Michele Colledanchise
Staff Robotics Software Engineer at Kinisi Robotics
L'Aquila, Abruzzo, Italy
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Top SchoolMichele Colledanchise is a Staff Robotics Software Engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in robot behavior design, automated planning, and control architectures for safe, robust systems. He pioneered the adoption of Behavior Trees in robotics—authoring a book and organizing the first dedicated IROS workshop—translating game-industry techniques into modular, reactive robot deliberation. His career spans academia and industry, from a PhD at KTH and a Caltech visiting scholar stint to leading behavior teams and technology transfer at Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia and scaling behavior systems in commercial robotics startups. He has hands-on experience restructuring large behavior codebases, improving modularity and integration speed while balancing development velocity with production reliability. Based in L'Aquila, Italy, Michele combines deep research credentials with pragmatic engineering, routinely turning theoretical task-representation insights into deployable robot behaviors. A less obvious strength is his repeated role bridging research proposals, funding acquisition, and industrial delivery—ensuring innovations move beyond papers into products.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Robotics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Robotics at KTH Royal Institute of TechnologyMaster’s Degree, Control Engineering, 110/110, Master’s Degree, Control Engineering, 110/110 at Università Politecnica delle Marche
English, Italian
Github Skills (90)
state-machine10
cpp10
ros10
markdown10
robotics10
behavior10
mahjong10
behavior-tree10
ai10
gitpod10
stem10
fsm10
lists10
game-ai10
robot10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
CARVE-ROBMOSYS/CARVE-ROBMOSYS.github.io
Apr 2019 - Apr 2023
Website of the CARVE project.
Contributions:8 PRs, 69 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years
carvejekyll
miccol/YARP-Behavior-Trees
Oct 2017 - Apr 2018
Contributions:112 commits, 3 PRs, 96 pushes in 6 months
pythonbehavior-treesmachine-learningyarptrees
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