I'm an Applied Scientist and Machine Learning Engineer at Zoox by Amazon, working on machine learning for autonomous vehicles. Previously, I was a Postdoctoral Researcher at University of California: Irvine in the Intelligent Dynamics Lab led by Prof. Roy Fox, a visiting researcher with Prof. Guy Katz at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and completed my PhD at the University of Verona under Prof. Alessandro Farinelli.
I'm passionate about advancing Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) for robotics, with a strong focus on making it safe and reliable in real-world, safety-critical environments. My research explores:
- Foundation models for robotics: integrating LLMs, VLMs, and VLAMs into robotic control, with a special emphasis on safety.
- Safety in RL: constrained RL, formal verification, and shielding to ensure robots behave safely when deployed.
- World models: building generative models that enable robots to predict the future and reason about consequences, while structuring these models with causal inference to improve their generalization across tasks and environments. ⚡ Bridging the gap between theory and practical robotics is at the heart of what I do ⚡
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