Rita Laezza
Software Engineer at Cubist
Gothenburg, Sweden
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Top SchoolRita Laezza is a software engineer and robotics researcher with eight years of experience bridging medtech product development and academic AI research. After an MSc in Biomedical Engineering she developed clinical software for companies like Breas and Wellspect, then pursued a WASP-AI PhD focused on reinforcement learning for deformable object manipulation—an underexplored niche in robotics. Her work blends deep learning, mechatronics, and practical software engineering, with hands-on experience from industry roles to postdoctoral projects at Chalmers. Now based in Gothenburg and working at Cubist, she brings a rare combination of clinical-domain understanding and cutting-edge RL methods for real-world robotic manipulation.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Biomedical/Medical Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Biomedical/Medical Engineering at Instituto Politécnico do PortoHigh School Science and Technology, High School Science and Technology at Escola Secundária Eça de QueirósDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Mechatronics Robotics and Automation Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Mechatronics Robotics and Automation Engineering at Chalmers University of TechnologyIDEA League Summer School Responsible Robotics and AI, IDEA League Summer School Responsible Robotics and AI at Delft University of Technology
Portuguese, Italian, English, Swedish, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (30)
robotics10
toolbox10
stable-baselines10
reinforcement-learning9
simulation9
algorithms9
pytorch9
python9
machine-learning9
openai-gym9
openai9
jax8
deep-learning8
rl-environment8
tensorflow8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ritalaezza/gym-agx
Nov 2019 - Aug 2022
OpenAI Gym compatible RL environments for deformable linear object manipulation.
Contributions:143 commits, 2 PRs, 30 pushes in 2 years 9 months
openai-gymrl-environmentsimulationrobotics
ritalaezza/ritalaezza.github.io
May 2022 - Oct 2024
Contributions:45 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
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