Reasearch Workshop Organizer [ACTIVE]

IROS 2025 : Robot Learning From Human Teleoperation: Prospects and Challenges

• Lead organizer of a IROS 2025 workshop connecting top researchers and industry leaders (Google DeepMind, Unitree Robotics, Shadow Robot Company, University of Texas at Austin, KIT, IIT) to advance imitation learning and teleoperation in robotics, featuring keynotes and interactive sessions on data collection, standardization, and tactile sensing.

https://sites.google.com/view/lfht-iros25-workshop-proposal/home

ICRA 2026 : Robot Learning from Human Teleoperation: Scaling Demonstrations and Leveraging Foundation Models

• Co-Lead organizer of a ICRA 2026 workshop connecting experts from top universities and companies (Stanford, KIT, DLR, Czech Technical University, mimic robotics AG) to advance robot learning from teleoperation and video demonstrations, featuring keynotes and interactive sessions on large model adaptation, multimodal sensing, and dataset design. [Work In Progress: Submitted  ICRA 26]

https://sites.google.com/view/lfht-icra26-workshop/home

UCL - University College of London  [ACTIVE]

Senior Research Fellow in Robotics and AI  |  March 2025 - Ongoing:

• MagTecSkin Project:  Develop an innovative robotic skin that gives robots a sense of touch using magnetic technology. It can detect contact forces at multiple points while remaining flexible enough to bend and stretch. This breakthrough will enable to fully cover articulated and soft robots with the skin, to give them an enhanced sense of touch which enables higher dexterity in tasks within manufacturing, logistics, agri-food, and healthcare.

• AI for Dexterous Manipulation and Control: Imitation learning, learning from human demonstrations, teleoperations, VLMs and tactile sensing.

• MSc and PhD students supervision

Queen Mary University of London 

Research Assistant  |  October 2024- April 2025:

• Anastomosis Project : Study, evaluation and design of robotics solutions for minimally invasive surgery.

PhD Candidate, Computer Science | July 2021 - January 2025

• Developed haptic telerobotics setup

• Segmentation, Classification and Imitation Learning for Long-Horizon Tasks

• Autonomous Control via Machine Learning and AI

• Designed 3D-printed soft magnetic tactile sensors for a robotic hand

• Published papers and presented at international conferences.

Teaching Lab Demonstrator | July 2021 - January 2025 

• Advanced Robotics 

• Cognitive Robotics 

• Computer Programming C,

• Computer Programming python 

• Electronic Sensing 

• Mechatronics 

• Digital Electronics and Computer Systems

The BioRobotics Institute, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna

Research Assistant, Pontedera (PI) | April 2019 - July 2021

• Collaborated on the 'Human Brain Project' to simulate the human brain using supercomputers (SNN).

• Developed neuro controllers (NARX, LSTM) for humanoid robots including iCub's arm and musculo-skeletal models.

Servotecnica S.p.A.

Internship, Milano (MI) | September 2018 - March 2019

• Developed a controller for a linear tubular motor and PI driver autotuning logic.

LibraWay S.p.A.

Tech Advisor, Milano (MI) | August 2017 - June 2018

• Developed business strategies, SWOT analysis, and financial strategies for LibraWay Mobile App https://libraway.com/