Alessio Rocchi
Senior Applied Scientist II - Simulation
San Lorenzo, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlessio Rocchi is a senior applied scientist and roboticist with 12 years of experience building motion planning, trajectory optimization, and whole-body control systems for autonomous robots and prosthetics. He has led motion planning teams at Vicarious and driven trajectory planning and simulation work at Cruise, blending academic rigor from a robotics PhD with production-grade engineering. His background spans humanoid whole-body control, compliant-hand simulation, and nonlinear optimization methods, with hands-on contributions to projects like OpenSoT and simulation toolchains used in DARPA and academic competitions. Alessio pairs deep control and simulation expertise with product-focused experimentation—evident from work on intelligent prostheses and real-world fleet robotics—making him adept at closing the loop from research to deployed systems. Based in San Lorenzo, CA, he brings a rare combination of academic publications, open-source toolkit development, and leadership in cross-disciplinary robotics teams. An understated strength is his track record of validating complex compliant-hand and underactuated simulations, translating hard simulation fidelity gains into practical robot behaviors.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Doctoral course on Robotics Cognition and Interaction Technologies, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Doctoral course on Robotics Cognition and Interaction Technologies at University of GenoaMaster's degree Robotics and Automation Engineering, Master's degree Robotics and Automation Engineering at Università di Pisa
Italian, English, French, German
Github Skills (75)
middleware10
robotics10
ignition10
ipc10
artificial-intelligence10
dynamics10
network10
interprocess-communication10
simulation10
gazebosim10
robot10
trajectory-optimization10
robotics-simulation10
yarp10
motion-planning10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
DanyResasco/Grasp-simulation
Sep 2016 - Feb 2017
Contributions:100 commits, 85 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
robotology-playground/idynutils
Apr 2014 - Mar 2017
Contributions:162 commits, 1 PR, 77 pushes in 3 years
roboticsidyntreerosyarprobots
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