PostDoc in Robotics

PostDoc in Robotics

Researching on Robot Manipulation and Gaussian Process

Manipulation is the key to intelligence

My name is Giovanni and I am a Postdoctoral researcher in Robotics @ TU Delft in the Netherlands. I am currently seeking for a Research Scientist position in Robotics and Machine Learning. I have more than 5 years of experience in Robotics and Machine Learning, with a focus on robot manipulation, learning from human demonstration, and Bayesian machine learning. I am passionate about developing algorithms that enable robots to learn complex manipulation tasks from human demonstration and feedback. I have experience in programming real robot controllers and fitting machine learning models.My controllers for Franka-Emika robots are deployed in my different university around the world and supporting research of scientistis and students. I am a team player and I enjoy working in a multidisciplinary environment. I am looking for a position where I can apply my skills and knowledge to develop innovative solutions for real-world problems in robotics and machine learning.

Short Bio

I grew up in a small town near the Mount Vesuvius in Italy. In 2013, I moved to Milano where I studied Mechanical Engineering at Politecnico di Milano (PoliMi). In 2018, I obtained my MSc degree with a specialization in Mechatronics and Robotics with the thesis “On computing second derivatives in optimal motion planning for robot manipulators” that I developed in TU Eindhoven. In 2019, I started my PhD in Robotics at the department of Cognitive Robotics of TU Delft in the Netherlands under the supervision of Jens Kober. From September 2022 to February 2023, I was a visiting researcher at the Statistical Machine Learning Group of University College London under the supervision of Marc Deisenroth. My Ph.D. thesis is entitled “Uncetainty-aware Interactive Imitation Learning for Robot Manipulation” that will be defended in October 2024.

News

  • 9/2024 I started as PostDoc at TU Delft with Cosimo Della Santina on the NXTGEN project and working on Robot manipulation of deformable objects in particular with a focus on plant manipulation, funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO).
  • 3/2023 I am leading the team of TU Delft in the International Robothon Manipulation Challenge 2023!
  • 9/2022 I joined the Statistical Machine Learning Group of Marc Deisenroth in University College London for 6 months.
  • 10/2022 I was awarded with the TAILOR connectivity fund
  • 8/2022 I became an ELLIS PhD Student
  • 6/2022 Winner Franka‑Emika Manipulation Hackathon at the European Robotics Forum. Interactive Imitation Learning
  • 6/2021 Winner of BEST LATE BREAKING RESULTS POSTER AWARD @ IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM) for the paper ILoSA
  • 6/2019 I started my Ph.D. in Robotics at TU Delft under the supervision of Jens Kober in the Teaching Robot Interactively (TERI) project funded by the European Research Council (ERC).