Scholar
Arash Ajoudani
Google Scholar ID: 1hKOgRoAAAAJ
Tenured Senior Scientist, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Citations & Impact
Citations
6,470
H-index
39
i10-index
132
Publications
20
Co-authors
31
list available
Contact
Publications
Resume
Academic Achievements
- Recipient of European Research Council (ERC) grants Real-Move (ERC POC 2023) and Ergo-Lean (ERC STG 2019)
- IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS) Early Career Award 2021
- Winner of MECSPE Robotics and AI Awards 2025, SmartCup Liguria Award 2023, Amazon Research Awards 2019
- Solution Award 2019 (MECSPE2019), KUKA Innovation Award 2018, WeRob Best Poster Award 2018, Best Student Paper Award at ROBIO 2013
- PhD thesis finalist for Georges Giralt PhD Award 2015 (best European PhD thesis in robotics)
- Finalist for multiple best paper awards at ICRA, IROS, Humanoids, Automatica, etc.
- Author of the Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics (STAR) book 'Transferring Human Impedance Regulation Skills to Robots'
- Published extensively in international journals, conferences, and book chapters
- Elected IEEE RAS AdCom member (Class 2024 and Class 2027)
- Senior Editor of the International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR)
- Serves as associate editor or scientific advisory committee member for IEEE RAL, ICRA, IROS, ICORR, etc.
- Scholar of the European Lab for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS)
Research Experience
- Coordinator of the Horizon-2020 project SOPHIA
- Co-coordinator of the Horizon-2020 project CONCERT
- Principal Investigator of Horizon Europe project Tornado, HORIZON-MSCA project RAICAM, and national projects LABORIUS, COROMAN, and ReFinger
- IIT Principal Investigator of the Robotics for Manufacturing (R4M) joint lab under Leonardo Labs
- IIT Principal Investigator of the IIT-Intellimech JOiiNT lab
