Serena Ivaldi
Co-Founder at Bleu Robotics
Nancy, Grand Est, France
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Top SchoolSerena Ivaldi is a robotics and AI researcher with 16 years of experience, currently co-founding Bleu Robotics while leading the Human-Centered Robotics Team at Inria. She bridges human-robot interaction, robot learning and control across diverse platforms, translating rigorous academic research (HDR, PhD in Mechatronics) into practical systems and team leadership. As former Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Social Robotics and a long-time research scientist, she combines publication and editorial impact with hands-on experimentation. Her career spans leading postdocs and fellowships at top European labs and a track record of teaching and mentoring from undergraduate to master’s levels. Colleagues value her ability to marry optimal control and force-control expertise with human-centered design thinking. Less obvious: she pairs deep theoretical tools (Extended Ritz methods, neural nets for control) with real-world system building and startup execution.
16 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Habilitation à Diriger les Recherches (HDR) / Habilitation to Direct Research, Habilitation à Diriger les Recherches (HDR) / Habilitation to Direct Research at Universite de LorraineDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering at IIT - Istituto Italiano di TecnologiaMS degree - 110/110 cum laude, Computer Science Engineering, MS degree - 110/110 cum laude, Computer Science Engineering at Università degli Studi di GenovaSIDRA -Scuola di Dottorato Antonio Ruberti
English, Italian, French
Github Skills (8)
robot10
robotics10
yarp8
interprocess-communication6
ipc5
middleware5
artificial-intelligence4
network3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (4)
robotology/icub-main
Mar 2010 - Dec 2013
The iCub Main Software Repository
Contributions:129 commits in 3 years 9 months
roboticshumanoidsroboticubrobotics-libraries
robotology/robots-configuration
May 2011 - Dec 2013
Contains robots configuration files
Contributions:33 commits in 2 years 7 months
configuration-filesrobots
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