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Postdoctoral Researcher
UC Berkeley

csferrazza@berkeley.edu
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I am a robotics postdoctoral researcher at UC Berkeley, working with Prof. Pieter Abbeel. My research focuses on advancing humanoid intelligence by incorporating priors, inductive biases, and multi-sensory feedback.

Before that, I received my Ph.D. at ETH Zurich in 2021, under the supervision of Prof. Raffaello D'Andrea. During my Ph.D. research, I worked on the design of vision-based, data-driven tactile sensors, and the applications of such sensors to robot control and dexterous manipulation.

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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News

Jan 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

  • Our work on a new class of RL algorithms with directed exploration, MaxInfoRL, is on Arxiv. Check out the social media thread.

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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Select Publications

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    HumanoidBench: Simulated Humanoid Benchmark for Whole-Body Locomotion and Manipulation
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    Beyond Sight: Finetuning Generalist Robot Policies with Heterogeneous Sensors via Language Grounding
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    Body Transformer: Leveraging Robot Embodiment for Policy Learning
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Select PhD Talks

This talk summarizes the vision of my PhD research (shorter version here):


An academic talk on my PhD research can be found here.