Incoming Assistant Professor
ME and Texas Robotics
UT Austin
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I am an incoming assistant professor in robotics at UT Austin. Currently, I am with Amazon Frontiers AI and Robotics (FAR). Until recently, I was a postdoctoral researcher at UC Berkeley, working with Prof. Pieter Abbeel. My research focuses on advancing general-purpose embodied intelligence with an emphasis on humanoid loco-manipulation, high-dimensional control, and multi-sensory reasoning.
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 a Best Paper Award at ICRA, a Best Demo Paper Award at RSS, an SNSF Postdoctoral Fellowship, a Rising Star Award and a Best Paper Award at the IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics, and the 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).
News
June 2026
- OmniRetarget won the ICRA 2026 best paper award and best paper award in robot locomotion and manipulation!
May 2026
- OmniRetarget is a paper award finalist at ICRA 2026!
April 2026
- Our workshop on Whole-body Control and Bimanual Manipulation: Applications in Humanoids and Beyond was accepted to RSS 2026! It will be its 3rd edition — join us in Sydney!
- I gave a guest lecture at UT Austin.
February 2026
- Our work on perceptive humanoid parkour, PHP, is on Arxiv. Check out the social media thread.
- Our work on flow policy gradients for robot control, FPO++, is on Arxiv. Check out the social media thread.
- Our work on robust perceptive humanoid locomotion, RPL, is on Arxiv. Check out the social media thread.
- I gave invited talks at UC Berkeley and Stanford University.
January 2026
- I will be giving an invited lecture at ICVSS, the International Computer Vision Summer School this summer!
December 2025
- I gave a guest lecture at KAIST AI.
- Our work on efficient off-policy RL algorithms for humanoids is on Arxiv. Check out the social media thread.
- We released Holosoma, a full stack open-source library for humanoid sim-to-real learning. Check out the social media thread.
November 2025
- I gave guest lectures at UT Austin and CMU.
October 2025
- I gave invited talks at Cornell University and MILA.
- Our work on augmenting large-scale simulation with Gaussian splats, GaussGym, is on Arxiv. Check out the social media thread.
- Our work on retargeting human data to interaction-preserving humanoid motions, OmniRetarget, is on Arxiv. Check out the social media thread.
September 2025
August 2025
- I joined Amazon Frontiers AI and Robotics (FAR) as a senior research scientist!
July 2025
- We will be hosting a workshop on Tactile Sensing Toward Robot Dexterity and Intelligence at IROS 2025 next October!
June 2025
- Very excited to announce that MuJoCo Playground won the Best Demo Paper Award at RSS 2025!
- I will be traveling to RSS in Los Angeles! We will demo MuJoCo Playground and will host the 2nd edition of the Whole-body Control and Bimanual Manipulation workshop.
- I gave an invited talk at the CVPR Real2Sim workshop.
May 2025
Apr 2025
- I gave invited talks at the CMU Robotics Institute, the University of Washington, and UIUC.
- MuJoCo Playground has been accepted to RSS 2025!
Mar 2025
- I gave invited talks at Harvard University, UCLA, ETH Zurich, and Boston University.
- Two workshop proposals accepted: WCBM@RSS and EXAIT@ICML.
Feb 2025
- I gave invited talks at UT Austin, Johns Hopkins University, and the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems.
- I was selected as a Rising Star in Soft Robotics at IEEE RoboSoft 2025!
- Honored to serve as an Area Chair for CoRL 2025!
Jan 2025
- I gave an invited talk at Northwestern University.
- Two papers, FuSe and HOP, have been accepted to ICRA 2025!
- Two papers, MaxInfoRL and ActSafe, have been accepted to ICLR 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
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!
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Recent invited talk on my humanoid research here.
The talk below summarizes the vision of my PhD research on tactile sensing (shorter version here):
An academic talk on my PhD research can be found here.