People

I was born in Moià (Barcelona) on October 11th, 1982. I received the B.Sc. degrees in T.Telecommunications engineering and Industrial Management; and the M.Sc. degree in Automatic Control and Robotics, from “Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya” (UPC), Barcelona, in 2004 and 2012 respectively. Between these dates, I worked in the private sector as R&D Engineer.

I did my PhD (2012-2017) and a Postdoctoral Fellowship (2017-2019) at Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial where I participated on several European projects, such as FP7-Project ARCAS (Aerial Robotics Cooperative Assembly Systems); H2020-Projects AEROARMS (AErial RObotics system integrating multiple ARMS and advanced manipulation capabilities for inspection and maintenance) or GAUSS (Galileo-EGNOSS as an Asset for UTM Safety and Security). Moreover, I worked as teacher of the Automatic Control and Robotics Master degree at “Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya” (UPC).

I worked as a postdoc with Ali Agha (February to September 2019) and I am currently working as Robotics Research Technologist (permanent position) at NASA-JPL, Caltech Institute of Technology, Section 347T Robotic Aerial Mobility, under the supervision of Olivier Toupet. Furthermore, I am participating in the DARPA Subterranean Challenge as state estimation lead in the CoStar team.

My general research interests are in the areas of computer vision and mobile robotics, and my current research is focused on perception and control of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV).