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Helping people and machines find their own way

I research how robots navigate on their own, teach and mentor the engineers who will build them, and lead programs that bring AI and robotics to more people.

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Big pictures are built one move at a time.

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Researchers and collaborators

Motion planning and safe autonomy for robots.

Students

Courses, office hours and thesis topics.

Institutions and partners

AI and robotics programs, from high school to companies.

Now

  1. Oct 2026 Milestone

    Defended my PhD in Artificial Intelligence and Intelligent Systems at UMT, on enhancing the autonomy of mobile robots in complex environments.

  2. Jun 2026 Paper

    Safe urban route planning with semantic graphs and neural cost shaping, presented at MED 2026 in Ancona, Italy.

  3. Jun 2026 Paper

    Adaptive-horizon model predictive control for robot navigation among moving people, presented at MED 2026.

  4. May 2026 Paper

    Generating diverse trajectories with roadmap search and sampling-based planning, published in IEEE Access.

Latest journal article 2026IEEE Access Generating Diverse Trajectories Using Roadmap Search and Sampling-Based Motion Planning Read on Publications Open call 3 thesis topics are open AI agents, agentic RAG and robotics, for bachelor and master students. See the topics

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