Thomas Ciarfuglia
Assistant Professor at Università Telematica San Raffaele
Rome, Lazio, Italy
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Top SchoolThomas Ciarfuglia is an Assistant Professor and senior software engineer with over a decade of experience turning robotics and computer vision research into robust, real-world systems. He combines deep expertise in ROS, C++, and Python with advanced perception methods (3D vision, SLAM, deep learning), and his early work on deep-learning visual odometry was a finalist for ICRA’s Best Computer Vision Paper Award. He has led system integration for large EU projects, designed mission-critical state machines and multi-sensor perception pipelines, and even rescued and redesigned an HRI system using Whisper and an LLM-driven voice interface. His applied research spans precision agriculture, sports data science, and smart-city autonomy—securing external funding and working closely with domain experts to deploy self- and semi-supervised models in the field. A hands-on mentor and educator, he has taught graduate-level courses, supervised PhD students, and guided over 100 undergraduate theses, frequently converting top projects into collaborations and publications. Practical and ownership-oriented, he is equally comfortable soldering embedded boards as he is architecting cloud-to-edge AI systems for autonomous platforms.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Computational Investing, Computational Investing at CourseraDottorato di Ricerca - PhD Mechatronics Robotics and Automation Engineering, Dottorato di Ricerca - PhD Mechatronics Robotics and Automation Engineering at Università degli Studi di PerugiaMechanics of Materials, Mechanics of Materials at MitXIntroduction to Hadoop and MapReduce, Introduction to Hadoop and MapReduce at Udacity
English
Github Skills (20)
platform-independent8
unreal8
simulator8
deep-reinforcement-learning6
computer-vision6
control-systems6
simulation6
robotics6
airsim5
drones5
artificial-intelligence5
autopilot4
self-driving-car4
ai4
cross-platform4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Sapienza-AI-Lab-a-a-2021-22/esercitazione1
Feb 2022 - Mar 2022
Contributions:8 commits, 2 pushes in 25 days
Sapienza-AI-Lab/esercitazione1-22-23
Feb 2023 - Mar 2024
Contributions:1 push, 2 branches in 1 year
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