Leonel Rozo
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I am a currently a lead research scientist in the Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence (BCAI). From 2016 to 2018 I leaded the Learning and Interaction Group at the department of Advanced Robotics in the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT). I joined IIT in 2012, first as a research fellow and then as postdoctoral researcher in 2013 under the mentorship of Sylvain Calinon. In 2017 I was awarded an individual fellowship from the highly-competitive call Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions for my project proposal DRAPer.
Some years back, I received my bachelor's degree in Mechatronics Engineering from the "Nueva Granada" Military University (Bogota, Colombia - 2005), and got my Master's degree in Automatic Control and Robotics (2007), and Ph.D in Robotics (2013) from the Polytechnical University of Catalonia (Barcelona, Spain).
I carried out my PhD research at the Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial under the supervision of Prof. Carme Torras and Dr. Pablo Jiménez. My research has been mainly focused on exploiting machine learning techniques, optimal control and Riemannian manifold theory to learn robot motion skills via human demonstrations and refinement methods such as reinforcement learning. My application fields are (dual-arm) manipulation tasks and human-robot collaboration.

Where I have worked:
2023-Now Lead Research scientist
Bosch center for Artificial Intelligence (BCAI).
2018-2022 Research scientist
Bosch center for Artificial Intelligence (BCAI).
2016-2018 Team leader
Department of Advanced Robotics at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT).
2013-2015 Postdoctoral researcher
Department of Advanced Robotics at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT).
2012-2013 Research fellow
Department of Advanced Robotics at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT).
2007-2012 PhD fellow
Perception and Manipulation Group at the Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial (CSIC-UPC).
2011 Visiting researcher
Department of Advanced Robotics in the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia.
2009-2010 Lecturer
Mechatronics Engineering Faculty at the "Nueva Granada" Military University (UMNG).
2007 Research Engineer
Perception and Manipulation Group of the Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial.
2006 Development Engineer
Insepet Ltda.

What I studied:
2008-2013 PhD in Automatic Control, Robotics and Vision, at the Polytechnical University of Catalonia UPC, Spain.
"Robot Learning from Demonstration of Force-based Manipulation Tasks"
Supervisors: Prof. Carme Torras, PhD. Pablo Jimenez.
Reviewers: Prof. Aleš Ude, Jožef Stefan Institute, PhD. Sylvain Calinon, Italian Institute of Technology (IIT).
Committee: Prof. Yiannis Demiris, Imperial College London, Prof. Aleš Ude, Jožef Stefan Institute, PhD. Cecilio Angulo, UPC.
2006-2007 MSc in Automatic Control and Robotics, at the Polytechnical University of Catalonia UPC, Spain.
"Device-independent haptic rendering system"
Supervisor: PhD. Pablo Jimenez.
Committee: PhD. Raul Suarez, UPC-IOC, PhD. Jan Rosell, UPC-IOC, PhD. Manel Frigola, UPC.

2001-2005 BSc in Mechatronics Engineering, at the “Nueva Granada” Military University, Colombia.
"Generalized PI-based controller design for a truck suspension system" (in Spanish)
Supervisor: PhD. Ervin Alvarez, Veracruzana University.

R+D Projects I have been involved in:

Technology Transfer (participation)

2016-2018 PHOLUS (Centauro-like robot for navigating, observing, and interacting in highly unstructured environments)
(Affiliated with ADVR-IIT)

European Projects (participation)

2012-2015 STIFF-FLOP (STIFFness controllable Flexible and Learn-able Manipulator for surgical OPerations)
(FP7-ICT-287728, affiliated with ADVR-IIT)

2011-2012 IntellAct (Intelligent observation and execution of Actions and manipulations)
(FP7-ICT2009-6-269959, affiliated with IRI CSIC-UPC)

2010-2012 GARNICS (Gardening with a cognitive system)
(FP7-ICT-247947, affiliated with IRI CSIC-UPC)

2007-2010 PACOPLUS (Perception, action and cognition through learning of object-action complexes)
(IST-FP6-IP-027657, affiliated with IRI CSIC-UPC)

National Projects (participation)

2010-2012 APREN (Modelos perceptivos y técnicas de aprendizaje para robots de servicios)
(CSIC project 201050E052, affiliated with IRI) - Spain

2009-2012 PAU (Perception and Action under Uncertainty)
(DPI2008-06022, affiliated with IRI) - Spain

2007-2012 MIPRCV (Multimodal Interaction in Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision)
(Consolider Ingenio 2010 project CSD2007-00018, affiliated with IRI) - Spain


Events I have co-organized:
2022 Co-organizer
IROS 2022 Tutorial on Geometric Methods in Robot Learning, Optimization and Control [Webpage]
2021 Program co-chair
LXAI workshop at ICML 2021 [Webpage]
Co-organizer
R:SS 2021 Workshop on Geometry and Topology in Robotics: Learning, Optimization, Planning and Control [Webpage]
2020 Program co-chair
LXAI workshop at ICML [Webpage]
Co-organizer
IROS 2020 Workshop on Bringing Geometric Methods to Robot Learning, Optimization and Control [Webpage]
2018 Co-organizer
ICRA 2018 Workshop on Human-Robot Interaction with UAVs: Challenges and Frontiers [Webpage]
2016 Co-organizer
IROS 2016 Workshop on Human-Robot Collaboration: Towards Co-Adaptive Learning Through Semi-Autonomy and Shared Control [Webpage]
2015 Main organizer
RO-MAN 2015 Workshop on Learning for Human-Robot Collaboration [Webpage]

I enjoy supporting the peer-review processes and organizing special issues on cool topics:

2020-Now Associate Editor
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)
2020-2021 Guest Editor
Special Issue on Emerging Paradigms for Robotic Manipulation: from the Lab to the Productive World (IEEE RAM)
2017-2018 Associate Editor
International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
2016-2018 Main co-editor
Special Issue on Learning for Human-Robot Collaboration (Autonomous Robots)
2017-2018 Associate Editor
International Conference on Robotics and Intelligent Systems (IROS)
2017-2019 Senior Program Committee Member
International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI)
2017 Program Committee Member
Colombian Conference on Automatic Control (CCAC)
2016 Program Committee Member
International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI)

I am fortunate to mentor nice and smart people:
Postdocs Fares Abu-dakka (2016-2018)
Yanlong Huang (2017-2018)
João Silvério (2017-2018)
PhD Miguel Gonzalez (2022) — PhD. sabbatical on "Riemannian Manifolds Learning"
Hadi Beik-Mohammadi (2020-Now) — "Geometric Machine Learning for Robot Motion Skills"
Brian Delhaisse (2016-2020) — "Exploiting Prior Knowledge in Robot Motion Skills Learning"
Noémie Jaquier (2019) — PhD. sabbatical on "Data-efficient Adaptation of Robot Motion Primitives"
Domingo Esteban (2016-2019) — "Indirect Methods for Robot Skill Learning"
João Silvério (2014-2017) — "Learning Bimanual Skills from Demonstrations: Coordination and Task Prioritization"
MSc. Jiechao Zhang (2022) — Co-supervised with H. Beik-Mohammadi
"Riemannian Dynamic Robot Motion Learning"
Akshay Dhonthi (2021) — Co-supervised with P. Schillinger
"Leveraging Signal Temporal Logic Robustness Metrics for Robotic Tasks Optimization"
Kira Ruschmeier (2020) — Co-supervised with P. Schillinger
"Parameter Optimization for Robotic Manipulation Skills"
Interns Zheng Shen (2021) — Co-supervised with P. Schillinger
"Geometry-aware Task Optimization for Robotic Manipulation"
Vedant Dave (2020)
"Benchmarking robotic manipulation skills learning"
Emily-Jane Rolley (2017-2018)
"Development of a 3D tracking RGB-D system of human-motion for human-robot collaboration"

And I have also given a hand to review papers:
Journals International Journal on Robotics Research (IJRR)
IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO)
IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology (TCST)
IEEE Transactions on Mechatronics (T-MEC)
IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (T-ASE)
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics: Systems (T-SMCA)
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)
IEEE Transactions on Mechatronics (T-MECH)
IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics (CYB)
IEEE Access
IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems
IET Control Theory & Applications (CTA) Journal on Human-Robot Interaction (JHRI)
Intech International Journal on Advanced Robotics Systems (IJARS)
Springer Journal of Intelligent Robotic Systems (JIRS)
Elsevier Robotics and Autonomous Systems (RAS)
Elsevier Pattern Recognition Letter (PR-L)
Springer International Journal on Social Robotics (SORO)
Frontiers Journal on Robotics and AI
Conferences Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS)
International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI)
Robotics: Science and Systems (R:SS)
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Robots (IROS)
Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL)
IEEE International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids)
IEEE International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR)
IEEE International Conference on Applied Bionics and Biomechanics (ICAAB)
International Conference on Virtual reality

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