Luca holds a PhD in Applied Physics at the Politecnico di Milano and worked at IIT from 2012 to 2016. He has 5+ years experience in the field of Innovation strategy and management working in the context of different industries (e.g. manufacturing, energy and utilities, insurance, public sector). Luca took part in projects focusing on the bootstrap on innovation programs - from strategy design to organizational definition to innovation masterplan implementation - as well as on the engagement of the innovation ecosystem into specific projects and initiatives through technology scouting and relationship management activities. Currently he is Senior Manager in PwC Innovation team, where he contributed to launch the innovation practice, he is managing the relationship with several start-up and research institutions. He is responsible for the Tech Transfer practice of PwC Italy.

Born on May 1st 1988, I spent happy adolescence, attending Classic high school and following my passion for drawing and Cinema. In 2012 I got a Master's Degree in Chemistry and the next year my first job experience at Pfizer in Business Development Area for Ascoli Piceno Plant. From 2015 till 2018, I worked as a researcher at Italian Institute of Technology, in the Renewable Energies Team, led by Michele Manca Ph.D. I focused on the development and chemical-physical characterization of electrochromic devices: a battery-like window able to selectively shift different wavelenghts, adjusting room light and temperature. In 2018 I joined Alcantara Corporate as Product Development Manager. I’m the technical interface between Customers and our Company, responsible for the development and homologation of new, tailor-made products: managing prototypes realization and technical approval of luxury coverings realized in Alcantara textile for Automotive (80% of our business), Aeronautic, Fashion, Interior and Electronic areas (20%).

Originally from Singapore, Ping received her bachelor's degree in Life Sciences from the National University of Singapore. After a few years of research work in the pharmaceutical industry, she decided she had to go back to school to progress in a research career and spent the better part of a decade in Europe for her post-graduate studies, a big part of that memorable time in IIT as a PhD student and then a post-doc. After realising that academic research is not for her, she applied to many jobs in industry, and after a couple of trial and errors, namely, interesting jobs as a regional Medical Affairs associate at Bayer Southeast Asia and a stint in Corporate innovation at Bayer's headquarters in Berlin, she finally found her place, in business development in the CRO (contract research organisation) industry where she can make good use of her scientific training as well as people and language skills.

Leonel Rozo is currently a senior research scientist in the Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence (BCAI). Before that, he led the Learning and Interaction Group at the department of Advanced Robotics in the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT). He joined IIT in 2012, first as a research fellow and then as postdoctoral researcher in 2013. In 2017, he was awarded an individual fellowship from the Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions. Leonel Rozo holds a BSc. in Mechatronics Engineering from the "Nueva Granada" Military University (Bogota, Colombia - 2005), and got his MSc. in Automatic Control and Robotics (2007), and Ph.D in Robotics (2013) from the Polytechnical University of Catalonia (Barcelona, Spain). His research has been mainly focused on exploiting machine learning techniques, optimal control and Riemannian manifold theory for robot motion learning, generation, and optimization. His application fields span (dual-arm) robotic manipulation and human-robot collaboration. Some of his papers have been awarded prizes in several top-tier conferences: best student paper award (R:SS'22), best paper presentation (CoRL'19) and best system paper runner-up (CoRL'19).  

I was born in Zaragoza, Spain, in September 1984. I grew up and went to school and University there, from which I graduated in Telecommunications Engineering in 2009. I completed the last two years of my degree in Dresden, where I went first as an Erasmus student at the TU-Dresden, and further to pursue my Master's Thesis on ECG classification methods at the Fraunhofer IPMS institute. After working for over a year at the Institute for Biomedical Engineering at the TU-Dresden, I moved to Berlin to attend the Master on Computational Neuroscience at the Bernstein Center. During this second Master's degree, I carried out successive lab rotations at Humboldt University in Berlin, Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute in Kyoto, Japan, and the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, where I also worked on my Master's Thesis in robot cognition and sensorimotor interaction. I joined the Italian Institute of Technology in June 2013 to pursue a PhD on machine learning for robotics with the iCub humanoid robot, which I completed in April 2017. After a brief period of working as a Fellow at IIT, I moved to Bristol in November 2017 to join Dyson Ltd, where I have been working on the Robotics Research team, developing and implementing algorithms for robotic perception and manipulation for future robotic products, up to the present day.
  

These two videos provide some highlights of my research at IIT and Dyson, respectively:  
- IIT
- Dyson