Giacomo Spigler
I am an Assistant Professor at the Department of Intelligent Systems at Tilburg University, with a focus on AI for Robotics.
By leveraging Deep Reinforcement Learning and Imitation Learning, my aim is to develop autonomous intelligent agents. My work also extends to bio-inspired systems and interdisciplinary applications of deep learning.
- (January 2022 - current) Tenured Assistant Professor (UD1) in Artificial Intelligence at the Department of Intelligent Systems of Tilburg University.
Co-director of the AI for Robotics Lab (AIR-Lab) and of the MindLabs Robotics & Avatars Lab. - (2019 - current) Research fellow at Siks.
- (2019 - current) Mentor at LeadTheFuture, italian network of excellence in STEM fields.
- Deep Reinforcement Learning in Robotics: Bridging the Gap between Simulation and Real-world Applications, invited talk at the "Contributions to Control Systems" seminar series, Institute of Automatic Control, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany. May 2024.
- Sim2Real: bridging the gap between simulation and real world physics for robot learning, Pre-PLANCKS Morocco 2024, University of Moulay Ismail, Meknes, Morocco. March 2024.
- AI revolution & Robotics: towards highly-autonomous agricultural robots, one-day symposium "Agricultural Resources, Leadership and Artificial Intelligence" organized at the Italian Embassy, Den Haag, The Netherlands. October 24th, 2023.
- End-to-end robot learning and the Tilburg Hand, TAISIG Talks 15, Tilburg, The Netherlands (Video). August 2022.
- Deep Learning and Artificial Intelligence for Bioinformatics, Healthcare, and Protein Folding, 1st Synthetic Biology Conference (SynBio) in Nicosia, Cyprus, organized by the University of Nicosia, the Institute of Neurology and Genetics, the European University and the University of Cyprus. March 2019.