Francesco Cursi
Senior Engineer A-Researcher at Huawei
Hong Kong, China
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Top SchoolFrancesco Cursi is a robotics-focused senior engineer and researcher with eight years of experience at the intersection of machine learning, control and robot design, currently applying ML and reinforcement learning to robotics problems at Huawei Noah’s Ark Lab in Hong Kong. He holds a PhD from Imperial College London and a track record of publishing in top robotics venues while open-sourcing tools for optimal robot design. Francesco has led cross-functional teams to spin out computer-vision technology and developed novel open-set classifiers and multi-patch autoencoders for unsupervised defect localization in industrial settings. Equally comfortable with hands-on C++, Matlab and Python development and strategic project leadership, he blends academic rigor with product-oriented execution. He is driven by curiosity and calculated risk-taking—evidenced by founding work on an automated biology lab and a Mini-MBA for PhD students—bringing both technical depth and entrepreneurial instincts to applied robotics challenges.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Mechanical Engineering, 3.9/4.0, Master’s Degree, Mechanical Engineering, 3.9/4.0 at New York UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computing/Robotics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computing/Robotics at Imperial College LondonBachelor’s Degree, Mechanical Engineering, 110 cum laude/110, Bachelor’s Degree, Mechanical Engineering, 110 cum laude/110 at Sapienza Università di Roma
Chinese, English, ItalianGithub contributions (5)
cursi36/URDFGen
Jan 2021 - Feb 2023
Contributions:3 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
cursi36/ForceTorquSensor_calibration
Aug 2017 - May 2021
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 9 months
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