TEAM

Permanent Members

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Non-permanent members

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Engineers

Fabio Amadio (09/2024 – Now) – Inria, PEPR O2R
Clemente Donoso Krauss (09/2024 – Now) – Inria, Agence Innovation Défense

Postdocs and Research fellows

Anna Bucchieri (07/2024 – Now) – UL, LUE ExoSim, until 05/2026

PhD Candidates

Aya Yaacoub (12/2021 – Now) – PhD student CNRS, ANR Rooibos
Alexandre Oliveira Souza (09/2022 – Now) – PhD student CIFRE, Safran
Dionis Totsila (11/2023 – Now) – Inria, Horizon Europe euROBIN
Ioannis Tsikelis (10/2024 – Now) – PhD student, Inria
Thomas Martin (03/2024 – Now) – PhD student Inria, ANR Bucolyc
Raphaël Lorenzo (10/2024 – Now) – PhD student Inria, PEPR O2R
Constantinos Tsakonas (10/2024 – Now) – PhD student Inria, Agence Innovation Défense
Mathis Antonetti (12/2024 – Now) – PhD student Inria/Groupe La Poste
Ioannis Loizou (10/2025-09/2028) – PhD student Inria, ANR OSTENSIVE
Georgios Kalakonis (12/2025-11/2028) – PhD Student Inria, ENACT

Master Students

Noemie Forest (09/2025-03/2026) – MS UTC Compiegne – LUE EXOSIM
Evangelios Tsiatsianas (09/2025-03/2026) – MS University of Patras – LUE ORION

Visiting Researchers and Collaborators

Meghan Huber (07/2025-11/2025) – Ass. Professor at University of Massachusetts Amherst

Alumni

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Postdocs

Quentin Rouxel (2023-2025) – Postdoc at CUHK – University of Hong Kong
Jessica Colombel (2023–2024) – R&D Engineer at SBG Systems
Mihai Andries (2019-2020) – Associate Professor (MCF) at IMT Atlantique
Glenn Maguire  (2018-2020)
Pauline Maurice (2017-2019) – Hucebot Team member & CNRS researcher
Jonathan Spitz (2017-2018) – Founder and CEO of Gauss Machine Learning GmbH
Vassilis Vassiliades (2015-2018) – Team Leader of CYENS Centre of Excellence and Associate Fellow at the University of Cyprus
Danesh Tarapore (2013-2014) – Associate Professor at University of Southampton

PhD students

Jacques Zhong (2020–2024) – Postdoc at Team AUCTUS, Inria Bordeaux
Nima Mehdi (2020-2023) – ATER at University of Toulouse
Yoann Fleytoux (2019-2023) – Robotics engineer at IRT Jules Verne in Nantes, France
Lorenzo Vianello (2019-2022) – Postdoc at Shirley Ryan Ability Lab, Chicago – Nominated for Best Ph.D. thesis by GDR MACS (Prix de thèse du GDR MACS) 2023
Luigi Penco (2019-2022) – Research Scientist at the Institute for Human & Machine Cognition (IHMC), Florida
Vladislav Tempez (2018-2022) – Computer Science Teacher in Classes Preparatoires
Waldez Azevedo Gomes Junior (2018-2021) – Engineer at Enchanted Tools
Adrien Malaisé (2017-2020) – Scientific Disseminator at Ebulliscience
Oriane Dermy (2015-2018) – Associate Professor (MCF) at University of Lorraine
Valerio Modugno (2015-2017) – Associate Lecturer at University College London (UCL)
Konstantinos Chatzilygeroudis (2015-2018) – Assistant Professor at the University of Patras, Greece
Rituraj Kaushik (2016-2020) – AI Scientist at Silo AI, Finland
Adam Gaier (2025-2020) – Sr. Principal AI Research Scientist and Senior Manager at Autodesk
Antoine Cully (2012-2015) – Associate Professor at Imperial College London
Paul Tonelli (2008-2012) – Now Head of Infrastructure at Heuritech and Senior Infrastructure Consultant at AKVIZE
Sylvain Koos (2008-2011) – Now Data scientists at Heuritech

Visiting students

Micheal Vanuzzo (04/2025-08/2025) – PhD student in the University of Padua
Angela Mazzeo (09/2022-12/2022) – PhD student in Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna Pisa
Anji Ma (09/2019-08/2021) – PhD student in Univ. Bejing
Augusto Francisco (06/2018-12/2018) – Dresden University of Technology
Marie Charbonneau (05/2018-12/2018) – PhD student in Italian Institute of Technology
Ludivine Alliene (03/2017-03/2018) – PhD student in Université de Picardie Jules Vernes)
Jamie Waugh (09/2016-12/2016) – MITACS-Inria grant, University of Waterloo, Canada)

Engineers

Raphael Bousigues (09/2024 – 08/2025) – Inria Startup Studio
Raphael Lartot (09/2024 – 08/2025) – Inria Startup Studio
Lucien Renaud (2017-2023) – Mechanical Engineer at PAL Robotics
Nicolas Valle (2020-2023) – Research Engineer at Inria Lyon
Raphaël Bousigues (2020-2023) – Engineer in the Hucebot team
Raphael Lartot (2020-2022) – Engineer in the Hucebot team
Jean Michenaud (2021-2022) – Sales Manager at Adapsia
Eloise Dalin (2018-2022) – Engineer at Wandercraft

Master Students and Interns

Mahmood Elsayed (05/2025-09/2025) – MS in Robotics & Automation, Université de Franche-Comté – PEPR PI3
Louis Grohens (03/2025-09/2025) – MS Arts et Metiers ParisTech – ENS Rennes
Celian Becques (02/2025-08/2025) – MS in Physical activity engineering and ergonomics, University of Lorraine – CNRS
Ioannis Loizou (02/2025-08/2025) – MS Control and Robotics: Advanced Robotics, Centrale Nantes – ANR MeRLin
Fatima Ismail (04/2025-07/2025) – MS Électronique et Informatique pour l’Embarqué, Polytech Paris-Saclay – PEPR AS3
Manon Cordone (03/2025-07/2025) – MS International business strategy and modern languages, IAE Nancy & University of Lorraine – PEPR AS3
Andrea Ferrari (04/2024-09/2024) – Master at University of Roma La Sapienza – euROBIN
Elissa El Khalil (01/2024-07/2024) – University Paris Cité – ANR ROOIBOS – Now PhD student at IfADO – Dortmund
Manon Cordone (03/2024-05/2024) – Bachelor and Master in International Business, University of Lorraine – euROBIN
Hortencia Alejandra Ramírez Vázque (09/2023 – 12/2023) – L3 Instituto Technologico Monterrey, Mexico – euROBIN
Thais Bernardi (06/2022-08/2022) – M1 Telecom Nancy – HEAP
Evelyn D’Elia (01/2021-07/2021) – TU Delft – H2020 ANDY – Now Robotics Engineer at IIT
Aurélien Osswald (02/2021-08/2021) – SUPMICROTECH-ENSMM – ERGOBOT project – Now Consultant in mechatronics engineering at ENGLAB
Felix Cuny-Enault (02/2021-08/2021) – University Paris Saclay – EXOTURN
Leonie Planculaine (06/2021-08/2021) – INSA Rennes – HEAP
Raphaël Bousigues (03/2020-08/2020) – Now Engineer in the Hucebot team
Andrea Macrí (09/2019-12/2019) – University of Roma La Sapienza – H2020 ANDY
Lorenzo Vianello (03/2019-09/2019) – University of Roma La Sapienza – HEAP – Now Postdoc at Shirley Ryan AbilityLab
Niyati Rawal (05/2019-09/2019) – Rovira i Virgili University, Spain – ANR Flying-CoWorker – Now Early Stage Researcher at Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia
Guillaume Courrier (07/2019-08/2019) – ANR Flying-CoWorker
Vishnu Radhakrishnan (09/2018-01/2019)- Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA – H2020 ANDY
Clelie Amiot (03/2019-08/2019 and 06/2018 – 08/2018) – Master in Cognitive Science, University of Lorraine-H2020 ANDY – Now PhD Student at CNRS
Nicolas Paris (06/2018-08/2018) – Master in Cognitive Science, University of Lorraine – H2020 ANDY – Academy Trainer at ALTEN for Airbus
Guy Junior Richard (06/2018-08/2018) – Master in Cognitive Science, University of Lorraine – H2020 ANDY – Data science project manager at Rolex
Luigi Penco (10/2017-03/2018) – La Sapienza University of Rome – H2020 ANDY – Now esearch Scientist at the Institute for Human & Machine Cognition (IHMC), Florida
Kazuya Otani (05/2017-11/2017) – Carnegie Mellon University, USA – H2020 ANDY – Senior soft Engineer at Waymo
Waldez Azevedo Gomes Jr (05/2017-11/2017) – Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, – H2020 ANDY – Now Control Engineer at Enchanted Tools
Maxime Chaveroche (03/2017-09/2017) – Master IPAC & Telecom Nancy, France – H2020 ANDY – Now R&D AI engineer at Safran Data Systens Inc
Ugo Chervet (03/2016-09/2016) – IFMA Clermont-Ferrand, France – FP7 CODYCO – Now Lead developer at ISYBOT
Anthony Voilqué (03/2016-09/2016) – IFMA Clermont-Ferrand, France – FP7 CODYCO – Now Technical Leader and Engineer at Kickmaker
Adrien Malaisé (02/2016-08/2016) – Master MSCA Université de Lorraine & UPMC, France – Now Project Manager at EBULLISCIENCE
Sebastian Marichal (09/2015-02/2016) – University Pompeu Fabra, Spain), 09/2015-02/2016 – Now Chief Technology Officer at Nora Health
Elissa El Khalil (01/2024-07/2024) – University Paris Cité – ANR ROOIBOS – Now PhD student at IfADO – Dortmund
Aurélien Osswald (02/2021-08/2021) – SUPMICROTECH-ENSMM – ERGOBOT project – Now Consultant in mechatronics engineering at ENGLAB