Biography:
Matteo Saveriano is an Associate Professor of Control Engineering at the Department of Industrial Engineering of the University of Trento, Italy. He received his B.Sc and M.Sc from the University of Naples "Federico II" in 2008 and 2011, respectively, and a Ph.D. from the Technical University of Munich in 2017. After his Ph.D., he was a post-doctoral researcher at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and a tenure-track assistant professor at the Department of Computer Science and at the Digital Science Center of the University of Innsbruck. His research is at the intersection between learning and control and attempts to integrate cognitive robots into smart factories and social Environments through the embodiment of AI solutions inspired by human behavior into robotic devices. He has (co-)authored more than 70 scientific papers in international journals and conferences. He serves regularly as Associate Editor for the main robotics conferences (ICRA, IROS, and HUMANOIDS), for the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, and for The International Journal of Robotics Research. He is the coordinator of the HE EU project INVERSE.