Giorgio Metta

Giorgio Metta is the scientific director of the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT). He holds an MSc with honors (1994) and a PhD (2000) in electrical engineering from the University of Genoa. From 2001 to 2002, he was a postdoctoral associate at the AI-Lab (now CSAIL) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He worked at the University of Genoa and was Professor of Cognitive Robotics at the University of Plymouth (UK) from 2012 to 2019. From 2020 he Is Visiting Professor at the University of Manchester, UK. He is a member of the Governing Board of Digital Innovation Hub Liguria (Genoa), he has been Scientific Advisor of A*STAR Singapore, he is a member of the Board of RAISE Scarl (a project funded by the NextGenEU program), of the Scientific Board for Digital Next Generation of the Liguria Region, and on the Board of Directors of Gefran S.p.A. and the Board of Directors of Industrie De Nora S.p.A. (both listed in the Italian Stock Market). He advises HAT Sgr and the Quadrivio Group, two Italian/European Private Equity funds. Giorgio Metta's research activities are in the field of bioinspired systems and humanoid robotics, with a focus on the design of machines that can learn from experience; he has authored or co-authored more than 300 scientific publications and worked as PI on about a dozen international and industrial research projects. He has coordinated the development of the iCub robot for more than a decade; there are currently more than 50 robots in the world, in research labs as far as as Japan, China, Singapore, Germany, Spain, the UK and the US.