Personal webpage — Alessandro Giusti

I work at the Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence (IDSIA) a joint institute of USI and SUPSI in Lugano (Switzerland), where I lead the autonomous robotics research area and supervise or co-supervise a team of about 10 researchers and PhD students.

Since 2017, I have been the PI or co-lead of 15+ research projects for a total own budget above 4M CHF.

My research focuses on:

AI for Autonomous Robotics, leading the research group on Self-Supervised Robot Learning
Human-Robot interaction, in close collaboration with Dr. Antonio Paolillo’s research group on People-Oriented and Personalized Robotics
Real-world applications of Deep Learning for tasks with limited training data, including biomedical imaging

See my publications and bibliometrics on my Google Scholar profile.

Research from my collaborators and me has received several awards, including:

NCCR Robotics Most Impactful Paper Award (2022) for the paper “A Machine Learning Approach to the Visual Perception of Forest Trails for Mobile Robots”
1st place at the first Nanocopter AI challenge, Delft (2022)
Best demo award and Honorable mention for best video award at HRI 2019 for “Pointing Gestures for Human-Robot Proximity Interaction”
Finalist for AAAI Videos 2016 competition for: “Quadcopter Navigation in The Forest”
IEEE Communications Society Charles Kao Award for the paper “Machine-Learning Method for Quality of Transmission Prediction of Unestablished Lightpaths” (2020)
1st place at three grand challenges in biomedical imaging (MICCAI 2013, ICPR 2012, ISBI 2012)
Honorable Mention award at IEEE VIS 2011 for paper “Artificial Defocus for Displaying Markers in Microscopy Z-Stacks” (published on the IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics)
Microsoft Best Paper Award at ISVC 2009 for “Drawing Motion without Understanding It”

I teach university courses at the Swiss Master of Science in Engineering (Zurich), USI (Lugano), SUPSI (Lugano), Politecnico di Milano on Robotics, Computer Vision, Deep Learning and Data Science topics.

I occasionally enjoy developing small personal creative computing projects for fun, such as this, which was covered by kottke.org and neatorama.

Email me at alessandro.giusti@idsia.ch

Postal address:

Alessandro Giusti
Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence
Via la Santa 1,
6962 Viganello,
Switzerland