Publications include but are not limited to: SynapNet: A Complementary Learning System Inspired Algorithm With Real-Time Application in Multimodal Perception (2025), Tactile Object Recognition With Recurrent Neural Networks Through a Perceptive Soft Gripper (2025), Learning Controllers for Continuum Soft Manipulators: Impact of Modeling and Looming Challenges (2024), etc.
Research Experience
Post Doctoral Researcher at the Brain-Inspired Robotics (BRAIR) Laboratory of The BioRobotics Institute, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna. Visiting researcher at the Robotics Institute, University College London from September 2023 to February 2024. Contributed to European H2020-funded projects like Proboscis and Growbot, as well as Italian PNRR-funded projects such as SHARE-CP, DISCOVER, Fit4Med.
Education
PhD in BioRobotics from Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna (March 2025), MSc in Bionics Engineering from Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna and University of Pisa (October 2020), BSc in Computer Engineering from University of Calabria (July 2018). All degrees were obtained with honors.
Background
Research interests: at the intersection of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, focusing on machine learning techniques for perception and sensorimotor control, with particular emphasis on bioinspired and soft robotic systems.