Hi! I am a Senior Autonomy Engineer at Skydio, where we build the best drones in the world for capturing cinematic video, inspecting critical infrastructure, and providing situational awareness. Previously, I was a PhD student at the Robotics and Perception Group directed by Prof. Davide Scaramuzza.

At Skydio, my primary role involves developing our vehicle simulation stack, which is essential for testing and validating autonomy algorithms before deploying them on physical hardware.

My research interests lie in the combination of machine learning methods with traditional planning and control for autonomous systems. During my PhD, I applied my ideas mainly to quadrotors and liked to push these astonishing machines to their physical limits, while only relying on onboard sensing and computation.

I hold a master’s degree in Robotics, Systems and Control from ETH Zurich, where I was fortunate to work under the guidance of Prof. Raffaello D’Andrea.