Carlos Mastalli

Principal Researcher, The Institute for Human & Machine Cognition
Assistant Professor, Heriot-Watt University
Joined
May 2024

Names

Carlos Mastalli (Preferred)

Emails

****@hw.ac.uk (Confirmed)
, 
****@gmail.com (Confirmed)
, 
****@ihmc.org (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

Principal Researcher
The Institute for Human & Machine Cognition (ihmc.us)
2023 – Present
Assistant Professor
Heriot-Watt University (hw.ac.uk)
2022 – Present
Postdoc
Edinburgh University, University of Edinburgh (inf.ed.ac.uk)
2019 – 2022
Postdoc
LAAS / CNRS (laas.fr)
2017 – 2019
PhD student
Università degli Studi di Genova, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (iit.it)
2014 – 2017
MS student
Universidad Simón Bolivar (usb.ve)
2009 – 2013

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

Coauthor
Sethu Vijayakumar
2019 – 2022
Coauthor
Justin Carpentier
2019 – 2020
Coauthor
Ludovic Righetti
2019 – 2020
Coauthor
Nicolas Mansard
2017 – 2019
PhD Advisor
Claudio Semini
2014 – 2017
Postdoc Advisor
Ioannis Havoutis
2014 – 2017
PhD Advisor
Darwin Gordon Caldwell
2014 – 2017

Expertise

Numerical optimization for robotics and AI
2014 – Present
Data-driven modelling
, 
control
, 
and learning
2014 – Present
Robotics
2014 – Present
Differentiable optimization for AI
2014 – Present
Contact simulation and multiphysics
2014 – Present
Real-time planning
, 
control
, 
and estimation
2014 – Present
Reinforcement Learning and control as probabilistic inference
2014 – Present
Diffusion policies and flow-matching
2014 – Present

Publications

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Co-Authors

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