Francesco Nori
Director at Google DeepMind
United Kingdom
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Top SchoolFrancesco Nori is a robotics research and engineering leader with 13+ years of experience bridging fundamental science and applied development, currently serving as Director at Google DeepMind. He led DeepMind’s Robotics Lab and previously spent over a decade at Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, where he was a core developer of the iCub humanoid focusing on hardware and control. Twice coordinator of multi-partner European projects with budgets around €4M, he combines program-level stewardship with hands-on technical depth. His publications have earned over 2,000 citations, reflecting sustained academic impact alongside product-oriented delivery. Known for integrating control, hardware design and collaborative research management, he operates comfortably at the intersection of labs and large-scale engineering organizations. Based in the UK, he brings a rare blend of academic pedigree and industry leadership that accelerates translational robotics research.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Automation Engineer, Master's degree Automation Engineer at Università degli Studi di Padova
Github Skills (45)
ipc10
robot10
yarp10
middleware9
robotics9
interprocess-communication9
network9
artificial-intelligence8
pytorch7
deep-learning7
hosting5
autonomous-robots5
build-process5
marine5
gazebo-simulator4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
serena-ivaldi/learnOptimWBC
Oct 2014 - Jun 2018
Contributions:61 commits, 30 pushes, 2 comments in 3 years 8 months
inria-larsen/icub-manual
Jun 2016 - Apr 2017
Contributions:4 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
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