Francesco Romano
Senior Research Engineer at DeepMind
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolFrancesco Romano is a Senior Research Engineer at DeepMind with 12 years of software and robotics experience, combining a PhD in nonlinear control with hands-on work on the iCub humanoid robot. He specializes in nonlinear and optimal control theory, real-time motion control, and low-level systems implemented in C/C++ and Simulink. His background spans academia and industry—postdoc and PhD work at Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia plus embedded and enterprise software roles—giving him rare fluency across control theory, real-time systems, and large codebases. An active contributor to robotology’s YARP platform, he has fixed critical bugs, improved documentation for control interfaces, and implemented concurrency primitives like LockGuard. Based in London, he brings both rigorous research instincts and pragmatic engineering discipline to production-grade robotic software.
12 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Robotics, Nonlinear control, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Robotics, Nonlinear control at Istituto Italiano di TecnologiaMaster degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Engineering; Robotics and Automation, 110/110 cum laude, Master degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Engineering; Robotics and Automation, 110/110 cum laude at University of Genoa
Italian, English, French
Github Skills (9)
robot10
middleware10
robotics10
c-language10
interprocess-communication10
cprogramming-language10
ipc10
documentation9
network9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
robotology/yarp
May 2014 - Nov 2017
YARP - Yet Another Robot Platform
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:100 commits, 37 PRs, 58 pushes in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Francesco primarily fixed documentation issues within the YARP codebase, focusing on header files like IVelocityControl2.h and IplImage.h. They also addressed several warnings and fixed bugs in various source files, including src/libYARP_OS/src/Companion.cpp, src/libYARP_OS/include/yarp/os/SharedLibraryFactory.h, and src/libYARP_OS/include/yarp/os/impl/Logger.h. Additionally, the user implemented the LockGuard class and updated network properties and streaming torque commands.
roboticscommunicationhumanoidsrobotyet-another
francesco-romano/Riparazioni
Aug 2018 - Jan 2024
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch, 1 tag in 5 years 5 months
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