Bernardo Fichera
Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Tuebingen
Saint-Sulpice, Vaud, Switzerland
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Top SchoolBernardo Fichera is a postdoctoral researcher and machine learning scientist with a decade of experience bridging aerospace engineering, robotics, and geometric learning. Trained at Politecnico di Milano and Cornell, his PhD work at EPFL focused on leveraging differential geometry for control and learning, including manifold methods to extract energy functions and detect attractors in dynamical systems. He has hands-on experience deploying algorithms on real robot platforms (ABB YuMi, IRB 14000) and has developed spiking neural controllers and MPI-based cluster simulations for microrobotic flight. As a teaching lead for large ML courses at EPFL, he combines rigorous research with practical instruction and exam design for hundreds of students. Now at the University of Tübingen, he continues to translate theory into robot-ready algorithms, with a particular knack for marrying biologically inspired learning rules to continuous-time control problems. An uncommon strength is his fluency across scales—from neural-inspired controllers to spectral manifold analysis—making him adept at turning abstract math into tangible robotic behaviors.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical/Space Engineering, Master of Science - MS, Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical/Space Engineering at Politecnico di MilanoDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Machine Learning & Robotics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Machine Learning & Robotics at EPFL
Italian, English, French
Github Skills (77)
kinematics10
simulator10
computational-science10
bullet10
parallel-computing10
cpp10
game-development10
amr10
scientific-computing10
robotics10
collision-detection10
controlling10
sdk10
pybullet10
scalable10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
nash169/waf-tools
Mar 2022 - Feb 2025
Repository containing all my WAF tools.
Contributions:2 PRs, 33 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 11 months
nash169/robobee-brain
Nov 2016 - Nov 2018
Contributions:6 PRs, 31 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years
controlleractor-criticstabilityactorspiking
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