Sergi Foix
Researcher at IRI - Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial, CSIC-UPC
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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Top SchoolSergi Foix is a robotics researcher with 14 years of experience in active vision, ToF sensing, deformable object pose estimation, and human-robot interaction, currently based at IRI-CSIC-UPC in Barcelona. He holds a PhD in Automatic Control, Robotics and Computer Vision from UPC and dual M.Sc. degrees in Intelligent Systems and Automatic Control & Robotics, combining strong theoretical grounding with hands-on experimentation. His career includes a research fellowship at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and early industry leadership as a lead engineer, giving him a rare blend of academic rigor and practical systems delivery. Sergi’s work focuses on next-best-view planning and machine learning for manipulation in assistive robotics, tackling perception challenges in deformable objects that many vision systems struggle with. Colleagues describe him as a persistent experimentalist who moves ideas from sensor-level prototypes to deployable research, often bridging cross-disciplinary teams. He brings a deep technical palette spanning control, computer vision, and embedded electronics informed by long-term institutional collaborations.
14 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Intelligent Systems, Information Technology, MSc Intelligent Systems, Information Technology at University of SunderlandBEng(Hons) Communication and Electronic Engineer, Communications, Electronics, BEng(Hons) Communication and Electronic Engineer, Communications, Electronics at Northumbria UniversityUPC Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
English, Catalan, Spanish
Github Skills (9)
iri9
htc-vive6
configurations4
robotics4
ros4
cpp3
moveit3
simulator2
pmd1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
gntoni/projectM
Oct 2014 - May 2016
Contributions:6 commits, 1 push in 1 year 6 months
sfoix/moveit_robots
Feb 2015 - May 2016
Contributions:9 pushes in 1 year 3 months
robotsmoveitconfigurations
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