Staff

Fixed-term tenure-track assistant professor
Department of Control and Computer Engineering (DAUIN)

Member of Interdepartmental Center SmartData@PoliTO - Big Data and Data Science Laboratory

+39 0110906479 / 6479
giuseppe.averta@polito.it

Profile

Research interests

Computer vision

Deep learning

Grasping

Human-robot collaboration

Neural architectures search

Robotics

Biography

Giuseppe is currently Assistant Professor of Robot and Machine Learning at the Polytechnic of Turin. Previously, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Pisa, where in 2020 he got the Ph.D. in Robotics cum laude. His dissertation, "Human-aware robotics: Modeling human motor skills for the design, planning, and control of a new generation of robotic devices" was selected as the winner of the Georges Giralt PhD Award 2021 (for the best European PhD thesis). He is also an Italian Institute of Technology Alumnus. In 2019, he was a visiting student at the Eric P. and Evelyn E. Newman Laboratory for Biomechanics and Human Rehabilitation Group at MIT. Giuseppe’s team conducts research towards the development of truly embodied intelligence for human-robot cooperation. Their research activities include developing intelligent robotic behaviors inspired by human skills, deep learning for egocentric vision, and human-inspired design, planning, and control guidelines for autonomous, collaborative, assistive, and prosthetic robots. Giuseppe is also interested in tech-transfer of research activity and co-founded FocoosAI, a startup that aims to develop green and efficient deep learning for vision.

Scientific branch

IINF-05/A - Information Processing Systems
(Area 0009 - Industrial and information engineering)

Skills

ERC sectors

PE6_7 - Artificial intelligence, intelligent systems, natural language processing

PE6_11 - Machine learning, statistical data processing and applications using signal processing (e.g. speech, image, video)

PE7_10 - Robotics

SDG

Goal 3: Good health and well-being

Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure

Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production

Awards and Honors

Best paper Award ICUMT 2015 conferred by International Congress on Ultra Modern Telecommunications and Control Systems, Italy (2017)
Georges Giralt PhD Award conferred by euRobotics AISBL, Belgium (2021)
Best Reviewer Wiley conferred by Wiley, Italy (2021)

Fellowships

Fellow - DAAD, Germania (2022-)
DAAD AInet Fellowship
Effective member - Ellis network of excellence, Europeo (2022-)

Editorial boards

IEEE ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION LETTERS (2022-), Editorial board member

Conferences

IRIM 3D (8/10/2021-10/10/2021), Program committee

Other research or teaching roles outside Politecnico

Visiting Researcher, presso Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1/1/2019-30/6/2019)

Teaching

Collegi of the PhD programmes

INTELLIGENZA ARTIFICIALE (DOTTORATO NAZIONALE), 2024/2025 (40. ciclo)
Politecnico di TORINO

Collegi of the degree programmes

Collegio di Ingegneria Gestionale e della Produzione. Componente
Collegio di Ingegneria Informatica, del Cinema e Meccatronica. Componente

Teachings

Master of Science

Robot Learning. A.A. 2025/26, INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA (COMPUTER ENGINEERING). Titolare del corso
Robot Learning. A.A. 2024/25, INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA (COMPUTER ENGINEERING). Titolare del corso
Robot Learning. A.A. 2023/24, INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA (COMPUTER ENGINEERING). Titolare del corso
Machine learning and Deep learning. A.A. 2022/23, DATA SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING. Collaboratore del corso

MostraNascondi A.A. passati

Bachelor of Science

Tecniche di programmazione. A.A. 2025/26, INGEGNERIA GESTIONALE. Titolare del corso
Tecniche di programmazione. A.A. 2024/25, INGEGNERIA GESTIONALE. Titolare del corso
Tecniche di programmazione. A.A. 2023/24, INGEGNERIA GESTIONALE. Collaboratore del corso
Tecniche di programmazione. A.A. 2022/23, INGEGNERIA GESTIONALE. Collaboratore del corso