Federico Tavella
Research Associate (Machine Learning And Robotics)
Manchester, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolFederico Tavella is a machine learning and robotics researcher with 10 years of experience, currently a Research Associate at The University of Manchester working on foundation models for robotics within the CRADLE partnership. He previously supported the Cognitive Robotics Laboratory as a Research Software Engineer, conducting independent work on ML for Theory of Mind and visually-grounded language for robots. With a PhD in Informatics and MSc from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, he blends strong academic training with practical research software skills and has a history of cross-disciplinary collaboration. Based in Manchester, he is driven by applying AI to long-lasting, demanding robotic environments and by translating research into societally beneficial applications. An early electronics and telecoms background hints at hands-on systems intuition that complements his ML expertise.
10 years of coding experience
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamPhD, Informatics, PhD, Informatics at The University of ManchesterLaurea Magistrale LM in scienze e tecnologie informatiche, Informatics, Laurea Magistrale LM in scienze e tecnologie informatiche, Informatics at Università degli Studi di PadovaPerito capotecnico industriale in Elettronica e Telecomunicazioni, Elettronica e Telecomunicazioni, 100/100, Perito capotecnico industriale in Elettronica e Telecomunicazioni, Elettronica e Telecomunicazioni, 100/100 at Istituto Tecnico Industriale Arturo Malignani
Italian, English
Github Skills (107)
kinematics10
toolbox10
simulator10
bullet10
stable-baselines10
robustness10
nao-robot10
robotics10
alarm10
collision-detection10
sdk10
motion-capture10
pybullet10
pepper10
collision10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
tfederico/GeoConGAN
Jul 2019 - Jul 2019
Contributions:98 commits, 110 pushes, 2 branches in 7 days
tfederico/Dream2Real
Dec 2024 - Mar 2025
[ICRA 2024] Dream2Real: Zero-Shot 3D Object Rearrangement with Vision-Language Models
Contributions:5 PRs, 59 pushes, 6 branches in 3 months
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