Giorgio Metta
| Giorgio Metta | |
|---|---|
| Born | January 14, 1970 Cagliari, Italy |
| 🏳️ Nationality | Italian |
| 🏳️ Citizenship | Italian |
| 💼 Occupation | |
Giorgio Metta works at the Italian Institute of Technology where he is both Vice Scientific Director and leader of one of the largest IIT’s projects coordinating more than 100 researchers and technical staff. Giorgio is an Italian roboticist by training with a long-standing experience in humanoid robotics and artificial intelligence.
Education[edit]
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 postdoctoral associate at the MIT AI-Lab. He was previously with the University of Genoa and since 2012 Professor of Cognitive Robotics at the University of Plymouth (UK).
Carrier[edit]
As researcher, he led the construction of one of the most acknowledged 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 has coordinated both the technical development of the robot’s hardware & software and the creation of a research community, with the participation of hundreds of scientists across the globe. His robots are available in research centers and universities as far as Japan, Singapore, Korea, United States as well as throughout Europe (about 40 robots worldwide). He launched the development of a “thin middleware” system for robotics known as YARP (www.yarp.it) that has been licensed to industry in a number of applications including the consumer electronics sector.
At IIT, he contributed to starting 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 can deliver inference in a predetermined constant amount of time. These are ideally suited for robotics. He is recognized by the robotics community for initiating (or re-discovering perhaps) motor-based perception methods. This activity paralleled tantalizing neuroscience discoveries of the past two decades.
Science-wise, he has published more than 300 scientific papers (h-index from Google Scholar: 54). He is 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, similarly, he acts as reviewer and editor for a number of scientific journals and conferences (e.g. IEEE ICRA, IEEE IROS, IEEE Humanoids).
He is personally participating to the establishment of two of the Italian Competence Centers for Industry 4.0 (called ARTES4.0, START4.0), which will support joint projects with industry (through a sort of cascade funding mechanism). He was one of the Directors of euRobotics asbl, the European reference association for robotics. He has been 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 (invited) and, more regularly, at the University of Plymouth (where He is part time Professor, 20% FTE).
He has fostered dissemination at all levels, in the past two years, for example, he counts more than 1250 general media appearances and about 80 invited lectures to different audiences, corporate, TEDs, schools, and universities. he is in the board of two TEH – Ambrosetti’s focus projects on AI, digitalization and robotics studying regularly the impact of new technology on society at large including industry, the markets, and communication media.
References[edit]
Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
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