Lorenzo Steccanella
Senior Applied AI Researcher at Archetype AI
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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Top SchoolLorenzo Steccanella is a Senior Applied AI Researcher with a PhD and a decade of experience applying machine learning and deep reinforcement learning to real-world industrial systems. He has driven measurable impact—such as an 18% reduction in power consumption at wastewater treatment plants—by translating academic advances in sample-efficient RL into production control systems. His background spans generative modeling, computer vision, and embedded autonomy, from improving high-resolution rendering performance to enabling autonomous surface vehicle navigation. Based in Barcelona, he blends rigorous research, hands-on engineering, and teaching experience to bridge the gap between theory and deployed AI. An enthusiast for practical AI, he consistently focuses on boosting efficiency and robustness in sparse-reward, resource-constrained environments.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Self-Driving Car Engineer Self Driving Car Nanodegree, Self-Driving Car Engineer Self Driving Car Nanodegree at UdacityMaster degree Robotics and Intelligent Systems, Master degree Robotics and Intelligent Systems at Sapienza Università di RomaBachelor degree Bioinformatics, Bachelor degree Bioinformatics at Università degli Studi di VeronaShort Master degree Robotics and Intelligent Systems, Short Master degree Robotics and Intelligent Systems at Örebro UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - Ph.D., Doctor of Philosophy - Ph.D. at Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Italian, English, Spanish
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Github Skills (25)
optimization8
convex8
numerical-optimization7
convex-optimization7
modeling6
python6
embedded5
concave5
pong5
mathematical-optimization5
cvxpy5
sac2
proximal-policy-optimization2
actor-critic2
apex2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
lorenzosteccanella/lorenzosteccanella.github.io
May 2022 - Jan 2025
Github Pages template for academic personal websites, forked from mmistakes/minimal-mistakes
Contributions:2 PRs, 46 pushes in 2 years 8 months
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aig-upf/Partition-HRL
Jun 2019 - Oct 2019
Contributions:39 commits, 33 pushes, 2 branches in 3 months
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