Matteo Calabria
Master's student in Industrial Automation Engineering. Currently working on humanoid robotics, reinforcement learning, and VLMs/VLAs for embodied intelligence.
Education
Double Degree in Mechatronic Systems for Rehabilitation
2025 - PresentInterdisciplinary curriculum covering human-centered mechatronics, sensor fusion, reinforcement learning, and assistive robotics for rehabilitation scenarios.
M.Sc. in Industrial Automation Engineering
2024 - PresentSpecializing in robotics and computer vision applications for industrial automation systems.
B.Sc. in Industrial Automation Engineering
2021 - 2024Focused on robotics and automation fundamentals.
Summer Schools
Imperial Robotics Summer School
Jul 2025Foundational and specialized lectures covering kinematics, robot learning, and control, plus a week-long project implementing an RL policy for the Unitree Go2 robot with multiple locomotion strategies.
PhD Summer School: Reinforcement Learning and LLMs for Robotics
Jul 2025Practice-oriented sessions on LLM fundamentals and RL algorithms, including HPC deployment workflows and CloudGripper robot control via LLM instructions.
Experience
Ambassador
CurrentMentorshipLead The Future Mentorship
Among the few Italian students selected to be mentees for LeadTheFuture, a leading mentorship non-profit for STEM students, with an acceptance rate below 15%.
Research Intern
InternshipUniversity of Brescia
Research Group on Control Systems
Designed and implemented a deep learning-driven control system within the ACTIVA Project to optimize intravenous anesthesia delivery. Significantly advancing patient safety and anesthesia precision.
Featured Projects
Human-Robot Interaction Playground
Dec 2025Developed an imitation learning framework implementing Behavioral Cloning, DAgger, and DAgger+Replay. Benchmarked against RL baselines (PPO, SAC) on MuJoCo environments.
SO-101 Teleoperation with LeRobot
Sep 2025Assembled and 3D printed two open-source SO-101 robotic arms, developed a teleoperation pipeline to record synchronized kinematic and video data, and implemented & trained ACT and smolVLA policies on the collected dataset.
Reolink-DetectAI
Jun 2025Custom home security system using OpenCV and YOLOv8 to monitor RTSP camera streams, perform object detection, and send email alerts with detected images.
Downhill Event Detection
May 2025Processed 300k+ sensor samples. Achieved 80.6% classification accuracy with Weighted-KNN. Addressed class imbalance with bootstrapping technique using synthetic oversampling via the covariance matrix.
Automatic Control of Anesthesia
Sep 2024Bachelor's ThesisDesigned a deep learning-driven control system within the ACTIVA Project predict BIS values and optimize intravenous anesthesia delivery, overcoming traditional closed-loop limitations.
Achievements
ISSA PULIRE Hackathon 2025
1st PlaceAI-Orchestrator: A real-time web app for managing stadium cleaning operations using AI. Built in just 6 hours, combining computer vision, forecasting, and smart task allocation.
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ABB RoboCup 2025
2nd PlaceParticipated with University of Brescia team in a national-level robotics competition. Programmed virtual robotic cells and deployed pick-and-place tasks on real industrial robots.
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