I am a robotics postdoctoral researcher at UC Berkeley, working with Prof.
Before that, I received my Ph.D. at ETH Zurich in 2021, under the supervision of Prof.
My Ph.D. thesis was awarded the ETH Medal, and in 2022, I was selected as a Robotics Science and Systems Pioneer. I am also the recipient of an SNSF Postdoctoral Fellowship, the Best Paper Award at the 2020 IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics, and the 2017 ETEL Award.
I received a M.Sc. in Robotics, Systems and Control from ETH Zurich in 2016, and a B.Sc. in Automation Engineering from Politecnico di Milano. During my studies, I completed an exchange programme at Tongji University in Shanghai, where I received a Double Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology Engineering (2016).
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Mar 2025
- Upcoming invited talks at UCLA, Harvard University, Columbia University, ETH Zurich, and Boston University.
Feb 2025
- I gave invited talks at UT Austin, Johns Hopkins University, and the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems.
- I was selected as a Rising Star in Soft Robotics at IEEE RoboSoft 2025!
- Honored to serve as an Area Chair for CoRL 2025!
Jan 2025
- I gave an invited talk at Northwestern University.
- Two papers, FuSe and HOP, have been accepted to ICRA 2025!
- Two papers, MaxInfoRL and ActSafe, have been accepted to ICLR 2025!
- Our open-source sim-to-real pipeline for robot learning, MuJoCo Playground, is live! Check out the social media thread.
- Our work on finetuning VLAs with heterogeneous sensory data, FuSe, is on Arxiv. Check out the social media thread.
Dec 2024
Nov 2024
- We held the CoRL workshop on Whole-body Control and Bimanual Manipulation: Applications in Humanoids and Beyond. See some pictures here!
- I will also be speaking at the CoRL workshop on Mastering Robot Manipulation in a World of Abundant Data.
- I will be presenting the Body Transformer paper at CoRL in Munich!
- Honored to be selected as a finalist for the Embassy of Italy AI Award!
Oct 2024
- I will be presenting M3L at IROS in Abu Dhabi!
Sep 2024
- Our new work on hand-object interaction pretraining from videos, HOP, is on Arxiv!
Aug 2024
- Our new work on an embodiment-aware architecture, Body Transformer, is on Arxiv! Check out the social media thread. We gave a preview of this paper at the RSS EARL Workshop, where it won the Best Poster Award!
Jul 2024
- I will also be speaking at the RSS workshop on Tactile Sensing for General Purpose Robot Learning.
- I will be presenting HumanoidBench at RSS in Delft!
Jun 2024
- We open-sourced the simulation environments used in M3L. All equipped with high-resolution tactile sensing!
May 2024
- I will be presenting CoH at ICLR in Vienna!
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