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2024

August 2024

Our paper on “DEAR: Disentangled Environment and Agent Representations for Reinforcement Learning without Reconstruction” got accepted at IROS 2024. I will be presenting the paper in Abu Dhabi in October.

July 2024

BIG NEWS! Joined as a Postdoctoral researcher at the MEDCVR group at the University of Toronto, Canada.

July 2024

Organising the Summer School on control of Surgical robots (COSUR) at the University of Verona. The deadline for registration has been extended to June 10th.

June 2024

Attending the RPL Summer school 2024 and presenting my research on robotic surgery.

May 2024

Invited as a speaker to talk about “Representation learning for Reinforcement learning” by the AIML group of Verona. The talk will be held on May 30th at Aula T.04 in Ca Vignal 3, UNIVR. The slides can be found here.

April 2024

One of our articles titled: “A review on machine learning in flexible surgical and interventional robots: Where we are and where we are going” is published in Biomedical Signal Processing and Control. Thanks to the ATLAS consortium for the collaborative effort.

January 2024

Technical Program Chair of British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC2023) in Glasgow.

2023

October 2023

Presented our paper on safe-RL at IROS2023 in Detroit. Also had a chance to visit the Ford museums in Detroit and the manufacturing plants.

August 2023

I successfully passed the Ph.D thesis examination with cum laude distinction. Big thanks to my Jury committe: Prof JMM Montiel, Prof Franziska Mathis-Ulrich and Dr. Fanny Ficuciello.

July 2023

Our paper “Constrained Reinforcement Learning and Formal Verification for Safe Colonoscopy Navigation” has been accepted at IROS 2023.

June 2023

We organised a workshop titled Autonomous flexible surgical robots: where we are and where we are going at the 2023 Hamlyn Symposium
Presented a poster on Safe-Reinforcement learning for surgery at the Reinforcement Learning Summer School (RLSS2023), Barcelona

May 2023

Our review article “Autonomous Navigation for Robot-Assisted Intraluminal and Endovascular Procedures: A Systematic Review” has been accepted at T-RO 2023. Thanks to the ATLAS consortium for the collaborative effort.