Emanuele Palazzolo
Navigation Lead
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolEmanuele Palazzolo is a navigation leader and robotics researcher with a PhD in Computer Vision and Robotics and eight years of industry experience building state estimation, motion planning, and autonomy systems for mobile robots and UAVs. He has led navigation teams at Filics and Outrider and shipped production navigation stacks at Magazino, combining academic depth in active 3D reconstruction and change detection with practical expertise in RGB-D SLAM and autonomous exploration. His work spans research and industry—from developing lunar-rover navigation during a research stint in Japan to contributing to Everyday Robot efforts at X—showing a knack for translating novel perception algorithms into robust field systems. Based in Munich, he blends systems-level engineering with hands-on algorithm development and a demonstrated ability to move perception-driven autonomy from prototypes into deployed solutions.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Vision and Robotics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Vision and Robotics at The University of BonnMaster of Science - MS Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, Master of Science - MS Artificial Intelligence and Robotics at Sapienza Università di RomaBachelor of Science - BS Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Engineering at Politecnico di Torino
Italian, English, German, Japanese
Github Skills (25)
visualization9
trajectory-optimization9
ros9
change-detection8
3d-models8
compile6
sublime-text6
stereo5
mobile5
inpainting5
fusion5
libclang5
plugin5
flex5
segmentation4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
PRBonn/fast_change_detection
Mar 2018 - May 2019
Fast Image-Based Geometric Change Detection Given a 3D Model
Contributions:2 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
3d-modelschange-detection
carzum/termviz
Nov 2021 - Oct 2022
ROS visualisation on the terminal
Contributions:62 reviews, 17 commits, 30 PRs in 11 months
rosvisualization
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