Education
| 04/2011 | PhD in Humanoid Technologies, at University of Genoa and Italian Institute of Technology
Title: From humans to humanoids : a study on optimal motor control for the iCub Distinctions: excellent (maximum) Supervisor: Giorgio Metta President of Evaluation Commitee: Tamim Asfour Members of Jury : Darwin Caldwell, Gabriel Baud-Bovy, Ryad Chellali, Giulio Sandini Date and place for dissertation: 28/04/2011, Italian Institute of Technology |
| 11/2006 | MS with highest honors in Computer Engineering -
Specialization Robotics and Automation, University of Genoa,
Italy Thesis title: Optimal control of communication channels through team theory and Extended Ritz method Supervisors: Marco Baglietto, Riccardo Zoppoli |
| 09/2004 | BS with highest honors in Computer Engineering,
University of Genoa, Italy Thesis title: Study and implementation of an algorithm for feature tracking in image sequences Supervisors: Giorgio Cannata |
Research experience
| 11/2014 - | Researcher (CR2) in INRIA Nancy Main collaborations: Francois Charpillet, Francis Colas |
| 05/2014 - 10/2014 | Postdoc in Intelligent Autonomous Systems Lab, TU Darmstadt, Germany Main collaborations: Jan Peters |
| 05/2011 - 04/2014 | Postdoc in ISIR, UMR 7222 CNRS & UPMC, Paris Main collaborations: Olivier Sigaud, Vincent Padois, Mohamed Chetouani, Anis Sahbani, Freek Stulp |
| 01/2007 - 04/2011 | Research Fellow and PhD candidate in Robotics, Brain and Cognitive Science
Dept, Italian Institute of Technology Main collaborations: Francesco Nori, Giorgio Metta, Bastien Berret |
| 02/2006 - 11/2006 | Research internship at Neural Optimization
Control and Complexity Lab (Nocclab) Supervisors: Marco Baglietto, Riccardo Zoppoli |
| 02/2004 - 09/2004 | Research internship at Mechatronics and Automatic
Control Lab (Maclab) Supervisors: Giorgio Cannata, Federico Guido |
Workshop co-organisation
Special issues co-organisation
| Autonomous Robots |
"Whole-body control of contacts and dynamics for humanoid robots"
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