Team

We are the Robot Learning group at the Vandal Lab, Politecnico di Torino. Everything you find on this website is the result of the work of the researchers and PhD students who push our research forward every single day.

Current members

PI & Researchers

Giuseppe AvertaPrincipal Investigator

Francesca PistilliResearcherScene understanding for robot manipulation and beyond

PhD students

Simone PeironePhD Candidate since 2022Egocentric Vision for human behavior understanding

Andrea ProtopapaPhD Candidate since 2023Human-Inspired robot learning

Davide BuosoPhD Candidate since 2024Human-Inspired robot learning

Gabriele RosiPhD Candidate since 2023 · Co-supervised, with Focoos AIScene understanding for robot manipulation and beyond

Jordan AntipasPhD Candidate since 2025 · University of Lisbon, co-supervised through UNITE!Human-Inspired robot learning

Research assistants

Federico MorroResearch Assistant · Imitation learningHuman-Inspired robot learning

PhD alumni

Claudia CuttanoPhDNow: AdobeScene understanding for robot manipulation and beyond

Niccolò CavagneroPhD · AdvisorNow: Postdoc, Eindhoven University of TechnologyScene understanding for robot manipulation and beyond

Gabriele GolettoPhD · Co-supervisedNow: Research Scientist, Microsoft Spatial AI Lab, ZurichEgocentric Vision for human behavior understanding

Luca RobbianoPhD · Co-supervisedNow: HPC System Administrator, CINECAHuman-Inspired robot learning

Marco BaraccaPhD · Co-supervised, University of Pisa

Paolo BonifatiPhD · Co-supervised, University of Pisa

MSc theses

59 MSc theses supervised since 2019, and 19 ongoing, many of them carried out with partner universities and companies.

OngoingGiorgio Bono (KTH) · Fabio Brugiafreddo · Alessio Delli Colli (UCLouvain) · Setare Derispour (AI4I) · Giacomo Di Palma · Michele Fois · Alberto Giunti (EPFL) · Alessandra La Monica · Dario Lupo · Niccolò Malgeri (EPFL) · Fabio Marchese · Giovanni Martinese · Salvatore Nocita (ETH Zurich) · Guglielmo Pandolfino · Daniele Panzarella · Giovanni Pepe · Davide Randino (ABB) · Emanuele Sanna (CIM 4.0) · Fabio Veroli (CIM 4.0)

2026Sasan Alibabaei (Leibniz University Hannover) · Ali Azimi · Victor Bezerra Melo · Claudio Camolese (University of Cambridge) · Simone Carletti (EPFL) · Massimiliano Carli · Arash Daneshvar · Claudia Maggiulli (INESC TEC) · Fabio Giorgio Miceli · Giorgia Modi (University of Oxford) · Luigi Muratore (University of Turin) · Francesco Passiatore (INESC TEC) · Francesca Porcelli · Mattia Sabato · Zahra Sadeghi Jalalabadi · Francesca Saglimbeni (INESC TEC) · Emanuele Giuseppe Siani · Jacopo Spaccatrosi · Lorenzo Tozzi (TU Darmstadt) · Andrea Zenotto

2025Francesco Paolo Carmone · Federico Castriotta · Andrea Delli · Francesco Giacometti · Luca Ianniello · Federico Morro (TUM) · Andrea Pellegrino (ETH Zurich) · Federico Pretini · Santiago Romero Aristizabal · Gregorio Valenti (EPFL) · Matteo Zulian (Siemens)

2024Giuseppe Atanasio · Davide Buoso · Antonio De Cinque · Gaetano Salvatore Falco · Edoardo Marchetti · Domenico Mereu · Amirshayan Nasirimajd · Riccardo Sepe (TU-Delft)

2023Giovanni Calleris (STMicroelectronics) · Francesco Capuano · Fabio Grillo · Andrea Protopapa · Leonardo Rolandi (STMicroelectronics) · Gabriele Rosi

2022Linda Ludovisi · Walter Minneci (at University of Pisa)

2021Gabriele Barreca (at University of Pisa) · Paolo Bonifati (at University of Pisa) · Paolo Cheli (at University of Pisa) · Lorenzo Collodi (at University of Pisa) · Matilde Iuculano (at University of Pisa) · Irene Valdambrini (at University of Pisa)

2020Marco Baracca · Alessia Biondi (at University of Pisa) · Andrea Ferroni (at University of Pisa) · Ylenia Nisticò (at University of Pisa) · Francesco Petracci (at University of Pisa)

2019Massimiliano Abbinante (at University of Pisa)

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Interested in a PhD or an MSc thesis on robot learning? Drop me an email.