I am a Senior Researcher in Robotics @ Technology Innovation Institute in Abu Dhabi. I have six 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 bringing robots into our daily lives, enabling them to learn from and collaborate with humans in industrial, warehouse, and service settings. My main research focused on control and learning strategies for safe and efficient robot learning, with applications in single‑arm and bimanual manipulation from different perception inputs, i.e. proprioceptive, tactile, RGB, keypoint and pointclouds. I promote manipulation strategies that can be fully learned from human demonstrations and corrections. And I demonstrated the effectiveness of this interactive learning approach by successfully tackling and winning various robot competitions. I have led multidisciplinary projects on robot dressing, assembly and disassembly tasks, surface polishing, and warehouse automation. I foster knowledge‑sharing among my collaborators, thriving in an environment of healthy competition. I am a strong proponent of developing and validating solutions on real robotic hardware.

Research Journey

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• 1/3/2025 🦾 I joined the Humanoid Lab of Technology Innovation Institute as a Senior Researcher on robot manipulation.
• 4/11/2024 🎓 I succesfully defended my PhD thesis “Uncertainty-aware Interactive Imitation Learning for Robot Manipulation” at TU Delft!
• 17/10/2024 🏆 My team won the Eurobin Manipulation Challenge at IROS 2024 in Abu Dhabi.
• 9/2023 🍅 I started as PostDoc at TU Delft (NXTGEN project) focusing on manipulation of deformable for green house applications (NWO funded) supervised by Cosimo Della Santina.
• 3/2023 🛠️ I led the TU Delft team in the International Robothon Manipulation Challenge 2023.
• 9/2022 🇬🇧 I joined the Statistical Machine Learning Group supervised by Marc Deisenroth at UCL for 6 months.
• 10/2022 ✈️ I was awarded the TAILOR connectivity fund.
• 8/2022 🇪🇺 I became an ELLIS PhD Student.
• 6/2022 🥇I won the Franka‑Emika Manipulation Hackathon @ European Robotics Forum.
• 6/2021 🏆 I was awarded the BEST LATE BREAKING RESULTS POSTER AWARD @ IEEE/ASME AIM for the paper ILoSA.
• 1/6/2019🔬 Started my Ph.D. in Robotics at TU Delft (Teaching Robot Interactively - ERC project) supervised by Jens Kober.