Daniele Pucci
Chief Executive Officer at The University of Manchester
Genoa, Liguria, Italy
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Top SchoolDaniele Pucci is a robotics and control engineering leader with 12+ years shaping humanoid and aerial robotics research into real-world systems. As CEO of Generative Bionics and former Research Director at IIT, he has led multidisciplinary teams of up to ~50 people to combine embodied AI and mechanics for the next-generation iCub humanoid. His work spans deep nonlinear control theory through large collaborative EU projects (AnDy, SoftManBot) and ambitious hardware milestones like iRonCub, the jet-powered flying humanoid that earned him MIT Technology Review’s Innovator Under 35 Europe. Daniele blends rigorous academic training (PhD at INRIA/Sapienza) with industrial experience—from nuclear fusion control to space systems simulation—giving him rare breadth across high-stakes control applications. He also represents Italy on international AI partnerships and mentors a new generation of roboticists as a visiting lecturer at Manchester. Less obvious: he routinely turns bold conceptual ideas into funded, multi-partner programs and competition-ready robotic avatars (ANA Avatar XPRIZE).
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Mechatronics Robotics and Automation Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Mechatronics Robotics and Automation Engineering at Université Côte d'AzurDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Systems Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Systems Engineering at Sapienza Università di Roma
English, French, Italian
Github Skills (130)
automation10
momentum10
robotics10
middleware10
matlab10
ignition10
ipc10
refer10
mex10
artificial-intelligence10
network10
interprocess-communication10
gazebosim10
simulink10
aba10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
dic-iit/ws_locomotion-manipulation
Jul 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:159 commits, 1 PR, 156 pushes in 3 months
workshophumanoidsmachine-learningieee
DanielePucci/outside-collaborators
Sep 2020 - Jan 2025
Automatically Manage Outside Collaborators Organization-wide
Contributions:48 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 4 months
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