for multi-disciplinary robotics research in the UK, where I lead the Assistive Robotics team (ARob team). I am also the Co-leader of the Robotics Engineering And Computing for Healthcare (REACH) research group.