{"id":56,"date":"2015-06-16T13:44:07","date_gmt":"2015-06-16T11:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/members.loria.fr\/thierrygartiser\/?page_id=56"},"modified":"2026-10-06T09:03:04","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T07:03:04","slug":"accueil","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/members.loria.fr\/EMingoHoffman\/","title":{"rendered":"ABOUT ME"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am an ISFP (Inria Starting Faculty Position) researcher in INRIA Nancy Grand-Est and LORIA, working in the\u00a0HUCEBOT<\/a> project team<\/span>. My research focuses on planning and control of generic robotic systems, with particular emphasis on underactuated multi-limbed robots with many degrees of freedom, such as humanoids. I am particularly interested in model- and learning-based optimization techniques and mobile\/legged robots. I got my HDR (Habilitation \u00e0 Diriger des Recherches) in 2026.<\/p>\n

Before INRIA, I was a post-doc at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia<\/a> (IIT) in Genoa, Italy, in the Humanoids and Human Centered Mechatronics<\/a> (HHCM) Research Line, with Nikos G. Tsagarakis<\/a>, and the Advanced Robotics<\/a> (ADVR) Department, with Prof. Darwin G. Caldwell<\/a>. I obtained my Ph.D. at IIT and the University of Genoa<\/a> in 2016. In 2015, I participated in the DARPA Robotics Challenge<\/a> finals within the WALK-MAN Team<\/a>, being responsible for the whole-body control and simulation of the humanoid robot WALK-MAN. I also have experience in the industry, having worked as a senior researcher in humanoid robotics at PAL Robotics<\/a> in Barcelona, Spain, and later as the Principal Investigator (PI) of the Unmanned Systems and Robotics group at Leonardo S.p.A.<\/a> in Genoa, Italy.<\/p>\n

I have been actively involved in the robotics research community through editorial responsibilities, professional service within IEEE-RAS, and the organization of international conferences and workshops. My professional service includes:<\/p>\n