Diego Ferigo
Roboticist Applied Scientist at RAI Institute
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Top SchoolDiego Ferigo is a roboticist and applied scientist with 14 years of experience building robot software, simulation architectures, and reinforcement learning pipelines for humanoid locomotion. He holds an M.Sc. with highest honors from the University of Udine and a Ph.D. from The University of Manchester / IIT, where his thesis focused on simulation architectures for RL applied to robotics. At IIT he developed core libraries for human-robot interaction, multimodal sensor fusion and force/motion estimation that advanced the iCub platform both in simulation and on hardware. He contributes to open-source robotics infrastructure—improving YARP device drivers and sensor handling—and brings pragmatic backend engineering to research-grade systems. Now based at the Robotics and AI Institute in Zurich, he combines differentiable simulation, hardware-accelerated platforms and large-scale synthetic data generation to bridge research and deployment. An unexpected thread through his career is hands-on systems work (from device drivers to ski-instructing summers), which gives him a practical, end-to-end perspective on robot reliability in the real world.
14 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - Ph.D., Doctor of Philosophy - Ph.D. at The University of ManchesterLiceo scientifico and winter sports (ski college), Liceo scientifico and winter sports (ski college) at Bachmann Sport College - TarvisioMaster’s Degree, Master’s Degree at Università degli Studi di UdineSki Instructor training course
Italian, English, German
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Github Skills (12)
c-language10
robotics10
interprocess-communication10
device-driver10
cprogramming-language10
ipc10
mutex10
data-structure9
data-structures9
python8
thrift8
artificial-intelligence7
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
robotology/yarp
May 2017 - Oct 2021
YARP - Yet Another Robot Platform
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 27 commits, 6 PRs in 4 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Diego primarily focused on improving the `BoschIMU` device driver within the YARP framework. Their contributions involved enhancing data protection mechanisms by using Mutex and LockGuard for thread safety when reading sensor data. Furthermore, the user worked on optimizing the initialization and handling of sensor data, ensuring that missing data is handled gracefully by using the previous values. The user also addressed issues with serialization and Python package setup.
roboticscommunicationhumanoidsrobotyet-another
ami-iit/meshcat-viz-python
Oct 2022 - Jan 2023
Generic visualizer of robot models based on MeshCat
Contributions:2 releases, 3 reviews, 26 commits in 3 months
roboticsrobotgenericvisualizer
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