Giorgio Metta
| Giorgio Metta | |
|---|---|
| Born | January 14, 1970 Cagliari, Italy |
| 🏳️ Nationality | Italian |
| 🏳️ Citizenship | Italian |
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Giorgio Metta works at the Italian Institute of Technology, where he is both Vice Scientific Director and leader of one of the largest IIT projects, coordinating more than 100 researchers and technical staff. Giorgio is an Italian roboticist by training, with extensive experience in humanoid robotics and artificial intelligence.
Education
He holds an MSc cum laude (1994) and PhD (2000) in electronic engineering, both from the University of Genoa. From 2001 to 2002, he was a postdoctoral associate at the MIT AI Lab. Previously, he worked at the University of Genoa, and since 2012 has been a Professor of Cognitive Robotics at the University of Plymouth (UK).
Career
As a researcher, he led the construction of one of the most recognized robotics research infrastructures worldwide, the iCub (top 2% according to OpenHub), including the design of a full-body humanoid robot and its software system. He coordinated both the technical development of the robot's hardware and software and the creation of a research community, involving hundreds of scientists globally. His robots are available in research centers and universities as far as Japan, Singapore, Korea, the United States, and throughout Europe (approximately 40 robots worldwide). He launched the development of a "thin middleware" system for robotics known as YARP (www.yarp.it), which has been licensed to industry for various applications, including the consumer electronics sector.
At IIT, he contributed to initiating activities on "sustainable" AI – that is, the development of machine learning methods that can be trained incrementally, with bounded computational time and memory occupation, and deliver inference in a predetermined constant amount of time. These methods are ideally suited for robotics. He is recognized by the robotics community for initiating (or perhaps rediscovering) motor-based perception methods. This activity paralleled exciting neuroscience discoveries of the past two decades.
Scientifically, he has published more than 300 scientific papers (h-index from Google Scholar: 54). He is the editor-in-chief of the Frontiers' specialty on Humanoid Robotics (as part of the Robotics & AI journal). He regularly reviews for the EU Commission (ICT collaborative projects and ERC) and acts as a reviewer and editor for numerous scientific journals and conferences (e.g., IEEE ICRA, IEEE IROS, IEEE Humanoids).
He is personally involved in the establishment of two of the Italian Competence Centers for Industry 4.0 (ARTES4.0, START4.0), which will support joint projects with industry (through a cascade funding mechanism). He was a Director of euRobotics asbl, the European reference association for robotics. He was appointed by the Italian Ministry of Economic Development as one of the three Italian participants to the 2018 G7 multi-stakeholder conference on AI. Giorgio is also part of the Italian panel on AI for the same ministry.
He taught at the University of Genoa, at MIT (as an invited professor), and more regularly at the University of Plymouth (where he is a part-time professor, 20% FTE).
He has fostered dissemination at all levels. In the past two years, for example, he has given more than 1250 general media appearances and approximately 80 invited lectures to diverse audiences, including corporate, TED, school, and university settings. He is on the board of two TEH – Ambrosetti's focus projects on AI, digitalization, and robotics, regularly studying the impact of new technologies on society, including industry, markets, and communication media.
References
Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
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