Dionis Totsila

Bio

Dionis Totsila is a Doctoral Researcher at INRIA Nancy (LARSEN Team) and the University of Lorraine, France, where he has been pursuing his Ph.D. since 2023 under the supervision of Dr. Serena Ivaldi and Dr. Jean-Baptiste Mouret. His current research focuses on enhancing robotic capabilities by integrating large language and vision-language models, as well as developing methods for learning bimanual robot skills with human guidance and natural language interaction. Prior to this, he gained industry experience as a Robotics Engineer at Ragdoll Dynamics, London, UK (2022–2023), where he contributed to improving animator workflows by applying robotic control and simulation techniques in Maya. Dionis also held a research role at the AI Group of the Laboratory of Information Systems and Artificial Intelligence, University of Patras (2021–2023), where he worked on advancing neural dynamic policies, reinforcement learning, learning from demonstration, and optimal control strategies. between artificial intelligence research and real-world applications, with interests in robot learning, human-robot interaction, and autonomous skill acquisition.