About Me - CV
I am currently the Head of Control at ALL3 Ltd, where I define and drive the development roadmap for the Mantis robotic platform, focused on automating construction-site operations. I lead the control team responsible for the architecture supporting dynamic locomotion and manipulation across our robotic fleet, while expanding the stack toward reinforcement learning and AI-driven methodologies.
Previously (2021 - 2024) I was the Robotics Research Control Team Lead at Dyson Technology Ltd. I originally joined Dyson in 2019 as a Robotics Research Engineer and worked on delivering various control technology solution, as driven by the product requirement. The team I lead operated in close collaboration with other parts of the research group (mechanical design, electronics, perception, high level planning, safety).
Between 2016 - 2019 I was a PostDoctoral Researcher in the Dynamic Legged Systems Group at the Italian Institute of Technology. My research focused on optimal control, machine learning and using variable impedance actuators for systems in domains with contacts. I was working on locomotion strategies for the HyQ robot series.
I received my Ph.D (2016) and Msc (2011) in Intelligent Robotics from the University of Edinburgh, working under the supervision of Prof. Sethu Vijayakumar. Previously, I graduated from the National University of Science and Technology POLITEHNICA Bucharest , with a BEng (2009) in Automatic Control and Applied Informatics.